Claude Friese-Greene Movies

An ex-French Foreign Legion soldier comes to Soho and ends up as a singer in a cafe.

A musical crime film directed by Harry Lachman.

'Captain tries to hide accidental female passengers from admiral.' (British Film Catalogue)

In the summer of 1924 Claude Friese-Greene, a pioneer of colour cinematography, set out from Cornwall with the aim of recording life on the road...

A travelogue of the North Cornwall coast featuring views of Porth, Allen Valley, Trevose Head, Prideaux Place, Padstow, Wadebridge, St.Teath and...

Vincent Floyd, a seeming lazy figure lounging around London Gentleman's Clubs is in fact a secret agent hot on the trail of Michael Marlowe whom he...

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder.

A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.

William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...

This gripping, atmospheric crime thriller from Austrian-born director Paul Stein stars Oscar nominee Raymond Massey as a man at the centre of a...

A schoolboy falls in love with his teacher's young wife.

When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.

A demonstration of the Friese-Greene biocolour process.

A woman poses, in and out of her diaphanous shift.

Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.

Famous dancer Margaret Morris performs her dances in a short film made in the experimental Friese-Greene Natural Colour process.

Colour footage of London.

During 1924 and for the next two years, Claude Friese-Greene, filmmaker and cinematographer, embarked on an epic journey, and calling it The Open...