Matheson Lang

An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in...

'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)

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...

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's...

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

Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the...

A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick,...

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

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

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable...

A young British woman marries a Chinese mandarin then falls in love with an Englishman. The mandarin plots his revenge.

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

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.

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

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

In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue.

A wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking.

After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama.

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)

'Nurse saves captain from invading Germans and is saved herself when he leads counter-attack.' (British Film Catalogue)