Actor Roland Young (1887)

King Solomon’s Mines (1937) is a British adventure film directed by Robert Stevenson. It is based on the 1885 novel of the same name by Henry Rider Haggard. In 1882, Irish dream chaser Patrick ‘Patsy’ O’Brien and his daughter Kathy have been unsuccessful in their search for diamonds in the mines of Kimberley, South Africa. They convince Allan Quartermain to take them to the coast in his wagon. On their journey, they come across another wagon with two injured men. While Umbopa recovers, Silvestra Getto dies after claiming to know the location of the ...

The Man Who Could Work Miracles (1936) is a British fantasy comedy film directed by Lothar Mendes and produced by Alexander Korda. It opens in the celestial realms, where three superhuman entities – potentially gods or angels – are observing the planet Earth. Disheartened by the actions of these ‘animals’, one of the entities is challenged by the other two to prove whether or not these beings are capable of handling the power over reality required to reach the stars. The only limit set for this experiment is that free will cannot be controlled, as ...