Frederick Burtwell Filmes

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

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,...

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

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

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...

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

After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.

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

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

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 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...

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 musical set during the French Revolution.

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

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

“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the...

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.