Fred Groves Movies

Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep

68/100

A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.

Squibs

58/100

A cockney flower-girl is in love with a policeman, but her father is a bookie and her sister loves a crook.

Castle of Dreams

A guest's discovery saves a rich girl from eloping with her own father.

Meg the Lady

A Lord's faithless wife kills a robber and is blackmailed by her lover.

The Loss of the Birkenhead

A squire's disowned son dies to save his wife and her soldier lover from shipwreck.

Squibs' Honeymoon

In Paris a bride poses as a man to escape capture by apaches.

London Pride

A cockney greengrocer fakes amnesia to be sent home from the war, and is ultimately awarded the VC.

From Shopgirl to Duchess

A Duke deserts his wife on learning she was a shopgirl, and is blinded in a train crash.

The Two Roads

A counterfeiter's daughter is blackmailed by her father's partner to steal a secret formula.

Garryowen

In Ireland, a widower wins the Derby and his daughter's American governess.

Mr. Lyndon at Liberty

An agent helps an escaped convict prove a doctor is a spy.

Desperation

A scientist's wife learns she has two years to live and tries an affair with a friend.

The Idol of Paris

A crook demands his Princess cousin in return for clearing a Prince of a theft charge.

Squibs M.P.

A girl stands for Parliament when a rival milk company accuses her fiancé of bribery.

Smith

A rich man weds his housekeeper and eventually falls in love with her.

Florence Nightingale

The Mayor of Casterbridge

A man sells his wife and child to a sailor, remarries on becoming mayor, and learns his daughter is actually the sailor's.

No Parking

Honeymoon for Three

An incognito prince foils detectives by switching identities with a newlywed American millionaire.

Drink

A laundress takes to drink and dies after her alcoholic husband goes mad.