Howard Douglas
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 12, 1896
Deathday: January 01, 1973
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The Desperate Women
1955-01-01
The Desperate Women
Overview: The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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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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Meet Mr. Callaghan
1954-06-01
Meet Mr. Callaghan
Overview: A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Stage Fright
1950-02-23
Stage Fright
Overview: A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-23
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Jungle Street
1960-01-07
Jungle Street
Overview: In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger escapes by double crossing the blackmailer by stealing the money and his girlfriend to boot. Unfortunately the police are in hot pursuit.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-07
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The Wife of General Ling
1937-04-07
The Wife of General Ling
Overview: In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-07
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953-10-26
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Overview: After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-26
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948-09-27
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Overview: A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-27
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The Night Comes Too Soon
1946-11-30
The Night Comes Too Soon
Overview: When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman's home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that includes a sailor, the seaman's late wife, and her lover, whom the sailor had shot.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-30
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Men Without Honour
1939-01-09
Men Without Honour
Overview: A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from ruin.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-09
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Brief Ecstasy
1937-07-31
Brief Ecstasy
Overview: A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-31
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The Challenge
1938-09-14
The Challenge
Overview: Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Genres: Romance Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-14
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My Brother Jonathan
1948-02-05
My Brother Jonathan
Overview: Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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A Window in London
1940-06-15
A Window in London
Overview: A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-15
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The Stars Look Down
1940-01-22
The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Rebecca
1947-01-19
Rebecca
Overview: Adaptation of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier from 1947.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-19
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Escape Route
1952-12-01
Escape Route
Overview: When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Hue and Cry
1947-02-01
Hue and Cry
Overview: A gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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Design for Murder
1939-03-27
Design for Murder
Overview: When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-27
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Return of a Stranger
1937-10-04
Return of a Stranger
Overview: James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-04
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Treasure Island
1950-07-19
Treasure Island
Overview: Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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The Big Noise
1936-01-01
The Big Noise
Overview: A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Under a Cloud
1937-08-01
Under a Cloud
Overview: Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy. Their children know little about him but as he observes them he realises they have problems and his cunning might come to their aid.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-01
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Fire Over England
1937-03-05
Fire Over England
Overview: The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title. In 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen bringing gold from the New World.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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Death at Broadcasting House
1934-11-01
Death at Broadcasting House
Overview: An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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Whistle Down the Wind
1961-07-25
Whistle Down the Wind
Overview: When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-25
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Vote for Huggett
1949-02-01
Vote for Huggett
Overview: A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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No Limit
1935-10-28
No Limit
Overview: George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think. During the trials, the brakes go on George's bike, 'The Shuttleworth Snap', which he made himself. As a result, he breaks the TT lap record, becoming an instant motor-cycling star. As the big race approaches, George soon realises that other jealous riders will stop at nothing to make sure he does not take part in the race. An early George Formby film and probably his best.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
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They Made Me a Fugitive
1947-06-24
They Made Me a Fugitive
Overview: After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
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A Christmas Carol
1950-12-27
A Christmas Carol
Overview: On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-27
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Wanted for Murder
1946-06-17
Wanted for Murder
Overview: The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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The Upturned Glass
1947-06-17
The Upturned Glass
Overview: A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-17
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State Secret
1950-09-11
State Secret
Overview: While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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Three Hats for Lisa
1965-01-01
Three Hats for Lisa
Overview: French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of her latest film, but within minutes she's beenw hisked away by her number one fan, Johnny Howjego and his Cockney pals Sammy, Flora and Cabbie Sid.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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I See a Dark Stranger
1946-07-04
I See a Dark Stranger
Overview: Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-04
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Miranda
1948-04-06
Miranda
Overview: A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-06
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Trottie True
1949-09-29
Trottie True
Overview: Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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The Plank
1967-05-18
The Plank
Overview: A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-18
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Born of the Sea
1949-01-01
Born of the Sea
Overview: Fishing village drama concerning the adoption of a baby boy, the only survivor of a wreck. He grows up only to lose his life as a member of the lifeboat crew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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The Echo Murders
1945-12-17
The Echo Murders
Overview: Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-17
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Man on the Run
1949-05-20
Man on the Run
Overview: An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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Night Boat to Dublin
1946-01-08
Night Boat to Dublin
Overview: British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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The Agitator
1945-01-24
The Agitator
Overview: The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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Cup-Tie Honeymoon
1948-06-01
Cup-Tie Honeymoon
Overview: Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his father's team or should he play it on his school's team. He chooses wisely and finds love and happiness with a secretary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Appointment with Crime
1946-05-13
Appointment with Crime
Overview: Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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The Silent Passenger
1935-06-01
The Silent Passenger
Overview: A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Off the Dole
1935-06-01
Off the Dole
Overview: Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Old Mother Riley's New Venture
1949-07-01
Old Mother Riley's New Venture
Overview: Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-01
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The Mudlark
1950-10-03
The Mudlark
Overview: It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-03
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