Frank Pettingell Movies

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new...

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many...

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him...

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his...

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama -...

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the...

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.