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They Knew Mr. Knight (1946)
Character: Mr. Berry
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
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Read All About It (1945)
Character: Lawyer
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
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I See Ice (1938)
Character: Detective
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
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Educated Evans (1936)
Character: Hubert
Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to train a racehorse they have bought.
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Partners in Crime (1942)
Character: Charlie (fence)
A parallel is drawn between a housewife's dealings with her butcher, and a burglar and his fence (receiver).
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The Path of Glory (1934)
Character: Pedro
Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been Britain’s answer to Duck Soup.
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It’s Not Cricket (1937)
Character: Morton
“Light farcical comedy with humour of the Old School brand. A young French woman married to a selfish games-fan Englishman is the centre of the story.” - BFI.
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Night Shadows (1931)
Character: Jacques
Michel, a young sailor, returns home to Marseilles to find that his former lover, Francine, now works in the local brothel. In a jealous rage, he picks a fight with her and an aggressive client, Julot, leading to tragedy for all three.
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I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)
Character: Pacey
In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
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His Brother’s Keeper (1940)
Character: Harry
“A successful human target act of two brothers is sorely tried by the efforts of a gold digging blues singer to split them up.” - BFI.
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Doctor Syn (1937)
Character: Rash the Schoolmaster
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
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Dangerous Medicine (1938)
Character: Mr. George
After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.
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Confidential Lady (1939)
Character: Phillips
Jill Trevor vows revenge on newspaper baron Sir Joshua Morple, who she holds responsible for ruining her father. Her very public antics to draw attention to Morple's despicable conduct come to the notice a rival newspaper, who send journalist Jim Brent to offer to write up Jill's story.....
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Gypsy (1936)
Character: Pim
Gypsy dancer Hassina falls in love with lion tamer Brazil and travels to London to find him. Brazil is supposedly working at the Crystal Palace, but he is not there when Hassina arrives. After fainting from lack of food, Hassina is taken into the home of wealthy middle-aged bachelor Alan Brooks, who falls in love with her.
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The Vulture (1937)
Character: Jenkinson
An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown.
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Inside the Room (1935)
Character: Det. Inspector Grant
A French sleuth in England helps the police solve a series of murders linked by the diary pages of a dead woman.
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Twelve Good Men (1936)
Character: Fortheringay
A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up hiding in the large home of another juror, an actor. It is the actor who saves them from the murderous fugitive.
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The Silent Passenger (1935)
Character: N/A
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
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Murder Will Out (1939)
Character: Morgan
Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
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Midshipman Easy (1935)
Character: Mr. Easthupp
Set during the Peninsular Campaign of the Napoleonic War, Mr Midshipman Easy has just joined the Royal Navy. He is very keen to do well but luckily he has an understanding captain to pull him out of the various adventures he seems to get involved in.
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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: Union Official
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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A Girl Must Live (1939)
Character: Hodder
A run-away school-girl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility.
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The Dark Tower (1943)
Character: Willie Wainwright
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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Rembrandt (1936)
Character: Saskia’s Brother (uncredited)
A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
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The Silver Fleet (1943)
Character: Captain Müller
The Silver Fleet was inspired by a true story from World War II. Holland now under German occupation, a Shipyard owner and Chief engineer Jaap van Leyden is summoned to build ships for the German war effort. The commission would allow Leyden to build sophisticated submarines whilst safeguarding jobs for the local Dutch workforce. A newly built U-boat, named U107 goes out on her first sea trial and is hijacked by a Dutch crew and they re-route the vessel to England. As such it provided an opportunity to refuel patriotism in the face of a seemingly interminable war and almost unbearable civilian hardship.
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Gaiety George (1946)
Character: Jenkins
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Laburnum Grove (1936)
Character: Simpson
To rid himself of his sponging relatives a man tells them he is really a forger which causes them to leave. His wife believes he is joking, but he has in fact allowed the truth to slip out and now he is danger of being arrested.
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Uncle Silas (1947)
Character: Branston
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
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We Dive at Dawn (1943)
Character: N/A
A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. In the ensuing battle the British submarine is damaged by a German destroyer. The submarine is leaking fuel so badly that the crew won't be able to make it back to Britain before running out somewhere along the Danish coast. When it seems that their only option may be to blow up the submarine and try to escape to Denmark, seaman James Hobson hatches a plan...
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Penny Paradise (1938)
Character: Policeman
A Liverpool tug boat captain finds he's won a fortune on the penny pools and it changes his life. However, after giving up his job and throwing a large expensive party, he discovers that he may not really have won after all.
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