Matheson Lang Movies

Channel Crossing

59/100

Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value system is thrown into turmoil.

Little Friend

71/100

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

Drake the Pirate

65/100

The Great Defender

62/100

Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England's greatest barrister. But he has just been informed by Doctor Hackett, specialist on diseases of the heart, that overwork has ... See full summary »

The Cardinal

60/100

Guy Fawkes

89/100

Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.

The Wandering Jew

68/100

A cursed Jew lived through the Crusades, Mediaeval Italy, and dies in the Spanish Inquisition.

The Merchant of Venice

47/100

A girl advocate foils a Jewish usurer's claim for a pound of a debtor's flesh.

The Qualified Adventurer

In the South Seas a Chinese cook who helps a writer thwart a mutiny is really a Manchu Prince.

Venetian Nights

Carnival

An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed...

The Ware Case

A knight is accused of drowning his wife's rich brother.

The Secret Kingdom

A financier buys a mind-reading device but destroys it on learning of his wife's faithlessness.

The Scarlet Daredevil

A dandy saves a wife from the guillotine by framing the woman who helped kidnap her.

Port of Lost Souls

Mr. Wu

A Chinese merchant kills his daughter, kidnaps her seducer, and demands that the young man's mother choose either death for her son or her own daughter as payment for the disgrace to his family.

The House Opposite

An agent's jealous wife witnesses a murder whilst visiting her lover.

White Slippers

In Mexico a girl saves a treasure hunter from a mutinous crew and he saves her from her gambling husband.

The Island of Despair

A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.

The King's Highway

A judge sentences a highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.