Hugh McDermott
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: March 20, 1906
Age: 119 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 29, 1972
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Devil Girl from Mars
Overview: Eight people at a remote Scottish inn find themselves confronted by a woman from Mars, who has landed her flying saucer for repairs but intends to soon conquer the Earth and enslave its men for breeding purposes.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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First Men in the Moon
Overview: The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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No Orchids for Miss Blandish
Overview: A sheltered heiress is abducted on her wedding night by a trio of cheap hoods.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-15
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Delayed Flight
Overview: Two aeroplane passengers take on the mission of a secret agent after he is murdered.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-05-03
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The Seventh Veil
Overview: A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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'Pimpernel' Smith
Overview: Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations. His research is supported by the Nazis, since he professes to be looking for evidence of the Aryan origins of German civilisation. However, he has a secret agenda: to free inmates of the concentration camps.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-28
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The File of the Golden Goose
Overview: U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Golden Goose. Although Peter is unsure about John's loyalties, the two infiltrate the gang and win the trust of thug Nick "The Owl" Harrison before enduring a series of double-crosses.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-10-13
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The Love Lottery
Overview: Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-30
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Night People
Overview: A US intelligence officer, stationed in Germany, is caught in a political dilemma when the Russians kidnap a young Army private, the son of prominent American businessman. In exchange for the soldier's return, the Russians attempt to barter a trade for an elderly German couple who they want for treason.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-11
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Malaga
Overview: A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-24
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The Wife of General Ling
Overview: In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous Chinese merchant-philanthropist and the agent thinks the merchant is working with the notorious Chinese guerilla warlord General Ling.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-07
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The Huggetts Abroad
Overview: Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-21
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Lilli Marlene
Overview: Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Trent's Last Case
Overview: When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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Guns in the Heather
Overview: An American foreign exchange student in Ireland, Rich Evans (Kurt Russell), gets caught up in espionage when a dying man gives him a message to pass to his older brother, who is an American intelligence agent unbeknownst to Rich. Rich and his friend are then kidnapped by an Eastern Bloc agent pretending to be from the American Embassy in the hopes that they will lead him to a scientist who is attempting to defect to the West. Originally aired in 3 parts on 'Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color' TV series, then re-edited into a theatrical feature in Europe under the title, 'The Secret of Boyne Castle.'
Genres: Action Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-07
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Bindle (One of Them Days)
Overview: Based on the book of Herbert Jenkins, a comedy about a accident prone furniture remover and his mate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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You Pay Your Money
Overview: Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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As Long as They're Happy
Overview: The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-15
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The Adding Machine
Overview: An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-23
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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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This Man Is Mine
Overview: One wartime Christmas the well-to-do Ferguson family extends a festive welcome to various strays, with comic results.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-12
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Johnny-on-the-Spot
Overview: An ex-convict, who was framed, struggles to clear his name.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-21
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Where's That Fire
Overview: Capt Viking and his incompetent fire crew accidentally foil a plot to steal the crown jewels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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Neutral Port
Overview: A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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For Freedom
Overview: Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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Spring Meeting
Overview: Tiny Fox-Collier and her son, Tony, are broke. A cheery and handsome young man about town, Tony knows he can rely on his mother for a brainwave to save them from utter destitution. This she has: a visit is scheduled to the Irish country estate of her old flame Sir Richard Furze, now a wealthy widower with two daughters. But while Tiny is determined to see her son marry the beautiful but haughty Joan, it seems Tony only has eyes for Joan’s spirited younger sister, Baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-23
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Four Days
Overview: A melodrama adapted from a play concerning the neglected wife of a financially embarrassed business man. Attempted suicide, forgery, fights and blackmail all in four days!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-01
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Overview: An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-16
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His Lordship Goes to Press
Overview: An American reporter takes over an assignment on English farm life. Owing to a mistake in identity things turn out rough but Valerie's charm and personality overcome the obstacles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-01-16
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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The Wedding of Lilli Marlene
Overview: The story leading up to the wedding of Lilli Marlene.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-30
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The Captain's Table
Overview: A passenger is murdered on board an ocean going liner and suspicion falls all too neatly upon her husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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David Livingstone
Overview: Film portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Good-Time Girl
Overview: Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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Two on the Tiles
Overview: A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Chato's Land
Overview: In 1870s New Mexico, a half-breed kills a bigoted sheriff in self-defense but the posse that eventually hunts him finds itself in dangerous territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-25
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Captain Apache
Overview: The title character is a US army Captain of Native American descent who is asked to investigate the murder of an Indian agent. His only clue is "April morning", the last words spoken by the victim. Can he unravel the mystery before the clock runs out?
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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The Games
Overview: From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-07
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk
Overview: American scientist Dr. Frank Smith is brought to Britain to help the C.I.A. There is a defecting East block scientist they want him to debrief. The commies are less than amused and set Dr. Smith up for a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-21
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Lawman
Overview: While passing through the town of Bannock, a bunch of drunken cattlemen go overboard with their celebrating and accidentally kill an old man with a stray shot. They return home to Sabbath unaware of his death. Bannock lawman Jered Maddox later arrives there to arrest everyone involved on a charge of murder. Sabbath is run by land baron Vince Bronson, a benevolent despot, who, upon hearing of the death, offers restitution for the incident.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-03-11
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A King in New York
Overview: A recently-deposed "Estrovian" monarch seeks shelter in New York City, where he becomes an accidental television celebrity. Later, he's wrongly accused of being a Communist and gets caught up in subsequent HUAC hearings.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-12
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