Mary Merrall
Biography: Mary Merrall ( born Elsie Lloyd; 5 January 1890 - 31 August 1973) was an English actress. She was known for Dead of Night (1945), The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947) and Love on the Dole (1941). She was married to Franklin Dyall, John Bouch Hissey and Ian Swinley. She died on August 31, 1973 in London, England.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 05, 1890
Deathday: August 31, 1976
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Futtocks End
1970-02-01
Futtocks End
Overview: Entirely silent, with a musical score, sound effects and incoherent mutterings, the story revolves around a weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric and lewd General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) and the series of saucy mishaps between the staff (Michael Hordern plays the lecherous butler) and his guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-01
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Squadron Leader X
1943-03-01
Squadron Leader X
Overview: Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into occupied Belgium to create anti-British propaganda. Unfortunately for him he chooses a night when the Belgian resistance are smuggling the crew of a British bomber home across the channel. Before he knows it he is landing on the south coast of England. With MI5 hot on his trail, the fugitive tries to contact his old German émigré friends in London. But they have all been interned on the Isle of Man. How will he escape back to Germany ?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-01
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Dead of Night
1945-09-09
Dead of Night
Overview: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-09
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Emma's Time
1970-05-13
Emma's Time
Overview: After the death of novelist Robert Kelvin, his mistress Emma tries to adjust and reflects upon their relationship.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-13
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The Green Buddha
1954-11-01
The Green Buddha
Overview: Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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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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Love on the Dole
1941-06-28
Love on the Dole
Overview: Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947-03-12
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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Pink String and Sealing Wax
1945-11-22
Pink String and Sealing Wax
Overview: Melodrama set in Victorian Brighton. Scheming pub landlady uses the timorous son of a domineering pharmacist to assist in the poisoning of her drunkard husband. (The title is from the way pharmacists used to wrap parcels containing poison).
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-22
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Out of True
1951-01-01
Out of True
Overview: A BAFTA award nominated fictional drama about young Molly Slade who awakens one morning in a depressed state that gradually leads to a complete nervous breakdown and a suicide attempt. It was made as an educational film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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The Camp on Blood Island
1958-04-15
The Camp on Blood Island
Overview: Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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The Late Edwina Black
1951-03-31
The Late Edwina Black
Overview: When a sickly Victorian woman dies suddenly, a postmortem reveals that her body contains a fatal dose of arsenic. Suspicion falls on her husband and her companion, who are lovers. Inspector Martin of Scotland Yard solves the mystery of her death... over a cup of tea.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-31
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The Three Weird Sisters
1948-02-26
The Three Weird Sisters
Overview: Three older sisters live on their family estate in Wales. This household once proudly reigned over a mining town, but the mines dried up and the estate and the town have fallen on hard times. When the land crumbles and a number of homes in the town are destroyed the sisters promise to rebuild the homes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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Pygmalion
1948-02-08
Pygmalion
Overview: Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-08
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For Them That Trespass
1949-04-21
For Them That Trespass
Overview: In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-21
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Rx Murder
1958-02-18
Rx Murder
Overview: An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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This Man Is Mine
1946-09-12
This Man Is Mine
Overview: One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-12
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Three's Company
1953-10-26
Three's Company
Overview: Compilation of 3 episodes of the TV series "Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. Presents ...". "The Surgeon", "Take A Number" and "The Scream".
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-26
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A Sound from the Sea
1970-08-17
A Sound from the Sea
Overview: While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-17
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Dr. O'Dowd
1940-06-22
Dr. O'Dowd
Overview: Marius O'Dowd is an Irish doctor who is often drunk. His daughter-in-law Moira dies during a serious operation which O'Dowd is performing. Although O'Dowd is not to blame, his son Stephen suspects that Moira died due to O'Dowd operating while under the influence of alcohol, and accuses him of criminal neglect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-22
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It's Great to be Young!
1956-12-26
It's Great to be Young!
Overview: IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins imposing all sorts of repressive rules, Dingle does his best to stand up for his students, only to be dismissed for his troubles. The kids conspire to not only reinstate their favourite teacher, but to circumvent Frome's refusal to purchase new instruments for an upcoming music festival.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-26
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Men of Steel
1932-09-01
Men of Steel
Overview: James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Meet Me Tonight
1952-09-09
Meet Me Tonight
Overview: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-09
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954-09-28
The Belles of St. Trinian's
Overview: The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble than ever beckons when the arrival at the school of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has the kidnap of a prize racehorse on her mind. The first film in the classic comedy series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-28
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Bitter Harvest
1963-03-08
Bitter Harvest
Overview: A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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Trio
1950-10-10
Trio
Overview: W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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Campbell's Kingdom
1957-09-03
Campbell's Kingdom
Overview: Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-03
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Encore
1951-06-11
Encore
Overview: Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-11
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The Weak and the Wicked
1954-02-02
The Weak and the Wicked
Overview: Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-02
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Spare the Rod
1961-05-23
Spare the Rod
Overview: It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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The Pickwick Papers
1952-11-14
The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Who Killed the Cat?
1966-10-07
Who Killed the Cat?
Overview: A scheming widow tries to persecute three old ladies, but fate takes its revenge on her.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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You Will Remember
1941-02-08
You Will Remember
Overview: Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Duel in the Jungle
1954-06-30
Duel in the Jungle
Overview: An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-30
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