Henry Ainley Movies

As You Like It

60/100

A duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his retinue into the forest of Arden. The banished duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in ... See full summary »

The Manxman

81/100

Pete Quilliam, a fisherman on the Isle of Man, and his best friend, a lawyer named Philip Christian...

The Royal Oak

A royalist lady poses as the king to help him escape.

The Prisoner of Zenda

77/100

An English tourist poses as his royal double to foil revolutionary kidnappers

Rupert of Hentzau

63/100

When the king is killed by his rival, his English double takes his place and is shot.

Build Thy House

60/100

A Padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.

The Marriage of William Ashe

An MP weds a Lady but leaves her when she writes a book about him.

Sweet Lavender

A housekeeper's daughter loves a toper's affianced friend.

The First Mrs. Fraser

A rich man returns to his first wife on finding that his second wife loves a younger man.

Quinneys

An antique dealer's daughter loves a foreman who sells fakes to his ex-partner.

Called Back

The blind husband of an Italian doctor's mad ward 'sees' her brother murdered during a trance.

Sally Bishop

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

Brother Officers

A private wins a sweepstakes and a VC, lets his girl wed his friend, and saves him from the cardsharp who killed his father.

A Man of His Word

A banker helps a friend in financial trouble who later causes a run on his bank

The Great Adventure

A rich artist changes places with a dead valet and weds a poor woman, only to find his valet had a wife and sons.

The Prince and the Beggarmaid

A king declares war to force a princess to wed his hunchbacked brother.

Sowing the Wind

A man demands proof that his adopted son's fiancée is highborn and discovers she is his own daughter.

Iris

A widowed heiress, forbidden to re-marry, takes a lover.

Money

A poor bart's daughter weds a rich secretary but leaves him when he pretends to lose money on the horses.