George Hilsdon
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: West Ham, London, England, UK
Birthday: April 25, 1907
Deathday: May 28, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Overview: After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-18
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There Was a Crooked Man
Overview: When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-31
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10 Rillington Place
Overview: The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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The Pirates of Blood River
Overview: A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search of treasure and will stop at nothing to obtain it.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-09
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
Overview: An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-12
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The Informers
Overview: When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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I'm All Right Jack
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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First Men in the Moon
Overview: The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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High Treason
Overview: Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-13
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Port of Escape
Overview: Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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The Day of the Triffids
Overview: After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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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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Innocent Sinners
Overview: A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Beat Girl
Overview: When her architect father brings home a much younger new wife, rebellious and resentful teen Jenny goes to extreme lengths to sabotage their relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-21
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What a Whopper
Overview: A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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The Ruling Class
Overview: When the Earl of Gurney dies in a cross-dressing accident, his schizophrenic son, Jack, inherits the Gurney estate. Jack is not the average nobleman; he sings and dances across the estate and thinks he is Jesus reincarnated. Believing that Jack is mentally unfit to own the estate, the Gurney family plots to steal Jack's inheritance. As their outrageous schemes fail, the family strives to cure Jack of his bizarre behavior, with disastrous results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-13
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The Painted Smile
Overview: Jo and Mark are working the "outraged husband" racket when they fall foul of the sinister Kleinie....
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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The Dirty Dozen
Overview: 12 American military prisoners in World War II are ordered to infiltrate a well-guarded enemy château and kill the Nazi officers vacationing there. The soldiers, most of whom are facing death sentences for a variety of violent crimes, agree to the mission and the possible commuting of their sentences.
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-15
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Roadhouse Girl
Overview: A middle-aged garage owner's life is turned upside down when his new mechanics gets it on with his sexy younger wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-01
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Nowhere to Go
Overview: A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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Park Plaza 605
Overview: Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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The Gambler and the Lady
Overview: A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-26
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An American Werewolf in London
Overview: American tourists David and Jack are savaged by an unidentified vicious animal whilst hiking on the Yorkshire Moors. Retiring to the home of a beautiful nurse to recuperate, David soon experiences disturbing changes to his mind and body.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-08-21
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The Ladykillers
Overview: Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-08
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Dulcima
Overview: Dulcima, treated as a drudge by her family, becomes a housekeeper to Parker, a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm. When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place, Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her, and a strange, yet mutually beneficial, relationship develops. But a handsome young gamekeeper, newly arrived on a nearby estate, also catches Dulcima's eye...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-12-01
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Kill Me Tomorrow
Overview: A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Whisperers
Overview: Margaret Ross is an impoverished old woman who lives alone in a seedy apartment and enjoys a rich fantasy life as an heiress. One day she discovers stolen money hidden by her son and believes her fantasy has come true.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-18
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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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The Breaking of Bumbo
Overview: The hilarious adventures of young Bumbo Bailey, who enlists in the Brigade of Guards and is based in the prestigious Wellington Barracks in London in the Swinging Sixties. He regards his social life as important as his military.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-28
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All for Mary
Overview: In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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The Big Job
Overview: A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Alive and Kicking
Overview: Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-13
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Sunday Lovers
Overview: A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Forbidden Cargo
Overview: Kenyon is a narcotics agent who, with the aid of a titled bird-watcher attempts to trap a brother and sister drug smuggling team.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-04
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The Wooden Horse
Overview: True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-16
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The Raging Moon
Overview: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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Never Back Losers
Overview: Two rival gangs are trying to fix horse races and a jockey is attacked and left for dead in a stage-managed car crash. An insurance investigator makes routine enquiries into the "accident" and one of the gang leaders feels threatened by this and takes counter measures.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Fourth Victim
Overview: A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-03-10
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Small Hotel
Overview: The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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The Agitator
Overview: The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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The Skull
Overview: An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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The Gay Dog
Overview: Jim Gay loves his racing greyhound but, out of town, he finds a dog with a better chance to win. His friends bet on his dog while he bets against.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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The Alphabet Murders
Overview: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-26
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Rough Shoot
Overview: An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hotbed of spies and secret agents.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-30
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