Patricia Burke
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Biography: Patricia Burke was an English singer and actress in cinema, stage and TV. She was the daughter of actress Marie Burke and British operatic tenor Thomas Burke.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Milan, Italy
Birthday: March 23, 1917
Deathday: November 23, 2003
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Gender: Female
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Forbidden
Overview: Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-28
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Dilemma
Overview: Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Overview: In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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The Day the Fish Came Out
Overview: A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: el
Release Date: 1967-09-27
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The Impersonator
Overview: When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Desperate Man
Overview: Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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While I Live
Overview: In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-07
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The Film That Never Was
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Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-02
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Strangler's Web
Overview: What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-01
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The Happiness of Three Women
Overview: Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Lisbon Story
Overview: A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Genres: Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-20
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The Trojan Brothers
Overview: Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-04
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The World of Budgerigars
Overview: Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Jennifer Hale
Overview: Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she becomes a taxi dancer under an assumed name, meets architect Ballard Berkley who falls in love with her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-06
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