Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

Born: April 3, 1892
Died: March 5, 1963
in Peterhead, Scotland, UK

Movies for Cyril Smith...

Title: Hugh and I
Released: July 17, 1962
Type: TV
Terry is a youngish bachelor who lives with his mother (Vi Stevens). He's a bit of a dreamer who wants to get rich as quickly and as easily as possible. Terry comes up with one grand "get rich quick" scheme after another, causing endless problems for himself and his friend, Hugh.
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She Knows Y'Know
Title: She Knows Y'Know
Character: Joe Worswick
Released: June 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Comedy about a protective mother whose dull son seems to have become wayward with the local bottle blonde.
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On the Fiddle
Title: On the Fiddle
Character: Ticket Collector
Released: October 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
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Watch It, Sailor!
Title: Watch It, Sailor!
Character: Henry Hornett
Released: August 14, 1961
Type: Movie
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
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Light Up the Sky!
Title: Light Up the Sky!
Character: 'Spinner' Rice
Released: July 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
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Title: No Hiding Place
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: TV
No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.
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Title: The Adventures of Sir Lancelot
Character: Merlin
Released: September 15, 1956
Type: TV
The Adventures of Sir Lancelot is a British television series first broadcast in 1956, produced by Sapphire Films for ITC Entertainment and screened on the ITV network. The series starred William Russell as the eponymous Sir Lancelot, a Knight of the Round Table in the time of King Arthur at Camelot.
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Sailor Beware
Title: Sailor Beware
Character: Henry Hornett
Released: September 4, 1956
Type: Movie
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding.
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Value for Money
Title: Value for Money
Character: Writ Server (uncredited)
Released: August 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
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Sailor Beware!
Title: Sailor Beware!
Character: Henry Hornett
Released: June 5, 1955
Type: Movie
BBC television adaptation of the Philip King and Falkland L. Cary play about an imminent wedding becoming endangered by a domineering matriarch.
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Svengali
Title: Svengali
Character: Stage Manager
Released: September 1, 1954
Type: Movie
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
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Burnt Evidence
Title: Burnt Evidence
Character: Alf Quinney
Released: July 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover. Convinced that he's a murderer, he heads for the hills as a police hunt begins... Classic British thriller from the creator of Dixon Of Dock Green.
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Women of Twilight
Title: Women of Twilight
Character: Flinton
Released: January 16, 1953
Type: Movie
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Hotel Porter
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
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The Big Frame
Title: The Big Frame
Character: Det. Sgt. Roper
Released: September 1, 1952
Type: Movie
An ex-GI wakes up with blood on his clothes in a strange hotel room. He can't remember the night before but he later finds out that a man he got into a fight with earlier in the night was murdered.
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Stolen Face
Title: Stolen Face
Character: Alf Bixby, Innkeeper
Released: May 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A plastic surgeon changes the face of a female convict to match that of the beautiful woman who broke his heart and left him. He marries the convict but trouble starts when his true love returns.
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Night Was Our Friend
Title: Night Was Our Friend
Character: Reporter
Released: December 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man, Dr. Harper. Martin is found and returns to Sally. Unable to face his demons, Martin considers ending his life. Or does Sally do it for him?
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Green Grow the Rushes
Title: Green Grow the Rushes
Character: Hubert Hewitt
Released: November 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
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Mystery Junction
Title: Mystery Junction
Character: Station Master
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
Title: Calling Bulldog Drummond
Character: Man at Nightclub Bar (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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The Third Visitor
Title: The Third Visitor
Character: Detective Horton
Released: January 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.
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The Dark Man
Title: The Dark Man
Character: Samuel Denny
Released: January 22, 1951
Type: Movie
A killer called 'The Dark Man' commits double murder. This is witnessed by the young aspiring actress Molly Lester. The Dark Man tries everything to put Molly out of the way. Detective Inspector Viner of Scotland Yard investigates the murders.
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The Rocking Horse Winner
Title: The Rocking Horse Winner
Character: bailiff
Released: November 30, 1949
Type: Movie
A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by riding his own rocking horse to aid his parents out of their endless round of debts.
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The Interrupted Journey
Title: The Interrupted Journey
Character: Publican
Released: October 11, 1949
Type: Movie
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
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Conspirator
Title: Conspirator
Character: Detective Inspector
Released: July 28, 1949
Type: Movie
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
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It's Hard to be Good
Title: It's Hard to be Good
Character: Fred Hobson
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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Romance on the High Seas
Title: Romance on the High Seas
Character: English Bartender (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Georgia Garrett is sent by jealous wife Elvira Kent on an ocean cruise to masquerade as herself while she secretly stays home to catch her husband cheating. Meanwhile equally suspicious husband Michael Kent has sent a private eye on the same cruise to catch his wife cheating. Love and confusion ensues along with plenty of musical numbers.
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Daughter of Darkness
Title: Daughter of Darkness
Character: Joe
Released: January 21, 1948
Type: Movie
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Title: They Made Me a Fugitive
Character: Bert
Released: June 24, 1947
Type: Movie
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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School for Secrets
Title: School for Secrets
Character: Flight Sgt. Cox
Released: December 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Det. Sgt. Charlie Weeks
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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The Echo Murders
Title: The Echo Murders
Character: P.C. Morgan
Released: December 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
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Don Chicago
Title: Don Chicago
Character: Flash Kelly
Released: August 6, 1945
Type: Movie
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
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On Stage Everybody
Title: On Stage Everybody
Character: Talent Show Winner
Released: July 13, 1945
Type: Movie
Radio's miracle show is on the screen.
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Meet Sexton Blake
Title: Meet Sexton Blake
Character: Belford
Released: February 5, 1945
Type: Movie
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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The Agitator
Title: The Agitator
Character: Dunham
Released: January 24, 1945
Type: Movie
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
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One Exciting Night
Title: One Exciting Night
Character: Joe
Released: December 4, 1944
Type: Movie
A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
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Fanny by Gaslight
Title: Fanny by Gaslight
Character: Publican (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Returning to 1870s London after finishing at boarding school, Fanny winesses the death of her father in a fight with Lord Manderstoke. She then finds that her family has for many years been running a bordello next door to their home. When her mother dies shortly after, she next discovers that her real father is in fact a well-respected politician. Meeting him and then falling in love with his young advisor Harry Somerford leads to a life of ups and downs and conflict between the classes. Periodically the scoundrel of a Lord crosses her path, always to tragic effect.
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When We Are Married
Title: When We Are Married
Character: Fred Dyson
Released: July 12, 1943
Type: Movie
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that their marriages may not be valid. On hand are an outrageous housekeeper and a photographer.
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They Flew Alone
Title: They Flew Alone
Character: Aquitania Radio Operator
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 Flying Squad
Title: The Flying Squad
Character: Tiser
Released: October 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
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Traitor Spy
Title: Traitor Spy
Character: Det. Sgt. Trotter
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
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Sword of Honour
Title: Sword of Honour
Character: Bright
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
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The Return of the Frog
Title: The Return of the Frog
Character: Maggs
Released: November 24, 1938
Type: Movie
The film concerns a police hunt for the criminal known as The Frog.
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St. Martin's Lane
Title: St. Martin's Lane
Character: Black Face
Released: October 18, 1938
Type: Movie
On the sidewalks of the London theater district the buskers (street performers) earn enough coins for a cheap room. Charles, who recites dramatic monologues, sees that a young pickpocket, Libby, also has a talent for dancing and adds her to his act. Harley, the theater patron who never knew Libby took his gold cigarette case, is impressed by Libby's dancing and invites her to bring Charles and the other buskers in his group to an after-the-play party. Libby comes alone. A theatrical career is launched.
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The Challenge
Title: The Challenge
Character: Customs Officer
Released: September 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
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Storm in a Teacup
Title: Storm in a Teacup
Character: Councillor
Released: February 25, 1937
Type: Movie
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
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O.H.M.S.
Title: O.H.M.S.
Character: Steward
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
American racketeer Jimmie Dean travels to England, where he assumes the identity of a Canadian whom he has been falsely accused of murdering. Jimmie is then forced to join the British army in the dead man's place. He falls in love with the Canadian's childhood playmate, Sally Briggs, and becomes a hero after saving an isolated English colony in China.
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Jack of All Trades
Title: Jack of All Trades
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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Pot Luck
Title: Pot Luck
Released: April 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A retired Scotland Yard detective, Patrick Fitzpatrick (Tom Walls) comes back to take one final case, tracking down a missing vase which has been stolen by a gang of thieves specialising in taking art treasures. His investigation takes him to the home of the innocent Mr Pye (Robertson Hare), whose house has been used by the crooks to hide their proceeds.
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Lend Me Your Wife
Title: Lend Me Your Wife
Character: Charles Harwood
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
'Bachelor has his friend's wife pose as his own to fool rich uncle.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Last Journey
Title: The Last Journey
Character: Postal Sorter
Released: October 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a honeymoon couple, a drunk, a temperance pamphleteer and a host of familiar types, all more-or-less bizarre in characteristically English ways. Bob takes an unexpected course of action, and the characters start interacting in varied and unexpected ways. When, at last, the train stops, all has been resolved, but not as might have been expected at the beginning of the journey.
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Bulldog Jack
Title: Bulldog Jack
Character: Duke
Released: September 1, 1935
Type: Movie
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
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Me and Marlborough
Title: Me and Marlborough
Character: Corporal Fox
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
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Brown on Resolution
Title: Brown on Resolution
Character: William Brown, Jr.
Released: May 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between his mother and a naval officer, he joins the Royal Navy during the First World War. There his bravery and marksmanship keeps a German ship in port so a British ship can sink it. He becomes a hero, but at what cost?
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The Black Abbot
Title: The Black Abbot
Character: Alf Higgins
Released: June 10, 1934
Type: Movie
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
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Waltzes from Vienna
Title: Waltzes from Vienna
Character: Secretary
Released: March 15, 1934
Type: Movie
Johann Strauss Jr. is forced by his father to forget music and to work in a bakery, where he falls in love with Resi, the baker's daughter. The girl gets jealous when a contessa asks Strauss Jr. to write a waltz for her.
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Wild Boy
Title: Wild Boy
Character: Kennel Boy
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
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The Fortunate Fool
Title: The Fortunate Fool
Character: Herb Brown
Released: December 13, 1933
Type: Movie
A wealthy author, looking for material, 'adopts' an incorrigible thief he finds in the streets, together with an attractive typist who is down on her luck.
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Friday the Thirteenth
Title: Friday the Thirteenth
Character: Fred, the Driver
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
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The Man from Toronto
Title: The Man from Toronto
Character: Gossiping Villager
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
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The Roof
Title: The Roof
Character: McNair
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man.
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The Mayor's Nest
Title: The Mayor's Nest
Character: Magistrate
Released: June 27, 1932
Type: Movie
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
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Lucky Girl
Title: Lucky Girl
Character: Courtier
Released: June 1, 1932
Type: Movie
Stephan Gregorovitch, the unwilling king of a bankrupt Ruritanian country, along with his hucksterish chancellor and musically-inclined bodyguard, travel incognito to London for some fun. An invitation to a party held by Duke Hugo seems just the ticket, but the presence of jewel thieves in the vicinity soon puts paid to any ideas of a relaxing evening!
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The Innocents of Chicago
Title: The Innocents of Chicago
Character: Gangster
Released: March 20, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
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Retribution
Title: Retribution
Character: The Tramp
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
Sheila sees the folly of her ways when husband, John, is to be hanged for murdering her paramour, but once trusty Bill from the CID is on the case, the real killer is soon unmasked
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His First Car
Title: His First Car
Character: Salesman
Released: May 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A husband wins £200 and buys a car.
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Class and No Class
Title: Class and No Class
Character: Lord Daventry
Released: November 1, 1921
Type: Movie
A rich coster's daughter loves a steward who is blamed for killing a blackmailing tramp.