Peter Gawthorne Movies

Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded...

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

The film depicts the character of Bulldog Drummond, a British adventurer and is based on the novel Temple Tower by Herman Cyril McNeile. Bulldog...

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...

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long...

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...

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

A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds...

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

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...

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

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

A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse.

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the...

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened...

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...