Movies: Maurice Elvey

An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife....

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

'The legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to walk the earth until the Second Coming.' (British Film Institute)...

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National....

A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II....

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 begin...

A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII....

An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States....

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....

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings....

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....

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 t...

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 transitio...

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 succ...

A faithless K.C.'s wife elopes with his opponent in a slum murder trial....

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 France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an assassination plan....

An American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists that they're still married. His two buddies try to help him out of his predicament, but his troubles ...

In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son....

'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)...