Adrian Brunel

Directing

Adrian Brunel

Born — Died

1892-09-04 — 1958-02-18

Place of birth

Brighton, East Sussex, England

Known for

Directing

Credits

44 titles

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel poster
4.4

Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.

Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

1937

The Lion Has Wings poster
6.4

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

The Lion Has Wings

1939

The Lion Has Wings poster
6.4

This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.

The Lion Has Wings

1939

No artwork available
9.0

A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.

Cross Currents

1935

No artwork available
9.0

A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.

Cross Currents

1935

The Blackguard poster
7.5

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

The Blackguard

1925

No artwork available
6.0

A young women under a lot of pressure in her life decides to take a train trip to mellow out, but is suddenly stricken with a case of amnesia. A con artist takes advantage...

The Girl Who Forgot

1940

Blighty poster
8.0

A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.

Blighty

1927

No artwork available
7.0

A famous explorer is unable to find his way across London.

The Bump

1920

No artwork available
7.0

A famous explorer is unable to find his way across London.

The Bump

1920

No artwork available
8.0

A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.

Land of Hope and Glory

1927

Salvage with a Smile poster
NR

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.

Salvage with a Smile

1940

Salvage with a Smile poster
NR

Wartime propaganda short in which a professor enlists the help of a dustman to explain the importance of saving paper, bones and metal to help the war effort.

Salvage with a Smile

1940

No artwork available
10.0

A detective is on the verge of revealing the identity of an elusive criminal. At the crucial moment, hedrops dead, the victim of foul play. A revolutionary electric devise is utilized to bring the detective back to life long enough for the successful completion of his mission.

The Face at the Window

1920

The Constant Nymph poster
10.0

Sanger, an eccentric expatriate composer, dies in his house in the Austrian Alps, leaving his daughters penniless. The young composer Lewis Dodd, a longstanding friend of the family, falls in love with their cousin Florence when she comes to take the girls back to England. But little Tessa Sanger is in love with Lewis herself, and when she runs away from school and comes to live with Florence and her husband, their already-shaky marriage is further undermined

The Constant Nymph

1928

No artwork available
7.0

A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.

City of Beautiful Nonsense

1935

Elstree Calling poster
5.0

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Elstree Calling

1930

Elstree Calling poster
5.0

A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).

Elstree Calling

1930

No artwork available
9.0

A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.

Badger’s Green

1934

No artwork available
7.0

A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...

Follow the Lady

1933

No artwork available
7.0

A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...

Follow the Lady

1933

Bookworms poster
6.5

A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.

Bookworms

1920

Typical Budget poster
7.0

A spoof of the Topical Budget newsreels with items on "Daylight Saving", "Economy in the Household", "The Art of Self Protection", and "Paris Fashions - For Men".

Typical Budget

1925

A Light Woman poster
10.0

Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.

A Light Woman

1928

A Light Woman poster
10.0

Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.

A Light Woman

1928

The Man Without Desire poster
7.5

A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.

The Man Without Desire

1923

The Man Without Desire poster
7.5

A grief-stricken 18th-century Venetian gentleman is thwarted in love and placed in suspended animation. When he wakes up 200 years later, he finds the experiment has more serious unexpected consequences.

The Man Without Desire

1923

The Invader poster
4.0

A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.

The Invader

1936

The Rebel Son poster
8.0

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.

The Rebel Son

1938

The Rebel Son poster
8.0

During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.

The Rebel Son

1938

Prison Breaker poster
8.0

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..

Prison Breaker

1936

No artwork available
10.0

Satire of the Pathé Gazette.

Pathetic Gazette

1924

Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery poster
7.0

An opening section of heavy handed humour about boxing styles gives way to a genuine and extraordinary discovery in this silent curio.

Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery

1925

Cut It Out poster
6.7

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

Cut It Out

1925

Cut It Out poster
6.7

An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.

Cut It Out

1925

No artwork available
9.0

A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.

Love at Sea

1936

Crossing the Great Sagrada poster
10.0

A spoof travelogue of an expedition by three explorers, confusing London and New York with Papua, sending up film effects, censorship and a profusion of other cinema-related targets.

Crossing the Great Sagrada

1924

No artwork available
NR

The unfortunate Mr Tom Arto’s antipathy to the music hall favourite Yes, We Have No Bananas – because he is a vegetarian, naturally – drives him to ever more desperate measures, taking him to a nightclub, where he hopes for “a little Wagner” but again finds the annoying ditty, then home to bed, where he is awoken by his neighbour’s tuba practice. Finally he travels the world, only to find at each destination that the tune has got there first.

Yes We Have No — !

1923

The Crooked Billet poster
8.0

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Crooked Billet

1930

The Crooked Billet poster
8.0

'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)

The Crooked Billet

1930