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The Ace of Spades (1935)
Character: Cleo Despard
The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
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Get Off My Foot (1935)
Character: Helen Rawlingcourt
A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
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Let Me Explain, Dear (1933)
Character: Mamie
A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
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The Outcast (1934)
Character: Nancy Acton
A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
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Up for the Derby (1933)
Character: Nightclub Singer
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Hello, Sweetheart (1935)
Character: Babs Beverley
A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
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Sabotage at Sea (1942)
Character: Diane
The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
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The Lady from Lisbon (1942)
Character: Tamara
When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting. But bumbling Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and multiple copies of the artwork soon confound her attempts at espionage.
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On the Air (1934)
Character: N/A
Musical featuring radio and variety stars on holiday, who help a village vicar stage a local concert.
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Those Were the Days (1934)
Character: Minnie Taylor
A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
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The Church Mouse (1934)
Character: Sylvia
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
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The Seventh Survivor (1942)
Character: Diane Winters
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
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Dick Turpin (1933)
Character: Eleanor Mowbray
The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes (1935)
Character: Ettie Douglas
Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
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Lord Edgware Dies (1934)
Character: Lady Edgware / Carlotta Adams
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
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Alibi (1942)
Character: Delia
In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.
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36 Hours (1953)
Character: Soup Kitchen Supervisor
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
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Millions (1937)
Character: Jane Rimmer
Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
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It's Not Cricket (1949)
Character: Virginia Briscoe
Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. "This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
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The Lad (1935)
Character: Pauline Grant
An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
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The Lilac Domino (1937)
Character: Leonie
In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
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