Maurice Elvey Movies

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

'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)

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...

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

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

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

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

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

A colonel saves a prince's life when he joins a club of men who draw lots to kill one another.

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...

Vice Versa is a 1916 British silent fantasy film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Charles Rock, Douglas Munro and Guy Newall.[1] It is an...

Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His...

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

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

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

A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.

A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter.

David Gordon is in love and engaged to be married to Kate Nugent. But the sinister figure of Austen Hawke, Gordon's rival, threatens to eclipse the...

The dream of Paul Dombey, the wealthy owner of the shipping company, is to have a son to continue his business. Tragically, Dombey's wife dies...

Robert Spencer is having an affair with his wife's friend Hilda. When a man approaches Hilda, proclaiming his love for Robert's wife Claire, Hilda...