Maurice Elvey Movies

Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves...

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...

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster...

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves...

During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.

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

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

A detective must pursue some thieves trying to smuggle their bullion out of London on a barge down the Thames.

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

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

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

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

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

This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert...

Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote...

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

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...

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