Peter Gawthorne Movies

A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star...

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling...

The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated...

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long...

Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of...

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a...

Love blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.