Movies: Michael Hankinson

A composer goes to Devil's Island for killing his wife's lover, then writes an opera about it....

One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie...

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop...

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent....

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work....

Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets an...

Three unlikely people set up a pirate radio station in this musical comedy....

Max is an Austrian officer in the army and son of a highly placed general. His father wants him to marry a Countess but he has fallen in love with Vicki. Attending a party given in his honour, they are informed that war has broken out. Max writes a n...

A husband who listens to jazz instead of mopping the floor is brained with a mop by his wife; he dreams he's King of Jazzmania, a land of soapsuds where Louis Armstrong performs 'I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You' and 'Shine'....

A BAFTA award nominated documentary looking at the international co-ordination involved in dealing with a locust plague....

Two women plot to get rid of an unwelcome house guest....

A young girl falls in love with a young conductor in Vienna, and they marry. However, their marriage is threatened by a wealthy man........

Comedy about Bookmakers and punters and their interest in the horse Take A Chance...

Derwent dreams up an unbreakable alibi for a murder. Once the crime is attempted, it then falls to Pember and Brace of Scotland Yard to sort things out....

A Lieutenant is wrongly accused of cowardice...

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him ...

A dramatised account produced for the Ministry of Information of the re-opening during World War Two of the Tyneside shipyards closed down during the Depression....

The hall porter at an Oxbridge College inherits an Earldom and enjoys a series of adventures....

A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936....

A tour of the Dartmouth Royal Naval College, showing the education and shaping of young men into members of the Royal Navy....