Frank Pettingell Movies

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the...

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 millionaire hires a man to play his double...

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...

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...

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The...

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...

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English...

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

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.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

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...

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

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and...

A young man impersonates a doctor.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

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

Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.