Philip Hewland Movies

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).

A card cheat is threatened with exposure into joining a criminal enterprise that Sherlock Holmes believes is controlled by Professor Moriarity.

The tale of a young songwriter, the actress who helps him find success, and the vamp who sets her sights on him.

Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.

The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.

A debt-ridden inventor has to pretend to be his cousin to avoid his creditors.

A US steel king pawns the gems of his daughter who is loved by a student and a crook.

A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for pies.

An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.

A widow's husband returns after her second marriage, and dies while assaulting her.

Orphan, Audrey Bedford takes the blame for her half- sister's gem theft and later exposes her employer as her crooked husband.

A young, ruthless woman falls in love with a rising actor.

Scotland Yard sends a handwriting expert to a country house full of people with guilty secrets in order to solve a murder.

Arsène Lupin, alias the Duke of Charmence, is a clever gentleman burglar. Detective Guerchard has vowed to bring Lupin to justice. Given a chance to escape when caught with the goods, Lupin gives up his freedom for the love of a good woman.

A manager's mistress cons a financier into buying a dud oil claim.