Charles Crichton Movies

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.

A feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda

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

A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a...

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...

Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its...

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

A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.

British war documentary

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,...

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

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

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 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.

Ealing Studios short war documentary

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