Janet Munro
Also Known As: Janet Neilson Horsburgh
Biography: Born Janet Neilson Horsburgh, Janet Munro, was an English actress, best known for Darby O'Gill and the Little People (1959) for which she won a Golden Globe Award. and Life for Ruth (1962), for which she received a BAFTA Film Award nomination. She died aged 38 of a heart condition.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Blackpool, England, UK
Birthday: September 28, 1934
Deathday: December 06, 1972
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Overview: British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're right. Hysterical panic has engulfed the world after the United States and the Soviet Union simultaneously detonate nuclear devices and have caused the orbit of the Earth to alter, sending it hurtling towards the sun.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Crawling Eye
Overview: A United Nations investigator crosses paths with a pair of psychic sisters on his way to Trollenberg observatory in the Swiss Alps, which has been plagued by a series of mountaineer disappearances that may be related to a radioactive cloud at the mountain's south face.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-07
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Third Man on the Mountain
Overview: Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a novel by James Ramsey Ullman, entitled "Banner In The Sky". In the middle of the 19th century in Switzerland, a famous British mountaineer, Captain John Winter, wanted to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-10
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Swiss Family Robinson
Overview: After being shipwrecked, the Robinson family is marooned on an island inhabited only by an impressive array of wildlife. In true pioneer spirit, they quickly make themselves at home but soon face a danger even greater than nature: dastardly pirates.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Darby O'Gill and the Little People
Overview: A wily old codger matches wits with the King of the Leprechauns and helps play matchmaker for his daughter and the strapping lad who has replaced him as caretaker.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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Afternoon of a Nymph
Overview: An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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Tommy the Toreador
Overview: Tommy is a happy sailor, travelling the world, singing his favourite songs. When he visits Spain, he gets mistaken for a famous bullfighter. Tommy finishes up in the bull-ring facing a VERY angry bull and cheered on by the crowd. What will he do now?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-21
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Bitter Harvest
Overview: A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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Hide and Seek
Overview: A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-21
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Perilous Assignment
Overview: "Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-06
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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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The Young and the Guilty
Overview: Parents veto the romance of two high-school students, forcing them to meet in secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Life for Ruth
Overview: John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Overview: An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-15
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Small Hotel
Overview: The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter. A past master of the gentle art of fiddling, he extracts the maximum profit from his job while managing to endear himself to both the customers and staff. Then, there's a visit from Mr Finch, who feels it's time Albert was replaced.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-14
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The Admirable Crichton
Overview: A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant, Crichton, is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the community's leader.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-02
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Daylight Robbery
Overview: Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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The Horsemasters
Overview: American students are having a difficult time at a prestigious English riding school. Dinah Wilcox is overly cautious because of memories of an accident, but Danny Grant gives her confidence. The strict, but admired, instructor fears she must sell her favorite horse because of school tradition, but the students end up taking up a collection to buy it back for her.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-01
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Cry WoIf
Overview: A highly imaginative boy involves his friends in a series of false alarms, with the result that nobody will come to his aid when he is involved in a dangerous situation.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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The Piano
Overview: Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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I Captured the King of the Leprechauns
Overview: Behind the scenes of Darby O'Gill and the Little People.
Genres: Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-29
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Swiss Family Robinson: Adventure in the Making
Overview: A look behind the scenes at Walt Disney’s Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-05-07
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Escape to Paradise/Water Birds
Overview: A behind-the-scenes show on the filming of Swiss Family Robinson on the West Indian island of Tobago. Then the True Life Adventure Water Birds.
Genres: Documentary Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-18
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