Down Under Donovan 1922
An ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.
An ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.
In Ruritania, an MP weds the princess and saves her from an abduction.
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 sleuth Nayland Smith steals evil Dr Fu-Manchu's 'Sacred Order', the Devil Doctor himself faces death at the hands of the Si-Fan organisation.
Nayland Smith restores a `dead' man to life.
Our hero Dr Petrie is caught by evil Fu-Manchu and imprisoned near the British Museum, where he risks a daring escape, high above the London streets.
A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
An assassinated Lord's daughter refuses to marry a Chinese prince but agrees to be his mistress.
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
Sherlock Holmes (Eille Norwood) is on vacation when he stumbles into a house and discovers two bodies. Both have been dead for hours but there aren't any visible signs of violence and soon other bodies start to pile up.
King Charles flees and hides in a huge oak tree when the troops loyal to Oliver Cromwell close in. The royal entourage is disguised, and the king's sweetheart masquerades as Charles. Only when she is brought before Cromwell is it discovered the switch has been made.
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.
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
In Paris a Count's enforced wife takes the blame when her ex-lover is killed by the diplomat she loves.
Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.