Maurice Elvey Movies

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...

The film is set in the fictional mill town of Hindle in Lancashire in England, and concerns two young persons, Fanny Hawthorn and Alan Jeffcote, who...

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her...

A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.

A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?

A climber throws his fiancée's blackmailer over a cliff and finds all was a dream.

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

Who Killed John Savage?

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

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

Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.

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.

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

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

'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)

In this thriller, a corrupt talent agent's illegal actions are discovered by his partner. To silence him, the agent kills the partner. Unfortunately,...

Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.

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