AustLit

An impoverished baronet inherits a farm and determines to make it a going concern, despite his ignorance of farming, the gentle mockery of the locals, and the covetousness of a neighbour, who wants the land, and with whose daughter the baronet falls in love.

A group of English tourists travelling along the Nile by boat are kidnapped by locals and ultimately rescued by the Camel Corps.

Very much of its time, Arthur Conan Doyle's original work displayed a mistrust of Islam and a strong favouring of British imperialism: judging from contemporary reviews, Dion Titheradge carried those elements into this adaptation.

Fred and Emily Hill are leading a boring life in London. When they receive a big inheritance from a rich relative, they see it as a way of realising all their dreams. They leave for a cruise, behaving like rich people, but soon find that being rich is not the answer to their problems.

'The story of a woman, her two marriages, imprisonment, and ultimate reunion with the man she loves.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/50232). (Sighted: 3/9/2013)

An actor-manager sitting on the jury for the murder trial of actress Diana Baring becomes convinced of her innocence after she has been convicted and sentenced to hang: he works to uncover the real murderer before sentence is carried out.

A young actress marries, on a whim, a down-and-out man she meets in a London park. He endeavours to make her revise her rackety way of life with her set of Bright Young Things, while she in turn is horrified to learn that he has only just served a fifteen-year sentence for killing the man who seduced his sister and drove her to suicide.

The British Film Institute calls Toni a 'Mild thriller' (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/372067), and a contemporary Australian review suggests it was intended to be as much a comedy as a thriller:

'Packed with laughs and thrills, the cinema art comedy, "Toni," will be shown at the New Pavilion Theatre on Monday next. It is the tale of an active and wealthy young man who poses as a famous detective, and is brought into many close situations owing to the machinations of a gang of international crooks.'

Source:

'"Toni." An English Comedy', Advertiser [Adelaide], 19 April 1929, p.22.