Derek Elphinstone Trailers
Distant Trumpet TrailerSecret People TrailerThe Armchair Detective Trailer
Distant Trumpet TrailerSecret People TrailerThe Armchair Detective Trailer
Total trailers found: 12
10 June 1949
Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.
01 December 1946
At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew.
28 September 1940
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
01 January 1951
The BBC armchair detective clears a nightclub singer of suspicion of the murder of her boss.
05 February 1952
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
17 September 1942
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II.
06 September 1948
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
20 April 1939
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
31 July 1952
David Anthony, a Harley Street physician, swaps duties with his brother, a medical missionary in Africa.
31 December 1946
A dramatised instruction film made to instil in RAF flying personnel the importance of flight safety in peacetime.
14 December 1940
Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious.
08 January 1946
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.