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Master Spy (1964)
Character: Leila
Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
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Anna Karenina (1961)
Character: Kitty
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
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Fast and Loose (1954)
Character: Barbara Wickham
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
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Broth of a Boy (1959)
Character: Silin Lehane
An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.
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Delayed Action (1954)
Character: Anne Curlew
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
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Escort for Hire (1960)
Character: Terry Kennedy
An unemployed actor hires out as a bodyguard-companion for a woman and finds himself involved in murder.
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Transatlantic (1960)
Character: N/A
An FBI man and an English girl solve a mystery surrounding the loss of an airliner.
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The Spanish Sword (1962)
Character: Lady Eleanor
A knight protects the treasure of Henry III of England from a thieving baron.
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The Price of Silence (1959)
Character: Audrey Trusscott
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
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The Hornet's Nest (1955)
Character: Pat
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
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Now Let Him Go (1957)
Character: Felicity
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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Wuthering Heights (1962)
Character: Isabella
Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
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Rooney (1958)
Character: Doreen O' Flynn
The life of James Ignatius Rooney, a Dublin rubbish collector during the week and a Gaelic sportsman at the weekends.
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Touch and Go (1955)
Character: Peggy Fletcher
When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
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True as a Turtle (1957)
Character: Jane Hudson
Tony Hudson offers his young wife Jane a cruise on a yacht as a honeymoon trip. Although Jane suffers from chronic seasickness, she accepts and one day they go on board the Turtle, a fine yacht owned by an industrialist friend, Dudley Partridge. A lot of misadventures await them before they finally reach France.
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The Scarlet Blade (1963)
Character: Claire Judd
A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring-do.
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The Cruel Sea (1953)
Character: Doris Ferraby
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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The Pickwick Papers (1952)
Character: Arabella Allen
The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay (1961)
Character: Jenny Trevenyan
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships onto the rocks of Smugglers Bay, and murdering their crews for the sake of loot, the fishermen begin to fear for their livelihoods. In desperation, they appeal to the local magistrate Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing).
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Don't Bother to Knock (1961)
Character: Stella
An Edinburgh travel agent loses his keys and his fiancé in one night. A friend finds the keys and makes loads of copies with his address attached as a joke. She gives them to him as he leaves for a holiday. He gives the keys to several women he romances across the continent. He gets engaged again by phone and arranges to meet his fiancé at his flat, but the flat isn't empty...
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Orders Are Orders (1954)
Character: Veronica Bellamy
An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.
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Tom Thumb (1958)
Character: Forest Queen
A boy, no bigger than a thumb, manages to outwit two thieves determined to make a fortune from him.
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Children Galore (1955)
Character: Milly Ark
As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.
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The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
Character: Elizabeth
Doctor Gulliver is poor, so nothing - not even his charming fiancée Elisabeth - keeps him in the town he lives. He signs on to a ship to India, but in a storm he's washed off the ship and ends up on an island, which is inhibitated by very tiny people. After he managed to convince them he's harmless and is accepted as one of their citizens, their king wants to use him in war against a people of giants. Compared to them, even Gulliver is a gnome.
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