Maxwell Reed
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 02, 1919
Deathday: October 31, 1974
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Dear Murderer
1947-06-23
Dear Murderer
Overview: When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-23
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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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The Clouded Yellow
1950-11-21
The Clouded Yellow
Overview: After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-21
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The Brothers
1947-05-07
The Brothers
Overview: An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-07
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Roadhouse Girl
1953-11-01
Roadhouse Girl
Overview: A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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Daybreak
1948-05-18
Daybreak
Overview: A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-18
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The Notorious Landlady
1962-04-13
The Notorious Landlady
Overview: An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Before I Wake
1955-02-10
Before I Wake
Overview: A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-10
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Nightbeat
1947-12-22
Nightbeat
Overview: After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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Daughter of Darkness
1948-01-21
Daughter of Darkness
Overview: In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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The Brain Machine
1955-01-01
The Brain Machine
Overview: A British psychiatrist reads an amnesiac's (Maxwell Reed) brain waves and sees the mind of a killer.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Blackout
1950-09-13
Blackout
Overview: A blind man is witness to a murder; later cured of his blindness he attempts to puzzle out the solution to the crime.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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Sea Devils
1953-04-12
Sea Devils
Overview: Gilliatt, a fisherman-turned-smuggler on the isle of Guernsey, agrees to transport a beautiful woman to the French coast in the year 1800. She tells him she hopes to rescue her brother from the guillotine. Gilliatt finds himself falling in love and so feels betrayed when he later learns this woman is a countess helping Napoleon plan an invasion of England. In reality, however, the "countess" is an English agent working to thwart this invasion. When Gilliatt finds this out, he returns to France to rescue the woman who's true purpose has been discovered by the French.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-12
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There Is Another Sun
1951-06-12
There Is Another Sun
Overview: Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Ghost Captain
1953-11-10
Ghost Captain
Overview: A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Flame of Araby
1951-12-18
Flame of Araby
Overview: An Arabian-nights princess and a Bedouin chief contend over possession of a stallion, but unite to oppose the Corsair Lords.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-18
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The Lost People
1949-08-22
The Lost People
Overview: Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-22
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Picture Mommy Dead
1966-11-02
Picture Mommy Dead
Overview: Susan Shelley is released from an asylum where she's been confined to after the shock suffered over the fiery death of her mother. Her father has a new wife, who has only married him for the money left to him by his dead wife. Susan is still haunted by her mother's memory, and her step-mother is conspiring with her lover to get the troubled girl to lead them to her mother's missing diamond necklace.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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The Dark Man
1951-01-22
The Dark Man
Overview: A killer called 'The Dark Man' commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. The Dark Man tries everything to put Molly out of the way. Detective Inspector Viner of Scotland Yard investigates the murders.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-22
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The Square Ring
1953-07-13
The Square Ring
Overview: Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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Helen of Troy
1956-01-26
Helen of Troy
Overview: Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
Genres: Adventure War Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-26
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The Years Between
1946-07-08
The Years Between
Overview: Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne du Maurier. 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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