Frank Pettingell Movies

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...

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

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

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

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

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

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 young man impersonates a doctor.

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

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

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...

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

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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...