Frederick Burtwell Movies

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

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

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,...

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...

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

A musical set during the French Revolution.

Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but...

Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw...

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

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?

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

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

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...

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.

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...

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