Frederick Burtwell Movies

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to...

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife,...

A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...

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

A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.

A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a...

An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of...

“Spy comedy with operatic background.” - BFI.

“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.

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...

After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing...

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

A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home...

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.

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.

A musical set during the French Revolution.