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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh (2008)
Character: Mrs. Waggett (archive footage)
"Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt Disney's thrilling 3-part adventure was produced for his Wonderful World of Color weekly TV show and aired February 1964. Filled with action, drama and suspense, it follows the adventures of Dr. Christopher Syn - brave priest by day, righter of wrongs by night. And, for the first time, presented in Widescreen format on DVD.
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The Luck of the Irish (1935)
Character: Eileen O'Donnell
'The story of an Irishman's attempts to save his ancestral home through the fortunes of his racehorse.' (Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive)
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I See Ice (1938)
Character: Judy Gaye
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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Meet Me Tonight (1952)
Character: Lily Pepper
Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
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The Middle Watch (1940)
Character: Fay Eaton
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
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Bikini Paradise (1967)
Character: Harriet Pembroke
A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
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A Little Bit of Bluff (1935)
Character: Enid's Friend (uncredited)
The boyfriend of an admiral's daughter poses as a detective in order to hunt missing emerald.
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All At Sea (1940)
Character: Diana
Sandy Powell plays a messenger who joins the Navy by accident and has a series of misadventures.
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He Who Rides a Tiger (1965)
Character: Mrs. Woodley
Peter Rayston, has been in and out of prison most of his life. At 30, he is released for the eighth time, after serving a sentence for housebreaking. Immediately, he goes back to his old life, providing for his expensive tastes by executing a series of daring burglaries
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Gilbert Harding Speaking of Murder (1953)
Character: Priscilla
A compilation of 3 stories, (i)"The Missing Passenger" (ii) "Falstaff's Fur Coat" (iii) "Thirty Days To Die". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers' UK series "Calling Scotland Yard" and later shown in the US on NBC's "Adventure Theatre" in 1956, hosted by Paul Douglas.
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All That Glitters (1936)
Character: Eve Payne-Coade
A bank manager who has successfully bought into a lucrative gold mine manages to foil the plot of some confidence tricksters who plan to swindle him out of his investment.
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The Missing People (1939)
Character: Peggy Gillette
27 well-to-do people have all vanished under similar circumstances. J.G. Reeder, an elderly gentleman who fancies himself a detective, decides to investigate the matter.
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The Mind of Mr. Reeder (1939)
Character: Peggy Gillette
Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
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Journey to the Unknown (1969)
Character: Joan Walker
TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (episode 1.9).
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This Happy Breed (1944)
Character: Queenie Gibbons
A chronicle of the lives of the Gibbons family, from shortly after the end of the First World War to the beginning of the Second.
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Tunes of Glory (1960)
Character: Mary Titterington
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
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Night Crossing (1982)
Character: N/A
Two men want to escape from East Germany (under Communist rule) but they will only go if they can take their families with them. Based on a true story.
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The Chinese Bungalow (1940)
Character: Sadie Merivale
All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing, British singer Sadie Merivale begins a dangerous affair with nearby plantation owner Harold Marquess. But when Sing discovers his wife’s betrayal, he plots to regain his honor by slowly torturing her lover to death.
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The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970)
Character: Aunt Cissie
Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young English girl who is sexually attracted to a seductively virile gypsy. The climatic dam burst is linked with the consummation of her desire.
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Reach for Glory (1962)
Character: Mrs. Curlew
During World War II, teenage boys in a small English town are consumed with jingoism and brutal war games, hoping dearly that the war won't end before they can fight in it.
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A Study in Terror (1965)
Character: Cathy Eddowes
When Watson reads from the newspaper there have been two similar murders near Whitechapel in a few days, Sherlock Holmes' sharp deductive is immediately stimulated to start its merciless method of elimination after observation of every apparently meaningless detail. He guesses right the victims must be street whores, and doesn't need long to work his way trough a pawn shop, an aristocratic family's stately home, a hospital and of course the potential suspects and (even unknowing) witnesses who are the cast of the gradually unraveled story of the murderer and his motive.
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Sons of the Sea (1939)
Character: Alison Devar
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
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The Rainbow Jacket (1954)
Character: Barbara Crain
A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion.
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Lunch Hour (1962)
Character: The Manageress
A young female designer is on the brink of an affair with a married male executive at the company where she works. The film tells the story of their illicit lunch hour rendezvous.
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The Ruling Class (1972)
Character: Mrs. Piggott-Jones
When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
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Scrooge (1970)
Character: Mrs. Fezziwig
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
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80,000 Suspects (1963)
Character: Matron
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
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Oliver Twist (1948)
Character: Nancy
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
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Lease of Life (1954)
Character: Mrs. Vera Thorne
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
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Connecting Rooms (1970)
Character: Mrs. Brent
Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.
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Cast a Dark Shadow (1955)
Character: Charlotte Young
Edward "Teddy" Bare is a ruthless schemer who thinks he's hit the big time when he kills his older wife, believing he will inherit a fortune. When things don't go according to plan, Teddy sets his sights on a new victim: wealthy widow Freda Jeffries. Unfortunately for the unscrupulous criminal, Freda is much more guarded and sassy than his last wife, making separating her from her money considerably more challenging.
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The Witches (1966)
Character: Stephanie Bax
Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and peace, enabling her to recover fully. But under the facade of idyllic country life she slowly unearths the frightening reality of village life in which the inhabitants are followers of a menacing satanic cult with the power to inflict indiscriminate evil and death if crossed.
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Taste of Excitement (1969)
Character: Miss Barrow
A man has been killed on the Dover/Boulogne car ferry. What is the connection between him and the attempts being made to kill Jane Kerrell, a young girl in her early twenties? As she speeds through the French countryside to the South of France, several attempts are made on her life as she is deliberately forced off the road by another car. But when she reports these attempts, the local Cap Ferrat Police Inspector and the sinister psychiatrist, Dr. Forla believe these attempts are in her imagination and Dr Forla, concludes that Jane is mentally disturbed. At her wits end Jane finds an ally in the young English painter, Paul Hedley who finally believes her life is in danger following an attempt to murder him. When Inspector Malling of Scotland Yard and Mr. Breese arrive in Cap Ferrat trying to uncover the connection between Jane and the murdered man on the ferry, this thrilling puzzle of international intrigue begins to unravel against the backdrop of the French Riviera.
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The October Man (1947)
Character: Molly Newman
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
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Encore (1951)
Character: Miss Molly Reid
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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Keep Fit (1937)
Character: Joan Allen
A weak, cowardly barber gets fit to win over a beautiful woman. However, she prefers his muscle-bound rival until George challenges him to a boxing match.
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The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Character: Dee Coker
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.
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Greyfriars Bobby (1961)
Character: Mrs. Brown
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
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The Second Mr. Bush (1940)
Character: Angela Windel-Todd
A writer poses as a shy butterfly hunter who has a fortune and is hounded by reporters.
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In Which We Serve (1942)
Character: Freda Lewis / Freda
The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
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Now and Forever (1956)
Character: Miss Muir
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
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The L-Shaped Room (1962)
Character: Prostitute (uncredited)
Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
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Stage Fright (1950)
Character: Nellie Goode
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Last Holiday (1950)
Character: Mrs. Poole
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
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The Magic Box (1952)
Character: Hotel Receptionist
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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The Magnet (1950)
Character: Mrs Brent
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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Hunted (1952)
Character: Mrs. Sykes
An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
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Young Bess (1953)
Character: Mrs. Ashley
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
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Vice Versa (1948)
Character: Florence 'Fanny' Verlane
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
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