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Private Collection (1973)
Character: Henry-Adrian Phillips
A wealthy art collector and his wife have their property broken into in this strange, awkward comedy. Little does the thief realize, but the most prized artwork in the collection is protected by a small guillotine. He loses his hand and is then blackmailed into robbing an art dealer, who earlier in the film refused to sell a statue of an eagle.
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Spare the Rod (1961)
Character: Alec Murray
It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
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The Good Beginning (1953)
Character: Brian Watson
After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
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Four Days (1951)
Character: Johnny Keylin
A melodrama adapted from a play concerning the neglected wife of a financially embarrassed business man. Attempted suicide, forgery, fights and blackmail all in four days!
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Your Money or Your Wife (1960)
Character: Theodore Malek
Newly wed couple Gay and Pel Butterworth are forced to take in some strange paying guests when their inheritance proves troublesome, but all is not as straight forward as it seems, when they discover they may have to divorce to get their hands on half the money...
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The Bank Raiders (1958)
Character: Terry Milligan
A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
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Black 13 (1953)
Character: Stephen
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
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The Love Epidemic (1975)
Character: N/A
This Australian educational documentary concerns venereal disease in the pre-AIDS era and reveals that it is a problem that should be taken seriously by everyone — whether young or old, gay or straight. Factual segments are interspersed with humorous skits depicting how people of varying degrees of innocence can contract awful but treatable diseases.
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The Delavine Affair (1955)
Character: Rex Banner
Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.
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Wrong Number (1959)
Character: Angelo
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
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The Woman's Angle (1952)
Character: Brian Mansell
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
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Smart Alec (1951)
Character: Alec Albion
A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
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Adam and Evelyne (1949)
Character: David
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
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I vinti (1953)
Character: Aubrey Hallan
Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery.
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Devil Girl from Mars (1954)
Character: Robert Justin / Albert Simpson
Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
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The Long Haul (1957)
Character: Frank
An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.
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The Last Page (1952)
Character: Jeffrey Hart
A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
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Les Mains d'Orlac (1960)
Character: Mr. Felix
A famed concert pianist's hands are destroyed in a plane crash; when he receives transplants from a recently executed strangler, his murderous new mitts attract the attention of a sleazy illusionist turned blackmailer.
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The Guinea Pig (1948)
Character: Grimmett
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
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Guilt Is My Shadow (1950)
Character: Jamie
A woman is haunted by her conscience after she murders a man and then hides the body. Based on the novel 'You're Best Alone' by Norah Lofts.
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You Can't Escape (1956)
Character: Rodney Nixon
Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.
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The Challenge (1960)
Character: Buddy
Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
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The Magic Box (1952)
Character: Bridegroom in Wedding Group
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Highway to Battle (1961)
Character: Jarvost
Months before the out break of WWII, suspicion falls on a German ambassador when one of his envoys fails to return to Berlin. The arrival of two Gestapo agents searching for the missing man causes the ambassador and his family to rethink their Nazi allegiance but is it too late to escape from Hitler's evil grasp?
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West 11 (1963)
Character: Jacko
In Notting Hill's jazz club, coffee bar and bedsit land of the early 1960s, Joe Beckett is a young unemployed misfit and drifter whose life takes a turn for the worse when he encounters Richard Dyce, an ex-army officer.
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The Painted Smile (1962)
Character: Mark
Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
Character: 'Black & Tans' Captain
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
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Gaolbreak (1962)
Character: Eddie Wallis
An honest news agent realizes that his 2 sons are corrupt. When one criminal son is in jail, the other breaks him out to help with a job.
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