Peter Gawthorne Movies

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

The plans of a publicity agent to put on a charity concert are nearly wrecked by a lawyer who wants to take over a restaurant, but the situation is...

Sir Duncan Craggs retires from the Colonial Service and returns to London with his new French wife. The couple are devoted to each other, but...

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice

James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and...

Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival...

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

In 1915 during the First World War, a British secret agent is killed while stealing secret Turkish plans for the Gallipoli Campaign but manages to...

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham,...