Maurice Elvey

A fake music-hall clairvoyant meets a woman, and suddenly his predictions seem to come true …Read More »

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Maurice Elvey’s silent biopic maps out the life of British Prime Minister Lloyd George from childhood to the end of the Great War. In 1918, the film disappeared, as £20,000 was paid to The Ideal Film Company to stop its release. The film then mysteriously disappeared until 1994, when it was found by the Wales Film and Television Archive. The film was painstakingly restored and premiered in Cardiff in 1996 and has since been screened around the world.Read More »

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World peace is threatened when the “United States of Europe” comes into conflict with the “Empire of the Atlantic States”. The former comprises Europe, India, the Middle East, Canada, Africa and Australasia. The latter is a combination of the United States and South America.Read More »

An unlikely film for Maurice Elvey to direct, this is a 1930s vision of what life might be like twenty years later. The film was made in two versions – silent and sound – this is the silent version (and literally silent, no soundtrack on this one). So this is something of an oddity: A British silent sci-fi film! There aren’t many of those around.Read More »