Jane Carr
Also Known As: Dorothy Henrietta Brunstrom, Rita Brunstrom
Biography: Jane Carr (born Dorothy Henrietta Brunstrom, 1 August 1909, at Whitley Bay, Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, died 29 September 1957) was the stage name of English stage and film actress Rita Brunstrom.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 01, 1909
Deathday: September 29, 1957
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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It's Not Cricket
Overview: Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The result is refined English chaos. " This is the regettable story of two Drones who didn't even know their own Zones. It starts in Germany, gets nowhere and stops at nothing." Radford and Wayne, cashiered from the army when they let a captured Nazi escape, become private detectives who later get involved with the same German and a missing diamond ...
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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The Lady from Lisbon
Overview: When she learns that the Nazis have confiscated Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece Mona Lisa, art-loving South American wanna-be spy Tamara (Jane Carr) journeys to Lisbon to snoop for the Germans in return for the iconic painting. But bumbling Nazi agents, Allied counterspies and multiple copies of the artwork soon confound her attempts at espionage.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Millions
Overview: Two feuding millionaires try to destroy each other's business while their children fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-21
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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 Ace of Spades
Overview: The wife of a candidate for Parliament is having an affair with the brother of her husband's rival. Her lover is running for election on a promise of building a railway that the community needs, but a wealthy landowner won't give permission for the railway to be built over his land. When the landowner is later found dead, suspicion falls on the adulterous candidate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-09
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Lord Edgware Dies
Overview: A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-31
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The Church Mouse
Overview: When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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The Triumph of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: Holmes, retired to Sussex, is drawn into a last case when his arch enemy Moriarty arranges with an American gang to kill one John Douglas, a country gentleman with a mysterious past. Holmes' methods baffle Watson and Lestrade, but his results astonish them. In a long flashback, the victim's wife tells the story of the sinister Vermissa Valley.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-24
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Alibi
Overview: In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-10
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Up for the Derby
Overview: 'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-20
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Those Were the Days
Overview: A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-02
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Let Me Explain, Dear
Overview: A husband flirts with a pretty girl after a taxi smash, but a delicate situation ensues when he has to explain the presence of her necklace in his pocket!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-03
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Get Off My Foot
Overview: A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
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The Outcast
Overview: A music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-29
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Dick Turpin
Overview: The adventures of the eighteenth century highwayman Dick Turpin and his legendary ride to York.
Genres: Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Hello, Sweetheart
Overview: A young poultry farmer is flattered and persuaded into financing a film production. He attempts to interfere in the direction, is swindled and left in the lurch but eventually manages to turn the tables on his former associates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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Annie, Leave the Room!
Overview: British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The Seventh Survivor
Overview: During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-05
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The Lilac Domino
Overview: In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew that she was using her wiles as bait and was planning to reform him of his gambling womanizing ways after catching him, he may have head for different waters.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-31
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36 Hours
Overview: When his wife stops writing to him and his letters are returned unanswered, Dan becomes extremely concerned about her welfare. He returns home but is only able to meet with her briefly before she is found murdered. Dan is the obvious suspect but has only 36 hours to find out who murdered her. In so doing he uncovers a shocking catalogue of his wife's past affairs and an identity that he knew nothing about.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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The Lad
Overview: An ex-con searching for a hidden jewel is assumed by a group of people to be investigating them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-27
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Sabotage at Sea
Overview: The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-07
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Night Mail
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Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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Captain's Orders
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-23
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