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.

Drink

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

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.

The World's Desire

A doctor exchanges an unwanted child for a stillborn baby who is later suspected of being a bastard.

Her Luck in London

A gambler blackmails a Lord's wife upon discovering his mistress is her mother.

The Grit of a Jew

A Jew finds a loophole in the marriage contract with a usurer that allows his son to wed a Jewess.

Charity Ann

A blind beggar's violinist daughter shoots and blinds the man who wronged her as a child.

The Firm of Girdlestone

An old merchant tries to save his firm by attempting to kill his ward.

Home

A fishergirl learns she is a duke's lost daughter but returns to her humble family.

Rogues of the Turf

A trainer's ex-wife weds her employer and plots to kidnap a horse.

The Labour Leader

A Socialist weds a pregnant laundress and becomes the first Labour MP

Mother Love

A servant maid ends her life as a char-woman.