Frank Pettingell Movies

A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

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...

Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to...

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

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.

A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the...

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...

Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of...

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...

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...

Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby...

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

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite...