The Three Students

The Three Students 1923

1

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.

1923

The Crooked Man

The Crooked Man 1923

1

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.

1923

The Resident Patient

The Resident Patient 1921

1

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

1921

The New Hotel

The New Hotel 1932

1

A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring

1932

The Empty House

The Empty House 1921

1

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

1921

The Mystery of the Dancing Men

The Mystery of the Dancing Men 1923

1

A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.

1923

The Engineer's Thumb

The Engineer's Thumb 1923

1

Dr. John Watson treats a patient who has lost a thumb. The patient says that the loss of his thumb was not an accident but the result of an attack. However, he fears that the story behind the loss of his digit is so strange that the police will not believe it.

1923

His Last Bow

His Last Bow 1923

1

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.

1923

The Island of Despair

The Island of Despair 1926

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A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.

1926

Sally Bishop

Sally Bishop 1923

1

A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.

1923

The King's Highway

The King's Highway 1927

1

'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)

1927

The Cardboard Box

The Cardboard Box 1923

1

Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.

1923

Little Brother of God

Little Brother of God 1922

1

In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.

1922

The Yellow Claw

The Yellow Claw 1921

1

A frightened woman is murdered in the London apartment of a well-known novelist named Henry Leroux. The police arrest Leroux's butler, but he escapes and runs off to a mysterious opium den, the lair of a drug dealer named Mister King. Gaston Max, a detective from Paris, arrives in London to investigate the drug trafficking. Although the police take down the gang, Mr. King escapes and manages to keep his true identity a secret.

1921