Elsie Wagstaff
Also Known As: Elsie Lilian Wagstaff, Elsie Wagstaffe
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leytonstone, Essex, England, UK
Birthday: July 01, 1899
Deathday: July 16, 1985
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Overview: Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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The Bond
Overview: Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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Appointment with Crime
Overview: Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Crimes at the Dark House
Overview: In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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The Snake Woman
Overview: A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-26
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Meet Sexton Blake
Overview: The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
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You Pay Your Money
Overview: Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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The Interrupted Journey
Overview: When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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Barnacle Bill
Overview: A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
Overview: An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill and refuses entry, raising suspicions about her whereabouts.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-29
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Trouble Brewing
Overview: Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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My Brother Jonathan
Overview: Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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Headline
Overview: A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-16
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Lassie from Lancashire
Overview: Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-16
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The Balloon Goes Up
Overview: Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
Genres: War Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-01
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Cotton Queen
Overview: The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-01
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John Halifax
Overview: Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-03-01
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Overview: A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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Whistle Down the Wind
Overview: When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-25
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Waterfront
Overview: When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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The End of the Affair
Overview: During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-24
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Trottie True
Overview: Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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Old Mother Riley at Home
Overview: Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-24
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The Raging Moon
Overview: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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The Dark Tower
Overview: While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-18
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Emma
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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Adam and Evelyne
Overview: A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-31
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Overview: English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-06
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