Ronald Howard
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Biography: Ronald Howard was an English actor and writer who starred in a number of British B movies in the forties and fifties, before moving into television, most notably in the 1954 version of Sherlock Holmes. He was the son of actor Leslie Howard.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Norwood, London, England, UK
Birthday: April 07, 1918
Deathday: December 19, 1996
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Gender: Male
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Murder She Said
Overview: Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-26
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Flesh and Blood
Overview: Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-06
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Come September
Overview: Robert Talbot, an American millionaire, arrives early for his annual vacation at his luxurious Italian villa. His long-time girlfriend Lisa has given up waiting for him and has decided to marry another man. Meanwhile, his sneaky business associate Maurice secretly misappropriates the villa as a hotel while Talbot is away. The current guests of the "hotel" are a group of young American girls.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Double Confession
Overview: The hero discovers his estranged wife dead and tries to frame her lover for the murder. He becomes involved with the criminals who make various unsuccessful attempts on his life while the police clear up the mystery.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-30
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Take a Hard Ride
Overview: After his cattle rancher boss dies, right-hand man Pike is given the job of returning $86,000 to some families who live across the border in Sonora, Mexico. Honest Pike is joined on the trip through the wilderness by a dishonest gambler named Tyree.
Genres: Action Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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The Hunting Party
Overview: A ruthless rancher, and his gang, use extremely long range rifles to kill the men who kidnapped his wife.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-16
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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
Overview: Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, American showman and financial backer of the expedition, Alexander King, plans a world tour exhibiting this magnificent discovery from the ancient world but on the opening night the sarcophagus is void of its contents. The mummy has escaped to fulfill the dreadful prophesy and exact a violent and bloody revenge on all those who defiled his final resting place.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-18
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The Browning Version
Overview: Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only that his wife, Millie, has been unfaithful to him with one of his fellow schoolmasters, but that the school's students and faculty have long disdained him. However, an unexpected act of kindness causes Crocker-Harris to re-evaluate his life's work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Naked Edge
Overview: Five years after George Radcliffe was the chief witness in a high profile murder case, his wife receives a blackmailing letter accusing him of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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Babette Goes to War
Overview: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Black Orchid
Overview: Caught in a loveless marriage, Dr. John Winnington (Ronald Howard) can't stop himself from falling for his wife's (Mary Laura Wood) younger sister, Christine (Olga Edwardes). But when he suddenly becomes the prime suspect in his wife's tragic murder, John relies on his friend Eric (John Bentley) to clear his name. This classic murder mystery encourages viewers to evaluate all of the clues and guess the killer's identity.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-01
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Overview: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Nightbeat
Overview: After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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Man Accused
Overview: Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an insurance investigator of being a notorious -- and murderous -- jewel thief. Can Bob restore his reputation and regain Kathy's trust? Desperate to prove his innocence, Bob engineers a daring jailbreak and pursues the real culprit. Montgomery Tully directs this crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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Drango
Overview: A few months after the end of the civil war, Major Drango is sent as military governor in a southern small town, whose citizens he must face the obstility.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Moment of Indiscretion
Overview: Janet Miller (Lana Morris) is a married woman caught in awkward circumstances after police investigating a murder come up with evidence, and a potentially lethal motive, which lead them to suspect her of committing the crime. Their suspicions increase when Janet is less than forthcoming about a visit she paid to a former beau. Happily, her loyal husband (Ronald Howard) swears by her innocence and quickly leaps into motion to find the real killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-05
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Noose for a Lady
Overview: An amateur detective races against time to clear the name of his cousin, who is accused of murdering her husband. It is based on the novel Whispering Woman by Gerald Verner.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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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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Now Barabbas
Overview: A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-24
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Compelled
Overview: An ex-convict who's built a respectable post-prison life for himself as an engineer discovers that a past is a hard thing to shake. When old "friends" contact the former prisoner, it's not long before the gone-straight baddie finds himself being blackmailed into taking part in a major jewelry theft.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Africa: Texas Style!
Overview: Two American cowboys are hired by a British rancher to oversee his estate in Kenya. Shot on location in Africa, this film led to the TV show Cowboy in Africa starring Chuck Connors.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Bomb in the High Street
Overview: Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Bond Street
Overview: Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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The Hide-Out
Overview: An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Night Was Our Friend
Overview: Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-01
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Portrait of Clare
Overview: The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-13
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The House in the Woods
Overview: A novelist and his wife go to stay at a cottage owned by a painter whose wife has just died.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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No Trees in the Street
Overview: Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Persecution
Overview: A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
Genres: Horror Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-07
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Koroshi
Overview: Secret agent John Drake (aka Danger Man) goes to Japan to infiltrate a secret society that specializes in murder. - This film was originally conceived as part of the fourth season of the "Secret Agent" TV series. However, this was the first episode of the season and Patrick McGoohan quit shortly after filming it. Thus it was decided to package a double-episode from a TV show as a full-length movie. Patrick McGoohan quit "Secret Agent" to create "The Prisoner" TV series. - The original individual episodes of "Danger Man" that made up this movie were released for the first time on video in the 1990s. - The original two one-hour episodes that made up this film were broadcast in limited fashion in the UK in 1968.
Genres: Thriller Action TV Movie
Original Language: ja
Release Date: 1968-11-28
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Light Fingers
Overview: Humphrey assigns a "watchdog" to keep an eye on his wife Rose, whom he thinks is a thief. She isn't - but the watchdog is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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Flannelfoot
Overview: Ace crime reporter Watling tries to discover the identity of a notorious jewel thief, but his informant is murdered. At a house party, Watling helps detective Adam expose the criminal.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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Siege of the Saxons
Overview: King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-01
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Glad Tidings
Overview: An English colonel finds love with an American widow, to the displeasure of his children.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-13
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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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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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Run a Crooked Mile
Overview: A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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The Malpas Mystery
Overview: After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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The Monster of Highgate Ponds
Overview: The story of three children who find themselves with a friendly monster that grows at an alarming rate.
Genres: Family Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Bay of St. Michel
Overview: A trio of World War 2 vets band together to search for a lost Nazi fortune.
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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Street Corner
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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'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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The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original crime-fighter in all his incarnations.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Nurse on Wheels
Overview: Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Fate Takes a Hand
Overview: When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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The Skin Game
Overview: A scrap dealer is making a profit out of wrecked cars, but trouble starts when one of his men demands more money.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-01
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I Accuse!
Overview: Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Wuthering Heights
Overview: Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-10
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While the Sun Shines
Overview: Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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The Spanish Sword
Overview: A knight protects the treasure of Henry III of England from a thieving baron.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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