Frank Pettingell Movies

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...

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.

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

An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart

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

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

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.