Nora Gordon
Also Known As: Nora Cordon, Nora Gorden, Norah Gordon, Nora May Trimble
Biography: Nora Gordon (29 November 1893, West Hartlepool, County Durham – 11 May 1970, London) was a British film and television actress. She was married to Leonard Sharp. Her daughter is the actress Dorothy Gordon. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: West Hartlepool, County Durham, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: November 29, 1893
Age: 131 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 11, 1970
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High Jump
Overview: After he accidentally causes the death of his partner, trapeze artist Bill Ryan leaves the circus and sinks into an alcoholic mire of self-pity. Things look up when elegant Jackie Field takes interest in Bill, but she hides a sinister motive. Ignoring Kitty, the shopgirl who adores him, Bill falls for Jackie and joins her gang of thieves, but the daring stunt she has him perform may lead to disaster.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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The Glass Cage
Overview: A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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The Piper's Tune
Overview: A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Ticket to Paradise
Overview: Travel agent Emrys Jones and tourist Patricia Dainton fall in love in sunny Italy. Jones has led Dainton to believe that he's fabulously wealthy, and she has likewise deceived him. When the truth inevitably outs, it hardly matters, since hero and heroine now love each other for themselves rather than their bank accounts.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Danny Boy
Overview: A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-25
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Blackout
Overview: When a beautiful young woman suddenly offers inebriated Casey Morrow a lot of money for a quick and easy job, he doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood, he must unravel the mystery to clear his name. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-19
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Victim
Overview: A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Whistle and I'll Come to You
Overview: A university professor, confident that everything which occurs in life has a rational explanation, finds his beliefs severely challenged when, during a vacation to a remote coastal village in Norfolk, he blows through an ancient whistle discovered on a beach, awakening horrors beyond human understanding.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-07
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Overview: A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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Woman in a Dressing Gown
Overview: A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-03
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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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My Brother Jonathan
Overview: Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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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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Death in High Heels
Overview: Crime Mystery directed by Lionel Tomlinson.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-07-18
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Blackmailed
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-30
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The Woman in Question
Overview: Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-03
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Police Dog
Overview: When his colleague is killed during a chase in Kentish Town, London bobby Frank volunteers to become a dog-handler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-01
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Sapphire
Overview: Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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Circle of Danger
Overview: An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-17
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The Constant Husband
Overview: Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-21
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The Nanny
Overview: Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward he's been in for two years, since the death of his younger sister. Joey refuses to eat any food Nanny's prepared or take a bath with her in the room. He also demands to sleep in a room with a lock. Joey's parents -- workaholic Bill and neurotic Virgie -- are sure Joey is disturbed, but he may have good reason to be terrified of Nanny.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Twice Round the Daffodils
Overview: Twice Round the Daffodils is a 1962 British comedy drama film directed by Gerald Thomas and starring Juliet Mills, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston, Kenneth Williams, Ronald Lewis, Andrew Ray, Joan Sims and Jill Ireland. A new group of patients arrive at a hospital to be treated for tuberculosis where they all take a fancy to one of the nurses. The film was adapted from the play Ring for Catty by Patrick Cargill and Jack Beale. Carry on Nurse from 1959 was based on the same play. The cast and production team of Twice Round the Daffodils create a noticeable similarity with the Carry On films, but the film is not an official member of the Carry On series.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-02
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Murder at 3am
Overview: A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Once a Sinner
Overview: Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-01
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Night Was Our Friend
Overview: Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-01
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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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All on Her Own
Overview: Rosemary returns from a party to the empty Hampstead house where she has lived since the death of her husband. He died of an overdose of sleeping pills - was it accidental - she tries to find out.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-25
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Old Mother Riley's Circus
Overview: Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-10
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Top Floor Girl
Overview: An ambitious and unscrupulous young woman joins an advertising agency.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-12
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