Martin Boddey
Also Known As: Мартин Бодди
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Stirling, Stirlingshire, Scotland, UK
Birthday: April 16, 1907
Deathday: October 24, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Iron Petticoat
Overview: Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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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 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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Circle of Deception
Overview: Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Secret Venture
Overview: An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-10
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Overview: After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-26
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A Song for Tomorrow
Overview: Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-08
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Face the Music
Overview: A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Top Secret
Overview: A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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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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Psychomania
Overview: A gang of young people call themselves the Living Dead. They terrorize the population from their small town. After an agreement with the devil, if they kill themselves firmly believing in it, they will survive and gain eternal life. Following their leader, they commit suicide one after the other, but things don't necessarily turn out as expected...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-01
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Dark Places
Overview: A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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A Man for All Seasons
Overview: A depiction of the conflict between King Henry VIII of England and his Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas More, who refuses to swear the Oath of Supremacy declaring Henry Supreme Head of the Church in England.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-13
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Girl in the Headlines
Overview: Called in to investigate the murder of a model, Chief Inspector Birkett and Sergeant Saunders soon discover that the victim had been leading somewhat of an immoral life.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-15
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
Overview: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-17
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Indiscreet
Overview: Anna Kalman is an accomplished actress who has given up hope of finding the man of her dreams. She is in the middle of taking off her face cream, while talking about this subject with her sister, when in walks Philip Adams. She loses her concentration for a moment as she realizes that this is the charming, smart, and handsome man she has been waiting for.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-16
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Doctor in the House
Overview: The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-23
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Cairo Road
Overview: In colonial Egypt, a British police officer sets out on a daring hunt for drug smuggling gangs operating along the notorious Cairo Road.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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The Franchise Affair
Overview: An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-19
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The Kitchen
Overview: In the business end of a kitchen, a polyglot staff strives to cope with a superhuman task. A microcosm of the world, the kitchen looms around and encloses its workers; they include Peter, the German cook, who is in love with waitress Monica, and constantly asks her to leave her husband. The pressure of the day becomes unendurable, and when Peter realises that Monica does not mean to divorce her husband his grief and pain cause him to run berserk!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-14
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Article Five
Overview: Members of a shadowy group demonstrate techniques of enhanced Interrogation of terrorist suspects. However, the demonstration causes consternation that such techniques were approved.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-08-04
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You Can't Escape
Overview: Novelist Peter Darwin is engaged to heiress Kay March. When he accidentally kills Claire, his former mistress, during a quarrel, he persuades a reluctant Kay to help him bury the body in a wood. When the body is found and with the truth close to being uncovered, Darwin resorts to desperate actions to cover his crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Moment of Danger
Overview: Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye to getting even.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-26
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Tank Force!
Overview: During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-22
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Valley of the Eagles
Overview: A Norwegian scientist builds a device that can convert sound waves into electrical energy. However, the machine is stolen by the scientist's wife and assistant, who head across the frozen tundra towards Russia. A police inspector and a local girl team up with the scientist to help recover the device.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Laughter in Paradise
Overview: When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature. NB: This is the film which introduced Audrey Hepburn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-01
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Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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The Last Man to Hang
Overview: A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Eyewitness
Overview: After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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Too Hot to Handle
Overview: A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner and star of a famous club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Bedazzled
Overview: A hapless loser sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for seven wishes, but has trouble winning over the girl of his dreams.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-10-30
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The Silken Affair
Overview: An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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State Secret
Overview: While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-11
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Chain of Events
Overview: When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-30
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The Duke Wore Jeans
Overview: A cockney lad pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-30
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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 Dancing Years
Overview: The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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Cat Girl
Overview: A psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Tales from the Crypt
Overview: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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The Naked Civil Servant
Overview: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Cage of Gold
Overview: The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-23
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
Overview: An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Venetian Bird
Overview: Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Mad About Men
Overview: Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Overview: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Personal Affair
Overview: A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-20
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These Dangerous Years
Overview: A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clashes with another soldier.
Genres: Crime Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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Eleanor
Overview: Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
Genres: Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-12-12
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O Fat White Woman
Overview: The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-04
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Svengali
Overview: A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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The Siege of Pinchgut
Overview: An escaped prisoner is trying to clear his name.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Fortune in Diamonds
Overview: As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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The Man Who Finally Died
Overview: Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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Not Wanted on Voyage
Overview: The scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under the exasperated chief steward. Along for the trip are the wealthy Mrs. Brough and her secretary Pat. Soon Mrs. Broughs’ jewels are stolen…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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Appointment with Venus
Overview: At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-08
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The Two-Headed Spy
Overview: Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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Escape in the Sun
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-07
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Carry On Sergeant
Overview: Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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