Frank Pettingell Movies

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

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

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

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

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

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 young man impersonates a doctor.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

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

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...

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

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

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