Violet E. Powell

To Be a Lady

Misadventures of a country girl who comes to the city, and falls in love with a musician.

Badger’s Green

A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.

The Plaything

A Scot acquires sophistication in order to spurn the socialite who spurned him.

Kitty

Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....

Paradise

The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.

Tesha

The luminous Maria Corda stars as the eponymous Tesha, a celebrated Russian dancer who marries an Englishman (Thomas). The couple long for a child but after five years of happy marriage, remain childless. On a trip to Southampton Tesha succumbs to a brief fling with a stranger (Cavanagh), unleashing a barrage of unforeseen consequences and emotional turmoil. The superb cinematography is by the great German cinematographer Werner Brandes who worked on dozens of prestige British productions in the 1920s. Originally shot silent, sound was added in 1929.

The White Sheik

In the Sahara a British Riff chief weds a captured girl to save her from the tribe.

Toni

Depressive Toni is diagnosed with idlesness by his doctor who recommends more excitement and danger. Another patient, a celebrated detective who bears a striking resemblance to Toni, is diagnosed with exhaustion and told to rest. The two swap places but Toni's first client turns out to be an exiled princess whose jewels are about to be stolen by a ruthless gang and the amateur detective finds more thrills than he bargained for.

The Rolling Road

A marooned sailor and his stowaway sister-in-law are rescued by her husband.

Poppies of Flanders

An Earl's reformed son fakes a relapse on learning his sweetheart loves another, and dies saving his life.

Just Suppose

A prince comes to America and falls in love with a regular girl.

The Beautiful City

For their mother's sake, a man takes the blame for a robbery committed by his brother and his brother's gangster boss. Considered a lost film.