Frank Pettingell Movies

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

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the l...

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - wi...

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his w...

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so...

Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the...

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including...

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

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secr...

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

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

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1...

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 struggles,...

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 othe...

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 roya...

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

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 suspicio...

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