Maurice Elvey Movies

Exiled French patriot helps to find the men who want to betray emperor Napoleon III by selling military secrets to the German government.

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

In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.

A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

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 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...

A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly...

A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for...

Retired actress poses as dresser to scare murderer into confessing and clearing her son.

There is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny...

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

A jealous husband leaves jail to find his wife loves his lawyer.

A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.

An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.

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

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

Features a screenplay written by the original novelist Hall Caine.

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

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.