Michael Brooke

Michael Brooke

Born: January 1, 1942
Died: June 8, 2014
in London, England, UK

Movies for Michael Brooke...

Title: Look at Life
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: TV
Look at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.
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The Secret Place
Title: The Secret Place
Character: Freddie Haywood
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
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X the Unknown
Title: X the Unknown
Character: Willie Harding
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
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The Long Arm
Title: The Long Arm
Character: Tony Halliday
Released: June 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
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The Magnet
Title: The Magnet
Character: Kit
Released: October 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.