Michael Hankinson Movies

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice

Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things...

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it.

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The...

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of...

Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy.

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his...

Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures.

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's...

One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich...

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.

The first film adaptation, and most faithful, of Noel Coward's 1929 operetta Bitter Sweet. This tells the story of Sarah Linden's romance, the tale...

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds...

Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest.

Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with...

A dramatised account produced for the Ministry of Information of the re-opening during World War Two of the Tyneside shipyards closed down during the...

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the international co-ordination involved in dealing with a locust plague.

A colourful look at the various types of gardens to be found in England, a nation of gardeners.