Fay Compton Movies

Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death...

When a secret marriage is planned between Othello, a Moorish general, and Desdemona, the daughter of Senator Brabantio, her old suitor Roderigo takes...

Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for...

When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something...

A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young...

Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl...

When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort...

Directed by Thorold Dickinson.

Adaptation of Chekhov's play from the Chichester Festival.

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill...

A wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel and a gambling den, racing greyhounds and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric Aunt...

Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's...

An English schoolgirl suspects the foster brother she worships is the serial killer at large.

In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young...

A comedy film directed by Norman Walker

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...