Sydney Tafler
Also Known As: Сидни Тэфлер
Biography: Sydney Tafler (31 July 1916 - 8 November 1979) was an English actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hackney, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 31, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 08, 1979
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The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Overview: Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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Secret People
Overview: This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-05
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Carry On Regardless
Overview: After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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The Lavender Hill Mob
Overview: A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-28
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Way Off Beat
Overview: Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-08
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It Always Rains on Sunday
Overview: During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-28
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Berserk!
Overview: A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Dial 999
Overview: A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-01
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Carve Her Name with Pride
Overview: London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses the German enemy lines as a secret agent to aid a French Resistance group.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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The Cockleshell Heroes
Overview: During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-16
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The Saint's Return
Overview: A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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The Counterfeit Plan
Overview: An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Promise Her Anything
Overview: A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is her employer doesn't know about her son and he doesn't particularly care for children despite his profession.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-22
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The Glass Cage
Overview: A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Wide Boy
Overview: Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-01
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Bottoms Up!
Overview: An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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Mystery Junction
Overview: In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Blind Man's Bluff
Overview: Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Light Up the Sky!
Overview: Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-05
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Operation Diplomat
Overview: A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-01
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Once a Sinner
Overview: Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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Reach for the Sky
Overview: The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-05
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The Floating Dutchman
Overview: Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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London Belongs to Me
Overview: Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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A Kid for Two Farthings
Overview: Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-15
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The Bank Raiders
Overview: A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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Hotel Sahara
Overview: World War II farce about the hotel of the title
Genres: Comedy Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-09
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The Sandwich Man
Overview: A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-01
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The Galloping Major
Overview: A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-07
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Fire Maidens of Outer Space
Overview: An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-01
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Make Mine Mink
Overview: In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-09
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Alfie
Overview: A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-29
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Scarlet Thread
Overview: Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-01
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The Cellar and the Almond Tree
Overview: The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-04
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Assassin for Hire
Overview: Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the expenses of Giuseppe's concert debut he accepts a further job, but his decision to do so provides Detective Inspector Carson, who has long hoped to ensnare Tony, with an opportunity that might now enable him to bring about his downfall.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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The Birthday Party
Overview: Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party". Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-09
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Runaway Railway
Overview: A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Genres: Family Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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There Was a Young Lady
Overview: A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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The Woman for Joe
Overview: A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-25
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Johnny on the Run
Overview: A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after encountering trouble through his innocent implication in a robbery.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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Danger Point
Overview: Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the boat drifting on to the notoriously dangerous Bradda Head, but find themselves in even greater trouble in the shape of a sea-mine.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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The 7th Dawn
Overview: Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
Overview: During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Cottage to Let
Overview: Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Uneasy Terms
Overview: Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-06
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Passport to Pimlico
Overview: When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Booby Trap
Overview: An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Emergency Call
Overview: A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Baby Blues
Overview: Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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Oy Vay Maria
Overview: Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?
Genres: Comedy Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-08
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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The Surgeon's Knife
Overview: A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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The Crowning Touch
Overview: Several stories linked by a hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Overview: Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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No Kidding
Overview: A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the kids of the rich and famous to spend a summer enjoying all the loving care and attention they miss at home. After the youngsters arrive, David quickly realizes what the offensive little punks need is some real discipline, and so the summer begins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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A Weekend with Lulu
Overview: Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-10
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The Adventurers
Overview: The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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Interpol
Overview: Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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Venetian Bird
Overview: Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Dance Hall
Overview: Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-08
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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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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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Guilty?
Overview: Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-10
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The Square Ring
Overview: Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-13
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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Nightmare for a Nightingale
Overview: An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his body mysteriously disappears.
Genres: TV Movie Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-02
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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Pews
Overview: Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the town is empty.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-12
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