Joss Ambler
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Adult: No
Birthday: June 23, 1900
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 1959
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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 Magnet
Overview: A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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Spin a Dark Web
Overview: A boxer and war-time Telephone Engineer (Lee Patterson) is lured into a murder cover-up plot by a scheming woman ( Faith Domergue).
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Dead by Morning
Overview: Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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Contraband
Overview: When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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The Years Between
Overview: After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana Wentworth forges a new life for herself, becoming an MP and learning to love again. Then, out of the blue comes the shattering news that her husband is not dead after all.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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Ghost Ship
Overview: Warned that it is haunted, a skeptical young couple buy a rundown yacht and fix it up to be their home-on-the-sea, only to slowly realize that it really is haunted.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Candles at Nine
Overview: A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Here Comes the Sun
Overview: When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail – which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his – and dressing up as a Russian countess...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-12
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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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Battle for Music
Overview: Story of the London Philharmonic Orchestra in World War II, from going bust, to being taken over by the musicians to run itself. Starring many of the members of the orchestra themselves
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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The Agitator
Overview: The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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Murder in Soho
Overview: A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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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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Come on George!
Overview: George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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John Wesley
Overview: Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-02
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Mine Own Executioner
Overview: Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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The Citadel
Overview: Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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Rhythm Serenade
Overview: Patriotic musical romance. After her school is closed, teacher Ann tries to join up. However, she is persuaded to organise a nursery for a munitions factory.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-11
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Background
Overview: Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-09
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Who Goes There!
Overview: When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-09
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The Next of Kin
Overview: Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.
Genres: Drama War Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-15
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Black Eyes
Overview: Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-08
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Her Favourite Husband
Overview: While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-05-11
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Overview: "The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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Much Too Shy
Overview: A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Somewhere in Civvies
Overview: Ex-army private Randle stands to receive a substantial inheritance from his uncle if he can prove he is of sound mind. However, his devious cousin tries to grab the money by having Randle committed to a psychiatric home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-15
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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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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
Overview: A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-23
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Gert and Daisy Clean Up
Overview: Two friends set about trying to run a restaurant and bringing a gang of black marketeers to justice during the Second World war.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-09
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The Big Money
Overview: Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-09
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Overview: Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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A Canterbury Tale
Overview: Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Genres: Drama Mystery War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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I'll Be Your Sweetheart
Overview: In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-30
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Read All About It
Overview: An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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What's the Next Job?
Overview: Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-30
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The Peterville Diamond
Overview: Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-11
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Premiere
Overview: In Paris a leading theatre impresario is murdered on opening night, shortly after replacing his leading lady. A police Inspector in the audience takes over the investigation. The film was shot at Elstree Studios. It was a close remake of the 1937 Austrian film Premiere and re-used a number of musical scenes from the original which were dubbed into English.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-20
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The Silver Fleet
Overview: Jaap van Leyden is in charge of a shipyard in newly occupied Holland. At first he collaborates with the Germans because it is the easiest course to follow. Later a child's rhyme reminds him of his patriotic duty, but how best to resist the Nazis without endangering his wife and fellow workers?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-15
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The Feminine Touch
Overview: Following a group of five very different student nurses during their first year of training at an NHS hospital in London called St. Augustine’s Hospital (filmed at Guy's Hospital), where they live in a dormitory. Susan (Belinda Lee) is reliable and sensible; Pat (Delphi Lawrence) is flighty and open; Maureen (Adrienne Corri) is Irish and loud; Ann (Henryetta Edwards) is a typical public school girl; and Liz (Barbara Archer) comes from a typical working class background. As they get to know each other, they bond in spite of their differences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-19
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They Were Sisters
Overview: The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-02
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Captain's Orders
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-23
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