Ernest Butcher

Movies23

• Movie7.5

  DramaCrime

  Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.

  Night and the City

  1950 · 297 votes

• Movie9.0

  ComedyMusic

  Garage owner Tommy and ventriloquist friend Eric join the army and go to France, where they are captured by the Nazis. However, Eric's voice-throwing skills come in handy in engineering their escape and obtaining top secret information.

  Pack Up Your Troubles

  1940 · 1 votes

• Movie5.3

  DramaCrime

  In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.

  For Them That Trespass

  1949 · 13 votes

• Movie7.0

  Comedy

  The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.

  When We Are Married

  1943 · 1 votes

• Movie6.2

  ComedyRomance

  A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.

  The Truth About Women

  1957 · 8 votes

• Movie

  Comedy

  The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. This was the second television film version of the J.B. Priestley play made by the BBC.

  When We Are Married

  1949

• Movie7.1

  AdventureDrama

  Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.

  "Pimpernel" Smith

  1941 · 32 votes

• Movie6.0

  ThrillerAction

  A US newsman and a British entomologist spy on germ-warfare research in a mythical country.

  Highly Dangerous

  1950 · 13 votes

• Movie5.7

  Comedy

  Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.

  It's in the Bag

  1944 · 7 votes

• Movie7.0

  Drama

  After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.

  Song of the Road

  1937 · 2 votes

• Movie

  Documentary

  Austin promotional short, showing a tour around the country by many Austin models, from the Seven to the Ascot.

  All That Is England

  1932

• Movie8.0

  Comedy

  Old Mother Riley starts a new business.

  Old Mother Riley in Business

  1941 · 1 votes

• Movie6.8

  Drama

  Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.

  My Brother Jonathan

  1948 · 6 votes

• Movie6.3

  Drama

  Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

  Quartet

  1948 · 16 votes

• Movie7.0

  DramaWar

  Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.

  Freedom Radio

  1941 · 4 votes

• Movie5.0

  CrimeDrama

  Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.

  The Desperate Man

  1959 · 1 votes

• Movie6.7

  DramaRomance

  After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.

  The Years Between

  1946 · 6 votes

• Movie10.0

  Comedy

  The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.

  When We Are Married

  1938 · 1 votes

• Movie6.2

  CrimeDrama

  Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.

  Appointment with Crime

  1946 · 16 votes

• Movie6.9

  Thriller

  In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.

  While I Live

  1947 · 7 votes

• Movie9.0

  ComedyRomance

  A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.

  It Happened One Sunday

  1944 · 1 votes

• Movie6.5

  CrimeDrama

  Meet Simon Cherry was based on a popular BBC radio program of the 1940s titled Meet the Rev. Hugh Moxey plays the title role, a Father Brown-style clergyman who solves crimes when he isn't saving souls

  Meet Simon Cherry

  1949 · 4 votes

• Movie5.4

  MysteryHorror

  A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.

  Candles at Nine

  1944 · 5 votes