Avril Angers
Also Known As: Florence Avril Angers
Biography: Florence Avril Angers was an English stand-up comedienne and actress. The Daily Telegraph described her as "one of the most zestful, charming and reliable character comediennes in the post-war London theatre".
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Liverpool, UK
Birthday: April 18, 1918
Deathday: November 09, 2005
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Gender: Female
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Three Bites of the Apple
Overview: A tour guide wins a large sum of money at a casino and a beautiful woman schemes at have it, but love complicates her plans.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Miss Pilgrim's Progress
Overview: An exchange factory worker from New Jersey joins a plot to save a village from the Town and Country Planning Act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-29
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The Family Way
Overview: Young newlyweds Arthur and Jenny Fitton want nothing more than to get their marriage started on the right foot. But before they can depart for their honeymoon in Spain, they have to spend their first night together at the home of Arthur's parents. The couple are prevented from having any intimacy, but it only gets worse. They find out that their trip to Spain is canceled, which sets the tone for a rocky few weeks.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-18
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Blonde Bait
Overview: Seeking the whereabouts of international gangster Nick Randall, the US State Department contacts Scotland Yard, as his girlfriend, Angela Booth, is currently in a British prison. Angela has refused to give Nick up to the law, so the combined authorities arrange for Angela to escape, aided by stoolie Gran' Ramsey who is at the same prison. The police will then follow Angela to Nick. Gran' stages the getaway, and the two women, accompanied by a third convict, Marguerite, whose prison-born baby is about to be turned over to welfare authorities. It is up to Gran' to keep the police informed of Angela's movements without being detected by the escapees, until Angela contacts Nick. This film is a reworking of principal footage from the UK film WOMEN WITHOUT MEN (1955), q.v., which, with added new footage (including scenes with original star Beverly Michaels), significantly revises the plot and central characters from a story about a wrongly imprisoned waif to one about a gangster's moll.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Brass Monkey
Overview: Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-12-01
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Two A Penny
Overview: Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
Genres: Family Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Women Without Men
Overview: In love with a man who wants to marry her after he returns from a trip to sea, chorus girl Angela Booth tries to quit her seamy job and become a model citizen. When her employer refuses to dissolve her contract, though, they quarrel and she accidentally hits him. He presses charges, claiming she hit him deliberately, and she is convicted and sent to prison. As her fiance is at sea and out of contact, she is terrified he will think she has jilted him when she does not keep a New Year's date. A kindly old convict, Gran', notorious as a prison-breaker, agrees to engineer an escape for Angela...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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Skimpy in the Navy
Overview: Slapstick comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-15
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Light Fingers
Overview: Humphrey assigns a "watchdog" to keep an eye on his wife Rose, whom he thinks is a thief. She isn't - but the watchdog is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-01
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There's a Girl in My Soup
Overview: TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-12-15
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The Best House in London
Overview: In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Devils of Darkness
Overview: A secret vampire cult, which has its headquarters beneath the town cemetery, searches for victims for its human sacrifice rituals.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Mr. Forbush and the Penguins
Overview: Life for Richard Forbush, brilliant biology student and conceited philanderer, is one long round of eat, drink and be merry. But his decision to accept a six-month research post in the Antarctic, making the first detailed study of a penguin colony, changes all that... Living in Shackleton’s derelict hut, Forbush is alone at the frozen edge of the world, his only links to civilisation a two-way radio and letters to his elusive, would-be girlfriend, Tara, in London. Through an often ferocious winter in the company of the penguins, he grows increasingly attached to his hardy, endearing subjects – learning profound lessons in endurance and humility.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-07-29
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The Six Men
Overview: The ‘Six Men’ are a gang of six criminals that Scotland Yard is unable to pin a charge against even though they are positive of the identities.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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Don't Blame the Stork
Overview: When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Staircase
Overview: An aging gay couple owns a barber shop in the East End of London. One of them is a part-time actor about to go on trial for propositioning a police officer. The action takes place over the course of one night as they discuss their loving but often volatile past together and possible future without each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-20
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The Green Man
Overview: Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a professional hired assassin with a predilection for killing his targets with bombs. After disposing of a dictator and millionaire, Hawkins is assigned to kill a politician who is heading to a remote hotel, The Green Man, for a secret tryst with his secretary. There, however, Hawkins' plot is discovered by vacuum salesman William Blake, who determines to stop him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-21
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Bond of Fear
Overview: An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-01
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor
Overview: Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-09-01
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Be My Guest
Overview: A couple inherit a hotel with no guests until their son's pop group turns things around.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective
Overview: When D. C. Dangerous Davies, not held in high regard by his superiors, is assigned to find a notorious criminal kingpin, he uncovers the details of 15-year-old cold case.
Genres: Crime Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-04
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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 Millionairess
Overview: One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also the richest woman in the world. Brought up by a money-mad father, she will only consider a man for marriage if he can convert £150 into £50,000 within six months. But when she meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor, he has his own money-making challenge for her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-12
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