Arthur Crabtree Trailers
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Arthur Crabtree (29 October 1900, Shipley, Yorkshire, England – 15 March 1975, Worthing, Sussex, England) was a British cinematographer and film director.
Crabtree earliest credits as a cinematographer working on such films as the Will Hay comedies Oh, Mr. Porter! and Good Morning, Boys (both 1937) and Hey! Hey! USA! (1938), the Arthur Askey vehicle Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940), and The Man in Grey (1943) and Fanny by Gaslight (1944) for Gainsborough Pictures.
Crabtree continued his association with Gainsborough as he started his directorial career, beginning with the melodramatic fantasies Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945), starring Phyllis Calvert and Stewart Granger and Caravan (1946). His last two films were Fiend Without a Face (1958) and Horrors of the Black Museum (1959), a science fiction and horror, respectively, both of which have become cult favourites, although the former enjoys a better critical reputation. He also directed episodes of television series such as The Adventures of Robin Hood and The Adventures of Sir Lancelot (both 1956).
Most Popular Arthur Crabtree Trailers
Total trailers found: 36
17 May 1941
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores.
08 December 1950
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well.
24 August 1942
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people.
29 October 1936
Archie Slott inherits a successful racing stable from his dissolute uncle, but his sanctimonious aunt tries to convince him to sell it off.
30 November 1953
The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.
23 June 1947
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
30 June 1938
Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
04 May 1940
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage.
05 February 1945
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
20 September 1943
Three generations of a family gather together to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, while the family secretary has the unenviable task of smoothing out all the deep-set hostilities and jealousies.
01 January 1957
A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
21 February 1936
After his father sells his car, an immature playboy steals it back, and gets involved with a gang of professional car thieves.
26 September 1938
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals.
05 July 1948
The favourite for the big race is nobbled and suspicion falls on the owner. His secret admirer proves it wasn't him.
06 December 1940
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
06 March 1932
A British musical film directed by Lupino Lane
02 July 1945
The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
19 July 1949
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor.
28 June 1941
A young tradesman learns that money doesn't necessarily bring happiness. Drama.
10 November 1952
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident.
26 October 1948
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.
31 August 1940
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'.
22 January 1945
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods.
05 November 1931
Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love.
03 July 1958
An American airbase in Canada provokes resentment from the nearby residents after fallout from nuclear experiments at the base are blamed for a recent spate of disappearances.
27 January 1938
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside.
06 August 1943
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
30 June 1935
Romance set in a chemical factory.
29 April 1959
A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
01 October 1938
While working as a porter Benjamin Twist mistakenly ends up on a cruise ship heading for the USA. Upon landing on the American coast Twist takes up work as a professor.
27 December 1941
To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor.
12 October 1942
A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
08 May 1944
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke.
03 June 1946
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain.
31 December 1958
A private detective, desperate for money to pay for an operation on his small son, bargains with a protection gangster chief to have himself killed and gets his girl to collect the insurance money.
08 January 1942
Coughs and sneezes spread diseases! Comedian Arthur Askey presents a humorous film warning against sneezing in public during W.
