Peter Gawthorne Movies

A man assists a woman to dispose of the body of her stepfather....

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...

Charles Peace leads a double life, by day he's a respected local businessman, but by night he's a professional thief who stops at nothing, not even...

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival...

After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself...

A British secret service agent and his sister travel to Berlin to recover a top secret RAF invention which was stolen from the French government.

It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are...

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy....

A composer at work on an operetta falls in love with a girl, without realising that she is the star of the opera company.

A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse.