Maurice Elvey Movies

Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.

Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.

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...

One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.

'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)

A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.

In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts...

'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)

A climber throws his fiancée's blackmailer over a cliff and finds all was a dream.

The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer

In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.

A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.

My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the...

In South America the wife of the president's son loves the leader of the revolution

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.

In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.

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

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...