Martin Wyldeck
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Biography: Martin Wyldeck (11 January 1914 – 29 April 1988) was an English actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Warwickshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 11, 1914
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 29, 1988
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The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Exchange and Divide
Overview: A marital breakdown is brought to life through a mixture of dramatisation, monologue, montage and animation. Through the perspectives of the husband, the lawyer, the couple’s parents and their “home help”, a picture emerges of the transactional nature and economic fall-out of marriage, along with issues of class and gender politics affecting single mothers.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Just Joe
Overview: A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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Night Must Fall
Overview: A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-18
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The Return of Mr. Moto
Overview: Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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That Kind of Girl
Overview: That Kind of Girl is a British cult film and the directorial debut of Gerry O'Hara. Produced by Robert Hartford-Davis with a script by Jan Read, it was released in 1963. The film's subject is premarital sexual relationships and sexually transmitted diseases in an English 1960s millieu.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Now and Forever
Overview: A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-10
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The Informers
Overview: When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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Die Screaming Marianne
Overview: After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely death of her mother, the one daughter stands to inherit a large sum of money and also a number of documents containing information that will incriminate her father, who was a crooked judge. While her father wants the documents, her sister wants the money and they will each stop at nothing, even murder, to get what they want.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-08-13
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The Hypnotist
Overview: Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-29
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Time Bomb
Overview: When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation, unaware that he has explosive problems of his own.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-05
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Timeslip
Overview: An atomic scientist is found floating in a river with a bullet in his back and a radioactive halo around his body. The radioactivity has put him seven-and-a-half seconds ahead of us in time. He teams up with a reporter to stop his evil double from destroying his experiments in artificial tungsten.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Squaring the Circle
Overview: An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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The Embezzler
Overview: Bank robber's plans for a wealthy lifestyle gradually turn to more noble aims.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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The Shadow-Line
Overview: Andrzej Wajda's English-language film of a novella by Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski, aka Joseph Conrad, about a young man in his first command as a sea captain. A series of crises prove incredibly difficult for his new authority, for the sea is curiously becalmed and the crew is weakened by feverish malaria. When the first mate's fear convinces many that the ship is haunted and cursed by the malevolent spirit of the previous captain, the young man must cope with their superstition as well as the conspicuous absence of much-needed medicine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-09-06
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Cool It, Carol!
Overview: A naive couple leave their small town for success in London's adult entertainment culture.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-01
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
Overview: During the French Revolution, a mysterious English nobleman known only as The Scarlet Pimpernel (a humble wayside flower), snatches French aristos from the jaws of the guillotine, while posing as the foppish Sir Percy Blakeney in society. Percy falls for and marries the beautiful actress Marguerite St. Just, but she is involved with Chauvelin and Robespierre, and Percy's marriage to her may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the little Dauphin
Genres: Action Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-11-09
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The Oblong Box
Overview: Evil lurks in the gloomy house at Markham Manor where a deranged Sir Edward is the chained prisoner of his brother Julian. When Sir Edward escapes, he embarks on a monstrous killing spree, determined to seek revenge on all those whom he feels have double-crossed him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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The Four Dimensions of Greta
Overview: Hans a young German journalist arrives in London to write an article about au-pair girls, but is requested by friends to investigate the whereabouts of their teenage daughter Greta.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-23
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Foreign Exchange
Overview: A former British Secret Service agent is persuaded to negotiate a spy exchange with Russia, only to find himself drawn into political intrigues.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-13
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A Magnum for Schneider
Overview: Introducing David Callan, in his first case after being invalided out of the special services.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-04
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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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Universal Soldier
Overview: A life-long mercenary commander and weapons expert is commissioned to train an army for an exiled African leader. But as his conscience finally catches up to him, he is seen as a threat to the powers behind the operation.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-01
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Heart to Heart
Overview: A television interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-06
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Street Corner
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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The Frightened City
Overview: A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Chain of Events
Overview: When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-30
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Robbery
Overview: In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-08-01
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The Girl on the Boat
Overview: Norman Wisdom does to P.G. Wodehouse in Girl on the Boat what Jerry Lewis did to Gore Vidal in Visit to a Small Planet. The zany Wisdom, put in charge of his aunt's cottage during an English summer in the roaring twenties, decides to invite several of his friends to his posh new digs. Among the invitees is the title character, played by the delightful comedienne Millicent Martin. All sorts of slapstick chaos ensues, but Wisdom manages to save the day before things get hopelessly out of hand. Like Jerry Lewis, Norman Wisdom is an acquired taste, but he's worth sampling at least once. ...The Girl on the Boat
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-05
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Will Any Gentleman...?
Overview: A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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Doctor in Love
Overview: Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-12
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Spell of Evil
Overview: A businessman hires a marriage bureau when his wife dies from a sudden illness and is delighted to find himself paired up with the beautiful Clara. Despite seeming like the perfect wife, Clara is in fact a witch and has nothing but evil intentions for her new husband.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-16
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The Bushbaby
Overview: The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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Frenzy
Overview: London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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The Devil's Pass
Overview: Bill Buckle has had a dream--he wants to buy back the family fishing boat, the Cascade, which the family had to sell years ago to pay for his father's funeral. However, the boat is now owned by a trio of fishermen, and their plans for the boat don't coincide with Bill's at all.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-04
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