Maurice Elvey

Maurice Elvey

Рождение : 1887-11-11, Stockton-on-Tees, England, UK

Смерть : 1967-08-28

Профиль

Maurice Elvey

Фильмы

Second Fiddle
Director
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
Stars in Your Eyes
Director
A group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!
Dry Rot
Director
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.
Fun at St. Fanny's
Director
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Room in the House
Director
Betsy Richards, a hard-working widow, tries to solve the domestic problems of her three grown-up sons.
You Lucky People
Director
Reservist Tommy Smart - who has made his fortune since the war selling army surplus - arrives at an army camp, with his chauffeur/valet, for two weeks' training. Bank manager Corporal Jones is in Tommy's squad. Sylvia, Jones' daughter, wishes to marry Lieutenant Robson, a National Service officer. Smart is under the orders of his old enemy Sergeant Thickpenny and R.S.M. Brittain; various parade ground antics ensue.
What Every Woman Wants
Director
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim - back from the war in Korea - and Mark’s involvement in left-wing politics place further strain on the relationship. Can grandfather help?
The Gay Dog
Director
Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
The Happiness of Three Women
Theatre Play
Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.
The Happiness of Three Women
Director
Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.
The Harassed Hero
Director
Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any stress or excitement in his life. Unfortunately -- thanks to a chance encounter in a London taxi cab -- he now finds himself at the very centre of an explosive international criminal caper and his life is filled with suitcases full of hot money, desperate gunmen and vanishing bodies! More dangerous still, he's been cared for by the rather ravishing Nurse Brook (Joan Winmill Brown) -- a girl guaranteed to stimulate any red-blooded English gentleman! How much excitement can one man take?
House of Blackmail
Director
A blackmailer is murdered, and the police find that there is a long list of suspects who wanted to see him dead.
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
Director
Based on a 1944 West End stage success with Ralph Lynn, this is a classic bedroom farce for those who like them that way -- its theatrical origins acknowledged in the credits and clearly apparent when most of the action takes place with characters popping in and out of a single-room set -- enlivened by a sex-pot performance by Diana Dors as blackmailing first wife Candy.
The Great Game
Director
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
My Wife's Lodger
Director
My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie’s ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug!
The Late Edwina Black
Director
When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
The Third Visitor
Director
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.
Beware of Pity
Producer
A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
Beware of Pity
Director
A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
Strawberry Roan
Director
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
Medal for the General
Associate Producer
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
Medal for the General
Director
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
The Lamp Still Burns
Director
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
The Gentle Sex
Co-Director
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
Salute John Citizen
Director
A typical working family have to cope with living through the Blitz, adapting to its privations, and eventually making the ultimate sacrifice for king & country.
Under Your Hat
Director
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
For Freedom
Director
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
The Spider
Director
In this thriller, a corrupt talent agent's illegal actions are discovered by his partner. To silence him, the agent kills the partner. Unfortunately, the killing is witnessed by a young woman. Now the agent is after her. He makes one attempt but fails. Fortunately for him, the encounter rendered her an amnesiac. She is sent to her home to recover. The agent follows and decides to try again before her memory returns. Fortunately, a detective and his clever wife take the case and stop him before it is too late.
Sons of the Sea
Screenplay
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
Sons of the Sea
Director
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
Sword of Honour
Producer
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
Sword of Honour
Director
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
The Return of the Frog
Director
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
Who Killed John Savage?
Director
Who Killed John Savage?
Who Goes Next?
Director
During the First World War, a number of captured British officers attempt to escape a prisoner-of-war camp.
A Romance in Flanders
Director
During World War I, in Flanders, Berry and Morley were in love with the same girl, Yvonne. During a battle in the Widow's Island sector, Morley is wounded and abandoned by Berry. Morley being reported missing, Berry now has a clear path to marry Yvonne. Two decades later, Yvonne incidentally meets a tourist guide in the former combat zone region who looks fiendishly like - Morley. —Guy Bellinger
The Man in the Mirror
Director
A mild-mannered, somewhat mousy man is astounded when his reflection in a mirror comes to life and begins to do all the wild and crazy things that he always wanted to but never could.
The Tunnel
Director
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
The Clairvoyant
Director
A fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
Heat Wave
Director
Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
Road House
Director
Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
My Song for You
Director
In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Princess Charming
Director
Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
Love, Life and Laughter
Director
Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
Lily of Killarney
Director
Set in Ireland, a poor knight's rival frames him for murder in this musical based on 'Colleen Bawn'.
The Wandering Jew
Director
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
This Week of Grace
Director
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 Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
I Lived with You
Director
In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
The Lost Chord
Director
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Soldiers of the King
Director
When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier.
The Lodger
Director
An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.
Diamond Cut Diamond
Director
One of the guests tries to foil a gang of jewel-robbers during a country house weekend party.
The Marriage Bond
Director
A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.
The Water Gipsies
Director
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
In a Monastery Garden
Director
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Frail Women
Director
An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
Potiphar's Wife
Adaptation
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
Potiphar's Wife
Director
'A good-looking chauffeur, employed by an aristocratic married lady is tempted to misconduct. His indifference arouses her wrath and he is charged with assault at the Assizes. ' (British Film Institute)
A Honeymoon Adventure
Director
An exciting tale of international crooks and stolen plans, in which an inventor is kidnapped by foreign agents whilst honeymooning in Scotland.
Sally in Our Alley
Director
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
The School for Scandal
Producer
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
The School for Scandal
Director
Charles (Henry Hewitt), Joseph (Ian Fleming), and Sir Benjamin (John Charlton) are in love with Maria (Dodo Watts), and Lady Sneerwell (Anne Grey) is in love with Charles.
A Sister to Assist 'Er
Producer
A poor woman poses as her rich twin to fool a mean landlady.
High Treason
Director
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Palais De Danse
Director
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
Balaclava
Director
A British army officer is cashiered, and re-enlists as Private to take part in the Crimean War. He succeeds in capturing a top Russian spy which results in the famous Charge of the Light Brigade to take the Balaclava Heights.
The Flag Lieutenant
Director
A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.
Hindle Wakes
Producer
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
Hindle Wakes
Director
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
The Flight Commander
Director
In China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot.
The Glad Eye
Director
Men elude their wives by threatening to go on a dirigible. It crashes.
Roses of Picardy
Director
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Mademoiselle from Armentieres
Director
A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.
Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler
Director
Part of a series known as “Haunted Castles”.
Curlytop
Director
Big Bill Branigan, one of the tough characters of London's Limehouse district, falls in love with Curlytop because of her sweet innocence. He leaves his sweetheart, Bessie, for her and resolves to go straight. When he sets out to find a job, the jealous Bessie gets Curlytop drunk and hacks off her long curls.
Folly of Vanity
Director
This drama had two directors: Maurice Elvey handled most of the film, but the fantasy sequence was directed by Henry Otto. Newlyweds Alice and Robert are already having differences over money. He gets angry at her extravagances, especially when she spends more than they can afford on an imitation pearl necklace. Ridgeway, a client of Robert's, invites the couple to a party. Robert wants to decline, but Alice insists that they go. Ridgeway loans Alice a real pearl necklace, to "restore their lustre," and everyone heads for his yacht. Ridgeway pays Alice a lot of attention, while a young widow tries to vamp Robert.
The Love Story of Aliette Brunton
Director
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
Slaves of Destiny
Director
In Africa an Englishman is sold as a slave by a blind beggar who then weds a girl after he has killed her crooked husband.
Henry, King of Navarre
Director
In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan.
Don Quixote
Director
Episodic misadventures of a man who thinks he is a knight.
Sally Bishop
Director
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
The Royal Oak
Director
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.
The Sign of Four
Writer
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
The Sign of Four
Director
The final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
The Wandering Jew
Director
'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)
The Passionate Friends
Director
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
A Debt of Honour
Director
In India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
Dick Turpin's Ride to York
Director
A highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
Man and His Kingdom
Director
In South America the wife of the president's son loves the leader of the revolution
The Fruitful Vine
Director
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Director
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.
The Man with the Twisted Lip
Director
Holmes finds that the disappearance of respectable middle class Neville St. Clair may be linked to a filthy beggar living above an opium den.
The Devil's Foot
Director
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.
The Dying Detective
Director
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.
The Solitary Cyclist
Director
Holmes is approached by Miss Violet Smith with a most peculiar problem. She has recently accepted a position with Mr. Carruthers as a music teacher for his 10 year old daughter. On Saturdays, she returns to her home to he with her mother and returns to Chilton Grange Manor on Mondays. She cycles the several miles to the train station and recently she has noticed a man, also on a bicycle, following her. He is quite blatantly there, stopping when she stops and always keeping the same distance from her but making no attempt to to hide his presence. She is worried at least in part because she recently rejected the advances of a Mr. Woodley who became upset and violent at the rejection. As Holmes soon deduces, she has good reason to be fearful, though not necessarily from the cyclist.
The Priory School
Director
A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly without a trace. And, why is Holmes getting such poor cooperation in his investigation?
The Tiger of San Pedro
Director
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Empty House
Director
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
The Copper Beeches
Director
There is a dark mystery in Hampshire, near Winchester. Why does this strange couple insist the governess cut her hair short? Why is she told funny stories? And who is in the tower?
The Noble Bachelor
Director
A superior-minded British aristocrat condescends to visit Holmes for help with a spot of bother: his new wife has disappeared. What is the secret of her past? How will the solution affect the haughty "lord?"
The Beryl Coronet
Director
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
A Scandal in Bohemia
Director
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
The Resident Patient
Director
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Yellow Face
Director
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A Case of Identity
Director
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
The Red-Headed League
Director
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
Innocent
Director
An orphan named Innocence leaves her county home after her foster-father dies. She travels to the city and makes a living as a novelist. Subsequently, she has an affair with a painter named Amadis de Jocelyn, who later dumps her.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Director
Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure
Darby and Joan
Producer
Features a screenplay written by the original novelist Hall Caine.
At the Villa Rose
Director
Inspector Hanaud is asked to investigate a murder in which a young woman is accused of killing her wealthy employer in a Riviera mansion and then running away. She is innocent, but the villain is able to make her seem guilty. Hanaud uncovers the truth, that the murder was the result of a jewel robbery gone wrong.
Bleak House
Director
'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
The Swindler
Director
A man takes the blame for a girl's crooked brother and weds her when her hand is amputated.
God's Good Man
Director
The Rocks of Valpre
Director
A romantic melodrama about a young woman, Christine, who falls in love with a glamorous French soldier. Bertrand is involved in secret work with the French army but when he gets falsely accused of stealing army plans, she marries the sensible, rich and older Trevor Mordaunt.
Comradeship
Director
Comradeship is a 1919 British silent film drama, directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Lily Elsie, Gerald Ames and Guy Newall. The film's action covers the entire span of World War I, from the months before the outbreak of hostilities to the declaration of peace.
Adam Bede
Director
'1850. Squire's grandson saves farmer's niece from charge of murdering illegitimate baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Nelson
Director
Lord Nelson's life, loves and death.
The Life Story of David Lloyd George
Director
A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.
Masks and Faces
Producer
An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
Florence Nightingale
Director
The film portrays the life of Florence Nightingale, particularly her innovations in nursing during the Crimean War (1854–56).
Love in a Wood
Director
The film is a contempary-set version of William Shakespeare's play As You Like It.
The Suicide Club
Director
The Idol of Paris
Director
A crook demands his princess cousin in marriage in return for clearing a prince of theft charges. Based on Charles Darrell's original play.
Inquisitive Ike
Director
A man poses as a woman to fool a peeping tom.
Beautiful Jim
Director
A murder mystery concerning the murder by a Colonel's son of his sister's fiancé using a golf club. Based on the novel by John Strange Winter.
Black-Eyed Susan
Director
A sailor is court-martialled for hitting an officer who tried to seduce a smuggler's young daughter.
Her Luck in London
Director
Nellie, a beautiful farmer's daughter, is lured to the wickedness of the big city. Based on an original story by Charles Darrell.
The Cup Final Mystery
A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?
The Cup Final Mystery
Director
A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?
Maria Marten or The Mystery of the Red Barn
Director
A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.
Bridegrooms Beware!
Director
A comedy feature with Fred Groves having dual roles of bridegroom and a lunatic, and in the course of the film the two characters swap places.
The Great Gold Robbery
Director
A detective must pursue some thieves trying to smuggle their bullion out of London on a barge down the Thames.
The Fallen idol
The lover
A short drama about a doctor's wife who returns to him after a flirtation in Richmond Park, London. It is based on the painting by John Collier.
The Fallen idol
Director
A short drama about a doctor's wife who returns to him after a flirtation in Richmond Park, London. It is based on the painting by John Collier.
Popsy Wopsy
Director
A composer gets drunk on the proceeds of a song and sees his furniture dancing.
Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
Capt. Matthews
A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.
Maria Marten, or Murder in the Red Barn
Director
A wealthy landowner kills his pregnant mistress and buries her body, but his mother has a strange dream that just may bring his crime to light. Based on an actual murder that happened in 1828.