Michael Hankinson Movies

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the international co-ordination involved in dealing with a locust plague.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Colin Wills

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gordon Harker

Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mary Lawson

One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Wilfrid Hyde-White

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Garrick

Wartime public information film detailing the health service facilities available to Britain's children, from mothercraft classes to PE lessons and...

Genre: Documentary

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A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man.....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Neagle

A tour of the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, showing the education and shaping of young men into members of the Royal Navy.

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During the Second World War, getting the most from your little plot of land was crucial. This film, produced by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1941,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roy Hay

Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Leslie French

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Donald Calthrop

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry Edwards

Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with...

Genre: Music

Cast: Jack Buchanan

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sydney Howard

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anthony Bushell

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Sally Blane

Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Phillips Holmes

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The...

Genre: Music

Cast: Arthur Tracy

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The...

Genre: Music

Cast: Arthur Tracy

A dramatised account produced for the Ministry of Information of the re-opening during World War Two of the Tyneside shipyards closed down during the...

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A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds...

Genre: Music

Cast: Louis Armstrong

A colourful look at the various types of gardens to be found in England, a nation of gardeners.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alvar Liddell