Sybil Thorndike Movies

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an...

Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young...

An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.

In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes...

George Bernard Shaw’s illustrious friends pay tribute to his talents – with anecdotes, artefacts and one-liners.

Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be...

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo.

Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the...

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts....

A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.

Hazel Woods, a beautiful and young Welsh girl, lives a wild, rustic life and loves animals — in particular, her pet fox. She is hotly desired...

A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.

Mrs Isobel Manners lives a large Victorian house with her two grown up sons; Geoffrey and Edward. Mrs Manners is convinced that someone is trying to...

Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.

'Woman shelters epileptic son when he kills prostitute.' (British Film Catalogue)

The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard,...

Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.