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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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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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Golden Rain (1953)
Character: Catherine Strawbridge
Young country curate, Roger Strawbridge, and his wife, Cathy, find themselves in financial distress. In a desperate attempt to resolve their money troubles, Cathy decides to gamble on the football pools. The drama unfolds as she unexpectedly wins a massive jackpot—the "golden rain" of the title. However, the windfall brings moral and social complications rather than relief. The couple must navigate the ethical dilemma of a clergyman's family profiting from gambling, alongside the sudden, overwhelming pressures and unwanted attention that come with their new-found wealth.
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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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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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Whispering Smith Hits London (1952)
Character: Anne Carter
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called in to solve the case of a suicide which the father of the deceased woman thinks was murder.
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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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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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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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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
A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
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Little Red Monkey (1955)
Character: Julia Jackson
Several murders of nuclear scientists, that baffles Scotland Yard, occur in London around 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 has fled the USSR. An attempt on Dushenko's life is made with a monkey's paw-print found at the scene.
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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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