Frederick Burtwell Movies

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

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?

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

A musical set during the French Revolution.

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

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

After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.

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

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

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home...

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

Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but...

“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...

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