Robert Raglan
Also Known As: Robert Edward Oliver Cornewall-Walker
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Reigate, Surrey, England, UK
Birthday: April 07, 1909
Deathday: July 18, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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For Members Only
Overview: A somewhat prudish young lady inherits a nudist camp. She wants to shut it down, but is persuaded by its members to give the place a look before she takes any action. She agrees, and while touring the camp finds herself attracted to one of the patrons. The trouble is, so does another young woman at the camp. Complications ensue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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Man from Tangier
Overview: International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-25
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Confession
Overview: A confession to a priest from a thief leads to the priest's life being threatened by his gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-01
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Recoil
Overview: A jeweller is killed in a gang robbery leaving the daughter as the only witness. When the police can't build a case against him she decides to go undercover to infiltrate the home of the killer's brother. Slowly she is drawn into the world of the rival gangs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-01
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Morning Departure
Overview: At the end of World War II, a Royal Navy submarine on routine patrol strikes and detonates a mine. The subsequent explosion sinks the submarine, killing most of its crew. Frantic efforts are taken to rescue those remaining alive.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-01
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Dead Lucky
Overview: Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been works more of imagination than genuine journalism. But when he and his columnist girlfriend, Jenny Drew, finally manage to infiltrate one of them, it leads quickly to trouble. The party's organiser is found murdered the next morning, and a number of suspects begin to emerge. But which of them killed Lucky Lewis?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Subterfuge
Overview: A young wife is becoming very distraught over the fact that her husband, a secret service "spy" for England, has changed his mind about transferring away so that he can spend more time with her and their young son. He has grown cold and distant towards her; she thinks it 's because of the secretiveness of his work. Meanwhile, an American spy comes to England and is induced to help the British "team" with an undercover spy ring. When this spy ring is over turned the "bugs" that crawl out from under its rock shocks everyone!
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-12
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Information Received
Overview: Drama of an underworld double-cross as a man and woman set a death trap from which only one could possibly escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Loot
Overview: Two bank robbers, Dennis and Hal, are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Count Five and Die
Overview: Dutch patriots, a U.S. officer and a British spy fool the Nazis with a fake Soho film company.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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The Mirror Crack'd
Overview: Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Good Beginning
Overview: After their honeymoon, Johnny Lipton and his wife Kit move into their small apartment. Kit runs the flat on a tight budget, for she hopes that one day with her support her husband will eventually run his own business. A lack of understanding of each other s character and aspirations, however, leads to many problems before Johnny and Kit are able to attempt a 'good beginning' to their marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-05
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The Great Van Robbery
Overview: Interpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-16
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Slave Girls
Overview: Leader of a tribe of amazon women, Queen Kari, has vanquished a rival tribe and rules them with savage ruthlessness and cruel arrogance. A hunter stumbles onto the enclave and falls for one of the slaves, so unleashing the anger and envy of the possessive, sadistic Queen.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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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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Nightbeat
Overview: After the war is over, two army pals take opposite paths in civvy street. One becomes a petty criminal, the other becomes a policeman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-22
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A Woman Possessed
Overview: English doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go too far when John accuses Katherine of trying to kill Ann with medication. Could she do such a thing -- and will these three ever have a good relationship?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-14
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Jigsaw
Overview: A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-21
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Catch Me a Spy
Overview: While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and trade in exchange for her husband, but she develops an attraction to the one she thinks is a good candidate.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-06
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There's Always a Thursday
Overview: A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The Haunted House of Horror
Overview: Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-15
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Overview: An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.
Genres: Crime Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-16
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Hidden Homicide
Overview: A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Dad's Army
Overview: Dad's Army was a 1971 feature film based on the BBC television sitcom Dad's Army. Directed by Norman Cohen, it was filmed between series three and four and was based upon material from the early episodes of the television series. The film told the story of the Home Guard platoon's formation and their subsequent endeavours at a training exercise.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-12
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Where the Spies Are
Overview: A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-26
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The One That Got Away
Overview: Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Brothers in Law
Overview: Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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Portrait of Alison
Overview: An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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Mr. Axelford's Angel
Overview: A romantic tale of a scatty secretary and a stuffy boss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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The Courtneys of Curzon Street
Overview: On New Years Eve, 1899, baronet's son Edward Courtney becomes engaged to Kate, his mother's maid, much to the scandal of London society. The film then follows their family through four generations, with separations, joys, tragedies, and service in the Boer War, WWI, and WWII.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-04-11
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Private's Progress
Overview: Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-17
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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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Violent Playground
Overview: A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-14
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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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A Woman's Temptation
Overview: Lost Danziger's crime cheapie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-12
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23 Paces to Baker Street
Overview: Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads him into a desperate race, to find a kidnapped child. When he gets no help from the police, he along with his butler, and his ex fiancée, attempt to track down the crooks.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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The Magnificent Six and ½: Bob-a-Job
Overview: The gang help in the collections for a youth club, by doing odd jobs around the neighborhood and getting into trouble at the same time.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-01
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