Peter Gawthorne Movies

Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...

A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.

A spoiled carefree rich kid gets into too much trouble for his father who sends him out on his own to prove himself capable of making a respectable...

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...

A serial killer terrorizes London. Each victim is found with a telegram signed "The Marquis." There seems to be no other common thread between the...

Staff in a jewellery store hatch a plan to catch a thief.

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.

An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.

One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.

An addled Englishman's efforts to save three young women from eviction land them all in jail and leads to other adventures and mischief.

A man pays a hitman to kill him. Circumstances change and he tries to call off the hit but he has trouble getting the deal killed.

The scheming aunt and uncle of William Judd, heir to the family fortune, persuade him to pose as Napoleon at a fancy masquerade ball, but they are...

It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of killings.

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and...

Bill Urquhart, a young wastrel disinherited by his father, tries to get a job as a jockey – just about the only thing he’s really good...

The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.

A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales...