Frank Pettingell Movies

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

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

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...