Henry Mollison
Also Known As: Evelyn Henry Mollison
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dundee, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: February 21, 1905
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 19, 1985
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Shakedown
Overview: A struggling young engineer, Bob Sanderson, refuses to marry the very-rich Edith Stuart until he can support her on his own earnings. He goes to work for her father as a messenger in the telegraph business, and, via his engineering skills, discovers a plot to kidnap Edith.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-17
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The Man in the White Suit
Overview: The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-07
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What the Butler Saw
Overview: An Earl returns from a tropical island and discovers the daughter of the tribal King has stowed away in his luggage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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The Music Goes 'Round
Overview: Harry Wallace (Harry Richman) is the star of a musical comedy who, while on a leave of absence from Broadway, encounters a troupe of untalented showboat players and takes them to New York City. Without letting them in on the joke, he then features them in a new revue, hoping that unintentionally-funny act will bring the house down.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-27
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Trapped by Television
Overview: An inventor looking for backing for his television invention gets involved with a crooked businessman and gangsters who try to steal his invention.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-15
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Secret Patrol
Overview: RCMP Alan Barclay is sent to investigate the presumed murder of his friend and fellow RCMP Gene when Gene's horse is found riderless. A "quota quickie" filmed in Canada.
Genres: Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-02
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A Bride for Henry
Overview: On the day of her wedding a young woman's fiancé doesn't show up, sleeping off the results of the previous night's wild bachelor party. Miffed, the woman decides to go ahead with the wedding anyway to teach her fiancé a lesson, so she calls her lawyer, Henry, and has him stand in for her missing groom. She intends to divorce her new "husband" at the first opportunity, but Henry--who has been in love with her for a long time--is determined to win his "wife's" hand.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-29
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Drake of England
Overview: Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of England, one of his final films, he takes the title role in Arthur Woods' portrayal of the life and times of the flamboyant piratical adventurer who founded Britain's sea fortunes. From clandestine romance at the court of Elizabeth I to conquests in the newly discovered lands of South America and spectacular victory over the Armada, Drake of England offers a panoramic overview of Drake's life.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-16
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Mister Cinders
Overview: The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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The Lone Wolf Returns
Overview: Once a jewel thief always a jewel thief? Yes and no. Yes if you consider the fact that Michael Lanyard also known as the Lone Wolf once retired from the "trade" but relapses back into his old habits when he is tempted by the emerald pendant of beautiful socialite Marcia Stewart. The trouble (?) is that he falls for the belle and he soon gets more interested in getting the girl than the jewels that adorn her. What he wants now is to return the pendant but a rival gang interfere and force him to take part in a big-time caper.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Youth Takes a Fling
Overview: McCrea plays Joe Meadows, whose only ambition as a Kansas farm boy was a life at sea. He moves to New York to try to get a job as a sailor, finds it more difficult than he thought, and meets Helen Brown, who falls for him and uses her feminine wiles to try to prevent him leaving.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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They Met in a Taxi
Overview: A cab driver takes in a young woman who claims to be a reluctant bride, and becomes involved in the search for a stolen necklace.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-08
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Devil's Squadron
Overview: In this action film, a courageous test pilot works with experimental aircraft for the US Armed Forces. When an important airplane manufacturer dies, his daughter is left to run the company. The company seems to be producing dangerous prototypes, so the woman decides to close the company.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-30
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The Face at the Window
Overview: A killer distracts his victims with a hideous face
Genres: Horror Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-18
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The Loves of Joanna Godden
Overview: Joanna Godden falls heir to a farm when her father dies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-08
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Someday
Overview: “Curley Blake is a lift operator in a block of flats. He is in love with Emily, the cleaning girl. When Emily returns from a stay in hospital, Curley arranges to treat her to dinner in one of the flats. Unfortunately, the owner returns early.” - Steve Crook.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-18
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The Windmill
Overview: The German adopted-daughter of a Belgian innkeeper is threatened with internment by him if she reveals to the British billetees that he is a spy. However, she is in love with one of them and helps them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-13
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Third Time Lucky
Overview: Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-26
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Whisky Galore!
Overview: Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-16
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Manhattan Moon
Overview: Night club owner Dan Moore is trying to collect a debt owed to him by playboy Reggie Van Dorn, but Reggie is a playboy with no money but lots of social connections. In lieu of the cash, Dan gets Reggie to introduce him to the swells of high society. They go to the opera and, after hearing Yvonne Malloy sing, Dan falls in love with her. Reggie introduces them, but the introduction is to Yvonne's double and stand-in, Toots. This leads to many complications for all concerned.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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Knowing Men
Overview: Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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Letting in the Sunshine
Overview: A window cleaner bumps into an old flame, and the pair turn detective in an attempt to foil a gang of burglars.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-01
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Hungry Hill
Overview: Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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The Great Impersonation
Overview: The second of the three film versions of the E. Phillips Oppenheim espionage thriller set largely in an old dark house where a tremulous wife wonders if her husband is really his double, a dastardly German spy.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-08
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Counterfeit Lady
Overview: Phyllis Fowler claims to be just a "simple little country girl" trying to get by in the wicked big-city, and she takes a big getting-by step when she pulls a scam that gains her a $17,000 diamond from an exclusive jewelry store. Soon, a private-detective, who has a dupe gem matching the stolen one, the police, and two gangster buddies of the jeweler are all racing each other to get the diamond back from Phyllis. The country-girl provides them all with a wild chase.
Genres: Comedy Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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McGlusky the Sea Rover
Overview: Comedy action starring Irish boxing champion Jack Doyle
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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Front Page Story
Overview: A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-15
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