Christopher Rhodes
Also Known As: Christopher George Rhodes
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Alverstone, Hampshire, England, UK
Birthday: April 30, 1914
Deathday: June 22, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Becket
Overview: Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Operation Amsterdam
Overview: When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond merchants to evacuate their diamond supplies to England.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-12
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The Colditz Story
Overview: Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-25
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Tiger in the Smoke
Overview: In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he talks about a treasure that was hidden there. Several years later, the members of that group are still together as a street band living in a cellar. The last of the gang, who was chosen for his skills as a ruthless killer, escapes from prison in a rampage of killing and, obsessed with the treasure, takes the gang to France to recover it.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-27
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Betrayed
Overview: Screen superstars Clark Gable ("Gone With The Wind," "It Happened One Night") and sultry bombshell Lana Turner ("Peyton Place," "The Postman Always Rings Twice") team-up in this intriguing WWII drama. Suspected of being a Nazi spy, Dutch-resistance member Turner is given a last chance mission to redeem herself. Gable is an intelligence agent of the exiled Dutch government, who falls in love with her. Co-starring Victor Mature ("My Darling Clementine") and Oscar-nominee Louis Calhern ("The Asphalt Jungle").
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-07
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The Piper's Tune
Overview: A group of children fleeing Napoleon's armies attempt to protect a mountain escape route from being discovered by a pursuing French platoon.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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Tiger Bay
Overview: In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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The Naked Earth
Overview: Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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Wonderful Things
Overview: Set in a beautiful fishing village in Gibraltar, Wonderful Things! stars Frankie Vaughan as Carmello, a young fisherman who, unable to earn enough from fishing to marry his tempestuous fiancée, decides to come to England to seek his fortune and finds fortunes are not quite so easy to come by.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-10
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The Guns of Navarone
Overview: A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Genres: War Adventure Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-27
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The Lady is a Square
Overview: Neagle stars as Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-03
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Lancelot and Guinevere
Overview: In and around the castle Camelot, brave Cornel Wilde (as Lancelot) and virtuous Brian Aherne (as King Arthur) vie for the affections of lovely Jean Wallace (as Guinevere).
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-02
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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A Terrible Beauty
Overview: In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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El Cid
Overview: Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Genres: Action Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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John Paul Jones
Overview: The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Genres: War History Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-16
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Dunkirk
Overview: A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-20
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Ill Met by Moonlight
Overview: Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo to embarrass the occupiers.
Genres: War Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-31
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Never Let Me Go
Overview: An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-18
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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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