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Destination Death (1956)
Character: Inspector Duggan
When Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a man in the London airport, the trail leads to Lisbon and a international currency smuggling gang.
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The Boy Kumasenu (1952)
Character: Narrator
It tells the story of a boy Kumasenu who moves to the city of Accra from a small fishing village, encouraged by his cousin Agboh's exaggerated tales of the wonders of city life. Hungry, he steals bread and is caught by police, but is rescued by a doctor and his wife who find him work. Agboh attempts to get Kumasenu to rob the doctor, but Kumasenu foils his cousin's plans.
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Guilty? (1956)
Character: Inspector Hobson
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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The Dark Stairway (1954)
Character: Inspector Harmer
A blind man, George Benson, witnesses the murder of Harry Carpenter by Joe Lloyd, but finds himself accused of the murder
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Deep Dig (1957)
Character: N/A
Pit sinkers prepare the coal mines of tomorrow. An account of shaft sinking techniques.
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The Hole In The Ground (1962)
Character: Narrator
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning and Monitoring Organisation, who's duties included the issuing of public warnings of any nuclear missile strike and the subsequent fallout.
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The Man in the Road (1956)
Character: Scotland Yard Supt. Davidson
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
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The Last Man to Hang (1956)
Character: Detective Sgt. Bolton
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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The Son of Robin Hood (1958)
Character: Squire Myles
Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
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Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Character: Air Vice Marshal (uncredited)
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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A Time to Kill (1955)
Character: Inspector Simmons
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 Blue Peter (1955)
Character: Raymond Curtis
A Merchant Navy hero of the Korean War returns to England after three years of captivity in Communist hands, his mind confused by brain-washing and indoctrination at the hands of his captors, and accepts a post as an instructor at the Outward Bound Sea School.
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Death of an Angel (1952)
Character: Supt. Walshaw
The angel of the title is Jane Baxter, the wife of country physician Patrick Barr. Everybody in the small British village where she lives thinks the world of Baxter; thus, when she is murdered, the authorities are out for blood. Dr. Barr seems above suspicion, at least until he begins behaving eccentrically. As time passes, most everyone learns that Baxter wasn't quite as angelic as she seemed-and that quite a few people might have wanted her dead.
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The Blood Beast Terror (1968)
Character: Landlord
A scientist working with genetics creates a horrifying flying creature that feeds on human blood. Following a gruesome trail of dead bodies, Scotland Yard investigators must scramble to halt its ravenous rampage.
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Conflict of Wings (1954)
Character: Wg. Cmr. Rogers
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
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The Angry Silence (1960)
Character: Thompson
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
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The Mark (1961)
Character: 2nd Plain Clothes Officer
A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of a sympathetic psychiatrist.
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Black Orchid (1953)
Character: Inspector Markham
Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
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36 Hours (1953)
Character: Detective at Ann's Apartment (Uncredited)
When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
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The Unholy Four (1954)
Character: Insp. Treherne
Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
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Man in the Middle (1964)
Character: Colonel Thompson
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.
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A Night to Remember (1958)
Character: Capt. Stanley Lord
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
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A Town Like Alice (1956)
Character: Jack Burns
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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Twisted Nerve (1968)
Character: Professor Fuller
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
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Nobody Runs Forever (1968)
Character: Leeds
Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.
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Hell Is a City (1960)
Character: Superintendent
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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The Shiralee (1957)
Character: Parker
An Australian "swagman" finds his wife with another man, so he takes the daughter, Buster, with him. On the road together, going from town to town and from farm to farm, father and daughter explore new depths of understanding and bonding.
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Robbery Under Arms (1957)
Character: Banker Green
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief Captain Starlight. Making their way to Melbourne with the proceeds of a recent raid, the brothers meet and romance the Morrison sisters, Kate and Jean, whom they eventually marry; but just as they are poised to start a new life in America, Captain Starlight and his gang arrive in town, planning a raid at the local bank.
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Little Red Monkey (1955)
Character: Supt. John Harrington
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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H.M.S. Defiant (1962)
Character: Flag Captain
Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty. Violence must be no part of it. The continual sadism of Defiant's first officer makes this difficult, and when the captain is disabled, the chance for violence increases.
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Tread Softly Stranger (1958)
Character: Potter
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
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The Brain Machine (1955)
Character: Insp. Durham
A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
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Stolen Face (1952)
Character: Det. Cutler
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
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The Narrowing Circle (1956)
Character: Sir Henry Dimmock
A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
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Blind Man's Bluff (1952)
Character: Stevens
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
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Francis of Assisi (1961)
Character: Brother Elias
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
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The Case of The Smiling Widow (1957)
Character: Inspector Duggan
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
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