Frederick Burtwell Movies

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

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...

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...

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

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

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,...

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 really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?

A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.

Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...

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.