Frederick Burtwell Movies

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

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

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...

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 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,...

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...

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 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...

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

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?

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

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.

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.

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.

A musical set during the French Revolution.

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.