John Batten
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rotorua, North Island, New Zealand
Birthday: April 03, 1903
Deathday: August 10, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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For Those in Peril
Overview: A WWII flyer fails to join the RAF so he joins the Air - Sea Rescue instead. His boat is out in all conditions picking up downed pilots and taking them to safety.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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The Church Mouse
Overview: When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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The Battle of the Sexes
Overview: Gum-chewing frizzy-haired golddigger Marie Skinner cooks up a scheme with her lover Babe Winsor, a jazz hound, to fleece a portly middle-aged real estate tycoon, William Judson. Marie moves into Judson's apartment building and contrives to meet and seduce him, plying him with compliments, music, swoons, décolletage, and batted eyes. When his loyal wife (and their two children) see him out catting with Marie at a night club, mom's devastated and confronts him. He moves out. Babe wants Marie to sell Judson worthless bonds. Will mom commit suicide? Will sis shoot the floozy? Will pops figure out he's being a fool?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-12
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Under the Greenwood Tree
Overview: A girl organist is blamed for ousting the village choir.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-09-05
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The Chorus Kid
Overview: Having been in show biz since infancy, Broadway chorus girl Beatrice regrets her lack of formal education, so when she unexpectedly falls heir to a huge sum of money, Beatrice decides to make up for lost time.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-09
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The Great Game
Overview: Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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The Great Game
Overview: Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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Loose Ends
Overview: 'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-22
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The Wonderful Story
Overview: A paralysed farmer watches his brother fall in love with the woman he intended to marry.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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As Good as New
Overview: A woman, disappointed in love, becomes increasingly cynical and attempts to marry a wealthy man.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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High Finance
Overview: Self-made businessman Sir Grant Rayburn is obsessed with making money to the exclusion of all else. He shows little interest in his daughter Jill and is irritated when she falls in love with, and wishes to marry, a young man named Tom. Sir Grant does not believe Tom is a suitable match for Jill as he does not come from a moneyed background. He suspects that Tom is a chancer with an eye on access to Jill's money....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-21
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Call Me Mame
Overview: Call Me Mame is a 1933 British comedy film directed by John Daumery and starring Ethel Irving, John Batten and Dorothy Bartlam. It was made at Teddington Studios as a quota quickie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-03
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The Love Waltz
Overview: Originally Liebeswalzer, this German operetta was the third talkie vehicle for the effervescent Lillian Harvey. The plot is a typical Graustarkian affair, with Princess Eva (Harvey) preparing to marry a duke whom she's never met. Getting cold feet, the duke ducks the wedding, persuading a handsome young commoner named Bobby (Willy Fritsch) to take his place. The wedding goes on as planned, with Eva never suspecting that her new hubby is a ringer. Eventually, the false duke confesses everything, leading to all sorts of intrigue before a happy ending can be realized. Love Waltz was simultaneously filmed in an English-language version, which posed no problem for the British-born Harvey but caused a few uncomfortable moments for her Teutonic co-stars (eventually, Willy Fritsch was replaced by John Batton, who'd played a bit role in the German version).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-23
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Men Like These
Overview: A British submarine on patrol is accidentally rammed by a merchant ship, that tears a big hole in in sub which sinks trapping the crew.
Genres: History Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-30
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