Valentine Dyall Movies

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on...

A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold...

An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow...

The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van...

An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.

A short history of the island is followed by views of the countryside and people in town and village.

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

A cabaret artist sees on her television set after viewing hours, a plot being discussed to murder Michael Rennie. Although her friends are sceptical...

Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The...

In this high-camp farce, Goons legend Spike Milligan stars as William Topaz McGonagall, an unemployed Scottish weaver and aspiring poet laureate who...

A documentary telling of some of the key features of the Tower of London along with the stories of a few of those that spent their final days there.

British documentary on the use of Penicillin.

In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.

A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.

Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill,...

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and...

A short film looking at the production of small coins by the UK's Royal Mint.

An aristocratic widow discovers that her former lover, a medical officer in the British army, is secretly a German spy.

When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to...

Two cadets are set an outrageous and wacky initiation test to prove their suitability for officer training.