List of the best Frank Lawton movies: The Mill on the Floss(1937), The Devil Doll(1936), The Invisible Ray(1936), A Night to Remember(1958), The Skin Game(1931), Cavalcade(1933), The Winslow Boy(1948), Friday the Thirteenth(1933), Gideon of Scotland Yard(1958), David Copperfield(1935) ... ...
Drama
1937
94 Minutes
Philip Wakem
Geraldine Fitzgerald Frank Lawton Victoria Hopper Fay Compton James Mason Griffith Jones Sam Livesey Pauline de Chalus Mary Clare Athene Seyler Martita Hunt
owner solicitor daughter son mother melodramatic emotional tense england household river feud family scandal romance flooding forbidden love rivalry 19th century
A lawyer's crippled son (Frank Lawton) loves the daughter (Geraldine Fitzgerald) of a millowner ruined by his father in 19th-century England.
Horror
USA
1936
79 Minutes
Toto
Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Frank Lawton Robert Greig Lucy Beaumont Henry B. Walthall
innocent man scientist widow daughter son-in-law assistant creepy eerie outlandish paris prison laboratory shrinking wrongful conviction prison break father/daughter relationship science gone awry accidental death sacrifice revenge
An escaped convict uses miniaturized humans to wreak vengeance on those that framed him.
Sci-Fi
USA
1936
81 Minutes
Ronald Drake
Boris Karloff Bela Lugosi Frances Drake Frank Lawton Violet Kemble Cooper Walter Kingsford Beulah Bondi Frank Reicher Paul Weigel Georges Renavent
A scientist becomes murderous after discovering, and being exposed to the radiation of, a powerful new element called Radium X.
Drama, History
UK
1958
123 Minutes
J. Bruce Ismay
Kenneth More David McCallum Honor Blackman Jill Dixon Laurence Naismith Frank Lawton Alec McCowen George Rose Ronald Allen Robert Ayres
captain sailor passenger tense gripping ocean liner atlantic ocean survival sinking ship disaster historical events class distinctions fall rescue sacrifice 1910s
On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean.
Drama
UK
1931
87 Minutes
Rolf
Edmund Gwenn Helen Haye Jill Esmond Phyllis Konstam John Longden Frank Lawton C.V. France Edward Chapman Ronald Frankau Herbert Ross Dora Gregory
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village and almost destroy each other.
Drama
USA
1933
109 Minutes
Joe Marryot
Diana Wynyard Clive Brook Una O'Connor Herbert Mundin Beryl Mercer Irene Browne Tempe Pigott Merle Tottenham Frank Lawton Ursula Jeans Margaret Lindsay
child soldier mother father servant touching inspiring heartwarming london ocean liner nightclub aging alcoholism class distinctions family world war i growing up transformation 1930s
A portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of two English families, the upper-crust Marryots and the working-class Bridgeses, from 1899 to 1933.
Drama
1948
117 Minutes
John Watherstone
Robert Donat Cedric Hardwicke Margaret Leighton Basil Radford Kathleen Harrison Francis L. Sullivan Marie Lohr Jack Watling Frank Lawton Neil North Walter Fitzgerald
father son sister mother lawyer emotional spirited england courtroom school court battles lawsuit family justice school quest sacrifice 1900s
The plight of a young boy unjustly accused of stealing touches off a massive lawsuit for defamation of character.
Drama
UK
1933
89 Minutes
Jessie Matthews Sonnie Hale Edmund Gwenn Gordon Harker Muriel Aked Mary Jerrold Hartley Power Alfred Drayton Percy Parsons Robertson Hare Martita Hunt
art collector young woman young man bus driver elderly woman clerk fascinating engaging london bus street store house apartment storm accident theft family ex-convicts death
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windshield as his vehicle sails down an empty road.... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
UK|USA
1958
91 Minutes
Jack Hawkins Dianne Foster Cyril Cusack Anna Lee Anna Massey Andrew Ray James Hayter Ronald Howard Howard Marion-Crawford Laurence Naismith Derek Bond
scotland yard detective daughter police officer brash confident engaging frenetic gutsy witty london office crime bribery pursuit 1950s
A typical day for Scotland Yard Chief Inspector George Gideon consists of working on several cases at the same time.
Drama
USA
1935
130 Minutes
W.C. Fields Freddie Bartholomew Basil Rathbone Lionel Barrymore Maureen O'Sullivan Madge Evans Edna May Oliver Lewis Stone Elizabeth Allan Roland Young Elsa Lanchester
young boy stepfather father ingénue blackmailer aunt melodramatic london family home office wealth family child abuse blackmail love triangle growing up rescue love 19th century
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.