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.
'Insurance agent poses as royal double and saves him from anarchists.' (British Film Catalogue)
A mad captain poses as a cleric to murder people aboard a fogbound ship.
'Farcical comedy of matrimonial complications in which a bibulous man almost wrecks his friend's marriage.' (British Film Institute)
'Newlywed tries to get back gift garter from honeymoon bride.' (British Film Catalogue)
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
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.
A young woman designer goes to London to further her career, but things are complicated when her invention is a success.
During a performance of Othello a jealous actor attempts to strangle his wife who he believes has committed adultery..
A captain pays one of his sailors to marry a woman who works in a nightclub.
An unhappy wife falls for an injured pilot.
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
A criminal hides the body of a dead financier in an effort to manipulate shares.
An outlaw leader fakes a draw for a sick girl so he can help her escape
'Broke duke and millionairess try month of trial marriage.' (British Film Catalogue)
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.