Walter W. Murton

Birth : , Norwich, Norfolk, England, UK

Movies

The Man in Grey
Art Direction
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
Miss London Ltd.
Art Direction
Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in, just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties, Anne Shelton.
Back-Room Boy
Art Direction
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
Crackerjack
Art Direction
London has become enthralled by the antics of the contemporary Robin Hood, but when a band of bad guys start framing him for their misdeeds, the hero has to catch the criminals and clear his name.
Second Best Bed
Art Direction
A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
Strange Boarders
Art Direction
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Non-Stop New York
Art Direction
A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York.
The Ghost Train
Art Direction
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
The Sport of Kings
Production Design
Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
Such Is the Law
Settings
A film directed by Sinclair Hill.
A Warm Corner
Art Direction
This early Gainsborough film is truly a lost treasure and easily one of the most daring and risque films ever made. At least half a dozen different tales seem to be going on at once all finally meeting in the end. The story starts in the Lido hotel where our "Pickles" remarks upon the fact that everyone in the register is called Smith. Hes trying to chat up Mimi so shell split up with her boyfriend as her boyfriends uncle has other plans for his nephew - alas what no one knows is that he and Mimi have already been married for a few months on the sly!
Not For Sale
Art Direction
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
The Further Mysteries of Fu-Manchu
Art Direction
Detective Nayland Smith, comissioned by the British Government to investigate a series of murders comes up against the "Coughing Horror", Dr Fu-Manchu's servant.
The Kensington Mystery
Art Direction
An old man tells a girl reporter how he solved a crime.
The Conspirators
Set Designer
A girl is accused when her father kills a blackmailer to save his son.
Becket
Art Direction
The fatal encounter between Henry II and the Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket.