Frederick Burtwell Movies

While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.

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

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,...

Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...

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...

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...

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...

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?

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

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...

A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).

A father takes the blame for a crime committed by his daughter.

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

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

A musical set during the French Revolution.

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

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

Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily...

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.