Frederick Burtwell Movies

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter.

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

A musical set during the French Revolution.

“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the...

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.

Two young men start a business selling a homemade hangover recipe.

A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw...

Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he...

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads...