Partners Please 1932
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
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).
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
Based on Sax Rohmer’s third Fu-Manchu novel, The Si-Fan Mysteries (1917), this sensational episode sees Fu-Manchu partly paralysed by a bullet wound. The Devil Doctor snatches eminent surgeon Sir Baldwin Frazer to carry out the delicate operation he needs. Dr Petrie, abducted by Fu-Manchu’s scheming assistant, Zarmi, must assist – and choose a playing card to determine whether he lives or dies...
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 any visible signs of violence and soon other bodies start to pile up.
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.
A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and debating society. The golfer resolves to become an intellectual and, following a lecture by 'a highbrow Russian and typical whiskered Bolshevik' who happens to also be a brother golfer, the object of the golfer's affection realises that there may be something more to the game after all.
In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sweetheart masquerades as Charles. Only when she is brought before Cromwell is it discovered the switch has been made.
Fu-Manchu’s slave girl Karamaneh leads sleuths Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie to her evil master’s lair, where they fall prey to another of the Devil Doctor’s traps. Bound hand and foot, they watch helplessly as a party of policemen are imprisoned in a subterranean vault and poisoned with vile fungal spore vapour, while Fu-Manchu cackles with maniacal glee. Can our heroes escape to save the day?
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.