Frederick Burtwell Movies

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

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.

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...

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

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.

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

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

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...

A musical set during the French Revolution.

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

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

Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but...

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

“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.