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Shipmates o' Mine (1936)
Character: Andrew McFee
A through-the-years story with songs and sentiments. A sailor rises from first officer to captain, gets married and has a son, but loses his command when his ship is rammed and the vessel is abandoned to save passengers. For years he lives in the countryside. Then his son, now grown, contacts his father's old shipmates and eventually their ship is put back into commission with its old skipper in command.
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Miss Knowall (1940)
Character: Mr. Shelton
Short government film on the dangers of gossip in wartime.
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The Farmer's Wife (1941)
Character: P. C. Chave
Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
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Open All Night (1934)
Character: N/A
Anton is an exiled Russian Grand-duke but works in a hotel as a night manager with tragic consequences.
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Flood Tide (1934)
Character: Scotty
Set on the Thames estuary, romance blossoms for a young couple.
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Hoots Mon (1940)
Character: Campbell
An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
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A Cuckoo in the Nest (1933)
Character: Pinhorn
A crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
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Don't Blame the Stork (1954)
Character: Michael O'Connor
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
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East Lynne on the Western Front (1931)
Character: Maurice / Levison
During the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
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The Third String (1932)
Character: Pete Russett
A man poses as a boxer to impress a woman, but then is forced to fight a real champion.
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Wanted! (1937)
Character: Mr. Smithers
A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
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Alf's Baby (1953)
Character: Will
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
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Up for the Derby (1933)
Character: Jerry Higgs
'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Doss House (1933)
Character: Shoe Black
An escaped convict is on the loose, and the police are searching all the doss-houses in the hopes of finding him there. A young journalist is sent by his editor to assist in the search with the aim of reporting on any interesting stories he may find among those seeking shelter that night in the local doss-house, and is eager to help with the arrest. Among the characters they encounter are a man who claims to have got away with murder, and an alcoholic former concert pianist.
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The Beggar Student (1931)
Character: Sergeant
Simultaneously filmed English language version of a period operetta, in which a Polish noblewoman is romantically linked with a revolutionary student activist.
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Music Hall (1934)
Character: Scotty
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
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Lassie from Lancashire (1938)
Character: Dad
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
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The Delavine Affair (1955)
Character: Fred Bissett
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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The Captain's Table (1936)
Character: Saunders
A passenger is murdered on board an ocean going liner and suspicion falls all too neatly upon her husband.
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Command Performance (1937)
Character: Joe Penny
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
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Contraband (1940)
Character: Taxi Driver
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
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The Big Blockade (1942)
Character: Driver (uncredited)
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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The Romantic Age (1949)
Character: Withers
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
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Girl in the News (1940)
Character: Taxi Driver (Uncredited)
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.
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The Next of Kin (1942)
Character: Corporal on Train (uncredited)
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
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The Gelignite Gang (1956)
Character: 1st Watchman
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.
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The Card (1952)
Character: Lord Mayor (uncredited)
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
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Good Morning, Boys! (1937)
Character: Arty Jones
Dr. Benjamin Twist (Hay) and his pupils become involved with art thieves on a trip to Paris. Hay’s seamy schoolmaster act is supported by a fine cast including Charles Hawtrey and Lilli Palmer.
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The Feminine Touch (1956)
Character: Gardener (uncredited)
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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Wings of the Morning (1937)
Character: James Patrick Aloysius 'Jimmy' Brannigan
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
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Lease of Life (1954)
Character: Spooner
William Thorne, vicar of a small village, leads a modest life as a clergyman. Supporting his wife Vera and musically talented daughter Susan with his work, Thorne is also thoroughly devoted to his community. When he finds out that he doesn't have long to live, however, Thorne rethinks his staid existence and develops a more vibrant way of being, affecting all of those around him.
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You Pay Your Money (1957)
Character: Goodwin
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Character: N/A
A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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Ten Days in Paris (1940)
Character: N/A
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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The Shiralee (1957)
Character: Sam
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Man (uncredited)
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second betrothed, executed on charges of treason, Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that wedded bliss also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the tyrannical king chooses German-born Anne of Cleves, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and so Henry's reign of spousal terror continues.
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L'avare (1939)
Character: Jacques - cook and coachman to Harpagon
Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.
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The Tommy Steele Story (1957)
Character: Junkshop Man (uncredited)
A rags-to-riches tale of a young merchant seaman called Tommy who discovers a certain way with the guitar.
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The Ghost Goes West (1935)
Character: Murdoch's Groom
Peggy Martin, daughter of a wealthy American businessman, persuades her father to buy a haunted Scottish castle from Donald Glourie. As the castle is dismantled and transported to Florida, its ghost tags along. Donald and Peggy fall in love, but the restless apparition proves to unwelcome, and they must find a way to appease the kilt-wearing spirit.
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Soapbox Derby (1958)
Character: Grandpa
The Battersea Bats are a gang of four kids who have their den in an abandoned building near the Thames, and they have a plan of action in mind because in about a week there is a soapbox derby being held, a contest they mean to win.
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Q Planes (1939)
Character: John - Factory Watchman
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
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