Maurice Elvey Movies

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...

A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.

When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a...

Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.

A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.

Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure

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...

In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.

A superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of...

An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.

A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.

Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two...

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.

British horror drama short from 1926.

A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.

'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)

In South America the wife of the president's son loves the leader of the revolution

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...

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)