Frank Forsyth
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: December 19, 1905
Deathday: May 02, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Skull
Overview: An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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The Big Job
Overview: A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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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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The Psychopath
Overview: Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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Blind Corner
Overview: Paul Gregory (William Sylvester) is an accomplished composer despite his blindness, and his beautiful wife Anne (Barbara Shelley) seems to be the perfect supporting wife. But unknown to Paul, she is having a passionate affair with Ricky (Alexander Davion), a struggling artist. Keen to support her artist lover and give them more time to make love, she persuades Paul to commission Ricky to paint her portrait. But Paul senses their affection for each other, and threatens to cut Anne off without a penny. Desperate to keep both her lover and Paul s money, Anne plots the perfect murder and asks Ricky to carry it out...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Terrornauts
Overview: A group of scientists are kidnapped and taken to an outer space outpost in order to save Earth from destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-01
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The Silent Witness
Overview: A man phones the police to confess to killing his wife accidentally, but investigations prove that his story is not as straightforward as it first appears
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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Late Night Final
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives race to find a crippled man, the only witness to crime, who has mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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The Young Jacobites
Overview: The story of Highland children who help Bonnie Prince Charlie to escape to France after the battle of Culloden. Serial in 8 episodes: 1. Journey into the past (15mins; 1367 feet) 2. The traitor (16mins; 1423 feet) 3. The league in action (14mins; 1290 feet) 4. The ambush (15mins; 1385 feet) 5. The prince must be warned (14mins; 1292 feet) 6. The rescue (17mins; 1542 feet) 7. The enemy closes in (15mins; 1322 feet) 8. Over the threshold (20 mins; 1782 feet)
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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No Smoking
Overview: A scientist invents a pill to cure smokers of their nicotine addiction. However, when he makes his discovery public, he encounters strong resistance from the tobacco industry.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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Circus Friends
Overview: A group of circus children and their friends band together to save the show from financial disaster.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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And Now the Screaming Starts!
Overview: In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-27
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The Vault of Horror
Overview: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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The Stable Door
Overview: This is a film made as an elaborate advert for the Insurance Industry. A group of criminals conspire to rob a warehouse which has also been spotted as a vulnerable target by an insurance salesman who suggests precautions, including buying insurance. Will the works be done in time and sufficient to stop the robbers?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-01
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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Jackpot
Overview: Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to him. He plans to crack a safe at a club.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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What a Whopper
Overview: A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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Scarlet Web
Overview: An insurance investigator is framed for murder after a pretty woman hires him to recover a letter from a man who wants to blackmail her.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Rag Doll
Overview: A British drama about a girl becoming a woman after she relocates to London. She and her young boyfriend become tempted by one of her older admirers money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Carry On Constable
Overview: With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse, they manage to totally wreck operations of the police force and let plenty of criminals get away, even before they arrive at the station. They all have to prove themselves or else they'll be out of a job and Sgt. Wilkins will be transferred.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-22
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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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Craze
Overview: A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-16
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Carry On Screaming!
Overview: The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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They Came from Beyond Space
Overview: A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-01
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Tales That Witness Madness
Overview: Dr. Tremayne is an enigmatic psychiatrist running an asylum that houses four very special cases. Visited by his colleague Nicholas, Tremayne explains his amazing and controversial theories as to why each of the four patients went mad.
Genres: Horror Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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Before I Wake
Overview: A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-10
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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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Carry On Spying
Overview: Carry On favourite Barbara Windsor makes her debut in this outrageous send-up of the James Bond movies. Fearless agent Desmond Simpkins and Charlie Bind, aided and abetted by the comely Agent Honeybutt and Agent Crump, battle against the evil powers of international bad guys STENCH and their three cronies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Double Exposure
Overview: A chance photograph may reveal a murderer's identity - and someone's after the photographer!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-01
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The Surgeon's Knife
Overview: A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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Stolen Assignment
Overview: Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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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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Tales from the Crypt
Overview: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Dr. Terror's House of Horrors
Overview: Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-02-23
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The Naked Civil Servant
Overview: Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Raising the Wind
Overview: 'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Love Among the Ruins
Overview: An aging actress and socialite, Jessica Medlicott has ended her engagement with a younger man and is now being sued by her former fiancé. Esteemed barrister Sir Arthur Glanville-Jones is assigned to represent Jessica in the lawsuit, and he also happens to be an old suitor of hers from decades earlier. While Jessica claims not to remember him, and Arthur still smarts from her earlier rejection, the two form a close bond during the case.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-06
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Carry On Again Doctor
Overview: Dr. Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Traitor's Gate
Overview: A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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The Deadly Bees
Overview: Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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Three on a Spree
Overview: A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-28
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Game for Three Losers
Overview: A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Carry On Sergeant
Overview: Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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The Dark Road
Overview: Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-07-28
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Heads We Go
Overview: A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-28
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Eye of the Devil
Overview: A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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