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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1960)
Character: Aunt Clementina
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
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Dangerous Afternoon (1961)
Character: Mrs. Louisa Sprule
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
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The Triumph of Death (1968)
Character: Miss Pendleham
Miss Pendleham has resided in a crumbling Elizabethan mansion for many years with rumours that the mansion is haunted.
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Raising a Riot (1955)
Character: Miss Pettigrew
Commander Peter Kent of the Royal Navy and his wife May have three children, ranging form five to eleven years: Peter, Anne and Fusty. Kent comes home after three years abroad with no idea how to handle the children. When Mary has to fly to Canada, Peter takes his children to his father's new country home, which turns out to be a windmill. They end up clashing with an American family in the neighborhood.
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Light Fingers (1957)
Character: Lady Shepley-Cooke
Humphrey assigns a "watchdog" to keep an eye on his wife Rose, whom he thinks is a thief. She isn't - but the watchdog is.
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A Walk in the Sea (1966)
Character: Miss. Bealby
A lonely spinster has her cottage in a seaside village requisitioned by the local council for a building scheme, with tragic consequences.
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The Great Inimitable Mr. Dickens (1970)
Character: Rosa Emma Drummond
British television film about the life of Charles Dickens directed by Ned Sherrin and starring Anthony Hopkins, Jenny Agutter and Arthur Lowe. Hopkins performance as Dickens saw him nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1971.
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The Hornet's Nest (1955)
Character: Rachael Crumb
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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Once Upon a Dream (1949)
Character: 1st W.V.S.
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
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A Party for Christmas (1954)
Character: Alice Matheson
This year, the Firbanks family's annual Christmas party has more surprises than ever.
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Law and Disorder (1958)
Character: Mrs. Cartwright
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
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Upstairs and Downstairs (1959)
Character: Edith Farringdon
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.
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Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
Character: Miss Abernathy
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
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The Captain's Table (1959)
Character: Mrs. Lomax
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
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The Blue Lagoon (1949)
Character: Mrs. Stannard
In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
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The Crowded Day (1954)
Character: Customer
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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A Town Like Alice (1956)
Character: Mrs. Frith
In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
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Devil Doll (1964)
Character: Aunt Eva
An evil hyponotist/ventriloquist plots to gain an heiress' millions.
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Crow Hollow (1952)
Character: Aunt Opal Armour
A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.
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Tread Softly (1952)
Character: Mrs Mayne
Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
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Diamonds for Breakfast (1968)
Character: Anastasia Petrovna
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
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