Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) knows that a man has killed a former partner but he can't prove it unless he finds a dying detective who knows what really happened. Norwood would play Holmes in over thirty films and he's quite good in the role bring an intelligent looking character.
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
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.
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).
When a British army officer, Harry Faversham, resigns his commission on the eve of his regiment's departure for service in the Sudan he is sent four white feathers of cowardice by his comrades and fiancee. In an attempt to redeem himself, Faversham travels out to the Sudan where he saves the lives of his former comrades.
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 stories? And who is in the tower?
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
Holmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a position with Mr. Carruthers as a music teacher for his 10 year old daughter. On Saturdays, she returns to her home to he with her mother and returns to Chilton Grange Manor on Mondays. She cycles the several miles to the train station and recently she has noticed a man, also on a bicycle, following her. He is quite blatantly there, stopping when she stops and always keeping the same distance from her but making no attempt to to hide his presence. She is worried at least in part because she recently rejected the advances of a Mr. Woodley who became upset and violent at the rejection. As Holmes soon deduces, she has good reason to be fearful, though not necessarily from the cyclist.
Holmes and Watson travel to Europe to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.
In Mexico a girl saves a treasure hunter from a mutinous crew and he saves her from her gambling husband.
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
A wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking.
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.
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
Inspector Hanaud is asked to investigate a murder in which a young woman is accused of killing her wealthy employer in a Riviera mansion and then running away. She is innocent, but the villain is able to make her seem guilty. Hanaud uncovers the truth, that the murder was the result of a jewel robbery gone wrong.
