Movies: Russell Thorndike

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy D...

The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play....

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eve...

English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen....

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415....

A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but their search is hindered by a local reverend and a horrifying curse....

A 1923 version of the Charles Dickens classic with Russell Thorndike playing Scrooge....

Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome....

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man....

'Escaped convict blackmails murderous doctor into helping him.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child....

In Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide....

The relatives of a millionaire - the victim of a mysterious murder - get together at his house to search for his will, which he recorded on a record. However, one of them is actually the person who killed him, and will let nothing - or no one - stand...

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production....

When his father commits suicide a gentleman sets out to avenge the death on those who swindled him out of a fortune....

A silent drama film directed by Sidney Morgan....

Macbeth is a black and white 1922 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Macbeth. It was the last silent film version of that play produced, and the eighth film adaptation of the play. It was directed by H. B. Parkinson and produced by Frank...

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