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.
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).
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 final feature in the Eille Norwood Holmes series.
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.
Star of Chaplin's The Kid, Jackie Coogan, visits the Stoll Picture Productions studio building. He befriends a child actor named Harry Beasley, who plays a caddie in a number of golf pictures.
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
A German spy named Von Bork has been in England since 1910. Through several agents, he has gathered a significant amount of information relating to the British armed forces and foreign policy. He is unaware that a large amount of that information is false because one of his agents is really Sherlock Holmes, who is working for the British government.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
Early silent Sherlock Holmes adventure
An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
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.
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
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 secret society uses a girl as a pawn in an attempt to secure secret plans.' (BFI)
Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.
A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
