The Crooked Man 1923
Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.
Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
A German spy named Von Bork has been in England since 1910. Through several agents, he has gathered a significant amount of information relating to the British armed forces and foreign policy. He is unaware that a large amount of that information is false because one of his agents is really Sherlock Holmes, who is working for the British government.
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam.
A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
A girl detective and a reporter recover stolen gems hidden in a Chinese idol.
A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
A Mandarin marries an English girl and tries to poison her lover.
In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)