Charles Crichton Movies

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...

In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.

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

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.

British war documentary

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...

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

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

An alien princess aids people stranded on out-of-orbit Moonbase Alpha.

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...

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...

A boy gets involved in a bank robbery

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

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,...

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

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.

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.