Fay Compton Movies

In Vienna, aspiring composer Johann Strauss Jr. clashes with his domineering father, who wants him to abandon music for a steady job in a bakery....

Daniel Defoe's classic tale of survival is handsomely brought to the movies for the first time in this rarely seen 1927 film, produced by Rex...

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 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...

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...

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

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

The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.

A husband's attempts to escape from a loveless marriage ends in tragedy.

Meg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary...

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

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...

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

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

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.

A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.

An actress thwarts a blackmailer by taking the blame for her sister's compromise. Based on the play The Pillory by Brandon Fleming.

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...