
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
4.4Sir 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
6.4This 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
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Cross Currents
1935
7.5A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
The Blackguard
1925
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
8.0A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Blighty
1927
Film credits
1920s · 4 titles
7.0A 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
7.5A 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
6.7An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
Cut It Out
1925
10.0A 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
Behind the camera
4.4Sir 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
6.4This 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
6.4This 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
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Cross Currents
1935
A Devon Vicar mistakenly comes under suspicion of murdering a rival in love.
Cross Currents
1935
7.5A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
The Blackguard
1925
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
8.0A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Blighty
1927
A famous explorer is unable to find his way across London.
The Bump
1920
A famous explorer is unable to find his way across London.
The Bump
1920
A girl saves her fiancé's stabiliser plans from spies.
Land of Hope and Glory
1927
NRWartime 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
NRWartime 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
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
10.0Sanger, 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
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
5.0A 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
5.0A 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
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
A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
Follow the Lady
1933
A Frenchwoman attempts to blackmail a wealthy man...
Follow the Lady
1933
6.5A suitor dons a disguise to woo a chaperoned girl.
Bookworms
1920
7.0A 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
10.0Concerns 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
10.0Concerns 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
7.5A 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
7.5A 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
4.0A 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
8.0During 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
8.0During 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
8.0A 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
Satire of the Pathé Gazette.
Pathetic Gazette
1924
7.0An 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
6.7An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
Cut It Out
1925
6.7An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
Cut It Out
1925
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
10.0A 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
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
8.0'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Crooked Billet
1930
8.0'International spy seeks documents hidden in old inn.' (British Film Catalogue)
The Crooked Billet
1930
