Frank Pettingell Movies

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...

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

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the...

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

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

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

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

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...

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.

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 -...

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

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

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...

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third...