Charles Crichton Movies

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

A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter...

A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to...

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....

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.

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

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...

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...

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.

Ealing Studios short war documentary

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

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.

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.