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Frederick Burtwell
Augustus Frederick Burtwell (23 December 1894 – 16 November 1948) was an English actor, on stage from 1914, who featured in supporting roles in over 40 British films of the 1930s and 1940s. Partial filmography * '' Other People's Sins'' (1931) * ''Down Our Street'' (1932) * '' Just My Luck'' (1933) * ''The Path of Glory'' (1934) * ''Inside the Room'' (1935) * ''Midshipman Easy'' (1935) * ''This'll Make You Whistle'' (1936) * ''Laburnum Grove'' (1936) * '' Educated Evans'' (1936) * '' Twelve Good Men'' (1936) * '' The Vulture'' (1937) * '' It's Not Cricket'' (1937) * ''Doctor Syn'' (1937) * ''Feather Your Nest'' (1937) * '' French Leave'' (1937) * ''Gypsy'' (1937) * '' The Singing Cop'' (1938) * '' I See Ice'' (1938) * ''Penny Paradise'' (1938) * ''Dangerous Medicine'' (1938) * '' Everything Happens to Me'' (1938) * '' A Girl Must Live'' (1939) * '' Murder Will Out'' (1939) * ''Confidential Lady'' (1939) * '' His Brother's Keeper'' (1940) * ''The Stars Look Down'' (1940) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Stars Look Down (film)
''The Stars Look Down'' is a British film from 1940, based on A. J. Cronin's 1935 novel of the same title, about injustices in a mining town in North East England. The film, co-scripted by Cronin and directed by Carol Reed, stars Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick and Margaret Lockwood as Jenny Sunley. The film is a ''New York Times'' Critics' Pick and is listed in ''The New York Times Guide to the Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made''. Plot Coal miners, led by Robert "Bob" Fenwick, go on strike, refusing to work in a particular section of the mine due to the great danger of flooding, despite their own union supporting Neptune Colliery's owner, Richard Barras. Tensions rise as the strikers go hungry. Finally, some of them break into a butcher's shop and loot it. Bob Fenwick tries to stop it, but ends up being arrested himself. The miners give in and go back to work. Bob's son "Davey" wins a scholarship and moves away to attend school. While studying, Davey runs into an old friend, Jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It's Not Cricket (1937 Film)
''It's Not Cricket'' is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Ralph Ince and starring Claude Hulbert, Henry Kendall, Betty Lynne and Clifford Heatherley. The film depicts a Frenchwoman married to a cricket-mad Englishman. It was shot as a quota quickie at Teddington Studios. Cast * Claude Hulbert as Willie * Henry Kendall as Henry * Betty Lynne as Yvonne * Sylvia Marriott as Jane * Clifford Heatherley as Sir George Harlow * Violet Farebrother as Lady Harlow * Frederick Burtwell Augustus Frederick Burtwell (23 December 1894 – 16 November 1948) was an English actor, on stage from 1914, who featured in supporting roles in over 40 British films of the 1930s and 1940s. Partial filmography * ''Other People's Sins'' ( ... as Morton References External links * 1937 films 1937 comedy films 1930s English-language films Films directed by Ralph Ince British black-and-white films British comedy films Lost British films Films shot at Teddington Studios Quota quick ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
His Brother's Keeper (1940 Film)
''His Brother's Keeper'' is a 1940 British crime film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Clifford Evans, Tamara Desni and Una O'Connor. It was made at Teddington Studios as a second feature. It had been completed before the outbreak of the Second World War.Chibnall & McFarlane p.3 Plot A successful sharp shooting act is threatened when a gold-digging blues singer attempts to split them up. Cast * Clifford Evans as Jack Cornell * Tamara Desni as Olga * Una O'Connor as Eva * Peter Glenville as Hicky * Reginald Purdell as Bunny Reeves * Ronald Frankau as George Hollis * Antoinette Lupino as Pat * Aubrey Dexter as Sylvester * Frederick Burtwell as Harry * Roddy McDowall Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude McDowall (17 September 1928 – 4 October 1998) was a British actor, photographer and film director. He began his acting career as a child in England, and then in the United States, in ''How Green Was My Valley'' (1 ... as Boy References Bibliography * Chibnall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Confidential Lady
''Confidential Lady'' is a 1939 British comedy drama film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Ben Lyon and Jane Baxter. It is now classed as a lost film. British Pictures Article Archive. Plot Jill Trevor (Baxter) vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple ( Athole Stewart), who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent (Lyon) to offer to write up Jill's story, in the hope that he will be able to dig up some dirt on Morple. Jim is initially sceptical, seeing Jill as a silly attention-seeking airhead, but as he gets to know her he changes his mind and ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder Will Out (1939 Film)
''Murder Will Out'' is a 1939 British crime film directed by Roy William Neill, starring John Loder, Jane Baxter and Jack Hawkins, and released by Warner Brothers. The film is classed as "missing, believed lost" and is included on the British Film Institute's " 75 Most Wanted" list of missing British feature films. Plot summary A jade collector is given a piece by a friend, but it soon brings trouble on his shoulders. Cast * John Loder as Dr. Paul Raymond * Jane Baxter as Pamela Raymond * Jack Hawkins as Stamp * Hartley Power as Campbell * Peter Croft as Nigel * Frederick Burtwell as Morgan * William Hartnell as Dick * Ian McLean as Inspector Critical reception ''TV Guide TV Guide is an American digital media company that provides television program Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or t ...'' wrote, "could have been a good film had more effort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Girl Must Live
''A Girl Must Live'' is a 1939 British romantic comedy film directed by Carol Reed that stars Margaret Lockwood, Renee Houston, Lilli Palmer, Hugh Sinclair, and Naunton Wayne. Based on a 1936 novel by Emery Bonett with the same title, the plot features three chorus line girls competing for the affection of a wealthy bachelor. Plot Running away from her finishing school in Switzerland, Leslie James (a false name taken from a musical star of the past) finds a room in a London boarding house. There she learns from two other lodgers, Gloria and Clytie, that there will be an audition for a new musical that day, at which all three win places in the chorus line. Gloria meanwhile, tipped off by her conman cousin Hugo who plans to make plenty of money out of the deal, has caught the eye of the bachelor Earl of Pangborough. Her roommate Clytie, also keen on what profit she can extract, tries to detach him at the first night party but instead of these brash blonde showgirls he prefers the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything Happens To Me (1938 Film)
''Everything Happens to Me'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Max Miller, Chili Bouchier and H. F. Maltby. It was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers The film's sets were designed by the art directors Peter Proud and Michael Relph. Synopsis The film features Miller as a vacuum-cleaner salesman volunteering as an election agent to canvas on behalf of prospective candidate Arthur Gusty (Maltby). However, when he learns from nurse Sally Green (Bouchier) that Gusty is a crook who has been systematically siphoning off funds from the local orphanage into his own pocket, he withdraws his support and throws himself whole-heartedly behind the campaign of Gusty's honourable opponent Norman Prodder (Frederick Burtwell). Cast * Max Miller as Charles Cromwell * Chili Bouchier as Sally Green * H. F. Maltby as Arthur Gusty * Frederick Burtwell as Norman Prodder * Norma Varden as Mrs. Prodder * Allan Jeayes as Bill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous Medicine
''Dangerous Medicine'' is a 1938 British crime film, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring Elizabeth Allan and Cyril Ritchard. It is now classed as a lost film. British Pictures Article Archive. Plot Secretary Victoria Ainswell (Allan) marries her wealthy elderly boss. Soon after the wedding he dies suddenly in suspicious circumstances, and the autopsy reveals that the police have a murderer on their hands. Everything points to Victoria as the only person with means, opportunity and motive, and as she can provide no sensible explanation as to who else could have killed her husband, she is arrested and put on trial for murder. Victoria is found guilty and sentenced to hang. As she is being driven back to prison, the car is involved in a serious road accident. Victoria is critically inju ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penny Paradise
''Penny Paradise'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Carol Reed and starring Edmund Gwenn, Betty Driver and Jimmy O'Dea. It was an early directorial assignment for Reed, and along with many other British productions of the era such as the same year's better-known Reed-directed ''Bank Holiday'', is described as: "...belonging to a wider studio tradition of modest representation of ordinary British life." BFI Screen Online. ''Retrieved 31-07-2010'' Plot The film is set in , where tugboat captain Joe Higgins (), believing he has won £20,000 on the[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I See Ice
''I See Ice'' is a 1938 British comedy film directed by Anthony Kimmins and starring George Formby, Kay Walsh and Betty Stockfeld. The film depicts the adventures of a photographer working for a London newspaper. It features the songs "In My Little Snapshot Album", "Noughts And Crosses" and "Mother What'll I Do Now". Plot The farcical adventures of a prop man (George Formby) with a touring ice ballet. Inventing a new sort of candid camera in his spare time, and concealing it in a bow-tie, our hero gets into a mess of trouble when he takes an incriminating photo of an important man; pulls a communication cord; winds up in jail; referees a hockey match; finds himself in a stage show dressed as a cossack; woos an attractive young ice skater (Kay Walsh); and eventually wins a job on a newspaper. Cast * George Formby as George Bright * Kay Walsh as Judy Gaye * Cyril Ritchard as Paul Martine * Betty Stockfeld as Mrs. Hunter * Garry Marsh as Galloway * Frederick Burtwell as Detective ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Singing Cop (film)
''The Singing Cop'' is a 1938 British musical comedy spy drama, directed by Arthur B. Woods and starring singer Keith Falkner and Chili Bouchier. The film was a quota quickie production, based on a short story by Kenneth Leslie-Smith. It is now classed as a lost film. British Pictures Article Archive. Plot A temperamental opera diva arouses official suspicion that she is a spy, secretly gathering classified information to pass to enemy agents. A policeman who happens to be a talented amateur singer is sent undercover to join the opera company and try to find out whether there is any substance to the allegations. Once there, an immediate attraction springs up between the policeman and a female member of the company. But the diva also sets her sights on him and, used to getting what she wants, be ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gypsy (1937 Film)
''Gypsy'' is a 1937 British drama film directed by Roy William Neill and starring Roland Young, Chili Bouchier and Hugh Williams. It based on the 1935 novel ''Tzigane (novel), Tzigane'' by Lady Eleanor Smith (writer), Eleanor Smith. Plot summary Cast * Roland Young as Alan Brooks * Chili Bouchier as Hassina * Hugh Williams as Brazil * Frederick Burtwell as Pim * Glen Alyn as Lilli * Brian Buchel as Vicot * Andreas Malandrinos as Hunyadi * Victor Fairley as Strauss Production The film was made at Teddington Studios by the British subsidiary of Warner Brothers.Wood p.90 Like many Teddington productions of the era, it is now considered to be a lost film. References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''Filmmaking in 1930s Britain''. George Allen & Unwin, 1985. * Wood, Linda. ''British Films, 1927-1939''. British Film Institute, 1986. External links * * * 1937 films British drama films 1937 drama films Films about Romani people Films directed by Roy William Neill Fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |