Charles Crichton

Charles Crichton

August 6, 1910 · 115 years old

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.

Known For

12 titles
1
A Fish Called Wanda

A Fish Called Wanda

1988 · 1h 48m · Movie

In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool the very proper barrister Archibald Leach.

7.5
2
The Lavender Hill Mob

The Lavender Hill Mob

1951 · 1h 18m · Movie

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipment of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country as miniature Eiffel Towers.

7.5
3
Dead of Night

Dead of Night

1945 · 1h 17m · Movie

Guests at an English estate recall nightmares.

7.5
4
The Titfield Thunderbolt

The Titfield Thunderbolt

1953 · 1h 24m · Movie

Volunteers take over their local passenger train service (against bus company resistance) when the government announces its closure.

7.0
5
Hue and Cry

Hue and Cry

1947 · 1h 22m · Movie

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. The first of the Ealing comedies.

6.7
6
The Third Secret

The Third Secret

1964 · 1h 43m · Movie

The first secret is what we don't tell people, the second secret is what we don't tell ourselves, and the third secret is the truth. The death of a psychologist is investigated by his teenage daughter and a former patient.

6.5
7
Against the Wind

Against the Wind

1948 · 1h 36m · Movie

A secret London school trains a motley group of men and women for sabotage work in German occupied Belgium during World War II. When one of them is captured by the Germans, five others are parachuted in to rescue him.

6.3
8
The Love Lottery

The Love Lottery

1954 · 1h 29m · Movie

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 unwit...

5.4
9
The Divided Heart

The Divided Heart

1954 · 1h 29m · Movie

A story of litigation between a birth mother and an adopted family due to a child lost during a war.

6.9
10
The Girl of the Canal

The Girl of the Canal

1945 · 48m · Movie

Drama following the lives of two families living on the colourfully painted canal boats of Britain.

6.7
11
Dance Hall

Dance Hall

1950 · 1h 20m · Movie

The storyline centres on four young female factory workers who escape the monotony of their jobs by spending their evenings at the Chiswick Palais, the local dance hall, where they have various problems with their boyfriends.

6.0
12
Another Shore

Another Shore

1948 · 1h 17m · Movie

A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti.

5.9
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