Matheson Lang Movies

Little Friend

71/100

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

Drake the Pirate

65/100

The Cardinal

60/100

Carnival

An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed...

Channel Crossing

59/100

Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.

The Great Defender

62/100

Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England's greatest barrister. But he has just been informed by Doctor Hackett, specialist on diseases of the heart, that overwork has ... See full summary »

Guy Fawkes

89/100

Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.

The Wandering Jew

68/100

A cursed Jew lived through the Crusades, Mediaeval Italy, and dies in the Spanish Inquisition.

The Merchant of Venice

47/100

A girl advocate foils a Jewish usurer's claim for a pound of a debtor's flesh.

Venetian Nights

Henry, King of Navarre

In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an extermination plan.

White Slippers

In Mexico a girl saves a treasure hunter from a mutinous crew and he saves her from her gambling husband.

Victory and Peace

A nurse saves a captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads a counterattack.

The Scarlet Daredevil

A dandy saves a wife from the guillotine by framing the woman who helped kidnap her.

The Ware Case

A knight is accused of drowning his wife's rich brother.

The Qualified Adventurer

In the South Seas a Chinese cook who helps a writer thwart a mutiny is really a Manchu Prince.

The King's Highway

A judge sentences a highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.

The House Opposite

An agent's jealous wife witnesses a murder whilst visiting her lover.

Dick Turpin's Ride to York

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.

The Island of Despair

A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.

The Chinese Bungalow

A Mandarin marries an English girl and tries to poison her lover.

Port of Lost Souls

The Chinese Bungalow

Slaves of Destiny

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who weds a girl after the beggar kills her crooked husband.

The Secret Kingdom

A financier buys a mind-reading device but destroys it on learning of his wife's faithlessness.