Películas de Frederick Burtwell

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.

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...

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

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...

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 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 highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.

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...

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?

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

George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications...

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

“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.

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.

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

“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.

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

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

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

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.

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

A musical set during the French Revolution.

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,...