Cirrus@Austlit

'Winifred Shotter plays a piquantly contrasted role of a lovely and ultra modern young woman who suddenly adopts the pose of a demure Victorian miss, dons crinolines, and becomes coy. All this is designed to attract the attention of a handsome expert in antiques who arrives to inspect the country vicarage. She finds herself introduced to Mayfair as the latest craze, and succeeds in converting society to crinolines with delightfully comic results. Then arises the problem of whether to keep up the pose, or confess and risk shattering her romance with the young man.'

Source: 'Lilies of the Field', Advertiser, 26 January 1935, p.17.

When a police detective is murdered, his girlfriend investigates the crime herself.

'This concerns a man who hunted every niche in London in search of copy for a book he proposed to write. In his search he found a gorgeous woman who later turns out to be the girl of his dreams.'

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'The Fortunate Fool', The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate, 18 October 1934, p.19.

An impoverished baronet inherits a farm and determines to make it a going concern, despite his ignorance of farming, the gentle mockery of the locals, and the covetousness of a neighbour, who wants the land, and with whose daughter the baronet falls in love.

A group of English tourists travelling along the Nile by boat are kidnapped by locals and ultimately rescued by the Camel Corps.

Very much of its time, Arthur Conan Doyle's original work displayed a mistrust of Islam and a strong favouring of British imperialism: judging from contemporary reviews, Dion Titheradge carried those elements into this adaptation.

'The story of a woman, her two marriages, imprisonment, and ultimate reunion with the man she loves.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50232). (Sighted: 3/9/2013)

A young actress marries, on a whim, a down-and-out man she meets in a London park. He endeavours to make her revise her rackety way of life with her set of Bright Young Things, while she in turn is horrified to learn that he has only just served a fifteen-year sentence for killing the man who seduced his sister and drove her to suicide.