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An earnest young solicitor comes to Holmes just before he is arrested--for murder. He insists he had only just met the victim, and knows nothing of him, though he finds himself his sole beneficiary. But then Holmes finds a new thumb print, and the game is afoot.
Mar 1922
A mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers
Jan 1923
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
Dec 1933
An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.
A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.
Mar 1923
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.
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).
Feb 1928
A typist threatens to expose her lover when he prosecutes the divorce of a woman he means to marry.
Dec 1923
A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.
Apr 1921
A London lady comes to Holmes in curiosity about her newest lodger. After first renting the room, arranging for meals and newspaper to be left at the door, and paying a very high fee, he disappears completely. Or, is it someone else now inside the room?
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.
Oct 1923
Holmes and Watson travel to Cheddar Gorge to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.
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 ex-crook's horse wins despite his crooked rival and regains the formula for a malleable glass from a Russian.
Sep 1922
A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial.
Aug 1924
A wealthy banker comes to Holmes desperate to recover a valuable British gem--and to deal with his son's apparent dishonor.
An armament king's wife kills herself to save her MP lover from a divorce scandal.
Jan 1922