Ralph Truman
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: London, England, UK
Birthday: May 07, 1900
Deathday: October 15, 1977
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Gender: Male
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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 Man Who Knew Too Much
Overview: A couple vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters into their own hands to save him.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-16
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Oliver Twist
Overview: When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Genres: Drama Adventure Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-28
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Treasure Island
Overview: Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Henry V
Overview: In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Nicholas and Alexandra
Overview: Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overthrown and exiled to Siberia with his family.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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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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The Saint in London
Overview: Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-30
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Beware of Pity
Overview: A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-22
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The Shadow
Overview: A group of people in an old dark house are terrorized by a mysterious hooded figure dressed in black who proceeds to kill them off one by one.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-02
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The Perfect Flaw
Overview: A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-31
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Overview: A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-27
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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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The Marriage of Corbal
Overview: The film hinges on the love triangle between a young aristocratic lady on the run (Cleonie, played by Hazel Terry), the murderous Varennes, Citizen-Deputy of the Revolution who saves her by disguising her as his nephew (Nils Asther) and finally the Marquis of Corbal of the film's title, played by Hugh Sinclair.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-28
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The Spaniard's Curse
Overview: A convicted murderer uses an ancient curse to take his revenge on those responsible for sending him to prison.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-01
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The Reluctant Widow
Overview: A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-01
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Wicked as They Come
Overview: A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-22
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The Interrupted Journey
Overview: When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-11
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Captain Bill
Overview: A barge operator helps a schoolteacher tackle a gang of criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Overview: Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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The Silent Passenger
Overview: A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The Challenge
Overview: Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Genres: Romance Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-14
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South Riding
Overview: Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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The Golden Coach
Overview: A viceroy, a nobleman and a bullfighter court a comedy-troupe actress in 18th-century Peru.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Life of St. Paul
Overview: The Life of St. Paul, including reenactment of the Book of Acts, and St. Paul's Epistles.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-30
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The Crimson Circle
Overview: Based on the novel by Edgar Wallace, detectives at Scotland Yard try and track down The Crimson Circle, a secret society of blackmailers
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-10
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The Outsider
Overview: A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-30
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Malta Story
Overview: Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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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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Secret Lives
Overview: A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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The Case of Gabriel Perry
Overview: An unstable Victorian doctor murders a woman.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-30
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Beau Brummell
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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Tons of Trouble
Overview: An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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The Master of Ballantrae
Overview: Scottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-05
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The Butler's Dilemma
Overview: Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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Under Ten Flags
Overview: "Under Ten Flags" is a WWII movie loosely based on the true story of the German navy commerce raider Atlantis, a converted Auxilliary Cruiser, and her Captain Bernhard Rogge. Atlantis, camouflaged as a merchant ship, cruised the South Seas ( Atlantic, Indian & Pacific) and sank or captured 22 merchant ships from May 1940 through November 22, 1941 when she was sunk by the British Cruiser HMS Devonshire. Rogge was one of the few German officers of flag rank who were not arrested by the Allies after the war ended. This was due to the very proper and ethical way he exercised his command of Atlantis. After the war he advanced to Rear Admiral in the West German Navy and became a high-ranking NATO commander.
Genres: History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-09-15
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The Bells
Overview: Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Overview: While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Black Tent
Overview: During the British retreat through Libya, a British officer takes shelter with a group of Arab Bedouin. He marries the chief's daughter. Sometime later, his younger brother, who had believed him to be dead, is informed that he may be alive in Libya - prompting him to set out and search for him.
Genres: Romance Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Partners Please
Overview: An aristocrat becomes a gigolo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-31
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The Night My Number Came Up
Overview: British Air Marshal Hardie is attending a party in Hong Kong when he hears of a dream, told by a pilot, in which Hardie's flight to Tokyo on a small Dakota propeller plane crashes on a Japanese beach. Hardie dismisses the dream as pure fantasy, but while he is flying to Tokyo the next day, circumstances start changing to align with the pilot's vivid vision, and it looks like the dream disaster may become a reality.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-22
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Lisbon Story
Overview: A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Genres: Music Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-20
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Eureka Stockade
Overview: Spectacular account of the infamous Eureka Stockade, and the events leading up to it.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-26
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Exodus
Overview: Ari Ben Canaan, a passionate member of the Jewish paramilitary group Haganah, attempts to transport 600 Jewish refugees on a dangerous voyage from Cyprus to Palestine on a ship named the Exodus. He faces obstruction from British forces, who will not grant the ship passage to its destination.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-15
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Lady Caroline Lamb
Overview: Lady Caroline Lamb, dissatisfied in her marriage, has an affair with the dashing Romantic poet Lord Byron.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-22
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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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Web of Evidence
Overview: A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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Papworth Village Settlement
Overview: Following the recuperation and treatment of patient Frank Thompson, 'Papworth Village Settlement' is an account of the varied medical and social services available to sufferers of tuberculosis at Papworth.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Christopher Columbus
Overview: Christopher Columbus overcomes intrigue at the Spanish court and convinces Queen Isabella that his plan to reach the East by sailing west is practical.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-12
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The Laughing Lady
Overview: A musical set during the French Revolution.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-16
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Sabotage at Sea
Overview: The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-07
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Overview: The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-03
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Dinner at the Ritz
Overview: The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Genres: Mystery Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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The Man Within
Overview: A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-19
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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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Change for a Sovereign
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-08
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