Movies: Beatrice Varley

An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman....

After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband....

An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money....

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....

A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways....

The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts....

A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl....

A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances....

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth....

A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London....

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result....

In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men r...

Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young...

The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect....

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie,...

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

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her k...

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a wa...

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to...

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambli...