Such Is the Law 1930
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
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.
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.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
A British musical film directed by Bernard Mainwaring
A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
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.
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.
A shipwrecked captain saves a girl from a Spanish murderer by threatening to give him leprosy.
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
A crime film directed by Leslie Howard Gordon...
'1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
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.
In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
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.