Stratford Johns
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Birthday: September 22, 1925
Deathday: January 29, 2002
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Gender: Male
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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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The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu
Overview: Fu Manchu's 168th birthday celebration is dampened when a hapless flunky spills Fu's age-regressing elixir vitae. Fu sends his lackeys to round up ingredients for a new batch of elixir, starting with the Star of Leningrad diamond, nabbed from a Soviet exhibition in Washington. The FBI sends agents Capone and Williams to England to confer with Nayland Smith, an expert on Fu.
Genres: Comedy Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-08-08
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Splitting Heirs
Overview: A member of the English upper class dies, leaving his estate and his business to an American, whom he thinks is his son who was lost as a baby and then found again. An Englishman who thinks he is an Indian comes to believe that he is actually the heir. He comes to hate the American who is his boss, his friend, and the man who has stolen the woman after whom he lusts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-04-02
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It
Overview: John Cleese is hilarious as the descendant of Sherlock Holmes in this modern detective drama of international power politics and intrigue. Unlike his illustrious grandfather however, he only succeeds in bungling every job he organizes. Also stars Arthur Lowe as the "bionic" grandson of Dr. Watson, Stratford Johns as the Commissioner of Police, and Connie Booth as Mrs. Hudson.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-18
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Dance with a Stranger
Overview: Ruth Ellis lives with her ten-year old son Andy next to a night club. One night she meets David Blakely, and they start a love affair. However, for David with his upper-class background, it is impossible to uphold the relationship. He breaks up with her, something which makes Ellis, obsessed by him, very upset.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-01
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Dear Brutus
Overview: "They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-27
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Overview: Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-13
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Wild Geese II
Overview: A group of mercenaries is hired to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau Prison in Berlin.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-10-18
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The Plank
Overview: A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-18
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Tiger in the Smoke
Overview: In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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Salome's Last Dance
Overview: London, England, November 5th, 1892, Guy Fawkes Night. The famous playwright Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas discreetly go to a luxury brothel where the owner, Alfred Taylor, has prepared a surprise for the renowned author: a private and very special performance of his play Salome, banned by the authorities, in which Taylor himself and the peculiar inhabitants of the exclusive establishment will participate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-06
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A Night to Remember
Overview: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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Foreign Body
Overview: Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-26
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A Demon in My View
Overview: A strangler known as the Kenbourne Killer has been murdering streetwalkers for 25 years. The police set out to track him down.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-09-23
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The Little Match Girl
Overview: The Little Match Girl is a short story by Danish poet and author Hans Christian Andersen. The story is about a dying child's hopes and dreams, and was first published in 1845. This adaptation was made for Harlech TV and broadcast on 28th December 1986 and starred Twiggy and Roger Daltrey, and features the song 'Mistletoe and Wine' which became a Christmas number one for Cliff Richard in 1988, the biggest selling record of that year.
Genres: Drama Music TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-28
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The Lair of the White Worm
Overview: On a farm owned by Eve Trent and her sister Mary, young archaeologist Angus Flint discovers a large and inexplicable skull, which he soon deduces belonged to the D'Ampton Worm, a mythical beast supposedly slain generations ago by the ancestor of the current Lord D'Ampton. The predatory Lady Sylvia Marsh soon takes an interest in both Flint and the virginal Eve, hinting that the vicious D'Ampton Worm may still live.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-21
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The Saint and the Brave Goose
Overview: A two-part episode of the 1978 TV series "The Return of the Saint," edited together and released as a feature.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-07
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The Beggar's Opera
Overview: A historical adaptation of John Gay's 18th Century ballad opera, exuberantly performed for BBC television.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Burnt Evidence
Overview: Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-05
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A Small Mourning
Overview: When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her rent, and her TV is repossessed. Soon after the funeral she meets Arnold, a wealthy pub landlord, who squires her to the local Conservative Club ball in an effort to cheer her up. Life with Arnold promises not only companionship but undreamt-of luxury, but Marjorie's friends and family do not necessarily approve.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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Two Letter Alibi
Overview: Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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'Itch
Overview: A lone hitch hiker, marooned near a housing estate, has a dramatic effect on the lives of those around him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-02-23
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The Fool
Overview: A costume drama / satire about financial skull-duggery, and confidence tricksters in both the upper and lower classes in Victorian London. A working class man impersonates a lord who is supposedly very rich and a financial wizard. As such he is invited to all the best peoples' parties.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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The Professionals
Overview: A renowned safecracker and his crew try to rob a bank by entering the vault through the sewer system.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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The Ladykillers
Overview: Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-08
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George & Mildred
Overview: Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper is determined to make husband George celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-10-10
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Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil
Overview: The two-part TV movie Hitler's SS: Portrait in Evil crystallizes that evil by concentrating on two Berlin brothers. In 1931, Helmut Hoffman a brilliant student and self-styled opportunist, joins Hitler's SS. At the same time, his younger brother Karl, a top athlete and idealist, becomes a chauffeur for the "S.A.".
Genres: TV Movie Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-17
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Car Trouble
Overview: In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-02-28
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Shooting Stars
Overview: Drama set around the kidnapping of a footballer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-05-17
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The One That Got Away
Overview: Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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Mr Moon's Last Case
Overview: Play based on Brian Patten's book. Local children and retired detective Moon band together to protect a leprechaun from the investigations of the local police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
Overview: The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
Genres: Comedy Crime Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-11
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Hand in Hand
Overview: Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-06
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Who Done It?
Overview: This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-20
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Doctor Who: Four to Doomsday
Overview: The Doctor and his companions arrive on a spaceship headed for Earth, populated by natives of Earth from various different eras and commanded by the leaders of the Urbankan race. What are the Urbankans' intentions when they reach Earth?
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-26
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Cromwell
Overview: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-16
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Violent Playground
Overview: A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-14
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The Ship That Died of Shame
Overview: After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-19
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Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
Overview: Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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The Secret Agent
Overview: 1992 BBC adaptation of the Joseph Conrad novel of 1907 concerning the mostly inactive spy Alfred Verloc, who is ordered by his superior Mr Vladimir to carry out a terrorist act. Verloc reluctantly plans the operation, seeking help from The Professor. Verloc is also an informant for the police and the Assistant Commissioner and Chief Inspector Heat add additional pressure on Verloc and his attempts to carry out his plan. Verloc’s subsequent actions gravely affect his wife who is devoted to her mentally unbalanced brother Stevie.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-10-28
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Marriage
Overview: Councillor Podkolyossin has called on the services of Madame Fyokla, the matchmaker - decision he is already beginning to regret. Against his better judgment he finds himself competing for the hand of Miss Agafya.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-10
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