List of the best Peter Gawthorne movies: Something Always Happens(1934), The Amazing Adventure(1936), His Lordship(1932), Good Morning Boys(1937), The Ticket of Leave Man(1937), Ask a Policeman(1939), No Limit(1935), Convict 99(1938), I Thank You(1941), The Camels Are Coming(1934), Man of the Moment(1935), Pimpernel Smith(1941) ... ...
Comedy
UK
1934
69 Minutes
Ian Hunter Nancy O'Neil Peter Gawthorne Muriel George Barry Livesey Millicent Wolf Louie Emery Reg Marcus George Zucco
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When ... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1936
70 Minutes
Sir James Alroyd
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
Musical
UK
1932
77 Minutes
Ferguson - The Butler
Jerry Verno Polly Ward Peter Gawthorne Muriel George
Bert Gibbs becomes a Lord but agrees to pose as the fiance of a movie star to please his mother.
Comedy
1937
78 Minutes
Col. Willougby-Gore
headmaster colonel lady student escaped convict nightclub singer witty amusing lighthearted madcap engaging playful boarding school england paris cheating education boarding-school life criminals saving the day
Crime, Drama
USA
1937
71 Minutes
Joshua Gibson
Tod Slaughter John Warwick Marjorie Taylor Peter Gawthorne Jenny Lynn Norman Pierce Billy Bray
Inspector Marney of Scotland Yard travels to Calcutta to investigate the murder of Leonard Lee, a generally despised man in these parts. John Wales, who did consider Lee a friend - his best... See full summary »
Comedy
UK
1939
82 Minutes
Chief Constable
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Glennis Lorimer Peter Gawthorne Charles Oliver
The mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1935
80 Minutes
Mr. Higgins
George Formby Florence Desmond Howard Douglas Beatrix Fielden-Kaye Peter Gawthorne Alf Goddard Florence Gregson Jack Hobbs Eve Lister Edward Rigby Evelyn Roberts
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on ... See full summary »
Comedy
1938
91 Minutes
Sir Cyril
Will Hay Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Googie Withers Peter Gawthorne Basil Radford Dennis Wyndham Wilfred Walter Alf Goddard Garry Marsh Basil McGrail
headmaster prisoner prison official airy amusing charming cheeky engaging lighthearted madcap prison school mistaken identity comedy adventure underdog 1930s
A British schoolteacher (Will Hay) becomes a prison warden and lets inmates run the place like a business.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1941
81 Minutes
Dr. Pope
Arthur Askey Richard Murdoch Lily Morris Moore Marriott Graham Moffatt Peter Gawthorne Kathleen Harrison Felix Aylmer
entertainer agent cook socialite patron singer amusing madcap melodramatic london office air-raid shelter music hall estate underground theater production class distinctions world war ii assumed identity fundraising
Struggling entertainers who are trying to put on a show pose as servants to wealthy woman in hopes of raising the money.
Comedy
UK
1934
80 Minutes
Col. Fairley
Jack Hulbert Anna Lee Hartley Power Harold Huth Allan Jeayes Peter Gawthorne
A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
Romance
1935
82 Minutes
Mr. Barton
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Laura La Plante Claude Hulbert Margaret Lockwood Donald Calthrop Peter Gawthorne Monty Banks Morland Graham
A man (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) rescues a woman (Laura La Plante) from drowning herself, then falls in love with her.
Mystery & Thriller
1941
122 Minutes
Sidimir Koslowski
Leslie Howard Mary Morris Francis L. Sullivan Hugh McDermott Raymond Huntley Manning Whiley Peter Gawthorne Allan Jeayes Dennis Arundell Joan Kemp-Welch Philip Friend
father nazi archaeologist political prisoner student spy lighthearted thrilling suspenseful amusing germany concentration camp archaeological dig persecution nazis holocaust undercover operations father/daughter relationship unlikely allies escape
A British archaeology professor (Leslie Howard) smuggles refugees past a Gestapo chief (Francis Sullivan) near the Swiss border.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
UK
1933
81 Minutes
Butler
Gloria Swanson Laurence Olivier John Halliday Michael Farmer Genevieve Tobin Nora Swinburne Charles Collum Peter Gawthorne Rosalinde Fuller O.B. Clarence Mary Jerrold
husband wife newlywed mistress lord lady melodramatic emotional engaging passionate amusing witty cannes, france london france newlyweds troubled marriage agreement divorce jealousy
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1929
91 Minutes
British Police Inspector
Warner Baxter Lois Moran Gilbert Emery Claude King Philip Strange Boris Karloff Jamiel Hasson Peter Gawthorne John Rogers C. Montague Shaw Mercedes De Valasco
Eve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham.
Drama
1941
99 Minutes
Police Supt
Deborah Kerr Clifford Evans Mary Merrall George Carney Geoffrey Hibbert Joyce Howard Frank Cellier Peter Gawthorne Martin Walker Iris Vandeleur
unemployed person young woman mistress wealthy man engaging united kingdom small town unemployment economic crisis mistresses family rise 1940s
A young Englishwoman (Deborah Kerr) tragically loves an out-of-work laborer (Clifford Evans) in a depressed mill town.
Musical, Comedy
UK
1940
80 Minutes
Jack Hylton Patricia Kirkwood Moore Marriott Peter Gawthorne Donald Calthrop Wally Patch
A plot involving spies in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Biography
UK
1942
96 Minutes
Anna Neagle Robert Newton Edward Chapman Nora Swinburne Brefni O'Rorke Charles Carson Martita Hunt Anthony Shaw Eliot Makeham David Horne Miles Malleson
aviatrix aviator husband wife solicitor government official emotional gripping rousing thrilling england house airplane amy johnson marriage flying husband/wife relationship fame world war ii rise
The story of flyer Amy Johnson who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was ... See full summary »