C.M. Hallard

C.M. Hallard

Movies for C.M. Hallard...

The Sky’s the Limit
Title: The Sky’s the Limit
Character: Lord Morgan
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
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Jack of All Trades
Title: Jack of All Trades
Character: Henry Kilner
Released: December 30, 1936
Type: Movie
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.
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King of the Damned
Title: King of the Damned
Character: Commandant Fernandez
Released: December 31, 1935
Type: Movie
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that.
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Moscow Nights
Title: Moscow Nights
Character: President of Court Martial
Released: November 5, 1935
Type: Movie
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
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The Riverside Murder
Title: The Riverside Murder
Character: Dickenson - Norman's Attorney
Released: March 2, 1935
Type: Movie
This is a great rainy day/night murder mystery in a mansion that all whodunit lovers will appreciate. A woman reporter helps an inspector solve the deaths of four financiers on the eve of a group shareout. Based on "Les Six Hommes Morts" (Editions du Masque) by Stanislas-André Steeman.
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The Third Clue
Title: The Third Clue
Character: Gabriel Wells
Released: November 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Set in an Old Dark House, a man is murdered in his study. With his dying breath, he tells his brother of two clues to finding hidden Eastern Indian jewels that were part of a precious idol. He wants his brother to locate the treasure, so that it can be given to his son. But before the treasure can be found, a third clue must be discovered.
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On Secret Service
Title: On Secret Service
Character: Colonel von Waldmuller
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
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The Rasp
Title: The Rasp
Character: Sir Arthur Coates
Released: April 11, 1932
Type: Movie
When cabinet minister John Hoode is murdered at his country house, his secretary, Alan Deacon, is the prime suspect and is arrested. Reporter Anthony Gethryn determines to unmask the real murderer.
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The Chinese Puzzle
Title: The Chinese Puzzle
Character: Sir Aylmer Brent
Released: March 21, 1932
Type: Movie
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
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Strictly Business
Title: Strictly Business
Character: Sir Gerald Plummet
Released: December 29, 1931
Type: Movie
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
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The Woman Between
Title: The Woman Between
Character: Earl Bellington
Released: January 22, 1931
Type: Movie
An Earl's daughter is torn between loving opposing parliamentary candidates.
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Compromising Daphne
Title: Compromising Daphne
Character: Mr. Ponsonby
Released: October 21, 1930
Type: Movie
A young couple struggle with their overbearing parents.
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Almost a Honeymoon
Title: Almost a Honeymoon
Character: Sir James Jephson
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
An ambitious young man secures a job in the colonial service, the only stipulation being that he needs to be married which he isn't. He has just twenty four hours to find a woman to persuade to marry him.
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Two Worlds
Title: Two Worlds
Character: Col. von Zaminsky
Released: July 28, 1930
Type: Movie
An old Jewish man is forced to hide the Austrian lieutenant who killed his son and loves his daughter.
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The W Plan
Title: The W Plan
Character: Commander-in-Chief
Released: February 25, 1930
Type: Movie
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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Knowing Men
Title: Knowing Men
Character: Marquis de Jaurmais
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
Facing an arranged marriage to a man of dubious morals, heiress Korah Hurley poses as the impoverished travelling companion of her aunt, the Marquise de Jaurmais, in order to test whether her rakish fiancé's affections are truly for her or for the fortune she will inherit.
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A Light Woman
Title: A Light Woman
Character: Marquis de Vargas
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
Concerns a young woman who embarks on a series of love affairs. Originally around 100 minutes, only a 23 minute, 9.5mm cut-down version is known to survive today, held by the BFI.
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Carry On!
Title: Carry On!
Character: John Peters
Released: December 2, 1927
Type: Movie
'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Case of Lady Camber
Title: The Case of Lady Camber
Character: Sir Bedford Slufter
Released: August 1, 1920
Type: Movie
Lord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.