Leonard Sachs
Also Known As: Leonard Meyer Sachs
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roodeport, Transvaal, South Africa
Birthday: September 26, 1909
Deathday: June 15, 1990
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 Gamma People
Overview: An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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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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Pit of Darkness
Overview: When Richard Logan, the partner in a safe making firm, is found unconscious, on an old deserted bomb site, he finds that he has no recollection of the last three weeks. Then he discovers that the private detective, hired by his wife, has been found murdered, and a safe that his firm installed in a large country house, has been cleverly opened, and the contents are missing. So with the help of his wife, he sets out to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Taste of Fear
Overview: A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-05
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There Was a Crooked Man
Overview: When a law-abiding demolition expert is duped by a gang of criminals into helping them he is caught and jailed. When he is released he goes straight and then notices a leading citizen in his town is cheating his neighbours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-31
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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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The Door in the Wall
Overview: A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Secret of Stamboul
Overview: A man travels to Istanbul to try and prevent a revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-05
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Once Is Not Enough
Overview: An over-the-hill movie producer marries a wealthy, spiteful woman and closeted lesbian just to please his spoiled daughter who then, in an attempt to spite him, seduces both a wealthy playboy and a local screenwriter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-06-20
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Stranglehold
Overview: A movie star is typecast as a ruthless gangster. His troubles begin when he gets reality confused with his job and becomes deluded into believing that he really is a mobster.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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She Knows Y'Know
Overview: Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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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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Nineteen Eighty-Four
Overview: A man who works for 'The Party' (an all powerful empire led by a man known only as 'Big Brother') begins to have thoughts of rebellion and love for a fellow member. Together they look to help bring down the party.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Malaga
Overview: A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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The Siege of Sidney Street
Overview: A police inspector (Donald Sinden) tracks down Russian anarchist Peter the Painter (Peter Wyngarde) and his gang in circa-1911 London.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-11
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After the Ball
Overview: The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
Genres: Music History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-13
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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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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Doctor Who: The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve
Overview: The TARDIS materialises in Paris in the year 1572 and the Doctor decides to visit the famous apothecary Charles Preslin. Steven, meanwhile, is befriended by a group of Huguenots from the household of the Protestant Admiral de Coligny. Having rescued a young serving girl, Anne Chaplet, from some pursuing guards, the Huguenots gain their first inkling of a heinous plan being hatched at the command of the Catholic Queen Mother, Catherine de Medici.
Genres: History Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-26
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Konga
Overview: Dr. Decker returns from Africa after a year, presumed dead. In that year, he discovered a way of growing plants and animals to an enormous size. He brings back a baby chimpanzee to test out his theory. As he has many enemies at home, he decides to use his chimp, 'Konga', to 'get rid of them'. Then Konga grows to gigantic proportions and wreaks havoc all over London!
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Doctor Who: Arc of Infinity
Overview: Omega, an ancient Time Lord made of pure anti-matter, once defeated by the Doctor, is plotting to cross over into this dimension by bonding with the Doctor. Meanwhile, the disappearance of a man in Amsterdam piques the curiosity of his cousin, Tegan, who previously left the Doctor at Heathrow Airport and now finds herself at Omega's mercy. Fearing total destruction from the collision of matter and antimatter, the Time Lords recall the Doctor to Gallifrey to undertake the only viable solution: executing him!
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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Freud: The Secret Passion
Overview: An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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Thunderball
Overview: A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James Bond to the Bahamas to once again save the world.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-11
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John Wesley
Overview: Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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Beyond the Curtain
Overview: A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Dover Road Mystery
Overview: A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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