Clare Greet
Also Known As: Claire Greet, Clara Greet
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leicestershire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: June 14, 1871
Age: 153 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 14, 1939
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Emil and the Detectives
Overview: Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publication in 1929; this 1935 British version was the first in English. Believed lost for decades, it was recently rediscovered by the BFI and has now been restored. The film moves the action from Berlin to London, where Emil goes to stay with his grandmother and cousin. Thereafter, the tale of Emil’s adventures with a gang of streetwise London children faithfully follows the original plot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-05
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The Manxman
Overview: A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-18
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Alibi
Overview: Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-04-28
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Murder!
Overview: When a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-31
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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Mrs. Dane's Defence
Overview: A widow wants to marry, but her father will only consent if he is satisfied that a scandalous story about her is untrue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-30
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The Rising Generation
Overview: A major and his wife return from abroad and pose as servants to observe their adolescent children.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-11-01
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The Pointing Finger
Overview: A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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Royal Eagle
Overview: A clerk is suspected of committing a warehouse robbery and captures the real thieves aboard a pleasure boat.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Little Friend
Overview: A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-18
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Lord Camber's Ladies
Overview: In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out of the marriage. The distraught woman then leaves her shop to become a nurse. Trouble ensues when the actress suddenly appears, accuses the nurse of fooling around with her husband and dies leaving the nurse and the husband to be charged with murder. Fortunately, they are found innocent and they are free to fall in love at last.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-27
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Three Live Ghosts
Overview: Adapted from a popular Broadway play and concerns three veterans who return to London from the War only to discover that they have been officially listed as dead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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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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Number 13
Overview: This unfinished, never-released 1922 Alfred Hitchcock-directed film was about low-income residents of a tenement building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-10
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Maria Marten, or The Murder in the Red Barn
Overview: In 1820s rural England, a young girl is tricked by tales of marriage from a villainous Squire. When she becomes pregnant and disappears, a gipsy lad is blamed.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-18
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White Face
Overview: A doctor becomes a blackmailer and a jewel thief in order to raise funds for a hospital in East London but is uncovered by an ambitious reporter.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-01
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Lord Babs
Overview: A steward inherits the estate of an earl. To repel the advances of an unwanted fiancee, he pretends that he has regressed to childhood behaviors.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-02-01
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The Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-01
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The Ring
Overview: Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-28
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Sabotage
Overview: Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly happily. But Mrs. Verloc does not know that her husband has a secret that will affect their relationship and threaten her teenage brother's life.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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St. Martin's Lane
Overview: On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-18
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Overview: A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-12
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