Frederick Burtwell Movies

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

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

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

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

“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.

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...

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...

“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...

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...

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

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

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

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.

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...

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