Sinister Street is a 1922 British silent drama film directed by George Beranger and starring John Stuart, Amy Verity and Maudie Dunham. It was adapted from the novel Sinister Street by Compton MacKenzie.
, 1h32 Réalisé parVictor Saville OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame, Romance ActeursEstelle Brody, John Stuart, Dorothy Cumming, Marie Ault, Winter Hall, Olaf Hytten Note49% In pre-World War I London, handsome young aviator Alex St. George (Stuart) meets and falls in love with shopgirl Kitty Greenwood (Brody). He asks her to marry him, to the horror of his snobbish, class-bound mother (Dorothy Cumming), who is appalled by the notion of her son marrying into a family who run a tobacconists shop. Before the wedding can take place, war breaks out and Alex is called up to serve as a pilot.
, 1h19 Réalisé parVictor Saville OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame ThèmesAdaptation d'une pièce de théâtre ActeursBelle Chrystall, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Mary Clare, Sybil Thorndike, Edmund Gwenn Note65% Lancashire mill-girls Jenny Hawthorne (Chrystall) and Mary Hollins (Ruth Peterson) go on holiday to Blackpool during the annual wakes week in their hometown of Hindle. They run into Alan Jeffcote (Stuart), the son of the owner of the mill in which they work, who has also traveled to Blackpool with a group of friends while his fiancée is detained on business in London. Jenny and Alan hit it off immediately, and he persuades her to leave Blackpool to spend the week with him at Llandudno in North Wales. To cover her tracks, Jenny leaves a postcard with Mary, asking her to send it to her parents (Edmund Gwenn and Sybil Thorndike) later in the week. She and Alan leave their friends and set off for Wales.
, 1h11 Réalisé parGeorge King OrigineRoyaume-uni GenresDrame ActeursBenita Hume, Heather Angel, John Stuart, Franklin Dyall, Mary Merrall, Alexander Field Note59% James Harg (Stuart) and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.