Madge Brindley
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bedford Park, London, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: October 15, 1901
Age: 123 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 15, 1968
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The Spider and the Fly
Overview: "The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Song of the Road
Overview: After the Local council he works for decides to replace its horse-drawn services with motor vehicles, one of the drivers spends his savings to buy the horse. Together they search the countryside looking for work, and meeting an assorted group of characters on the way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-08
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South Riding
Overview: Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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On the Night of the Fire
Overview: A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-26
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Hobson's Choice
Overview: Henry Hobson owns and tyrannically runs a successful Victorian boot maker’s shop in Salford, England. A stingy widower with a weakness for overindulging in the local Moonraker Public House, he exploits his three daughters as cheap labour. When he declares that there will be ‘no marriages’ to avoid the expense of marriage settlements at £500 each, his eldest daughter Maggie rebels.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-04-19
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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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VOTE, VOTE, VOTE for Nigel Barton
Overview: Candidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-15
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The Long Haul
Overview: An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-27
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Piccadilly Incident
Overview: A newly married WREN, presumed drowned when her ship is torpedoed, spends three years on a tropical island before returning to England to find her husband remarried with a baby son.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-24
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Mr. Denning Drives North
Overview: When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-18
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The Lady with a Lamp
Overview: Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-22
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Radio Cab Murder
Overview: Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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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 Beggar's Opera
Overview: Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
Genres: History Crime Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-24
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Kentucky Minstrels
Overview: 'Old-time minstrel sinks to poverty and rises to fresh stardom.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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The Feminine Touch
Overview: Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-19
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Love in Waiting
Overview: The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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Take My Life
Overview: When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-30
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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The Canterville Ghost
Overview: An American ambassador moves his family into a haunted English castle.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-02
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