Howard Lang
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marylebone, London, England, UK
Birthday: March 20, 1911
Deathday: December 11, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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The Haunting
Overview: Dr. Markway, doing research to prove the existence of ghosts, investigates Hill House, a large, eerie mansion with a lurid history of violent death and insanity.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-21
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Devil's Point
Overview: A Thames River barge operator finds a mysterious package dropped by smugglers.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-07
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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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Night Train to Munich
Overview: Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Counterspy
Overview: While perusing the books of an engineering company, fastidious auditor Frank Manning encounters rum goings on when he is approached by a woman who claiming she is being blackmailed. She begs him to find certain letters and he eventually agrees. Having obtained the letters, he takes them to a specified address where, to his horror, he finds a man, fully clothed, dead in the bath.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-27
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The Hide-Out
Overview: An insurance investigator in London attempts to thwart smugglers trafficking stolen lambskins infected with anthrax.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with the famous Irish writer Oscar Wilde, maintains an ongoing feud with the latter in order to ruin his reputation and cause his fall from grace.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-28
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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The Birthday Present
Overview: Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Man Accused
Overview: Soon after celebrating his engagement to aristocratic heiress Kathy Riddle (Carol Marsh), engineer Bob Jensen (Ronald Howard) is accused by an insurance investigator of being a notorious -- and murderous -- jewel thief. Can Bob restore his reputation and regain Kathy's trust? Desperate to prove his innocence, Bob engineers a daring jailbreak and pursues the real culprit. Montgomery Tully directs this crime drama.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Perfect Friday
Overview: The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-10
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Corridors of Blood
Overview: Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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The Giant Behemoth
Overview: Marine atomic tests cause changes in the ocean's ecosystem resulting in dangerous blobs of radiation and the resurrection of a dormant dinosaur which threatens London.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-03
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Jackpot
Overview: Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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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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Tiger in the Smoke
Overview: In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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Doctor Who: An Unearthly Child
Overview: Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, two humble teachers during 1963, discover a genius student's grandfather, simply known as "the Doctor", and his police box time machine. Deciding that the pair knows too much about his otherworldly origins, they are whisked away on a journey through time and space.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-23
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The Big Chance
Overview: A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-01
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Nothing But the Best
Overview: Success has James Brewster's name written all over it, and he also has his heart set on his boss's daughter. A con artist hires him to help out on a bank scheme, but then again, James will do anything to get rich and be the most successful businessman in Britain-even if it means murder!!!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-10
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Night Train for Inverness
Overview: A 7-year old boy with diabetes is kidnapped by his estranged ex-con father, who doesn't know about his son's medical condition and that he will need insulin injections. Meanwhile the police search for the missing boy.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Woman's Temptation
Overview: Lost Danziger's crime cheapie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-12
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