Frederick Burtwell Movies

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean Simmons

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Cedric Hardwicke

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Loder

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Lyon

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Hughie Green

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mervyn Johns

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Henry Kendall

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Arliss

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?

Genre: Crime

Cast: John Loder

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Edmund Gwenn

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: George Formby

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Genre: Music

Cast: George Formby

Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Randolph Sutton

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michael Redgrave

Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ben Lyon

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ralph Richardson

Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Felix Aylmer

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Keith Falkner

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Clifford Evans

After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elizabeth Allan

Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Claude Hulbert

A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Horace Hodges

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Austin Trevor

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Miller

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Greene

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Frederick Burtwell

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.

Genre: Music

Cast: Margaret Lockwood

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: John Laurie

A musical set during the French Revolution.

Genre: Music

Cast: Anne Ziegler

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Charles Laughton

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Max Miller

Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roland Young