C. V. France
Also Known As: Charles Vernon France, Charles V. France, C.V. France
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: June 29, 1868
Age: 156 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 13, 1949
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Black Coffee
Overview: Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-24
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Lord Edgware Dies
Overview: A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-31
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Went the Day Well?
Overview: The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-07
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-26
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The Skin Game
Overview: An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-26
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If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Royal Cavalcade
Overview: Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-15
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It Happened One Sunday
Overview: A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-28
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The Halfway House
Overview: A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
Genres: Mystery Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-04-02
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The Ware Case
Overview: An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Tudor Rose
Overview: The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Strange Boarders
Overview: Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-01
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A Yank at Oxford
Overview: A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-18
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Night Train to Munich
Overview: Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Ten Days in Paris
Overview: Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Overview: Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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Victoria the Great
Overview: The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Eugene Aram
Overview: A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-28
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These Charming People
Overview: A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-23
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A Night Like This
Overview: Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-16
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Overview: In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-20
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Broken Blossoms
Overview: A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-20
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The Loves of Robert Burns
Overview: Biography of the ploughboy poet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-03
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Crime Over London
Overview: With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Genres: Adventure Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-21
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