Fred Groves Movies

Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep

68/100

A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.

Squibs

58/100

A cockney flower-girl is in love with a policeman, but her father is a bookie and her sister loves a crook.

Desperation

A scientist's wife learns she has two years to live and tries an affair with a friend.

Garryowen

In Ireland, a widower wins the Derby and his daughter's American governess.

Fine Feathers

When a blind man is cured bis plain wife tries to make herself pretty, but causes a divorce.

Home

A fishergirl learns she is a duke's lost daughter but returns to her humble family.

Smith

A rich man weds his housekeeper and eventually falls in love with her.

Castle of Dreams

A guest's discovery saves a rich girl from eloping with her own father.

The Suicide Club

A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.

The World's Desire

A doctor exchanges an unwanted child for a stillborn baby who is later suspected of being a bastard.

No Parking

Squibs' Honeymoon

In Paris a bride poses as a man to escape capture by apaches.

Her Nameless Child

A smith's daughter secretly weds an Earl and has a baby while posing as a spinster to secure an inheritance for her weak brother.

The Grit of a Jew

A Jew finds a loophole in the marriage contract with a usurer that allows his son to wed a Jewess.

Drink

A laundress takes to drink and dies after her alcoholic husband goes mad.

The Loss of the Birkenhead

A squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.

The Two Roads

A counterfeiter's daughter is blackmailed by her father's partner to steal a secret formula.

A Will of Her Own

An actress weds a poor doctor, leaves him for the stage, and reunites with him at a baby show.

Squibs M.P.

A girl stands for Parliament when a rival milk company accuses her fiancé of bribery.

From Shopgirl to Duchess

A Duke deserts his wife on learning she was a shopgirl, and is blinded in a train crash.

Mother Love

A servant maid ends her life as a char-woman.

Rogues of the Turf

A trainer's ex-wife weds her employer and plots to kidnap a horse.

The Idol of Paris

A crook demands his Princess cousin in return for clearing a Prince of a theft charge.

The Mayor of Casterbridge

A man sells his wife and child to a sailor, remarries on becoming mayor, and learns his daughter is actually the sailor's.

Mr. Lyndon at Liberty

An agent helps an escaped convict prove a doctor is a spy.