John Stuart

John Stuart

Born: July 17, 1898
Died: October 17, 1979
in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Movies for John Stuart...

Superman
Title: Superman
Character: 10th Elder
Released: December 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
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Title: Accident
Released: November 2, 1978
Type: TV
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Royal Flash
Title: Royal Flash
Character: English General
Released: October 10, 1975
Type: Movie
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
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Title: The Carnforth Practice
Released: April 21, 1974
Type: TV
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The Scarlet Blade
Title: The Scarlet Blade
Character: Beverley
Released: September 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Dr. MacRae
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Paranoiac
Title: Paranoiac
Character: Williams
Released: January 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
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Danger by My Side
Title: Danger by My Side
Character: Terry - Undercover Detective
Released: September 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
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Village of the Damned
Title: Village of the Damned
Character: Professor Smith
Released: June 16, 1960
Type: Movie
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
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Bottoms Up!
Title: Bottoms Up!
Character: Police Officer
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
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Sink the Bismarck!
Title: Sink the Bismarck!
Character: Captain Kerr - 'Hood'
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
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The Mummy
Title: The Mummy
Character: Coroner
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
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Too Many Crooks
Title: Too Many Crooks
Character: Inspector Jensen
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
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The Secret Man
Title: The Secret Man
Character: Dr. Warren
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
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Further Up the Creek
Title: Further Up the Creek
Character: Admiral
Released: October 28, 1958
Type: Movie
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
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Chain of Events
Title: Chain of Events
Character: Bank Manager
Released: September 30, 1958
Type: Movie
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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The Revenge of Frankenstein
Title: The Revenge of Frankenstein
Character: Inspector
Released: June 13, 1958
Type: Movie
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
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The Naked Truth
Title: The Naked Truth
Character: Police Inspector
Released: December 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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Quatermass II
Title: Quatermass II
Character: The Police Commissioner
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
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Eyewitness
Title: Eyewitness
Character: Chief Constable
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When she has a fight, with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
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The Last Man to Hang
Title: The Last Man to Hang
Character: Magistrate
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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Tons of Trouble
Title: Tons of Trouble
Character: Doctor
Released: April 9, 1956
Type: Movie
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
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Johnny, You're Wanted
Title: Johnny, You're Wanted
Character: Surgeon
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride, he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver, who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny's hitchhiker and she's dead.
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Title: Space School
Released: January 8, 1956
Type: TV
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Alias John Preston
Title: Alias John Preston
Character: Dr. Underwood
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Pinot
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Stationarius
Released: September 26, 1955
Type: TV
The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
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The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: Harding
Released: February 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
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It's a Great Day
Title: It's a Great Day
Character: Detective Inspector
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Title: The Men of Sherwood Forest
Character: Moraine
Released: November 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
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Title: The Lost Planet
Released: January 16, 1954
Type: TV
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Street Corner
Title: Street Corner
Character: Magistrate
Released: March 17, 1953
Type: Movie
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: Gardener
Released: November 24, 1952
Type: Movie
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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To the Rescue
Title: To the Rescue
Character: Owner of Kennels
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: 2nd Platform Man at Connaught
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Mr. Denning Drives North
Title: Mr. Denning Drives North
Character: Wilson
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
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Title: The Railway Children
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: TV
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Ten Little Indians
Title: Ten Little Indians
Character: Dr. Edward Armstrong
Released: August 20, 1949
Type: Movie
Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
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Man on the Run
Title: Man on the Run
Character: Det. Inspector Jim McBane
Released: May 20, 1949
Type: Movie
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
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The Man from Yesterday
Title: The Man from Yesterday
Character: Gerald Amersley
Released: May 1, 1949
Type: Movie
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
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Third Time Lucky
Title: Third Time Lucky
Character: Inspector
Released: January 6, 1949
Type: Movie
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
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Escape from Broadmoor
Title: Escape from Broadmoor
Character: Inspector Thornton
Released: November 30, 1948
Type: Movie
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
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House of Darkness
Title: House of Darkness
Character: Crabtree
Released: June 1, 1948
Type: Movie
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
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R.U.R.
Title: R.U.R.
Character: Alquist
Released: March 4, 1948
Type: Movie
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: Duke of Bedford
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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Mine Own Executioner
Title: Mine Own Executioner
Character: Dr. John Hayling
Released: November 22, 1947
Type: Movie
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
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The Phantom Shot
Title: The Phantom Shot
Character: Inspector Webb
Released: September 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Title: Madonna of the Seven Moons
Character: Guiseppe Labardi
Released: January 22, 1945
Type: Movie
In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
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Candles at Nine
Title: Candles at Nine
Character: William Gardener, Turf Commission
Released: January 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
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Headline
Title: Headline
Character: L.B. Ellington
Released: November 16, 1943
Type: Movie
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Women Aren't Angels
Title: Women Aren't Angels
Character: Major Gaunt
Released: January 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
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Hard Steel
Title: Hard Steel
Character: Alan Saunders
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Banana Ridge
Title: Banana Ridge
Character: Chief Police Officer Staples
Released: April 20, 1942
Type: Movie
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
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The Missing Million
Title: The Missing Million
Character: Inspector Dicker
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Title: Penn of Pennsylvania
Character: Bindle
Released: January 24, 1942
Type: Movie
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
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The Seventh Survivor
Title: The Seventh Survivor
Character: Robert Cooper
Released: January 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
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Ships with Wings
Title: Ships with Wings
Character: Commdr. Hood
Released: November 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Title: Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Character: John Cartwright
Released: June 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Title: Old Mother Riley in Society
Character: Tony Morgan
Released: July 27, 1940
Type: Movie
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Title: The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Character: Peter Kerrigan
Released: September 4, 1938
Type: Movie
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
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Talking Feet
Title: Talking Feet
Character: Dr. Roger Hood
Released: July 26, 1937
Type: Movie
An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
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The Show Goes On
Title: The Show Goes On
Character: Mack McDonald
Released: March 31, 1937
Type: Movie
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
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Pearls Bring Tears
Title: Pearls Bring Tears
Character: Harry Willshire
Released: March 20, 1937
Type: Movie
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Reasonable Doubt
Title: Reasonable Doubt
Character: Noel Hampton
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
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Abdul the Damned
Title: Abdul the Damned
Character: Talak Pasha, Officer of Turkish Army
Released: August 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Title: D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Character: Captain Moonlight / Captain Freeman
Released: July 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
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Once a Thief
Title: Once a Thief
Character: Roger Drummond
Released: June 14, 1935
Type: Movie
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
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Blind Justice
Title: Blind Justice
Character: John Summers
Released: March 4, 1935
Type: Movie
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
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Lend Me Your Husband
Title: Lend Me Your Husband
Character: Jeff Green
Released: January 12, 1935
Type: Movie
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
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The Blue Squadron
Title: The Blue Squadron
Released: December 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Anglo Italian aviation drama. Now lost.
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Bella Donna
Title: Bella Donna
Character: Nigel Armine
Released: December 11, 1934
Type: Movie
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
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The Green Pack
Title: The Green Pack
Character: Larry Dean
Released: October 11, 1934
Type: Movie
A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
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The Black Abbot
Title: The Black Abbot
Character: Frank Brooks
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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The Pointing Finger
Title: The Pointing Finger
Character: Lord Rollestone
Released: December 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
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The House of Trent
Title: The House of Trent
Character: John Trent
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
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The Wandering Jew
Title: The Wandering Jew
Character: Pietro Morelli (Phase III)
Released: November 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
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Mayfair Girl
Title: Mayfair Girl
Character: Robert Blair
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
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Love's Old Sweet Song
Title: Love's Old Sweet Song
Character: Paul Kingslake
Released: July 27, 1933
Type: Movie
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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This Week of Grace
Title: This Week of Grace
Character: Henry Baring
Released: June 30, 1933
Type: Movie
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
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The Lost Chord
Title: The Lost Chord
Character: David Graham
Released: April 7, 1933
Type: Movie
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Title: The Mistress of Atlantis
Character: Lt. Saint-Avit
Released: December 25, 1932
Type: Movie
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.
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Verdict of the Sea
Title: Verdict of the Sea
Character: Gentleman Burton
Released: November 13, 1932
Type: Movie
When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...
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Men of Steel
Title: Men of Steel
Character: James 'Iron' Harg
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
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Number Seventeen
Title: Number Seventeen
Character: Barton
Released: July 18, 1932
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
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In a Monastery Garden
Title: In a Monastery Garden
Character: Michael Ferrier
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
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The Wrong Mr. Perkins
Title: The Wrong Mr. Perkins
Character: Larry Byrne
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Alan Jeffcote
Released: October 2, 1931
Type: Movie
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Title: The Hound of the Baskervilles
Character: Sir Henry Baskerville
Released: July 28, 1931
Type: Movie
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound.
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Children of Chance
Title: Children of Chance
Character: Gordon
Released: November 20, 1930
Type: Movie
A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
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Kissing Cup's Race
Title: Kissing Cup's Race
Character: Lord Jimmy Hilhoxton
Released: November 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: Bill Alden
Released: July 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
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The Nipper
Title: The Nipper
Character: Max Nicholson
Released: June 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
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High Seas
Title: High Seas
Character: Tony Bracklethorpe
Released: March 13, 1930
Type: Movie
'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Elstree Calling
Title: Elstree Calling
Released: February 6, 1930
Type: Movie
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
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Eve's Fall
Title: Eve's Fall
Character: Jack Tremaine
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A girl with amnesia believes she is a bachelor's wife.
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Taxi for Two
Title: Taxi for Two
Character: Jack Devenish
Released: November 21, 1929
Type: Movie
'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Lawrence
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Alex St. George
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
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Smashing Through
Title: Smashing Through
Character: Richard Bristol
Released: October 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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Yacht of the Seven Sins
Title: Yacht of the Seven Sins
Character: Kilian Gurlitt
Released: August 5, 1928
Type: Movie
The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".
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Sailors Don't Care
Title: Sailors Don't Care
Character: Slinger Woods
Released: January 1, 1928
Type: Movie
'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Woman in Pawn
Title: A Woman in Pawn
Character: James Rawdon
Released: October 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Hindle Wakes
Title: Hindle Wakes
Character: Allan Jeffcote
Released: September 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
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The Glad Eye
Title: The Glad Eye
Character: Maurice
Released: June 1, 1927
Type: Movie
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
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Roses of Picardy
Title: Roses of Picardy
Released: April 1, 1927
Type: Movie
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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The Pleasure Garden
Title: The Pleasure Garden
Character: Hugh Fielding
Released: January 14, 1927
Type: Movie
Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.
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Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler
Title: Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler
Released: January 1, 1926
Type: Movie
Part of a series known as “Haunted Castles”.
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We Women
Title: We Women
Character: Michael Rivven
Released: January 1, 1925
Type: Movie
A sacked skater falls into the clutches of an actor who abandoned a girl and her baby.
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The Alley of Golden Hearts
Title: The Alley of Golden Hearts
Character: Jack
Released: July 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.
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His Grace Gives Notice
Title: His Grace Gives Notice
Character: Joseph Longley
Released: May 1, 1924
Type: Movie
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
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The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
Title: The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
Character: George Douglas
Released: February 4, 1924
Type: Movie
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
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The School for Scandal
Title: The School for Scandal
Character: Charles Surface
Released: September 12, 1923
Type: Movie
An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
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The Great Gay Road
Title: The Great Gay Road
Character: Rodney Foster
Released: October 4, 1920
Type: Movie
A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.