A group of talented young performers buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts Read More »
Tag Archives: Maurice Elvey
The Phantom Fiend / The Lodger (1932) Maurice Elvey, Ivor Novello, Elizabeth Allan, A.W. Baskcomb
A maniac is terrorizing London, stalking and murdering street-women at night. Read More »
Under Your Hat (1940) Maurice Elvey, Jack Hulbert
Inept Secret Agent on a job in the South of France is followed by his suspicious wife. Read More »
The Great Game (1953) Maurice Elvey, James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical Read More »
Comradeship (1919) Maurice Elvey, Lily Elsie, Gerald Ames, Guy Newall
A pacifist enlists and is blinded while his friend weds a shopgirl who was seduced by a German spy. Read More »
Fun at St Fanny’s (1955) Maurice Elvey, Fred Emney, Cardew Robinson, Miriam Karlin
25 year old Cardew is still at school, run by a large headmaster Who lives and bets off the income Read More »
Hindle Wakes (1927) Maurice Elvey, Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel
A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week” Read More »
High Treason (1929) Maurice Elvey, Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Humberston Wright
Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. Read More »
The Tunnel (1935) Maurice Elvey, Richard Dix, Leslie Banks, Madge Evans
Engineers Richard McAllan and Frederick Robinson manage to get financial backing for a gigantic project to build a tunnel from England to America. Read More »
The Clairvoyant (1935) Maurice Elvey, Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Mary Clare
Maximus, a small-time music hall mind reader, has frightening flashes of precognition Read More »