David Horne

David Horne

Born: July 13, 1898
Died: March 15, 1970
in Balcombe, Sussex, England

Movies for David Horne...

Diamonds for Breakfast
Title: Diamonds for Breakfast
Character: Duke of Windemere
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
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A Flea In Her Ear
Title: A Flea In Her Ear
Character: The Prosecutor
Released: November 27, 1968
Type: Movie
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
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Title: The Man In Room 17
Character: Lord John Bower
Released: June 11, 1965
Type: TV
The Man in Room 17 is a British television series which ran for two seasons in the mid-1960s, produced by the Northern ITV franchise, Granada Television. Key to the series' success was the involvement of writer/producer Robin Chapman. The show was set in Room 17 of the Department of Social Research, where former wartime agent-turned-criminologist Edwin Oldenshaw solved difficult police cases through theory and discussions with his assistants. The novelty of the series was that Oldenshaw and his colleagues never needed to leave their office in order to resolve cases, preferring to spend their time playing the Japanese board game of Go. They simply provided their prognosis and left the police to do the cleaning up. Different directors were often appointed to film the Room 17 and outside-world scenes independently, to maintain a sense of distance between the two worlds.
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The Big Job
Title: The Big Job
Character: Judge
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
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Nurse on Wheels
Title: Nurse on Wheels
Character: Dr. Golfrey Sr.
Released: January 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
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Dentist on the Job
Title: Dentist on the Job
Character: Admiral Southbound
Released: June 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
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Goodbye Again
Title: Goodbye Again
Character: Queen's Counsel
Released: May 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier resists the advances of Philip Van der Besh, the 24-year-old son of one of her clients. But when her longtime paramour, Roger Demarest, begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman, Paula decides that two can play that game. However, it seems that society looks differently at May-December romances when the woman is the older partner.
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Clue of the New Pin
Title: Clue of the New Pin
Character: John Trasmere
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
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The Devil's Disciple
Title: The Devil's Disciple
Character: Uncle William
Released: August 20, 1959
Type: Movie
In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Title: The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Character: James - His Butler
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
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The Safecracker
Title: The Safecracker
Character: Herbert Fenwright
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
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The Prince and the Showgirl
Title: The Prince and the Showgirl
Character: The Foreign Office
Released: June 13, 1957
Type: Movie
An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Antony Harcombe, Q.C.
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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Tale of Three Women
Title: Tale of Three Women
Character: Hines (segment "Wedding Gift' story)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
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The Intruder
Title: The Intruder
Character: General
Released: October 18, 1953
Type: Movie
When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
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Spaceways
Title: Spaceways
Character: Preacher
Released: July 1, 1953
Type: Movie
The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.
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Martin Luther
Title: Martin Luther
Character: Duke Frederick
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Judge
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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Appointment with Venus
Title: Appointment with Venus
Character: Magistrate
Released: October 8, 1951
Type: Movie
At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
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Once Upon a Dream
Title: Once Upon a Dream
Character: Registrar
Released: February 1, 1949
Type: Movie
An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Edward Beckett
Released: November 10, 1948
Type: Movie
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Title: Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character: Duke George William
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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Easy Money
Title: Easy Money
Character: Mr. Hessian (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 20, 1948
Type: Movie
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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The Man Within
Title: The Man Within
Character: Dr Stanton
Released: May 19, 1947
Type: Movie
A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
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Spring Song
Title: Spring Song
Character: Sir Anthony
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
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The Magic Bow
Title: The Magic Bow
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
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Gaiety George
Title: Gaiety George
Character: Lord Mountsbury
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Caravan
Title: Caravan
Character: Camperdene
Released: June 3, 1946
Type: Movie
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
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The Rake's Progress
Title: The Rake's Progress
Character: Sir John Brockley
Released: December 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
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The Wicked Lady
Title: The Wicked Lady
Character: Martin Worth
Released: November 15, 1945
Type: Movie
A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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The Seventh Veil
Title: The Seventh Veil
Character: Dr. Kendall
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Title: I Live in Grosvenor Square
Character: War Office Major
Released: July 20, 1945
Type: Movie
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
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They Were Sisters
Title: They Were Sisters
Character: Mr. Field
Released: July 2, 1945
Type: Movie
The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
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The Man from Morocco
Title: The Man from Morocco
Character: Dr. Duboste
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
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Don't Take It to Heart
Title: Don't Take It to Heart
Character: Sir Henry Wade
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Yellow Canary
Title: Yellow Canary
Character: Admiral
Released: December 13, 1943
Type: Movie
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
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San Demetrio London
Title: San Demetrio London
Character: Mr. Justice Langton
Released: December 7, 1943
Type: Movie
British drama documentary from 1943, based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
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The First of the Few
Title: The First of the Few
Character: Mr. Higgins
Released: September 14, 1942
Type: Movie
This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Solicitor
Released: June 29, 1942
Type: Movie
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
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The Day Will Dawn
Title: The Day Will Dawn
Character: Evans, Foreign Editor
Released: June 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Character: Commissioner
Released: May 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
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The Door with Seven Locks
Title: The Door with Seven Locks
Character: Edward Havelock
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
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Night Train to Munich
Title: Night Train to Munich
Character: Czech Official (uncredited)
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Morrison
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Crimes at the Dark House
Title: Crimes at the Dark House
Character: Frederick Fairlie
Released: March 1, 1940
Type: Movie
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
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The Stars Look Down
Title: The Stars Look Down
Character: Mr. Wilkins
Released: January 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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21 Days Together
Title: 21 Days Together
Character: Beavis
Released: January 7, 1940
Type: Movie
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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Blind Folly
Title: Blind Folly
Character: Mr. Steel
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
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.
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The Mill on the Floss
Title: The Mill on the Floss
Character: Mr. Deane (uncredited)
Released: January 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
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Farewell Again
Title: Farewell Again
Character: John Carlisle
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
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The Conquest of the Air
Title: The Conquest of the Air
Character: Nero (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1936
Type: Movie
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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Debt of Honour
Title: Debt of Honour
Character: Colonel Mayhew
Released: November 2, 1936
Type: Movie
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
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The House of the Spaniard
Title: The House of the Spaniard
Character: 2nd Captain
Released: November 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
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Seven Sinners
Title: Seven Sinners
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: June 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at an hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
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It's Love Again
Title: It's Love Again
Character: Durland
Released: May 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
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The Cardinal
Title: The Cardinal
Character: English Abbot
Released: January 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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The Village Squire
Title: The Village Squire
Character: Squire Hollis
Released: April 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
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Gentlemen's Agreement
Title: Gentlemen's Agreement
Character: Sir Charles Lysle
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
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Hyde Park Corner
Title: Hyde Park Corner
Character: Judge
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.