David Eady

A businessman loses his sight in an explosion on the day his wife planned to leave him for another man.  (more)

Two English kids meet their friend Anoop Singh and his baby elephant Ranee. The nasty circus owner wants the elephant for his circus and the children decide that they must prevent this.  (more)

Sponsored as part of the Electricity Council's 'Understanding Electricity' campaign, Play Safe is a series of three hard-hitting fillers designed to highlight to children the potentially fatal consequences of playing near overhead electric lines and substations. ...  (more)

A man wants to help a youth club that is in danger of closure. He decides to resort to blackmailing the relatives of the recently deceased, threatening to publish incriminating stories about them. Then he tries to blackmail the family of a prominent villain.  (more)

An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the ...  (more)

Jimmy Riley makes friends with Colin and Brian Buxton, both keen members of a schoolboys' scramble club. Lennie and Cliff, old friends of Jimmy's, steal wealthy Mr Hepplewhite's car. Jimmy finds the crooks with the car but will not join in with them.  (more)

Children on lonely farm outwit escaped Dartmoor prisoners.  (more)

A young boy runs away from an approved school to meet up with his father in the hope that he can persuade his dad to allow him to travel to Canada with him. He also meets up with two local children and discovers that his father is instead planning a bank heist.  (more)

The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, and other dangers.  (more)

A racketeer, deported back from America, faces murder charge and hatches jury rigging plot with accomplice. Cross and double-cross follow.  (more)

Bridge of Time is a 1950 short film made by London Films, and directed by Geoffrey Boothby and David Eady. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, Two-Reel.  (more)

Three stories of murder and the supernatural: A museum worker is introduced to a world behind the pictures he sees every day. When two lifelong friends fall in love with the same woman and she is killed, they are obvious suspects. Is their friendship strong enough ...  (more)

This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.  (more)

Several stories linked by a hat.  (more)

Operation Third Form, features a fresh-faced John Moulder-Brown (Deep End) in a sparkling performance as the schoolboy out to foil a pair of north London crooks, is a pacey boy's own adventure complete with a groovy 1960s soundtrack.  (more)

Designed to promote the National Cycling Proficiency Scheme: an N.C.P.S. student competes with another boy in a private cycling competition, organised and judged by pop singer, Peter Noone.  (more)

Part of BFI collection "Police and Thieves."  (more)

Adventure story for children about the accidental discovery of a formula for invisibility and the attempts of a couple of crooks to misuse it.  (more)

Young English holiday visitors help Lesotho herdboy to recover stolen bull.  (more)

Night Ferry stars Bernard Cribbins as Pyramid, a dastardly master-of-disguise who plans to smuggle an ancient Egyptian mummy out of the country. When young Jeff discovers the plan, a dangerous chase via London's Victoria and Clapham stations ensues.  (more)