Frederick Valk
Biography: Frederick Valk was a German-born Jewish stage and screen actor of Czech Jewish descent who fled to the United Kingdom in the late 1930s to escape Nazi persecution, and subsequently became a naturalised British citizen.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 10, 1895
Deathday: July 23, 1956
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Outcast of the Islands
1951-11-15
Outcast of the Islands
Overview: After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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The Flanagan Boy
1953-04-10
The Flanagan Boy
Overview: Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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The Patient Vanishes
1941-07-21
The Patient Vanishes
Overview: Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-21
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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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Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948-10-04
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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Dangerous Moonlight
1941-06-26
Dangerous Moonlight
Overview: Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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Wicked as They Come
1956-05-22
Wicked as They Come
Overview: A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-22
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Secret Venture
1955-11-10
Secret Venture
Overview: An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-10
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Magic Fire
1955-06-30
Magic Fire
Overview: Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-30
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Dear Mr. Prohack
1949-09-07
Dear Mr. Prohack
Overview: A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Frenzy
1946-02-11
Frenzy
Overview: A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-11
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A Matter of Life and Death
1946-12-15
A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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Top Secret
1952-11-10
Top Secret
Overview: A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Night Train to Munich
1940-08-31
Night Train to Munich
Overview: Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Neutral Port
1940-12-06
Neutral Port
Overview: A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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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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Hotel Reserve
1944-06-01
Hotel Reserve
Overview: A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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What Price Freedom
1955-01-01
What Price Freedom
Overview: A young American businessman visits Communist Berlin and meets a young German woman. When the Communist government attempts to pass a resolution condemning the motives of the democracies, the girl defies them. Although even the Communist leadership expresses concern with his government's doctrines, her life remains at risk. The businessman urges the girl to escape with him to the Allied zone, but she refuses, preferring to stay to fight for her ideals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Traitor Spy
1939-12-01
Traitor Spy
Overview: A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Never Let Me Go
1953-03-18
Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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Thunder Rock
1942-12-04
Thunder Rock
Overview: David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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Ho scelto l'amore
1953-03-03
Ho scelto l'amore
Overview: A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-03-03
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The Colditz Story
1955-01-25
The Colditz Story
Overview: Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-25
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Albert R.N.
1953-11-23
Albert R.N.
Overview: The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
Genres: War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-23
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I Am a Camera
1955-07-21
I Am a Camera
Overview: Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-21
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The Magic Box
1952-01-01
The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Man: One Family
1946-07-25
Man: One Family
Overview: An exposure of the fallacy of race myths; Nazi and Japanese theories about pure blood and master races are contrasted with scientific facts of mixed origins to prove that no nation or race can be considered inferior or superior.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947-12-03
Mrs. Fitzherbert
Overview: The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-03
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The Young Mr. Pitt
1942-09-21
The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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