Harry Lauder

Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.

A British musical film directed by George Pearson

This is an incomplete, then unreleased, and untitled charity film featuring Charlie Chaplin and Harry Lauder. Wikipedia and IMDb lists the film's year as 1918. http://www.jimvallance.com/02-family-folder/harry-lauder-folder/lauder-pages/harry-lauder-films/pg-lauder-films.html lists the filming date as January 22, 1917. That is the date used here. IMDb lists the writer and director as Harry Lauder.

Itinerant Scot performers: One daughter of a veteran trouper weds a ne'er do well and dies in childbirth.Her spendthrift man goes but later returns to bleed the old man out of remaining savings.Another daughter makes good as a singer.

'Scots star sings songs in music hall setting.' (British Film Catalogue)

Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.