Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge.
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).
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
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.
Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure
After the death in suspicious circumstances of Charles Baskerville, the last descendant of the lineage of the Baskervilles, Henry, returned to the old family mansion. The charismatic detective Sherlock Holmes and his faithful assistant, Dr. Watson, investigating the case, and discover the existence of a supernatural hound that in addition murderer according to history, killed many years ago Hugo Baskerville, the first of the line, and it seems that the curse stalks his descendants.
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.
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
A wealthy man who acquires a mind-reading machine is soon horrified to discover what people are really thinking.
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
A climber throws his fiancée's blackmailer over a cliff and finds all was a dream.
