Movies: Maurice Elvey

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II....

In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts the crown of England but insists on wielding power alone....

A short drama about a doctor's wife who returns to him after a flirtation in Richmond Park, London. It is based on the painting by John Collier....

A composer gets drunk on the proceeds of a song and sees his furniture dancing....

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her...

The film is set in the fictional mill town of Hindle in Lancashire in England, and concerns two young persons, Fanny Hawthorn and Alan Jeffcote, who are discovered to have been having what would now be called a "dirty weekend" during their holiday, d...

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son....

Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race....

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady....

Part of a series known as “Haunted Castles”....

Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government....

In France, a romantic young woman named Germaine is shocked and disheartened to discover that, for financial reasons, her parents have arranged a marriage for her with Lucien D'Artois, a wealthy man of rough manners who loves his horses and dogs more...

The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series....

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the...

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxe...

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....

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States....

When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier...