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The Scent of Fear (1959)
Character: Dusty Fraser
Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.
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The Boy and the Bridge (1959)
Character: Bridge Engineer
A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on the Tower Bridge in London. A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a bad brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up housekeeping there. The atmosphere and life around the bridge are a secondary protagonist in the story, introducing several interesting characters.
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The Gorbals Story (1950)
Character: Peter Reilly
A successful artist recalls his life in the tenements of the Glasgow slums. In flashback his recalls the events and characters he shared with in a slum tenement building.
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Devil's Bait (1959)
Character: Dr. MacKenzie
The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
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The Heart Within (1957)
Character: Inspector Matheson
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.
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The Carringford School Mystery (1958)
Character: Gibson
The exciting adventures of five children who set out to vindicate a school friend wrongly accused of theft from the local museum.
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Radio Cab Murder (1954)
Character: Gregson
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
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Tom Jones (1963)
Character: MacLachlan
Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
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The Frightened City (1961)
Character: Tyson
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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The Spanish Gardener (1956)
Character: Police Escort
Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
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Johnny, You're Wanted (1956)
Character: Inspector Bennett
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride, he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver, who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny's hitchhiker and she's dead.
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Morning Departure (1950)
Character: Leading Seaman Kelly
The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
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Kidnapped (1960)
Character: Landlord
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
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The Steel Bayonet (1958)
Character: Pte. Wentworth
Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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The Pirates of Blood River (1962)
Character: Godfrey Mason
A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
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Hunted (1952)
Character: Mr. Campbell
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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The Brave Don't Cry (1952)
Character: Willie Duncan
The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine in Scotland falls victim to a cave-in, trapping some one hundred workers. Rescue parties are formed as the tremulous families of the miners wait in agony. As in the actual incident upon which this film is based, the rescue is nip and tuck and times, but eventually successful. The faces of real-life Scottish mining folk are melded with the professional actors in The Brave Don't Cry, adding poignancy to this otherwise cut-and-dried film.
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The 'Maggie' (1954)
Character: Skipper
The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
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A Case For P.C. 49 (1951)
Character: Mike Cutler
A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered by a police constable.
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A Night to Remember (1958)
Character: Stoker Barrett (uncredited)
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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The Kidnappers (1953)
Character: Dominie
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
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