Ruth Dunning
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Department: Acting
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Gender: Female
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Hoffman
Overview: A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-16
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Rest in Peace, Uncle Fred
Overview: Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a favourite uncle.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-28
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The Black Panther
Overview: A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-12-26
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The House in Nightmare Park
Overview: Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-23
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Save a Little Sunshine
Overview: Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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All That Is England
Overview: Austin promotional short, showing a tour around the country by many Austin models, from the Seven to the Ascot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-25
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Urge to Kill
Overview: A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-01
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It's a Great Day
Overview: Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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I'll Have You to Remember
Overview: A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-23
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And Women Shall Weep
Overview: A mother tries to prevent her younger son being led astray by his delinquent elder brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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Intimate Relations
Overview: Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with a mysterious older man. At the same time, George, Michael's father, confides in Yvonne's sister, Leo, that he is in fact Madeleine's other lover. Together, they hatch a plot to end Madeleine's hopes of marriage - by threatening to reveal George's scandalous secret to his son.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-01
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The Woman in the Hall
Overview: Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-27
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Dangerous Afternoon
Overview: The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
Overview: Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire), who is said to be a witch, shows up and attempts to steal it.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-11
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Hot Summer Night
Overview: Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfriend, he realises that racial prejudice is rife within his own home. This powerful drama exposes the deep-seated racial tensions hidden in British family life during the late 1950s. Written for the stage by Unity Theatre's Ted Willis, this television recording was filmed a few weeks after the play's successful West End run, and most of the stage cast repeat their roles here, including the terrific John Slater, Andree Melly and Lloyd Reckord. The drama's interracial kiss is probably the first to be shown on British TV.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-01
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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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Jude
Overview: Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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