Fay Compton Movies

Laughter in Paradise

72/100

When a millionaire practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs who must carry out his zany instructions to cash in.

Strauss' Great Waltz

61/100

The story of Johann Strauss the elder and younger.

The Forbidden Street

64/100

A rich woman in Victorian England marries a poor artist from the wrong side of the track, and finds herself the victim of a blackmailing plot.

Dulcimer Street

71/100

Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London...

Aunt Clara

70/100

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara. Clara vows to "clean up" her new ... See full summary »

The Battle of Gallipoli

68/100

Two friends enlist in the British army during World War 1 and take part in the Gallipoli campaign.

Lady Possessed

59/100

In a London nursing home, Jean Wilson, a happily-married American woman, while in a state of self-consciousness, hears Jimmy Del Palma, angrily berate the hospital management for the ... See full summary »

Blackmailed

76/100

Mrs. Christopher, a kindly volunteer worker at a large hospital, does a favor for a patient by delivering a sum of money to Mr. Sine. When she discovers he is a blackmailer, she threatens ... See full summary »

The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

Claude Duval

A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.

Robinson Crusoe

58/100

A shipwrecked man's prolonged stay on a desert island.

Autumn Crocus

69/100

The Love Storm

71/100

Doublecross

61/100

Much Ado About Nothing

50/100

Extract from the play's opening scene.

The Concrete Vision

This Freedom

A cleric's daughter marries but stays in business so that her neglected children grow up perverted.

Wrath of Jealousy

Judge Not

A street missionary seeks his lost daughter after shooting his wife on suspicion of adultery.

Somehow Good

An amnesiac weds the wife he ejected after she was assaulted in a brothel.

The Labour Leader

A Socialist weds a pregnant laundress and becomes the first Labour MP

The Eleventh Commandment

An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise.

Blackmail Is So Difficult

A Bill of Divorcement

A girl renounces her love to care for her insane father so that her mother may marry again.

Kind Cousin