Charles Crichton Movies

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer...

After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and...

During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...

A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.

Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato. Staffed by over 300 men and women from Earth,...

British war documentary

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out...

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...

Ealing Studios short war documentary

The story of the men and women who produced a series of film comedies that were so original and funny that they put Ealing on the map.

Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station. The Altares...