Writing

Patrick L. Mannock

Born — Died

1887-12-24 — 1969-02-19

Place of birth

Islington, London, England, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

34 titles

Known for

Behind the camera

The Crimson Circle poster
10.0

Police battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.

The Crimson Circle

1922

No artwork available
10.0

A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.

His House in Order

1928

The Golden Pince-Nez poster
7.5

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Golden Pince-Nez

1922

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sweeney Todd

1926

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sweeney Todd

1926

No artwork available
10.0

A governess is arrested for the murder of her employer's wife.

The Mystery of Thor Bridge

1923

No artwork available
8.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Stockbroker's Clerk

1922

No artwork available
7.0

A wastrel returns to blackmail his wife who has told her children that he died a hero.

The Happy Ending

1925

No artwork available
8.0

Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge.

The Missing Three Quarter

1923

No artwork available
10.0

Adaptation of the Conan Doyle story The Mazarin Stone.

The Stone of Mazarin

1923

No artwork available
9.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Boscombe Valley Mystery

1922

No artwork available
8.0

A headstrong but titled suffragette slips into the power of a murderous con artist.

The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax

1923

No artwork available
7.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Blue Carbuncle

1923

No artwork available
7.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Bruce Partington Plans

1922

No artwork available
7.0

A comedy film directed by George King.

Leave It to Me

1930

The Wonderful Story poster
8.0

A paralytic dominates his brother and wife until their child reforms him.

The Wonderful Story

1922

No artwork available
10.0

A gentleman is baffled when the childish drawings of little dancing men terrify his American wife. Sherlock Holmes soon discovers why.

The Mystery of the Dancing Men

1923

No artwork available
9.0

Dr. John Watson treats a patient who has lost a thumb. The patient says that the loss of his thumb was not an accident but the result of an attack. However, he fears that the story behind the loss of his digit is so strange that the police will not believe it.

The Engineer's Thumb

1923

No artwork available
9.0

Hilton Soames, a lecturer in Greek at a university, notices that someone has gone into his study and looked at the text for an unseen translation exam that is due to take place the next day. Suspicion falls on the three students who live in the same building in which Soames lives and works, all of whom are entered for the exam.

The Three Students

1923

The Greek Interpreter poster
8.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Greek Interpreter

1922

The Final Problem poster
7.0

Holmes and Watson travel to Cheddar Gorge to escape Professor Moriarty's vengeance.

The Final Problem

1923

No artwork available
10.0

A German spy named Von Bork has been in England since 1910. Through several agents, he has gathered a significant amount of information relating to the British armed forces and foreign policy. He is unaware that a large amount of that information is false because one of his agents is really Sherlock Holmes, who is working for the British government.

His Last Bow

1923

Auld Lang Syne poster
10.0

A British musical film directed by George Pearson

Auld Lang Syne

1929

The Flag Lieutenant poster
9.0

A lieutenant is branded a coward after saving a beleaguered fort for an amnesiac major.

The Flag Lieutenant

1927

No artwork available
8.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Black Peter

1922

No artwork available
7.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Gloria Scott

1923

No artwork available
10.0

Colonel Barclay is found dead and his wife is arrested for the murder, but Holmes is convinced a missing door key will reveal the true killer.

The Crooked Man

1923

The Six Napoleons poster
9.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Six Napoleons

1922

No artwork available
7.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Musgrave Ritual

1922

No artwork available
7.0

Holmes is called to a manor house to investigate the brutal murder of a country lord with a fireplace poker and reconcile the story of his bruised and battered wife with the facts.

The Abbey Grange

1922

No artwork available
7.0

Susan Cushing asks Holmes' help in solving the disappearance of her sister Mary Browner, but it doesn't seem Holmes' type of case until he is told of a Christmas present's grisly contents.

The Cardboard Box

1923

No artwork available
8.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

The Speckled Band

1923

No artwork available
8.0

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.

Silver Blaze

1923

Charles Augustus Milverton poster
9.0

Holmes is hired by the débutante Lady Eva Blackwell to retrieve compromising letters from a blackmailer:

Charles Augustus Milverton

1922