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It Started in Paradise (1952)
Character: Martha Watkins
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Devil's Bait (1959)
Character: Ellen Frisby
The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
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Violent Moment (1959)
Character: Daisy Hacker
Wartime army deserter Douglas Baines lies low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple's small son, Jiffy. Returning with a toy for the boy's birthday, Baines learns that Daisy has had him adopted. He kills her and goes on the run.
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Out of True (1951)
Character: Molly Slade
A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt. It was made as an educational film.
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A Girl in a Million (1946)
Character: Nurse
A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is broken by a lovely young girl to whom he is forced to give shelter. He marries her and finds that his dumb wife is not so dumb.
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The Day Begins Early (1950)
Character: Jane Huggett
A behind the scene look at Petula Clark's working day in 1948 on "Here Come the Huggetts".
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Night Train for Inverness (1960)
Character: Marion
A 7-year old boy with diabetes is kidnapped by his estranged ex-con father, who doesn't know about his son's medical condition and that he will need insulin injections. Meanwhile the police search for the missing boy.
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Secret Venture (1955)
Character: Joan Butler
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
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Ett kungligt äventyr (1956)
Character: N/A
Princess Caroline travels incognito to Stockholm and meets the Prince Birger, who also uses a fake name.
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Here Come the Huggetts (1948)
Character: Jane Huggett
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
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A Story to Frighten the Children (1976)
Character: Madelaine McLain
The story of a brutal crime in a high-rise estate; a girl walking home at night is raped and murdered, and the attitude of some is not always sympathetic.
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House of Mystery (1961)
Character: Stella Lemming
A young couple go to check out a house they're thinking of buying. A somewhat mysterious woman tells the couple several stories of the fates that befell the house's previous owners.
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The Upturned Glass (1947)
Character: Miss Marsh
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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The Quiet Woman (1951)
Character: Jane Foster
The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.
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Burnt Evidence (1954)
Character: Diana Taylor
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.
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Holiday Camp (1947)
Character: Receptionist
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
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The Wild Geese (1978)
Character: Mrs Marjorie Young
A British multinational company seeks to overthrow a vicious dictator in central Africa. It hires a band of (largely aged) mercenaries in London and sends them in to save the virtuous but imprisoned opposition leader who is also critically ill and due for execution. Just when the team has performed a perfect rescue, the multinational does a deal with the vicious dictator leaving the mercenary band to escape under their own steam and exact revenge.
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Tall Headlines (1952)
Character: Frankie Rackham
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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The Weak and the Wicked (1954)
Character: Babs Peters
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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Good-Time Girl (1948)
Character: Doris
Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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You Pay Your Money (1957)
Character: Mrs. Delgado
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
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Deadly Record (1959)
Character: Ann Garfield
A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
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The Years Between (1946)
Character: Minor Role (uncredited)
After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
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It Always Rains on Sunday (1947)
Character: Bessie Hyams, Morrie's Sister
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
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Daybreak (1948)
Character: Doris
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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The Manster (1959)
Character: Linda Stanford
An American journalist stationed in Japan is given a mysterious injection by a mad scientist, turning him into a murderous, two-headed monster.
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Jassy (1947)
Character: Amelia
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
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My Brother's Keeper (1948)
Character: Nora Lawrence
War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young crook Willie Stannard. After using a clever plan to obtain railway tickets, and with the police and the press in hot pursuit, George has to find a way of breaking loose from Willie, and to make his escape.
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Circus of Horrors (1960)
Character: Angela
A plastic surgeon and his nurse join a bizarre circus to escape from the police. Here he befriends deformed women and transforms them for his "Temple of Beauty". However, when they threaten to leave, they meet with mysterious accidents.
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Dance Hall (1950)
Character: Mary
Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
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Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Character: Molly
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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Dear Murderer (1947)
Character: Rita
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
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