Películas de Frank Pettingell

The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama -...

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his...

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him...

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans,...

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many...

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The...

Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English...

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his...

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also...

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.

A young man impersonates a doctor.

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade...

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

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...

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

King Henry II of England has trouble with the Church. When the Archbishop of Canterbury dies, he has a brilliant idea. Rather than appoint another...

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.

A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he...

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the...

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third...

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.