Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 16, 1886
Deathday: July 06, 1972
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1949-06-30
Overview: A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director Philip Rosen's 1949 film, adapted from a novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, stars Richard Ney, Vanessa Brown, Henry Daniell, John Dehner, Douglas Walton, Aubrey Mather, Jean Del Val, Luis Van Rooten, Maurice Marsac and Billy Bevan.
Genres: Action Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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1944-05-18
Overview: When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the case from nearby Quebec, suspects a human murderer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-18
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1945-01-31
Overview: Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the henpecking gets to be too much, Philip murders his wife and manages to make her death look like an accident. A ruthless blackmailer and a low-key detective both discover Philip's secret, and he has to decide which of them poses the more dangerous threat.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-31
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1945-10-26
Overview: After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-26
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1937-10-29
Overview: While vacationing without her busy British diplomat husband, a married woman falls for another man.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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1942-12-11
Overview: Leon Errol plans to buy a doll as a gift for his wife; misunderstandings ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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1944-11-24
Overview: A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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1938-06-17
Overview: Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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1947-06-26
Overview: When Ivy, an Edwardian belle, begins to like Miles, a wealthy gentleman, she is unsure of what to do with her husband, Jervis, and her lover, Dr. Roger. She then hatches a plan to get rid of them both.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-26
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1939-07-12
Overview: Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond is on the precipice of matrimony to his beloved Phyllis -- but a bank robbery and a daring escape is going to get in their way before they reach the altar.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-12
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1939-03-08
Overview: Suave private detective Simon "The Saint" Templar arrives in San Francisco and meets Val, a woman whose police inspector father killed himself after being accused of corruption and dismissed from the force. Convinced of the man's innocence, Templar takes it upon himself to vindicate the memory of Val's father. To do so he must take on the city's most dangerous criminal gang, while also battling hostile members of the police department.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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1939-12-24
Overview: A London artist struggles to complete one last painting before going blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-24
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1944-01-19
Overview: In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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1944-05-11
Overview: American Susan travels with her father to England for a vacation. Invited to a society ball, Susan meets Sir John Ashwood and marries him after a whirlwind romance. However, she never quite adjusts to life as a new member of the British gentry. At the outbreak of World War I, John is sent to the trenches and never returns. When her son goes off to fight in World War II, Susan fears the same tragic fate may befall him too.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-11
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1946-02-01
Overview: Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune belonging to an elderly woman of wealth; but within the first hour of the trip, the woman's son is murdered and the diamond stolen and any of the passengers in their car could be the killer thief.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-01
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1943-03-24
Overview: In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-24
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1947-08-28
Overview: Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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1942-05-12
Overview: In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with the brooding Clive Briggs, despite his prejudice against the upper classes, and agrees to spend a week with him at a Dover hotel. When Clive's soldier friend, Monty, arrives to retrieve him, Prudence learns that Clive went AWOL after Dunkirk, and urges him to recall why England must fight the war.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-12
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1948-03-03
Overview: A wheelchair-bound woman manipulates her family to a point where they suspect she may be unhinged.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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1936-08-28
Overview: Lucky is tricked into missing his own wedding to Margaret and has to make $25,000 so her father will allow him to marry her. He and business partner Pop go to New York where they run into dancing instructor Penny. She and Lucky form a successful dance partnership, but romance is blighted by his old attachment to Margaret and hers for Ricky.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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