Maurice Elvey Movies

A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.

A superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of...

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

'1850. Squire's grandson saves farmer's niece from charge of murdering illegitimate baby.' (British Film Catalogue)

Features a screenplay written by the original novelist Hall Caine.

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.

'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

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...

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

An assassin's daughter learns she is the King's bastard and dies to save his life. Based on the novel "Une fille de regent" by Alexandre Dumas...

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)

A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.

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. ...

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

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...