John Longden
Also Known As: John Longdon
Biography: John Longden was a West Indian-born English screen, stage, and television actor. He appeared in dozens of films from 1926 to 1964, including five (Blackmail, Juno and the Paycock, The Skin Game, Young and Innocent, Jamaica Inn) directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Longden appeared in numerous television series.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: West Indies
Birthday: November 11, 1900
Deathday: May 26, 1971
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Blackmail
Overview: London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-07-11
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Young and Innocent
Overview: Robert Tisdall finds on the beach the corpse of a woman he knew. Others wrongly conclude that he is the murderer. Fleeing, he desperately attempts to prove that he is not the killer. A young woman becomes embroiled in the effort.
Genres: Thriller Romance Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-01
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Alias John Preston
Overview: A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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Quatermass 2
Overview: In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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Juno and the Paycock
Overview: During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-29
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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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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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Barging Along
Overview: A short documentary following the lives of barge-folk on England's canals.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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The Gaunt Stranger
Overview: A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fast to uncover the serial killer known as 'The Ringer'.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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The Last Post
Overview: 'Soldier takes the blame when his Bolshevik brother shoots a soldier during the General Strike.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-01-11
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Quinneys
Overview: 'Antique dealer's daughter loves foreman who makes fakes for ex-partner.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-01
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The Arcadians
Overview: 'Club-owner crashes plane in Arcady, land of truth and beauty.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Glad Eye
Overview: 'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-01
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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Overview: The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-30
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So Evil, So Young
Overview: A young girl is framed for a robbery and sent to a harsh reform school, where she becomes the target of a vicious warden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Adventures of Dusty Bates
Overview: Dusty Bates observes some smuggled jewels hidden in a crate aboard a ship; he is pursued by low-lifes when the crate is put ashore.
Genres: Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-01
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It Isn't Done
Overview: Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle. He also inherits a very stuffy, prim-and-proper butler who constantly reprimands Blaydon whenever he disobeys aristocratic protocol...which he often does.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-24
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Dangerous Cargo
Overview: Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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The Lady Craved Excitement
Overview: A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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Bad Boy
Overview: Nick plans to go to Canada after being released from prison, but his old gang will not share out the loot from their last job.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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The Wallet
Overview: A mystery thriller intended for US TV.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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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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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Overview: A shy British teacher looks back nostalgically at his long career, taking note of the people who touched his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Meet Mr. Callaghan
Overview: A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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The Last Load
Overview: David and Monty are two friends of Susan and Betty Potter whose father runs a fleet of lorries. One by one, his lorries are involved in accidents and sabotage is suspected. The children are determined to find the culprits.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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Q Planes
Overview: In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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The Flame of Love
Overview: A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-07
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Innocent Sinners
Overview: A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Thoroughbred
Overview: Joan (Helen Twelvetrees) is a Canadian, adopted by Ma Dawson (Nellie Ferguson), a struggling horse breeder and trainer. Joan thinks "legs don't make a race horse, it's blood", and so she buys an unwanted thoroughbred colt called Stormalong. Helped by Ma's son Tommy Dawson (Frank Leighton), Joan restores the horse to health and fitness, and soon enough the horse is winning race after race, becoming a favourite for the Melbourne Cup.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-09
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Elstree Calling
Overview: A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-02
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The Silence of Dean Maitland
Overview: Dean Maitland (John Longden), a young man in orders and engaged to a woman, is involved in a tragedy, to reveal the details of which would ruin his career. The Dean denies responsibility for both the pregnancy of his lover Alma Lee (Charlotte Francis), and the death of her father, whom it turns out was enraged at the Dean's behaviour, attacked him and was killed in a fall. His friend, Dr. Everard (John Warwick), is found guilty of the death on false evidence, and Maitland allows him to suffer 20 years imprisonment. When the doctor is released from prison, bitter and seeking revenge, the Dean must confront his silence and his guilt, and the climax is the Dean's confession from the pulpit of his sins...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-12
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Sherlock Holmes: The Man Who Disappeared
Overview: Adaptation of an Arthur Conan Doyle novel, in which Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson investigate the secret of a wealthy businessman.
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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An Honourable Murder
Overview: A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-31
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Born Lucky
Overview: A humble girl's rise to fame.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-05
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Rynox
Overview: Things are not all well at Rynox House, where the company is on the verge of collapse. At the same time, its senior partner, FX Benedik, keeps receiving threats from the disgruntled Boswell Marsh, who is seen in town buying theatre tickets and revolvers. As the Rynox staff, including the young Tony Benedik, work to keep the business afloat, FX invites Marsh to settle his grievances at his house one fateful night....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-04
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The Common Touch
Overview: The Common Touch is a 1941 British drama film directed by John Baxter and starring Geoffrey Hibbert, Harry Welchman, Greta Gynt and Joyce Howard. On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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Jennifer Hale
Overview: Quota quickie with Rene Ray as Jennifer Hale, a chorus girl wanted for questioning in the murder of a theatrical producer. Fleeing to Manchester she becomes a taxi dancer under an assumed name, meets architect Ballard Berkley who falls in love with her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-06
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Piccadilly
Overview: A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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The Black Widow
Overview: Mark Sherwin is driving down a country lane when he comes across someone laying in the middle of the road. Thinking it is someone who has been hit by a car he stops to see if he can help. What he gets for his efforts is a vicious belt to the head from a lead cosh. He is then relieved of his wallet and his car. Several minutes later having somewhat recovered, he staggers to a nearby farmhouse and collapses.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-22
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Tower of Terror
Overview: Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-27
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Children of Chance
Overview: A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-20
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Two Worlds
Overview: An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-28
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The Ringer
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-31
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Two Crowded Hours
Overview: A murderer is on the run from prison and is out to get everyone, especially the girl, who put him there. The detective gives chase with the help of a London cabbie who has aspirations of becoming a policeman himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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The Wickham Mystery
Overview: 'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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Murder on the Second Floor
Overview: A novelist imagines the murders of his fellow tenants...
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-04
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Atlantic
Overview: English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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The House of Marney
Overview: An Essec sailor helps a girl save an heir from his crooked uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-04
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Unpublished Story
Overview: Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-10
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Death by Design
Overview: Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-23
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Palais De Danse
Overview: The head taxi dancer at a Tottenham dancehall blackmails a Lady to make her stop her son's affair with a poor but courageous dancer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-07-27
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The Lion Has Wings
Overview: This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
Genres: Documentary War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-03
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Frozen Alive
Overview: A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.
Genres: Mystery Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Overview: On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Old Mother Riley's Circus
Overview: Mother Riley takes over a circus on the point of closing down, and makes it a success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-10
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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 Man Who Finally Died
Overview: Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-01
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Overview: A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-07
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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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A Woman's Temptation
Overview: Lost Danziger's crime cheapie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-12
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You Know What Sailors Are
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-14
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Anna Karenina
Overview: Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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For Dealers Only
Overview: This is a film made for Ford dealerships, encouraging them to smarten up their showrooms and organise their sales tactics. Slovenly Mr Sinclair is shown how to get his garage fit for purpose by Ford publicity guru Mr Harding. Soon the untidy pile of out of date brochures are replaced by a bespoke Ford display cabinet, prospects are safely organised in a card index system and there are"fine photographs of Dagenham" on the walls. This is a fascinating insight into branding and sales, 1930s style.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-25
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Broad Waterways
Overview: 'Water', says the transport man, 'is lovely stuff' - and the development plan for British Waterways is based on this belief. The film shows parts of the plan in action, then goes to the N.E. Division, where a skipper is taking 110 tons of newsprint from Hull to Nottingham. 'As a drink', says the transport man, 'you may not think much of it. But used like this...'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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