Frank Pettingell

영국의 왕 헨리2세가 교회와 세금 문제로 싸움을 하는 도중 캔터베리의 대주교가 죽는다. 왕은 그 자리에 자신의 분신과도 같은 토마스 베켓을 캔터베리의 대주교로 임명한다. 헨리 2세와 토마스 베켓은 우호적인 관계를 지속한다. 그러던 어느 날 죄를 지은 성직자가 살해당하는 사건이 발생한다. 토마스 베켓은 성직자를 교회에서뿐만이 아니라 세속 법정에서도 재판 할 수 있도록 한 클라렌드 칙령을 거부한다. 이 사건으로 그는 프랑스로 추방된다. 토마스 베켓은 이 사실을 교황에게 상소하였지만 헨리 2세와 반목하기를 원치 않았던 교황은 이를 묵인한다. 토마스 베켓은 프랑스 국왕 루이 7세의 보호를 받는다. 그리고 그 덕분에 헨리 2세와 평화 협정을 맺고 영국으로 귀향한다. 그러나 그는 헨리2세의 기사들에 의해 캔터베리 대성당에서 살해당한다. 그 후 헨리 2세는 공적으로 참회하고 토마스 베켓을 순교자로 시성한다.

After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle who is accused of murdering his wife. Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead his client as innocent and be a star in the courtroom.

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.

An 1840s British surgeon, experiments with anesthetic gases in an effort to make surgery pain-free. While doing so, his demonstration before a panel of his peers ends in a horrific mishap with his patient awakening under the knife; he is forced to leave his position in disgrace. To complicate matters, he becomes addicted to the gases and gets involved with a gang of criminals, led by Black Ben and his henchman Resurrection Joe.

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the fourth television film version made by the BBC of this comedy by J. B. Priestley. It featured several actors repeating their rôles from the earlier 1951 version including Frank Pettingell, Helena Pickard and Eileen Beldon.

A wealthy young man (Gregson) from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer (Dors). She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.

The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.

Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.

18세기 후반에 무모한 해적모험을 시작한다. 이 시기에는 사회적 부정과 맞물려 정치 경제적 상황이 사람들로 하여금 집을 떠나 부와 행운을 찾아 바다로 나가도록 하였다. 필연적으로 이들은 미국인이나 영국인들이었지만 프랑스 및 다른 나라 사람들도 바다로 향하였다. 자유와 모험, 부를 추구하는 많은 사람들이 북부 및 남부 아메리카와 아프리카 해안에서 약탈을 하였는데 결국은 상선들이 호위선박의 도움 없이는 항구를 떠나지 못할 지경에 이르렀다. 선장 Vallo는 군수품과 총으로 가득한 스페인 갤리온선을 쫓아간다.그들은 금과 돈을 따라 항해를 하면서 항해와 조종술에서 대단한 성과를 거두었다. 그는 훔친 군수품들을 반역자에게 팔기로 결정한다. 그리고 그것을 팔아서 처음으로 돈을 모을 계획을 세운다. 드디어 그는 반역자를 만나게 된다. 그러나 그의 계획은 어긋나게 된다. 바로 반역자 리더의 딸과 사랑에 빠지기 시작했기 때문이다

A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...

사진관 조수인 윌리는 사진과 영화에 대한 열정으로 가득하다. 욕심 많은 주인 밑에서 몰래 사진 작업을 하던 윌리는 헬레나오 만나게 된다. 헬레나와 결혼한 윌리는 직접 사진관을 운영하게 된다. 하지만 사실, 윌리의 관심은 오직 활동 사진의 발명 뿐이었다. 결국 가장으로서도 사업가로서도 실패한 윌리는 자기 연구실에서 묻혀 지낸다. 경제적으로도 파산하고 아내 헬레나는 병에 걸려 죽어가지만 윌리는 활동사진의 발명에만 몰두한다.

Three married couples discover that, through a legal technicality, they are, in fact, not actually married in the eyes of the law. This was the third version broadcast by the BBC of this J.B. Priestley play. It was aired live but as the BBC very rarely recorded live transmissions prior to 1953, this programme is lost.

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.

A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.

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 early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.

During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.

Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...

런던의 한 저택에서 앨리스 바를로우가 살해당하고 그녀의 유명한 루비가 사라진지도 20년. 비어있는 채 남겨져 있던 그 집을 폴, 벨라 부부가 매입하여 이사를 오게 된다. 그런데, 남편인 폴은 어떤 비밀을 간직하고 있고, 그 비밀을 지키기 위해 어떤 일이라도 저지르려고 하는데...

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.

The Captain of a tramp steamer is forced by his ship's owner to smuggle some priceless pearls, and take them to Singapore.

Sailing Along is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Sonnie Hale and starring Jessie Matthews, Barry MacKay, Jack Whiting, Frank Pettingell, Noel Madison and Alastair Sim. A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him

Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.

An unemployed man wins the football pools, and decides to buy a country house for his actress girlfriend.

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.

A Yorkshire mill owner retires and leaves control to his nephew, who promptly gets married.

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.

A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.

A millionaire hires a man to play his double...

When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.

Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.

A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.

Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.

'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)

Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.

A young man impersonates a doctor.

An ex army officer is forced to resort to a life of crime.

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

A coarse boot-shop owner becomes outraged when his eldest daughter decides to marry a meek cobbler.

A man falls madly in love with a woman and stages a robbery in an effort to frame her sweetheart