Charles Crichton Movies

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking....

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....

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...

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

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...

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

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,...

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

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

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

British 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.

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

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