Fay Compton Movies

A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.

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

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

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

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 whic...

A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.

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 hi...

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...

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mot...

In Victorian London, young Adelaide is born into luxury, but marries starving artist Henry. His alcoholism and their lack of money lead to many quarre...

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 daughter....

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 arti...

Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in I...

A teacher falls in love with the married owner of the guest house in which she is staying during a holiday to Austria.

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

A pianist takes his ailing wife out of a London hospital at the same time that another female patient there has suffered a miscarriage. Afterwards, th...

A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.

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 g...

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...

Directed by Thorold Dickinson.