Movies: Matheson Lang

All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale (Kay Walsh) begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess (Wallace Douglas)...

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the ti...

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....

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband....

During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery.....

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife....

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Sir Douglas Rolls is a highly respected defence lawyer of many years experience. Now in rapidly failing health, he is advised to retreat from the courtroom and pursue more pleasurable activities. But it is just at this point in his life that his grea...

A young British woman marries a Chinese mandarin then falls in love with an Englishman. The mandarin plots his revenge....

After returning home to Britain from Nigeria where he has been working, an engineer becomes embroiled in a family melodrama....

In nineteenth century Mesopotamia a series of romantic enganglements ensue....

A naval adventure that focuses on the rivalry among the crew, particularly the indignation wrought by the behavior of inplacable Captain Steen. Dick, one of the sailors, is one of the most rebellious and draws up plans to exact vengeance. The opportu...

Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Me...

An actor playing Othello in a stage production of Shakespeare's play becomes jealous of his wife's supposed infidelity and seems bound to kill her in the scene in which she, enacting Othello's falsely accused wife Desdemona, is murdered by her jealou...

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)...

A Mandarin marries an English girl and tries to poison her lover....

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

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper....

A wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking....

In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan....