Frank Pettingell Movies

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...

A barge-owner's adopted daughter falls in love with his son, and gives up her chances of stardom to be with him.

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

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

A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.

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

Three long-married couples in northern England discover that their marriages are in fact invalid, causing much re-evaluation and chaos. This was the...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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.

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

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him...

Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was...

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by...