The Empty House 1921
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
A champion golfer falls for a beautiful woman, only to find that her heart lies with one of 'the Cultured', a poet and a member of the literary and debating society. The golfer resolves to become an intellectual and, following a lecture by 'a highbrow Russian and typical whiskered Bolshevik' who happens to also be a brother golfer, the object of the golfer's affection realises that there may be something more to the game after all.
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.
Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
A rich girl's fiancé poses as a chauffeur to stop her eloping with a major.
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.
A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
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.
A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
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.
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.
A Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.
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.