Frederick Burtwell Movies

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

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 fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

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

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

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...

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 French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

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

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

To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he...

A musical set during the French Revolution.

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

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.

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...

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