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Torment (1950)
Character: Joan
A story of two brothers, both writers of crime novels, one a fine, upstanding gentleman and the other a moody, neurotic, psychopath. The other is determined to create a 'faked' version of a perfect crime he intends to commit when an ex-convict visits them. They are both in love with their shared-stenographer-secretary.
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Stock Car (1955)
Character: Katie Glebe
Katie attempts to save her father's failing garage, after he is killed during a stock car race. She is assisted by an American driver, Larry Duke, but unfortunately one of the creditors is determined to take the garage.
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Man with a Gun (1958)
Character: Stella
A £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
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Black 13 (1953)
Character: Claire
The son of a college professor who turns to a life of crime after killing a pedestrian in an automobile accident.
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Floodtide (1949)
Character: Mary Anstruther
David Shields refuses to go into agriculture and opts instead for ship building
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Double Exposure (1954)
Character: Barbara Leyland
A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
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A Time to Kill (1955)
Character: Sallie Harbord
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper journalist pursue the truth.
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The Hide-Out (1956)
Character: Helen Grant
An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery (1950)
Character: Mary Game
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)
Character: Miss Lockhart
A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12-year-old charges with her over-romanticized worldview.
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The Black Rider (1954)
Character: Mary Plack
When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...
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The Flaw (1955)
Character: Monica Oliveri
A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans.
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Spin a Dark Web (1956)
Character: Betty Walker
A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).
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Noose for a Lady (1953)
Character: Jill Hallam
An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
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Little Red Monkey (1955)
Character: Julia Jackson
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London about the same time that Bill Locklin, a special officer from the United States State Department, arrives to oversee the transfer of Professor Leon Dushenko, a Russian scientist who as fled the U.S.S.R. An attempt is made on Dushenko's life with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
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Scrooge (1951)
Character: Alice
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
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Devils of Darkness (1965)
Character: Anne Forest
A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
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Quel bandito sono io (1950)
Character: Stellina
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
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Shadow of a Man (1955)
Character: Linda Bryant
After a fight, a drunk is found dead, but is the cause of death heart failure or murder?
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Home to Danger (1951)
Character: Barbara
A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
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Poet's Pub (1949)
Character: Joanna Benbow
A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
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Circumstantial Evidence (1952)
Character: Linda Harrison
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
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