The Speckled Band 1931
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
After her sister dies under mysterious circumstances, a young heiress seeks Holmes' help when she feels threatened by her brutish stepfather.
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
The son of a stodgy British earl falls in love with the daughter of an American millionaire businessman. The fathers oppose the relationship.
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
A fence for a gang of jewel thieves comes under suspicion from the police.
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.
A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
Geoffrey and his wife Anne are trapped in a stifling marriage, which neither feels able to leave. When Geoffrey's boyhood friend, Ernest, and his new wife, Elma, come for a long visit, it's soon apparent that their marriage is equally unhappy. As Ernest and Anne strike up a supposedly secret affair, Geoffrey and Elma do everything they can to encourage their spouses' infidelity, whilst also pretending to be blissfully unaware of it.
'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
A nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)