Bruce Seton
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Simla, Punjab, India
Adult: No
Birthday: May 29, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 1969
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The Green Cockatoo
Overview: A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Café Colette
Overview: A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Love from a Stranger
Overview: Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-18
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Hidden Homicide
Overview: A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Whisky Galore!
Overview: Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-16
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The Cruel Sea
Overview: At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-24
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Just Joe
Overview: A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-01
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The Blue Lamp
Overview: P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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Eight O'Clock Walk
Overview: Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Overview: It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
Genres: Horror History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-01
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Delayed Action
Overview: Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-01
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Greyfriars Bobby
Overview: In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-17
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Bond Street
Overview: Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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The Curse of the Wraydons
Overview: Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He has a secret lab complete with a torture chamber, featured in the films climax. Probably the most maniacal portrayal Tod ever gave.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-16
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Breakaway
Overview: When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-16
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Look Before You Love
Overview: Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-06
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Dead Man's Evidence
Overview: When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-01
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Freedom to Die
Overview: Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Portrait of Clare
Overview: The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-13
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Operation Cupid
Overview: A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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Weddings Are Wonderful
Overview: Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-04
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The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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West of Suez
Overview: In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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The Heart of a Man
Overview: Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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The End of the Road
Overview: Itinerant Scot performers: One daughter of a veteran trouper weds a ne'er do well and dies in childbirth.Her spendthrift man goes but later returns to bleed the old man out of remaining savings.Another daughter makes good as a singer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-01
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The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Overview: Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
Genres: Horror Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-03-19
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Jack of All Trades
Overview: In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-30
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Undercover Girl
Overview: Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Worm's Eye View
Overview: Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-01
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Violent Moment
Overview: Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple's small son, Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy's second birthday, he learns that Daisy has had the boy adopted. When she refuses to tell him where the boy is, he strangles Daisy and goes on the run.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Ambush in Leopard Street
Overview: A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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The Crooked Sky
Overview: An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-31
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Lucky to Me
Overview: Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was based on Lupino's own 1928 stage show So This is Love which he had co-written with Arthur Rigby. The film was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. It was the last film of Lupino who had made a string of successful musical comedies during the Thirties.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Return to Yesterday
Overview: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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Annie Laurie
Overview: British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Blue Smoke
Overview: British sports film directed by Ralph Ince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-01
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Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Overview: Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-09-18
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Scott of the Antarctic
Overview: The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-29
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There's Always a Thursday
Overview: A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Father Steps Out
Overview: The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father from the action of a couple of swindlers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-13
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Take Me To Paris
Overview: Mr. Armstrong’s racing stable is preparing to send one of its top horses to run in Paris's Maisons Lafitte, when the thoroughbred is unexpectedly injured. Its replacement is Dunderhead, lesser fancied, but favourite of jockey and stable lad, Albert. Meanwhile, two crooked stable hands plan to use the cross channel trip to smuggle forged banknotes.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-01
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The Middle Watch
Overview: Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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Racing Romance
Overview: Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly finishes a mere second in the Oaks, Harry's snooty fiancee, Muriel, who never liked the setup anyway, disgustedly heads for greener pastures. Harry promptly marries Peggy, and, after an official investigation of the Oaks' results, Brownie gets revenge on the fickle Muriel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Blackmailed
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-01-30
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Emergency Call
Overview: A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Life in Danger
Overview: Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-30
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The Frightened City
Overview: A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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John Paul Jones
Overview: The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Genres: War History Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-16
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Make Mine a Million
Overview: Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Overview: A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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Mogambo
Overview: On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-23
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Overview: English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-06
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Fabian of the Yard
Overview: A feature length compilation of crimes solved by Superintendent Fabian. Based on a real Scotland Yard detective, Fabian was one of the first of a new breed of intellectual detectives who preferred to solve a crime using his brain rather than pure muscle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-18
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The 39 Steps
Overview: In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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Strictly Confidential
Overview: Two con-men just released from prison get straight back to their old tricks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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High Treason
Overview: Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-13
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Fire on the Heather
Overview: Docu-drama with re-enactments about three figures in the history of Christianity of Scotland: Saint Columba, Scottish martyr John Brown, and John Knox, leader of the 17th century Scottish Reformation.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-31
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