Richard Massingham
Director · 1898 – 1953 · St George's Hanover Square, London, England, UK
Movies23
Movie6.3CrimeDramaA bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Turn the Key Softly
1953 · 15 votes
Movie5.7ActionThrillerMen from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
High Treason
1951 · 11 votes
- Movie6.0Comedy
A husband sneezes inconsiderately all over the place, until his wife has had enough and leaves him.
Handkerchief Drill
1949 · 2 votes
MovieDramaGovernment information film on how to get maximum wear from a man's suit, narrated by one such suit in the form of an autobiography.
Movie6.3ComedyA trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Will Any Gentleman...?
1953 · 6 votes
MovieDramaDescribes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.
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Showing the importance of a thorough induction.
MovieAnother of Richard Massingham's films about the dangers of sneezing and germ transmission, and what to do with used handkerchiefs
- MovieDocumentary
Shows how hygiene can change the course of history and how it was a decisive factor in Britain's World War II victory. Commentary by Dr. Charles Hill.
Movie7.0ComedyA short comedy about dentistry by the doctor and (at this point) amateur film-maker Richard Massingham.
Tell Me If It Hurts
1934 · 1 votes
Movie7.0ComedyCrimeComedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
To the Rescue
1952 · 2 votes
MovieShort road safety film.
- MovieDocumentary
Richard Massingham directs and stars in this medical short about a man going to any lengths to cure his lumbago.
The Cure
1950
MovieComedyNational insurance made amusing by the eccentric Richard Massingham.
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A secretarial pool dream of the ideal civil servant to be their boss.
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Richard Massingham's 'Uncle Bob' character helps his family move house.
Moving House
1950
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A road safety film on the dangers of playing in the roads of London in 1947.
- MovieComedy
Advice for post-war British holidaymakers on how to comply with new Treasury legislation on taking money abroad, presented in comic style by Richard Massingham.
MovieComedyA man extols the enjoyment that can still be had in a bath restricted to the wartime allowance of five inches of hot water.
- MovieComedy
Richard Massingham gives a comic demonstration of how to cross the road.
MovieComedyA brief documentary about the history of the Royal Mail.
Post Haste
1943
MovieDocumentaryFilmed shortly after World War II," The Silent Order" records the lives of Trappist monks living inside the 12th-century Monastery of the Holy Cross, Roscrea, County Tipperary, as they quietly go about their business as farmers, scholars, artists, and writers—evoking 10 centuries of a shifting social, political, and religious landscape in the heart of Ireland.
The Silent Order
1951
Movie6.0ComedyThis film explains how sneezing in public can spread disease, and shows how using a handkerchief can stop it.
Coughs and Sneezes
1945 · 1 votes