Movies: Matheson Lang

A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportu...

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 courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his grea...

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 to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Me...

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the ti...

All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas)...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealou...

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

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

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

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

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

In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue....

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