Charles Farrell
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Biography: Charles Farrell was born on August 6, 1900 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Night and the City (1950), The Crimson Pirate (1952) and The Last Appointment (1954). He was married to Babbie McManus. He died on August 27, 1988 in London, England. Not to be confused with American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dublin, Ireland
Birthday: August 06, 1900
Deathday: August 27, 1988
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Gender: Male
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Overview: A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-12
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Tonight's the Night - Pass It On
Overview: Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-26
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The Abominable Dr. Phibes
Overview: After a team of surgeons botches his beloved wife's operation, the distraught Dr. Phibes unleashes a score of Old-Testament atrocities on his enemies.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-18
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Overview: After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
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Night and the City
Overview: Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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The Vampire Lovers
Overview: In the heart of Styria the Karnstein Family, even after their mortal deaths, rise from their tombs spreading evil in the countryside in their lust for fresh blood. Baron Hartog whose family are all victims of Karnstein vampirism, opens their graves and drives a stake through their diabolical hearts. One grave he cannot locate is that of the legendary beautiful Mircalla Karnstein. Years of peace follow that grisly night until Mircalla reappears to avenge her family's decimation and satisfy her desire for blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-04
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The Hornet's Nest
Overview: Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-05-13
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Meet Sexton Blake
Overview: The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-05
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The Rebel Son
Overview: During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-02
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Night Journey
Overview: A truck driver must carry a load of dynamite. Meanwhile, his girlfriend gets mixed up with a gang that sells stolen furs. Eventually, the truck driver must rescue his girlfriend from the bad guys and blows them and their loot to Kingdom Come.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Boys Will Be Boys
Overview: Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-01
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Stolen Assignment
Overview: Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-01
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Jack's the Boy
Overview: With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-11
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The Crimson Pirate
Overview: Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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Jericho
Overview: An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Convoy
Overview: A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-28
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Edna: The Inebriate Woman
Overview: A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-21
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The Strange Case of Dr. Manning
Overview: A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Sebastian
Overview: Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-24
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Jailbirds
Overview: Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-20
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Wild Boy
Overview: This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Lonely Road
Overview: Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-23
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Dangerous Moonlight
Overview: Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-26
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Oh! What a Lovely War
Overview: The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Bell-Bottom George
Overview: George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-07
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Creeping Shadows
Overview: Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-28
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The Way to the Stars
Overview: Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-16
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The Man at Six
Overview: A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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The House Opposite
Overview: A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-22
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The Innocents of Chicago
Overview: A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-20
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Money for Nothing
Overview: As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-20
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Lucky Ladies
Overview: Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss
Overview: A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for a year without touching his inheritance.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-28
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Hidden Homicide
Overview: A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Final Appointment
Overview: A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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There Is Another Sun
Overview: Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-12
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Red Wagon
Overview: Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-06
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Too Young to Love
Overview: A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-08
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There Was a Young Lady
Overview: A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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Looking on the Bright Side
Overview: Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-14
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Overview: English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Operation Cupid
Overview: A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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The Diplomatic Corpse
Overview: London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
Genres: Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-01
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The Turners of Prospect Road
Overview: A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-16
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Don Chicago
Overview: Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-06
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Countess Dracula
Overview: Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory lineage, fortunately discovers a way to become young again; but the price to be paid by those around her will be high and bloody.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-30
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Surprise Package
Overview: Comic crime caper, set on a Greek island, starring Yul Brynner and Mitzi Gaynor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-29
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Frenzy
Overview: After a serial killer strangles several women with a necktie, London police identify a suspect—but he claims vehemently to be the wrong man.
Genres: Crime Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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