Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
An earnest young solicitor comes to Holmes just before he is arrested--for murder. He insists he had only just met the victim, and knows nothing of him, though he finds himself his sole beneficiary. But then Holmes finds a new thumb print, and the game is afoot.
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.
Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attractive girl but finally finds a match in the plainer one, while the other girl realises the worth of the prim and correct head clerk.
A killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. Series of 15 shorts, each with a self-contained story.
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.
