Maurice Elvey Movies

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.

A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.

'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending...

Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical...

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...

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...

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...

'Poor woman poses as rich twin to fool mean landlady.' (British Film Catalogue)

A drunken man is left by his wife but she later comes back to him when she realises how desperate he is.

A desperate, but highly respectable schoolmaster collapses at Holmes' door. His prize pupil, the son of a wealthy duke, has vanished, seemingly...

Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the...

A goalkeeper is kidnapped just before the Cup Final at Crystal Palace. Can he be rescued in time for a triumphant match?

Features a screenplay written by the original novelist Hall Caine.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

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...

Poor Mr. Murray Selwyn (Guy Middleton)! He's suffering from 'Acute Apprehension Complex' and his doctors have strongly recommended that he avoid any...

The film is set in the fictional mill town of Hindle in Lancashire in England, and concerns two young persons, Fanny Hawthorn and Alan Jeffcote, who...

An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)

Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.