Maurice Elvey Movies

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...

When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and...

Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.

The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on...

Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.

The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended...

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

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

A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)

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...

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

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

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.

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

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

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.

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...

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

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...

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