Charles Crichton Movies

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

The efforts of test pilot John Mitchell to make a better life for his wife Mary and their two children seem doomed to failure and he blames himself....

When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out...

Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh. En route she...

During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's...

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.

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 WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking...

A feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda

Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to...

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

In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.

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

A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.

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.

The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.

British war documentary

Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.

Ealing Studios short war documentary