The Sign of Four 1923
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
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.
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
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).
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.
In Canada a man investigates his brother's death and saves a suspected girl from kidnap.
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
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.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
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 film directed by Sinclair Hill.
Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attractive girl but finally finds a match in the plainer one, while the other girl realises the worth of the prim and correct head clerk.
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.
'A secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)