Movies: Maurice Elvey

A detective must pursue some thieves trying to smuggle their bullion out of London on a barge down the Thames....

In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother....

Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) is on vacation when he stumbles into a house and discovers two bodies. Both have been dead for hours but there aren't any visible signs of violence and soon other bodies start to pile up....

A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country....

'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)...

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An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her....

'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)...

A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?...

A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter....

A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes....

In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son....

Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king....

British horror drama short from 1926. Fifth episode in the Haunted Houses and Castles of Great Britain 2-reel series....

Inspector Hanaud is asked to investigate a murder in which a young woman is accused of killing her wealthy employer in a Riviera mansion and then running away. She is innocent, but the villain is able to make her seem guilty. Hanaud uncovers the trut...

My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet u...

A romantic melodrama about a young woman, Christine, who falls in love with a glamorous French soldier. Bertrand is involved in secret work with the French army but when he gets falsely accused of stealing army plans, she marries the sensible, rich a...

Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den....

In South America the wife of the president's son loves the leader of the revolution...

A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828....