Derek Bond
Also Known As: Дерек Бонд, Derek William Douglas Bond
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: January 26, 1920
Age: 105 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 15, 2006
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Svengali
Overview: A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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The Hand
Overview: During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrorizes London by cutting off the hands of his victims.
Genres: Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-01
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Scott of the Antarctic
Overview: The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-29
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Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Uncle Silas
Overview: Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast inheritance.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-08
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The Captive Heart
Overview: A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-04-29
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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Stranger from Venus
Overview: Stranger from Venus (a.k.a. Immediate Disaster and The Venusian) is the story of a woman who meets a stranger with no pulse who has the power of life and death at his touch. He is here from Venus to warn Earth about the atom.
Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-23
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Christopher Columbus
Overview: Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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Tale of Three Women
Overview: A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Forever Ealing
Overview: This is a history of the England's Ealing Film Studios, from its beginnings in 1902. It follows the studio's successes through the 1930's, World War II dramas, the well-known 'Ealing comedies' with Alec Guinness, and the BBC's television productions
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-12-05
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Stormy Crossing
Overview: After murdering his lover, cross-channel swimmer Joy Webster, Derek Bond attempts to do same to her other boyfriend, Sheldon Lawrence. John Ireland plays an Interpol detective who stems Bond's homicidal hijinks. Black Tide was produced by Monty Berman in his pre-Saint days.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-01
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Broken Journey
Overview: A plane flying over the Swiss Alps develops engine trouble and is forced to crash-land on a glacier. Unable to radio for help because of damaged batteries and with limited food supplies, the survivors must come to a decision -- whether to stay and wait for help they believe is coming or to leave the shelter of the wrecked plane and set out in bad weather to try to reach civilization.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-14
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Poet's Pub
Overview: A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn. The story was adapted from the 1929 novel by Scottish writer Erik Linklater.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-05
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Love's a Luxury
Overview: A theatre producer and actor try in vain to have a quiet week in a country cottage. But their efforts turn into comic disaster as a variety of wives, girlfriends and scoutmasters arrive uninvited.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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The Hour of 13
Overview: 1890, London, and a serial killer known as The Terror is murdering policemen. When gentleman thief Nicholas Revel unwittingly becomes the chief suspect, he must use his guile and wits to prove he’s not the killer; whilst also not getting caught for a jewel robbery he has just committed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-21
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Tony Draws a Horse
Overview: The free-spirited wife of a proper British doctor leaves him after an arguement over the anatomically correct drawing of a horse on the wall drawn by their young son Tony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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Marry Me
Overview: The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-07
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Press for Time
Overview: Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Man Who Ruined the British Film Industry
Overview: Documentary about John Davis, a businessman who as chairman oversaw the decline of the Rank Organisation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-03-06
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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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Rogue's Yarn
Overview: An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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Hijack!
Overview: A youth on the run hijacks a yacht with three children aboard.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Secrets of a Windmill Girl
Overview: One Windmill girl tells the tragic history of another who took to drink and, finally, killed herself after working in strip clubs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-02
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The Quiet Woman
Overview: The former wife of a criminal moves to a coastal town and takes over the running of a bar known as The Quiet Woman. She becomes outraged when she discovers the previous owner had allowed local smugglers to use it as a base. She soon has become romantically involved with one of the smugglers, which causes enormous problems when a customs officer turns up, followed closely by her former husband.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Visions
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Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-30
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When Eight Bells Toll
Overview: In a vein similar to Bond movies, a British agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.
Genres: Action Thriller Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-09
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The Weaker Sex
Overview: A British housewife does her own battles against the enemy during World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-11
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The Vanishing Army
Overview: "Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-29
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Saturday Night Out
Overview: Five seamen and a passenger are intent on making the most of the 14 hours they will spend in London.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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The High Terrace
Overview: A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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Wonderful Life
Overview: Cliff Richard and The Shadows are hired to star in a movie shot amid the lush tropical scenery of the Canary Islands. A sunny seaside spectacular, filled with romance, excitement and high spirits - not to mention a dozen musical numbers.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-03
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Trouble in Store
Overview: Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-14
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Distant Trumpet
Overview: David Anthony, a Harley Street physician, swaps duties with his brother, a medical missionary in Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-31
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Overview: When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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The Next Scream You Hear
Overview: The police receive an anonymous tip that Bernard Peel has murdered his wife, Jennifer. Peel declares his innocence, but there is a substantial amount of evidence contradicting his story. Is someone trying to frame Mr. Peel? Peel asks private detective Matthew Earp to investigate.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-06
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