Leslie Faber Movies
- 1925
This is a 7-reel British romantic drama, written by and starring Mrs. John Russell. Russell plays a woman vexed by an unfaithful husband. She seeks out her ex-beau and goes to work at his dress shop, turning the establishment into a howling success. Now: just guess what kind of business the Honorable Mrs. John Russell managed in real life. You win: Afraid of Love is little more than a feature-length "infomercial" for Mrs. Russell's thriving London dressmaking company. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- 1928
Mercurial director Rex Ingram closed out his silent-film career with the British production Three Passions. Ingram's lovely wife Alice Terry is cast as Lady Victoria, who tries to dissuade her sweetheart Philip Wrexham (Ivan Petrovitch) from becoming a priest. But Wrexham cannot forget the fact that he was responsible for the death of a foreman in his father's factory, and he intends to shut himself off from the rest of the world. When it turns out that Wrexham is the only man capable of preventing a crippling factory strike, his father prevails upon Lady Victoria to fetch the young man back to the "outside world." But Wrexham is immovable -- at least until he is galvanized into action when a cad tries to put the make on the beautiful Lady V. Realizing that his responsibilities lie with his father and his family business, Wrexham forsakes the priesthood, saves the factory, and weds the heroine. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovich, (more)
- 1929
Viewers familiar with the exotic (if toned-down) 1942 MGM film version of Leon Gordon's lurid stage play White Cargo might be surprised to discover that the property was previously filmed in England in 1929. A young and handsome Maurice Evans stars as Langford, the wimpish naif who arrives in Africa to take charge of a rubber plantation. Despite warnings from his superior Weston (Leslie Faber) not to "mammy-palaver" with the native girls, Langford falls madly in love with the sexy, near-savage Tondelayo (played by one Gypsy Rhouma, whose only film this was). After a few nights in the sack with the girl, Langford goes quickly to hell in a handbasket, just as his predecessor had done. Upon learning that Langford may be returned to England, the jealously possessive Tondelayo contrives to keep him by her side by slowly poisoning him to death -- but she's not clever enough to hide her crime from the wily Weston. Gypsy Rhouma's ludicrous performance as Tondelayo is enough to make Hedy Lamarr's performance in the 1942 remake look like Academy Award material. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Leslie Faber, Maurice Evans, (more)
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