Hepworth Movies

HELEN OF FOUR GATES was made in Hebden Bridge in 1920 by silent film pioneer Cecil M. Hepworth, based on a popular novel of the same name. Reportedly...

A dog leads its master to his kidnapped baby.

A habitual loser at the race-track is approached by a man who claims to be an inventor with a machine that can see into the future; but can it...

Young heiress Margaret Yeoland is found unconscious on the Devonshire moors by a disillusioned author, Denis Marlowe. She tells him she has run away...

Bill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the...

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’...

A mesmerist, obsessed with putting a beautiful woman under his power, hypnotizes her to try to force her to kill her fiancé. His plans are...

Documentary on the process of hay-making, from the cutting of the grass to the stacking of the hay.

A boy uses a professor's liquid to make objects transparent.

First film of Burnham Beeches, the famous beauty spot and ultimate film location.

Two identical sisters are able to switch places, leading to a series of unfortunate incidents.

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.

Dog Rover, from Rescued by Rover fame, chases a kidnapper's car and while he is in a pub, drives it safely home and thus saves the baby.

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human...

Funny how we think of the loutish behaviour of some of today's teens as a modern-day phenomenon. Here, in a short film more than one hundred years...

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.

A poor author feigns marriage to please his dying father.

A schoolgirl annoys the new teacher by getting her friends to answer an inspector incorrectly.

A poor author has an engaged girl pose as his wife to please his dying father.

A professor takes daughter's suitor's camera by mistake.