The Pointing Finger 1933
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
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.
A lawyer plans to murder an aristocrat and steal his inheritance.
A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.
A young woman begins to suspect that her wealthy, respectable husband may be an escaped Canadian murderer.
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.
A crime film directed by Guy Newall.
Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller.
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
A carefree aristocrat becomes involved with a woman suspected of murder, and assists her in proving her innocence.