Peter Illing
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 03, 1899
Deathday: October 29, 1966
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Outcast of the Islands
1951-11-15
Outcast of the Islands
Overview: After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Friends and Neighbours
1959-01-11
Friends and Neighbours
Overview: During the Cold War, a British family struggles to overcome cultural differences as they welcome two Russian social workers into their home for a visit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-11
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Against the Wind
1948-02-01
Against the Wind
Overview: A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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Five from the Jazzband
1932-03-19
Five from the Jazzband
Overview: By pure chance, Jessie and his four jazz musicians are hired to play at the cabaret theatre “Trocadero”. Unfortunately, she knows nothing about music and it doesn’t help that all four musicians are in love with her. Jessie doesn’t reciprocate their feelings, because she has a thing for Martin. Unfortunately, Martin believes that Jessie stole his car … and so, right before the premiere at the cabaret, she ends up in jail.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1932-03-19
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The House Across the Lake
1954-04-16
The House Across the Lake
Overview: Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older man, loving only his vast wealth and continued to amuse herself with indiscreet affairs. But when neighbour Mark Kendrick lets slip that her husband intends cutting her out of his will Carol concentrates all her attentions on the unsuspecting Kendrick, obtaining his help to dispose of this irritating obstacle.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-16
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Madness of the Heart
1949-12-20
Madness of the Heart
Overview: A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-20
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Interpol
1957-04-02
Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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The Battle of the River Plate
1956-10-30
The Battle of the River Plate
Overview: In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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The Secret Partner
1961-05-01
The Secret Partner
Overview: A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Angry Hills
1959-07-29
The Angry Hills
Overview: In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-29
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Middle Course
1961-11-10
Middle Course
Overview: During World War II, the residents of a French village find an able helper in their task of making life difficult for German-occupying forces in a Canadian pilot they rescue after he crash-lands in the vicinity and ends up in the hands of the Nazis. As the villagers grow increasingly dependent on the flyer's training and smarts, the Germans grow more determined to eliminate the force behind the strengthened local resistance. [Netflix]
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-10
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Mask of Dust
1954-12-10
Mask of Dust
Overview: An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-10
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Escapement
1958-03-04
Escapement
Overview: An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.
Genres: Mystery Crime Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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Man in the Shadow
1957-09-01
Man in the Shadow
Overview: The wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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West of Zanzibar
1954-03-24
West of Zanzibar
Overview: Game warden Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) tracks a ivory smuggling ring through some of the most treacherous passages of the Zanzibar territory.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-24
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Passport to Treason
1956-01-01
Passport to Treason
Overview: After being consulted by a friend concerning a murder case, a private eye learns the friend has become the next victim. Passport to Treason was put together by Robert S. Baker and Monty Berman, the same team who’d later collaborate on the UK TV series The Saint. Rod Cameron stars as an American private eye, stationed in London. For the sake of a murdered friend, the detective takes over the dead man’s case, which turns out to have international ramifications. The villains are members of a phony pacifistic society, all of whom harbor plans for taking over the world.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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That Lady
1955-03-05
That Lady
Overview: In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-05
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
1952-09-10
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Overview: A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-10
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A Man Could Get Killed
1966-03-25
A Man Could Get Killed
Overview: An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
1960-04-02
Bluebeard's 10 Honeymoons
Overview: A murderer enriches his finances by marrying and then killing off a series of wealthy women.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-02
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The Huggetts Abroad
1949-03-21
The Huggetts Abroad
Overview: Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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Traveller's Joy
1950-12-25
Traveller's Joy
Overview: A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-25
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Sands of the Desert
1960-09-08
Sands of the Desert
Overview: In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to open up a desert resort in Arabia. He heads to the desert and immediately finds himself on the bad side of a local sheik as the fellow tries to build his resort atop oil-rich land. A war erupts between rival desert bands as they vie for the rights to the oil, but it is the travel agent who wins out in the end
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Miracle in Soho
1957-07-09
Miracle in Soho
Overview: In London's colourful but seedy Soho, Michael Morgan is working mending the road. He is unhappy, with little hope of finding happiness. Then he meets Julia Gozzi, a barmaid, and "The Miracle" happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-09
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The Happy Thieves
1961-12-20
The Happy Thieves
Overview: A suave art thief romances a wealthy duchess, only to enable him to steal a priceless painting from her collection. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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The Secret Door
1964-06-04
The Secret Door
Overview: World War II espionage in Lisbon with Allied safe-crackers cultivating a master spy and his wife so they can steal Japanese codes that are keys to Axis battle plans.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-04
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Fire Down Below
1957-05-30
Fire Down Below
Overview: Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
Genres: Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-30
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Loser Takes All
1956-09-09
Loser Takes All
Overview: Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-09
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Devils of Darkness
1965-05-01
Devils of Darkness
Overview: A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Bhowani Junction
1956-05-01
Bhowani Junction
Overview: Anglo-Indian Victoria Jones seeks her true identity amid the chaos of the British withdrawal from India.
Genres: Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Manuela
1957-07-18
Manuela
Overview: James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-18
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Sunday of Life
1931-01-29
Sunday of Life
Overview: Ellen Hobart is a gold-digging manicurist who sights her sights on David Stone, a wealthy young man. After they marry, Hobart is persuaded to accept $50,000 to give her husband up. She willingly goes along with this arrangement, only to realize she's genuinely in love with the boy when he falls dangerously ill. German-language version of the American pre-code film The Devil's Holiday.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-01-29
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The Woman's Angle
1952-02-12
The Woman's Angle
Overview: The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-12
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959-11-17
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Overview: A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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Innocents in Paris
1953-07-22
Innocents in Paris
Overview: Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-22
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Whirlpool
1959-03-01
Whirlpool
Overview: The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Zarak
1956-12-01
Zarak
Overview: A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Her Favourite Husband
1950-05-11
Her Favourite Husband
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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The Young Lovers
1954-08-24
The Young Lovers
Overview: A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-24
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Flame and the Flesh
1954-05-05
Flame and the Flesh
Overview: American woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-05
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Never Let Me Go
1953-03-18
Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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Eureka Stockade
1949-01-26
Eureka Stockade
Overview: Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-26
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Campbell's Kingdom
1957-09-03
Campbell's Kingdom
Overview: Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-03
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It's Never Too Late
1956-05-07
It's Never Too Late
Overview: To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly. But although they don’t know it, she is a very successful novelist and when her screenplay comes to the attention of a Hollywood producer, Laura is suddenly plunged into the big time.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-07
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State Secret
1950-09-11
State Secret
Overview: While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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I Accuse!
1958-03-05
I Accuse!
Overview: Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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The Devil's Daffodil
1961-07-20
The Devil's Daffodil
Overview: A Chinese detective breaks up a drug smuggling ring and tries to find the "Daffodil Killer". The drug smugglers had devised the ingenious method of smuggling heroin from Hong Kong in the stems of daffodils.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-07-20
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Echo of Diana
1963-05-01
Echo of Diana
Overview: When a woman begins to investigate her husband's mysterious death in a plane accident she discovers the involvement of a woman known simply as Diana.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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As Long as They're Happy
1955-03-15
As Long as They're Happy
Overview: The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-15
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Svengali
1954-09-01
Svengali
Overview: A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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I'll Get You for This
1951-01-01
I'll Get You for This
Overview: Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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Time Bomb
1953-02-05
Time Bomb
Overview: When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Operation Stogie
1959-12-12
Operation Stogie
Overview: Lost Danziger's comedy starring John Hewer, Anton Rodgers, Susan Stephen and Peter Illing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-12
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