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A Man from the Sun (1956)
Character: Miss Prior
A mixed party of West Indian settlers arrives in London, where they encounter prejudice from the white population and integrate themselves into the existing West Indian community.
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Bang! You're Dead (1954)
Character: Mrs. Moxted
Two small boys are playing in a wood. The younger boy has a revolver and, not understanding that the gun differs from his toy pistol, plays 'highwayman' on the road and holds up a cyclist; the gun goes off, killing the cyclist. Both boys are unaware of the tragic consequences of their game. The body and the gun are found by Bob Carter, who had recently quarreled with the victim in the presence of their workmates, and both men had uttered threats. The evidence is strong, and Bob is arrested for murder...
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The Agitator (1945)
Character: Mrs. Shackleton
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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The Master of Bankdam (1947)
Character: Mrs. Pickersgill
Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
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I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
Character: Miss McKenzie
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
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Identity Unknown (1960)
Character: Matron
Two reporters, a youth and a girl, find romance during interviews with relatives and friends of passengers in an ill-fated airliner.
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Out of True (1951)
Character: Mrs. Green
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt. It was made as an educational film.
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Night Without Pity (1961)
Character: Philip's Mother
A woman and her injured son are detained by one crook, whilst the other takes the safe keys to rob a factory. They fall out, and the boy is rescued while they fight.
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Spring Handicap (1937)
Character: Mrs. Tulip
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
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When We Are Married (1938)
Character: Mrs. Northrop
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
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Hazard (1959)
Character: Syd's mother
A BAFTA award nominated dramatised documentary telling the story of two steelworkers who attempt to climb a rock in the Dolomites.
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Melba (1953)
Character: Aunt Catherine
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
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Hindle Wakes (1952)
Character: Mrs. Hollins
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
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Victory Wedding (1944)
Character: Mrs Clark
A young couple prepare for post-war marriage. Propaganda short encouraging women to contribute to the war effort by investing in war loans through National Savings.
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Pygmalion (1948)
Character: Mrs. Pearce
Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
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Echo of Barbara (1961)
Character: Mrs. Roscoe
Barbara is the long-lost sister of no-good Mike Roscoe (Ronald Hines). Paula Brown (Maureen Connell) is the stripper whom Mike hires to pose as Barbara. It's all part of a scheme to fool Mike's ex-convict dad Sam Roscoe (Mervyn Johns). The son hopes to entice Sam into revealing the whereabouts of his stolen money, and Paula is hopefully going to do the trick. Based on a novel by Jonathan Burke, Echo of Barbara is a better-than-usual British programmer, entertaining despite its surplus of unpleasant leading characters.
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The Surgeon's Knife (1957)
Character: Mrs. Waring
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
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She Shall Have Murder (1950)
Character: Mrs. Hawthorne
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
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Marry Me (1949)
Character: Mrs. Perrins
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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Welcome, Mr Washington (1944)
Character: Martha
Based on a story by author Noel Streatfeild, the film trells the story of two sisters who are left penniless by their father's sudden death and lease their estate as an airbase to US forces in Britain to help the war effort. Both eventually fall for American servicemen.
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Now Let Him Go (1957)
Character: Mrs. Beeston
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.
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The Good Companions (1957)
Character: Mrs Carrie Nunn
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
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Adam and Evelyne (1949)
Character: Mrs. Parker
A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
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The Monkey's Paw (1948)
Character: Mrs. White
The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect.
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The Monkey's Paw (1954)
Character: Mrs. White
Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.
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The Bells Go Down (1943)
Character: Ma Turk
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
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My Brother Jonathan (1948)
Character: Mrs. Hodgkiss
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
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A Welcome to Britain (1943)
Character: Vi (uncredited)
An uncredited Anthony Asquith is one of the directors of this WWII film (a joint UK/US production) which aims to explain British culture and character to the newly arrived American soldier. Starting with the ubiquitous pub visit, the film breezes through geography lessons, food and entertainment on the Home Front.
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Love Story (1944)
Character: Miss Rossiter
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
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Room at the Top (1958)
Character: Aunt
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
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Johnny Frenchman (1945)
Character: Mrs. Tremayne
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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Hell Drivers (1957)
Character: Tom's Mother
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
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The Upturned Glass (1947)
Character: Injured Girl's Mother
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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Tomorrow We Live (1936)
Character: Patricia's Mother
Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his generosity change the course of their lives?
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Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
Character: Lucy Cash
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
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Send for Paul Temple (1946)
Character: Miss Amelia Marchment
Novelist and amateur sleuth, Paul Temple, meets a newspaper woman called "Steve." Together they investigate a gang of diamond robbers.
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Poison Pen (1939)
Character: Mrs. Jenkins
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
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Sea Wife (1957)
Character: Elderly Nun
In 1942, a cargo ship jammed with British evacuees from Singapore is sunk by a Japanese sub. A small lifeboat carries a beautiful woman, an army officer, a bigoted administrator, and a black seaman. Only the seaman knows the woman is a nun. The men reveal their true selves under the hardships of survival. Told in a too-long flashback frame.
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Holiday Camp (1947)
Character: Valerie's Aunt
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
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No Trace (1950)
Character: Landlady
A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
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The Feminine Touch (1956)
Character: Sister Snow
Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
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Bedelia (1946)
Character: Mary
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
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Waterloo Road (1945)
Character: Mrs. Colter
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
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Good-Time Girl (1948)
Character: Mrs. Rawlings
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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The Black Rider (1954)
Character: Mrs. Marsh
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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Hatter's Castle (1942)
Character: Mrs. Brodie
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
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Great Day (1945)
Character: Miss Tracy
An impending V.I.P. visit causes bustle in an English village, while the Ellis family struggles with private problems.
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Death Goes to School (1953)
Character: Miss Hopkinson
Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
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Hedda Gabler (1962)
Character: Berte
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and name, Hedda is banking on George being appointed a professorship to secure a better life for the young couple, However, the arrival of cleaned up ex-lover Eilert threatens to destroy everything.
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The Man in Grey (1943)
Character: Gypsy Fortune Teller
After marrying a dour and disinterested lord for status, a young woman falls in love with a stage actor while her best friend from boarding school enters an affair with her husband.
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Bees in Paradise (1944)
Character: Moagga
Four pilots become stranded on a tropical island inhabited by beautiful women.
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Jassy (1947)
Character: Mrs. Wicks
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
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Millions Like Us (1943)
Character: Miss Wells
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.
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The Wicked Lady (1945)
Character: Aunt Moll
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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My Brother's Keeper (1948)
Character: Mrs. Martin
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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Squadron Leader X (1943)
Character: Mrs. Krohn
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
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Secret Mission (1942)
Character: Mrs. Donkin
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
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Paul Temple's Triumph (1950)
Character: Mrs. Weston
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
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