Ernest Butcher

The Desperate Man (1959)

, 57minutes
Origine Royaume-uni
Acteurs Conrad Phillips, Jill Ireland, William Hartnell, Charles Gray, Peter Swanwick, Patricia Burke
Rôle Grocer

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Background (1953)

, 1h23
Réalisé par Daniel Birt
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Thèmes Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Valerie Hobson, Philip Friend, Norman Wooland, Janette Scott, Mandy Miller, Jeremy Spenser
Rôle Clerk
Note60%

John and Barbie Lomax (Friend and Hobson) have been married for almost 20 years, but the marriage has seemingly reached breaking point. After leaving the army, John has been working hard on making a career for himself as a barrister, which takes up all of his time and attention, leaving him exhausted and irritable. He acts intolerantly and dismissively towards Barbie and their three children, and the marital relationship comes under intolerable strain as the couple argue, bicker and snipe constantly at each other. Realising that the poisoned atmosphere is not good for the children to experience, they agree that in the circumstances divorce is the lesser evil.

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Time Bomb (1953)

, 1h13
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Policier
Thèmes Transport, Le train
Acteurs Glenn Ford, Anne Vernon, Maurice Denham, Harcourt Williams, Victor Maddern, Harold Warrender
Rôle Martindale
Note59%

In Birmingham city, Railway Police Constable Charles Baron (John Horsley) is involved in a confrontation with a man believed to be a local vagrant. The man gets away, but he is soon found out to have been a saboteur, who has left a suitcase full of detonators and bomb-making components at the railway yard. Police realize that the man was attempting to sabotage a trainload of sea mines, destined for the Royal Navy Yard at Portsmouth. The train is stopped as soon as possible in case an explosion is imminent, but a residential area is nearby and the police have to evacuate local residents.

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The Happy Family (1952)

, 1h26
Réalisé par Muriel Box
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie
Thèmes Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne, Dandy Nichols, John Stratton, Shirley Mitchell
Note65%

The House of Lords is a grocery shop that sits on the South Bank of the river Thames close to the site of Festival Hall which is noisily under construction. It is owned by the Lord family, a husband and wife with several children. Lillian Lord runs the shop, while Henry is a British Railways train driver, who has worked on the railways for over 30 years and who is just about to retire. He is looking forward to enjoying a quiet retirement at the family shop looking after his pet hare, Winston, though his spiritualist sister in law Ada has had supernatural visions of "men in black" bringing discord.

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Les Forbans de la nuit (1950)

, 1h31
Réalisé par Jules Dassin
Origine Etats-Unis
Genres Drame, Thriller, Noir, Policier
Thèmes Sport, Films pour enfants
Acteurs Richard Widmark, Gene Tierney, Googie Withers, Hugh Marlowe, Herbert Lom, Francis L. Sullivan
Rôle Bert, Street Musician (uncredited)
Note78%

Harry Fabian est un frimeur qui tente des projets qui échouent systématiquement. Un jour, il rencontre Gregorius, la légende vivante de la lutte gréco-romaine. Il échafaude un plan pour organiser un combat. Mais comme d'habitude, ses plans vont échouer, et il va devoir échapper à beaucoup de personnes...

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Mission dangereuse (1950)

, 1h30
Réalisé par Roy Ward Baker
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Action, Espionnage
Thèmes Espionnage, Monde imaginaire, Politique
Acteurs Margaret Lockwood, Dane Clark, Marius Goring, Naunton Wayne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Olaf Pooley
Rôle Tom - Lab Assistant (uncredited)
Note60%

Une entomologiste est envoyée en mission secrète en Europe de l'Est pour analyser certains insectes qui sont élevés par l'ennemi pour répandre des maladies. Elle reçoit l'aide d'un journaliste américain.

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No Trace (1950)

Réalisé par John Gilling
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Dinah Sheridan, Hugh Sinclair, John Laurie, Barry Morse, Dora Bryan, Michael Brennan
Rôle Mr. Fern
Note61%

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Blackout (1950)

, 1h18
Réalisé par Robert S. Baker
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Dinah Sheridan, Kynaston Reeves, Maxwell Reed, Eric Pohlmann, Michael Brennan, Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Rôle Benny
Note57%

An engineer Christopher Pelly (Maxwell Reed), loses his eyesight in an accident. He goes to London to have an eye operation. There he wants to go to his friends house but the taxi driver dropped him at the wrong house in Kensington. In the house three men had murdered a person with a knife and the corpse was lying on the floor. Pelly doesn't know that he is in the wrong house, and seeing that he is blind, the three murderers don't kill him. Pelly reported the incident to the police but the police were unable to find the dead body. When Pelly regains his eyesight after the operation he decides to solve the murder mystery.

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For Them That Trespass (1949)

, 1h35
Réalisé par Alberto Cavalcanti
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Policier
Acteurs Richard Todd, Patricia Ruth Plunkett, James Hayter, Harry Fowler, Michael Brennan, Joan Dowling
Rôle uncredited
Note64%

Promising writer Christopher Drew conceals his relationship with a murdered woman in order to protect his career, even though this results in an innocent man going to prison for the killing. The upper-class Drew decides he needs some first-hand experience to invigorate his work, so he explores the seedier areas of town in search of inspiration. Much to his dismay, he witnesses a murder but refuses to help an innocent man, Herbert Logan, arrested for the crime, because his presence in such a neighbourhood would cause a scandal. Logan is freed after serving 15 years in jail and he hears his "crime" detailed on a radio drama written by Drew, which enables him to gather enough evidence to finally clear his name.

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Diamond City (1949)

, 1h30
Réalisé par David MacDonald
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Aventure, Western
Thèmes Afrique post-coloniale
Acteurs David Farrar, Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Niall MacGinnis, Mervyn Johns, Bill Owen
Note58%

After the discovery and exploitation of a new diamond mine in South Africa, lawman Stafford Parker tries to maintain order in the ramshackle mining town that springs up around it.,

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My Brother Jonathan (1948)

, 1h42
Réalisé par Harold French
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Acteurs Michael Denison, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dulcie Gray, Fred Groves, Ronald Howard, Mary Clare
Rôle Porter
Note71%

The story revolves around the life of Jonathan Dakers (Denison), a small town doctor. He is training to be a surgeon when his father dies. Due to the resulting financial problems, he cannot continue his training. He buys a share in Dr. Hammond's general practice in Wednesford, a poor foundry town.

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Easy Money (1948)

, 1h34
Réalisé par Bernard Knowles
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Comédie, Policier
Thèmes Sport, Théâtre, Football, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Petula Clark, Mervyn Johns, Jack Warner, Jack Watling, Yvonne Owen, Mabel Constanduros
Rôle Clerk
Note60%

Film en quatre parties montrant quatre versions de joueurs gagnants ou rêvant de gagner le gros lot en pariant sur les résultats des matches de football.

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Dear Murderer (1947)

, 1h30
Réalisé par Arthur Crabtree
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Policier
Acteurs Eric Portman, Greta Gynt, Dennis Price, Jack Warner, Maxwell Reed, Hazel Court
Rôle Hall Porter
Note68%

Lee and Vivien Warren (Portman and Gynt) are trapped in a nightmare marriage. Vivien is despising, devious and habitually unfaithful while Lee is pathologically jealous. On his return from a lengthy business trip to New York, Lee finds several cards addressed to Vivien signed "Love Always" and determines to kill her latest lover, Richard Fenton (Dennis Price). He confronts Fenton, who admits to his affair with Vivien, and persuades him to end the relationship by writing her a farewell letter. He then kills Fenton, and stages the scene to look like a suicide, believing he has committed the perfect crime as the letter which Fenton had just written at his dictation has all the appearance of a suicide note.

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While I Live (1947)

, 1h25
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller
Acteurs Sonia Dresdel, Carol Raye, Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Patricia Burke, Charles Victor
Rôle Ambrose
Note65%

In 1922 in Cornwall, a prodigious young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unable to come to terms with Olwen's death and the guilt of her own role in it, over the years becoming a reclusive, obsessive figure whose main raison d'être is to keep Olwen's memory alive. Olwen's final composition gains her posthumous recognition, and each year on the anniversary of her death it is broadcast on the radio.

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