Maurice Elvey Movies

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

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...

Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

A composer gets drunk on the proceeds of a song and sees his furniture dancing.

The film is a contempary-set version of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.

After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the...

A princess avoids a forced marriage by changing places with her double.

My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the...

In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts...

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and...

British horror drama short from 1926. Fifth episode in the Haunted Houses and Castles of Great Britain 2-reel series.

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based...

Comradeship is a 1919 British silent film drama, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Lily Elsie, Gerald Ames and Guy Newall. The film's action...

A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.

A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.

A comedy feature with Fred Groves having dual roles of bridegroom and a lunatic, and in the course of the film the two characters swap places.