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The Live Wire (1938)
Character: Montell
Two professors who hire a sailor to lead them on a treasure hunt, and they soon find themselves in a dangerous situation involving pirates. The sailor, Bill, initially struggles to remember the location of the ruins, but eventually discovers a lost city and civilization. The professors and sailor then find themselves fighting for their lives against pirates to escape the island alive.
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The Diamond Man (1924)
Character: Lady Marshalt
Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.
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The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes (1985)
Character: Sherlock Holmes (archive footage)
This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original crime-fighter in all his incarnations.
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Eugene Aram (1924)
Character: Eugene Aram
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
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Pygmalion (1948)
Character: Colonel Pickering
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
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Dishonour Bright (1936)
Character: Judge
A man is cited as the co-respondent in a divorce case, but is cheerfully unashamed when he appears in court.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Character: Lord Kingsburgh
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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A Gentleman of Paris (1931)
Character: Judge Le Fevre
A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A woman is arrested for the crime and brought before him for trial. It turns out that the woman is his ex-mistress, and the judge knows that she is not the killer - but if he comes forward, he stands a good chance of ruining his marriage and his career.
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Kate Plus Ten (1938)
Character: Colonel Westhanger
Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?
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Ten Little Indians (1949)
Character: General Mackenzie
Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
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The Terror (1938)
Character: Colonel Redmayne
For ten years, The Terror has laughed at both police and public. And for ten years, two of his erstwhile associates, Joe Conner and 'Soapy' Marks, have plotted revenge on the mastermind whose double-crossing sent them to Dartmoor prison without their share of the bullion stolen in a daring raid.
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Sea Devils (1953)
Character: Baron de Baudrec
Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
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The Sleeping Cardinal (1931)
Character: Sherlock Holmes
A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.
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Blanche Fury (1948)
Character: Lord Rudford
Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury family. To better her position in life, Blanche marries her dull cousin, Laurence Fury, with whom she has a daughter. But before long, boredom sets in, and Blanche begins a tempestuous romance with stableman Philip Thorn. Together, they hatch a murderous plan to gain control of the estate.
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Genevieve (1953)
Character: Old Gentleman
Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
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The Elusive Pimpernel (1950)
Character: Lord Grenville
Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.
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Silver Blaze (1937)
Character: Sherlock Holmes
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
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Condemned to Death (1932)
Character: Sir Charles Wallington
A condemned man uses hypnotism on a judge. After the man's death, the judge finds himself acting like the condemned man.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
Character: Embassy Counsellor
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case (1932)
Character: Sherlock Holmes
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
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Storm in a Teacup (1937)
Character: Fiscal
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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Thunder in the City (1937)
Character: Sir Peter
A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
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