Manning Whiley
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 23, 1915
Deathday: January 29, 1975
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Children of Chance
1949-10-29
Children of Chance
Overview: In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-29
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Uncle Silas
1947-10-08
Uncle Silas
Overview: Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Shop at Sly Corner
1947-03-10
The Shop at Sly Corner
Overview: The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-10
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For You Alone
1945-05-28
For You Alone
Overview: Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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Miss Grant Goes to the Door
1940-09-01
Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Overview: Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-01
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Meet Sexton Blake
1945-02-05
Meet Sexton Blake
Overview: The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
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Pastor Hall
1940-05-28
Pastor Hall
Overview: The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-28
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Freedom Radio
1941-02-04
Freedom Radio
Overview: Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-04
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The Four Just Men
1939-06-01
The Four Just Men
Overview: The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Little Big Shot
1952-01-01
Little Big Shot
Overview: Harry Hawkwood is the son of 'Pa' Hawkwood, one of England's greatest crooks, and it's Harry's ambition to follow in father's footsteps and be as good as Dad. Alas! Harry has a kind heart, and it is only out of respect for the old man that his father's gang tolerates him. When the gang decides to go for the Maddox jewels, Harry is given the job of "inside man" will his good nature get the better of him once again?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Saint's Vacation
1941-05-09
The Saint's Vacation
Overview: While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-09
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Saloon Bar
1940-11-02
Saloon Bar
Overview: A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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Contraband
1940-05-11
Contraband
Overview: When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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The Flying Squad
1940-10-12
The Flying Squad
Overview: Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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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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The Seventh Veil
1945-10-18
The Seventh Veil
Overview: A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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'Pimpernel' Smith
1941-07-28
'Pimpernel' Smith
Overview: Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-28
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Old Bill and Son
1941-03-01
Old Bill and Son
Overview: Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Gasbags
1941-02-01
Gasbags
Overview: It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
Genres: War Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-01
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
1941-04-01
The Ghost of St. Michael's
Overview: Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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The Dummy Talks
1943-10-25
The Dummy Talks
Overview: An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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Bell-Bottom George
1944-02-07
Bell-Bottom George
Overview: George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-07
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Sailors Three
1940-12-14
Sailors Three
Overview: Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-14
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Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
1941-12-30
Mr. Proudfoot Shows a Light
Overview: Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-30
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Teheran
1946-10-03
Teheran
Overview: A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-03
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Consider Your Verdict
1938-11-24
Consider Your Verdict
Overview: A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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