Freda Jackson
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Freda Maud Jackson (29 December 1907 – 20 October 1990) was an English stage actress who also worked in film and TV. Born in Nottingham, she was famous for her stage role as the cruel landlady Mrs. Voray in the play No Room at the Inn in the mid-1940s; she appeared in the film adaptation of 1948. Her later screen roles were mostly on TV, including a role on the first episode of Adam Adamant Lives and on Blake's 7. Her final film appearance was in 1981; she died nine years later in Northampton, aged 82. She was married to the artist Henry Bird. She "was reputed to have had a relationship" with Errol Flynn while both were at the Northampton Repertory Theatre. Description above from the Wikipedia article Freda Jackson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: December 29, 1909
Deathday: October 10, 1990
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Clash of the Titans
1981-06-12
Clash of the Titans
Overview: To win the right to marry his love, the beautiful princess Andromeda, and fulfil his destiny, half-God-half-mortal Perseus must complete various tasks including taming Pegasus, capturing Medusa's head and battling the feared Kraken.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-12
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A Tale of Two Cities
1958-02-07
A Tale of Two Cities
Overview: British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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Tom Jones
1963-08-24
Tom Jones
Overview: Tom loves Sophie and Sophie loves Tom. But Tom and Sophie are of differering classes. Can they find a way through the mayhem to be true to love?
Genres: Comedy Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-24
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The Brides of Dracula
1960-05-01
The Brides of Dracula
Overview: A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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The Shadow of the Cat
1961-05-01
The Shadow of the Cat
Overview: Tabitha, once the placid, gentle and devoted pet, adopts all the characteristics of a ferocious, wild animal following the murder of her mistress. The three guilty people are all trapped by the cat's power and each will come to untimely deaths of horrific proportions without anyone being able to solve the mystery that surrounds their brutal death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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Die, Monster, Die!
1965-10-26
Die, Monster, Die!
Overview: A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-26
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The Valley of Gwangi
1969-07-24
The Valley of Gwangi
Overview: A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an expedition to the Forbidden Valley where they discover living dinosaurs. They capture one and take it back to be put on display, leading to inevitable mayhem.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Thriller Western Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-24
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Great Expectations
1946-12-26
Great Expectations
Overview: In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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The Good Die Young
1954-03-02
The Good Die Young
Overview: An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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The Jokers
1967-05-15
The Jokers
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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Beware of Pity
1946-07-22
Beware of Pity
Overview: A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-22
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Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
1991-01-01
Dracula: A Cinematic Scrapbook
Overview: A history of the famous vampire of books and movies, using film clips, previews and other methods.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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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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Greyfriars Bobby
1961-07-17
Greyfriars Bobby
Overview: In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-17
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Women of Twilight
1953-01-16
Women of Twilight
Overview: When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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The Crowded Day
1954-10-01
The Crowded Day
Overview: One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Attempt to Kill
1961-08-01
Attempt to Kill
Overview: A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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She Fell Among Thieves
1978-03-01
She Fell Among Thieves
Overview: While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-03-01
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A Canterbury Tale
1944-08-21
A Canterbury Tale
Overview: Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Genres: Drama Mystery War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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No Room at the Inn
1948-11-22
No Room at the Inn
Overview: A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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Henry V
1944-11-24
Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Flesh and Blood
1951-03-06
Flesh and Blood
Overview: Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-06
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Boy With a Flute
1964-01-01
Boy With a Flute
Overview: An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Last Man to Hang
1956-08-01
The Last Man to Hang
Overview: A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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West 11
1963-10-08
West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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Mr. Denning Drives North
1951-12-18
Mr. Denning Drives North
Overview: When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-18
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The Third Secret
1964-02-02
The Third Secret
Overview: A prominent London psychologist seems to have taken his own life, causing stunned disbelief amongst his colleagues and patients. His teenage daughter refuses to believe it was suicide as this would go against all of the principles her father stood for, therefore she is convinced it was murder. She enlists the help of a former patient to try to get to the truth. However, the truth turns out to be both surprising and disturbing.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-02
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The Flesh Is Weak
1957-08-06
The Flesh Is Weak
Overview: Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-06
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
1961-10-24
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Overview: Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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