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Charles Ainslie Crichton was an English film director and film editor. He became best known for directing comedies produced at Ealing Studios. Crichton enjoyed an extremely long career, editing and directing many films and television programmes over a period exceeding forty years.
Total trailers found: 39
09 June 1958
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 about his criminal past.
08 June 1950
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London.
12 March 1937
In India, Toomai, a young mahout, helps lead the British on a large expedition to round up wild elephants.
24 November 1948
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
30 January 1954
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
01 December 1940
The first months of WWII as experienced by the new young recruits - the 'young Berts' - of the British Army.
15 July 1988
While a diamond advocate attempts to steal a collection of diamonds, troubles arise when he realises he’s not the only one after the collection.
01 February 1948
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.
02 May 1986
Documentary about the British film studio. First appeared on the BBC television programme Omnibus.
01 January 1942
Deals with the training of Fleet Air Arm pilots and crew during World War II.
01 September 1945
In this modest drama, set during World War II, two rival boat families battle it out for supremacy.
10 May 1935
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 loyal native chief.
01 June 1944
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 them to safety.
13 July 1988
A feature length documentary on the making of A Fish Called Wanda
24 January 1957
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.
17 March 1952
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
18 November 1958
A man framed for murder escapes from prison during a flood and helps a young woman in distress.
31 March 1936
The story of a century: a decades-long second World War leaves plague and anarchy, then a rational state rebuilds civilization and attempts space travel.
19 February 1940
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
28 June 1951
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
09 September 1945
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare.
08 September 1970
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.
01 October 1965
Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking.
04 March 1953
When British Railways announce the closure of the Titfield to Mallingford branch line a group of local residents make a bid to run it themselves, backed by a monied member of the community who is attracted by the complete lack of licensing hours on trains.
04 September 1980
Earth's Moon is the site of Moonbase Alpha, a scientific research colony nestled in the crater Plato.
09 November 1954
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 adopted by a childless couple.
18 January 1949
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
25 February 1960
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh.
01 February 1947
A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer.
01 March 1941
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 enlist.
02 February 1964
A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients.
01 December 1982
An alien princess aids people stranded on out-of-orbit Moonbase Alpha.
07 January 1940
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime.
19 January 1942
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
09 December 1975
The spaceship Altares, with a photon drive capable of accelerating it to the speed of light, leaves an Earth-orbiting space station.
01 January 1986
This 1986 documentary features interviews with director Alexander Mackendrick, actor Burt Lancaster, producer James Hill, and others.
