Maurice Elvey Movies

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

Vice Versa is a 1916 British silent fantasy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Charles Rock, Douglas Munro and Guy Newall.[1] It is an...

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

A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.

A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.

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...

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

'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)

Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote...

A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous...

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...

My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after 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...

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...

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...

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

Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a...

A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.

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