Norman Wooland
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 16, 1910
Deathday: April 03, 1989
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The Projected Man
1966-03-01
The Projected Man
Overview: Matter-transmitter sabotage leaves a British scientist (Bryant Halliday) disfigured and full of amps.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-01
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Quo Vadis
1951-11-08
Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Barabbas
1961-12-23
Barabbas
Overview: Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-23
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Ivanhoe
1952-07-31
Ivanhoe
Overview: Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-31
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Escape
1948-03-01
Escape
Overview: A convict sentenced to three years for killing a detective escapes from a prison and goes on the run aided by a local girl.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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The Fighting Prince of Donegal
1966-10-01
The Fighting Prince of Donegal
Overview: Ireland 1587. Hugh O'Donnell inherits the title of The O'Donnell, the prince of Donegal, and tries to unite Ireland to make war on England. But then Hugh is kidnapped and imprisoned by the Viceroy of Ireland and held ransom for the Clans' good behavior. Hugh must escape prison and the Viceroy's villainous henchman, Captain Leeds, before he can fight.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-01
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964-03-24
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Overview: In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-24
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Madeleine
1950-02-16
Madeleine
Overview: The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-16
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The City of London
1951-01-02
The City of London
Overview: A day-in-the-life of the Square Mile.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-02
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The Five Pound Man
1937-01-01
The Five Pound Man
Overview: British comedy crime film. Richard Fordyce released from prison after serving a sentence for counterfeiting of which he was innocent, determines to find out who framed him. He puts himself up for auction and is bought for £5 by Margaret Fenton whose husband happened to be the counterfeiter.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Fireworks for Elspeth
1983-10-02
Fireworks for Elspeth
Overview: Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.
Genres: Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-02
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Romeo and Juliet
1954-09-01
Romeo and Juliet
Overview: In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Saul and David
1964-12-31
Saul and David
Overview: David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-31
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The Mirror Crack'd
1980-09-19
The Mirror Crack'd
Overview: Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Way to the Sea
1936-09-04
The Way to the Sea
Overview: A 1936 documentary film about the London to Portsmouth railway. A lesser known contemporary of Night Mail, also featuring the music of Benjamin Britten and poetry of W.H. Auden.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-04
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The Angel with the Trumpet
1950-03-20
The Angel with the Trumpet
Overview: Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-20
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Look Before You Love
1948-01-06
Look Before You Love
Overview: Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-06
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Masters of Venus
1962-09-07
Masters of Venus
Overview: A spaceship from Earth lands on the planet Venus, and encounters a race of beings that the crew begins to suspect are descended from the lost city of Atlantis.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-07
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All Over the Town
1949-04-25
All Over the Town
Overview: Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-25
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The Ringer
1952-11-24
The Ringer
Overview: An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-24
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The Gap
1937-09-01
The Gap
Overview: A dramatization to promote the Territorial Army.
Genres: War Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Night Train for Inverness
1960-01-01
Night Train for Inverness
Overview: 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.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Rough and the Smooth
1959-10-02
The Rough and the Smooth
Overview: Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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My Teenage Daughter
1956-06-20
My Teenage Daughter
Overview: Magazine editor Valerie Carr lives in London with her two daughters Jan, aged seventeen, and Poppet, thirteen. When Jan is invited to a party at the Savoy, she meets dashing young Tony Ward Black mad about jive, owner of a Bentley, and supposedly running through a legacy. Attracted to the daring young man, she rejects Mark, a young farmer who is in love with her. But it soon becomes apparent to everyone but Jan that neither Tony's fortune nor even his name may be his own, and her association with him will lead her into delinquency and danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-20
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Hamlet
1948-12-10
Hamlet
Overview: Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-10
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The Master Plan
1955-09-08
The Master Plan
Overview: Following WW II, a U.S. army officer stationed in West Germany is assigned with keeping classified information away from the Communists. Unfortunately, Red spies know that he suffers from sudden black-outs and use this to hypnotise him, and make it appear that he is a traitor.
Genres: War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-08
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The Guns of Navarone
1961-04-27
The Guns of Navarone
Overview: A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Genres: War Adventure Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-27
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An Honourable Murder
1960-03-31
An Honourable Murder
Overview: A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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Background
1953-11-09
Background
Overview: Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-09
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No Road Back
1957-02-04
No Road Back
Overview: A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-04
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Life for Ruth
1962-09-06
Life for Ruth
Overview: John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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Guilty?
1956-04-10
Guilty?
Overview: Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-10
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The Bandit Of Zhobe
1959-04-01
The Bandit Of Zhobe
Overview: British soldiers in India must contend with an outlaw bandit.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-01
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The Chief Mourner
1979-01-16
The Chief Mourner
Overview: "Suppose you heard I was someone you couldn't possibly approve of." For a successful man with public responsibilities Alan Berry is strangely reluctant to help the police when his wife is murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-16
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This England
1941-07-22
This England
Overview: Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-22
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When We Are Married
1938-11-16
When We Are Married
Overview: The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer. The first play in history to ever be televised complete and unedited direct from the theatre. It is now believed to be lost. The BBC would make another television film version of this play in 1949 with several of the same actors from this film including Raymond Huntley, Ernest Butcher, Patricia Hayes, George Carney and Lloyd Pearson.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-16
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Over the Garden Wall
1934-06-20
Over the Garden Wall
Overview: An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-20
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