Raise the Roof

The retired British captain forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.

Chided by his boss for a conspicuous lack of sensational stories, Lewis Bevan takes matters into his own hands to revive his flagging career.

'Famous fliers land in field, take children for flight, and are stopped by policeman in an autogyro.' (British Film Catalogue)

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.

A rich woman refuses to bear her husband a child, but adopts a son by his mistress after his death.

In 1925, with the cooperation of the War Office, British Instructional Films set out to make a dramatic, feature-length reconstruction of the five Ypres battles in which 1.7 million soldiers lost their lives. Directed by William Summers, the result is a silent classic. Unlike the famous 1916 documentary The Battle of the Somme, the Ypres footage is entirely ”faked” and the film shares some of Somme‘s propagandist approach. Regardless, the film is no less fascinating as an artistic endeavour of its time and it features some stunning images. A degree of authenticity is provided by real soldiers taking part and by the filming having taken place in the actual Ypres trenches.

Insurance agent-physician collects on policies of men murdered by a disfigured resident of the home for the blind where he acts as doctor-on-call.

A film directed by Walter Summers.

A man spends the night in the Chamber of Horrors of Madame Tussauds.

A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.