Cast: Frank Pettingell
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Frank Pettingell. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
Titles found: 27
Gaslight
1940 · Movie · 84 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thorold Dickinson
Cast Diana Wynyard · Anton Walbrook · Frank Pettingell · Cathleen Cordell
Synopsis The first and in some ways superior version of Patrick Hamilton's stage play "Angel Street," this British production is set in London where a beautiful heiress is menaced into madness by her calculating, jewel-hungry husband.
7.3
939 votes
7.3
939 votes
Term of Trial
1962 · Movie · 130 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Peter Glenville
Cast Laurence Olivier · Simone Signoret · Sarah Miles · Terence Stamp
Synopsis Graham Weir (Laurence Olivier) is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career. He is looked upon with disdain by his headmaster, his...
6.6
188 votes
6.6
188 votes
Escape
1948 · Movie · 78 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Cast Rex Harrison · Peggy Cummins · William Hartnell · Norman Wooland
Synopsis Matt Denant, ex-RAF flier, sentenced to three years in Dartmoor for striking and accidentally killing a detective who was attempting to arrest a lady of the evening to whom Denant had been casually speaking. Rankling under the injustice, Denant flees...
6.5
104 votes
6.5
104 votes
The Card
1952 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ronald Neame
Cast Alec Guinness · Glynis Johns · Valerie Hobson · Petula Clark
Synopsis A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing- some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman...
6.3
51 votes
6.3
51 votes
Corridors of Blood
1958 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Robert Day
Cast Boris Karloff · Betta St. John · Christopher Lee · Finlay Currie
Synopsis Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig but soon finds himself addicted.
6.0
101 votes
6.0
101 votes
The Dock Brief
1962 · Movie · 88 min. · United Kingdom
Direction James Hill
Cast Peter Sellers · Richard Attenborough · Beryl Reid · David Lodge
5.6
85 votes
5.6
85 votes
Busman's Honeymoon
1940 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Arthur B. Woods · Richard Thorpe
Cast Robert Montgomery · Constance Cummings · Leslie Banks · Seymour Hicks
Synopsis Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Harriet has little charms made so that they both promise not to get involved with any...
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This Week of Grace
1933 · Movie · 92 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast Gracie Fields · Henry Kendall · Douglas Wakefield · Frank Pettingell
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The Amateur Gentleman
1936 · Movie · 102 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Thornton Freeland
Cast Douglas Fairbanks Jr. · Elissa Landi · Gordon Harker · Basil Sydney
Synopsis A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son,...
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The Great Game
1953 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Maurice Elvey
Cast James Hayter · Thora Hird · Diana Dors · Sheila Shand Gibbs
Synopsis The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
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A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Tom Walls
Cast Tom Walls · Ralph Lynn · Grace Edwin · Yvonne Arnaud
Synopsis A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged...
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Ships with Wings
1941 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Sergei Nolbandov
Cast John Clements · Leslie Banks · Jane Baxter · Ann Todd
Synopsis Lt. Dick Stacey is dismissed from the Fleet Air Arm for poor discipline. He joins the Aircraft Carrier "HMS Ark Royal" (The Ship with Wings). When they go into battle in the Mediterranean he acts heroically and redeems himself.
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Value for Money
1955 · Movie · 90 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Ken Annakin
Cast John Gregson · Diana Dors · Susan Stephen · Derek Farr
Synopsis A young man from Yorkshire inherits a sizeable legacy from his millionaire father. He decides to try the nightlife of London and meets a young girl performing in a nightclub. She intends to take him for all he's got and...
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Get Cracking
1943 · Movie · 96 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Dinah Sheridan · Edward Rigby · Frank Pettingell
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The Lucky Number
1932 · Movie · 72 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Asquith
Cast Clifford Mollison · Gordon Harker · Joan Wyndham · Frank Pettingell
Synopsis A footballer loses a winning lottery ticket and must regain it before time runs out on him cashing it in.
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Sing As We Go!
1934 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Basil Dean
Cast Gracie Fields · John Loder · Dorothy Hyson · Stanley Holloway
Synopsis When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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Meet Me Tonight
1952 · Movie · 81 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Pelissier
Cast Valerie Hobson · Nigel Patrick · Jack Warner · Jessie Royce Landis
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
1953 · Movie · 83 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Anthony Pelissier
Cast Stanley Holloway · Peggy Cummins · Jack Watling · Barbara Murray
Synopsis A television given as a retirement present is sold on to different households, causing misery each time.
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The Last Journey
1936 · Movie · 66 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Bernard Vorhaus
Cast Godfrey Tearle · Hugh Williams · Judy Gunn · Mickey Brantford
Synopsis Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair...
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Millions
1937 · Movie · 70 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie S. Hiscott
Cast Gordon Harker · Frank Pettingell · Richard Hearne · Stuart Robertson
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