Nora Swinburne Movies

Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is...

A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.

Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version...

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.

Colonialist adventure film with wild animals.

A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton

"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its...

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a doctor and several women tell him he's a missing heir...

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl...

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.

About the violent captain Gaustad on a ship of rape, mutiny and shipwreck, in the icy waters of Sweden. Two shipmates, Björn and Sigurd, survive...

An engaged to marry duke causes an infatuated heiress to return to her soldier sweetheart.

A colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

'Lord poses as workman to win dancer who works as waitress in her mother's tea garden.' (British Film Catalogue)

A British comedy film directed by Norman Walker

A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the...