Davina Whitehouse
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Birthday: December 16, 1912
Deathday: December 25, 2002
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Braindead
1992-08-13
Braindead
Overview: When a Sumatran rat-monkey bites Lionel Cosgrove's mother, she's transformed into a zombie and begins killing (and transforming) the entire town while Lionel races to keep things under control.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-08-13
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The Farmer's Wife
1941-04-20
The Farmer's Wife
Overview: Eden Philpotts' "provincial" comic novel and play The Farmer's Wife was first filmed in the silent era by Alfred Hitchcock. The 1940 talkie version was directed by Leslie Arliss, son of stage star George Arliss. The story remained the same: A middle-aged widower attempts to select a wife from his rural district's eligible females (Basil Sydney). Three unsuccessful dalliances later, the farmer settles for his housekeeper, whom the audience has been rooting for all along. The Farmer's Wife is a prime example of the sort of fare that struck a proper chord with British filmgoers, but whose appeal would be lost to any other nationality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-20
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Sleeping Dogs
1977-10-06
Sleeping Dogs
Overview: Recluse Smith is drawn into a revolutionary struggle between guerrillas and right-wingers in New Zealand. Implicated in a murder and framed as a revolutionary conspirator, Smith tries to maintain an attitude of non-violence while caught between warring factions.
Genres: Action Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-06
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Where There's a Will
1936-08-10
Where There's a Will
Overview: Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1936-03-01
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Genres: Horror History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Dusty Ermine
1936-12-01
Dusty Ermine
Overview: A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Rugged Gold
1994-12-10
Rugged Gold
Overview: A woman struggles to survive in the Alaskan frontier after separating from her family because of an earthquake.
Genres: Drama Family Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-12-10
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London Melody
1937-02-04
London Melody
Overview: Jacqueline intrigues a diplomat, so unbeknown to her he finds her an apartment and finances her musical training. She ends up falling in love with one of his underlings. It turns out that he is no good, will the diplomat save her?
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-04
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Solo
1977-12-01
Solo
Overview: When a young Australian hitchhiker, Judy (Peers), enters a prohibited forest area, she encounters Paul (Gil) whose job is spotting fires from a plane. She is invited to stay with him and his teen son, Billy. Later they go on a sightseeing flight in a "Tiger Moth" bi-plane, but having a forced landing, are accommodated by an odd elderly couple.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-01
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I'll Turn to You
1946-06-17
I'll Turn to You
Overview: When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at home.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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South Riding
1938-08-01
South Riding
Overview: Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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I Lived with You
1933-06-13
I Lived with You
Overview: In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start selling them. The resulting money, and his princely notoriety, soon cause changes in everyone's lives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-13
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This Week of Grace
1933-06-30
This Week of Grace
Overview: Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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Tangled Evidence
1934-09-17
Tangled Evidence
Overview: A medium is murdered and suspicion falls on his niece.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-17
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The Ghost Camera
1933-01-31
The Ghost Camera
Overview: When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to destroy the evidence and lands in the back of a passing car belonging to chemist John Gray who becomes amateur sleuth after developing the film and goes in search of the woman captured by the photograph. When the camera is stolen from his laboratory, Gray's suspicions are further aroused.
Genres: Comedy Thriller Romance Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-31
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The Black Abbot
1934-06-10
The Black Abbot
Overview: A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-10
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Crown v. Stevens
1936-08-03
Crown v. Stevens
Overview: When an ex-dancer marries a man for his money she is surprised to find he is a real skinflint. She owes a lot of money to a loan-shark who is after her. However, her husband does carry a lot of life insurance.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-03
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The Private Secretary
1935-08-26
The Private Secretary
Overview: A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-26
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Annie, Leave the Room!
1935-02-01
Annie, Leave the Room!
Overview: British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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Forgotten Silver
1997-10-03
Forgotten Silver
Overview: The life story of Colin McKenzie, a forgotten pioneer of international cinema who was born in rural New Zealand in 1888.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-10-03
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Tower of Terror
1941-12-27
Tower of Terror
Overview: Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Hoots Mon
1940-04-26
Hoots Mon
Overview: An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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Traitor Spy
1939-12-01
Traitor Spy
Overview: A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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The Night Nurse
1978-11-05
The Night Nurse
Overview: A private nurse, working for a retired opera star, runs into opposition from the diva's longtime servant/companion. When she pushes back, she starts to uncover some dastardly goings-on.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-05
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Mrs Mopp Entertains
1943-01-02
Mrs Mopp Entertains
Overview: Part of BFI boxset Ration Books and Rabbit Pies: Films from the Home Front.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-02
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Anything to Declare?
1938-12-02
Anything to Declare?
Overview: John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis’s British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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