C. V. France

C. V. France

Born: June 29, 1868
Died: April 13, 1949
in Bradford, Yorkshire, England, UK

Movies for C. V. France...

It Happened One Sunday
Title: It Happened One Sunday
Character: Magistrate
Released: July 28, 1944
Type: Movie
A young woman who comes to Liverpool for domestic employment and finds romance with a young sailor who winds up in hospital after a fight.
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The Halfway House
Title: The Halfway House
Character: Mr Truscott - Solicitor
Released: February 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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Went the Day Well?
Title: Went the Day Well?
Character: The Vicar Ashton
Released: December 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
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Night Train to Munich
Title: Night Train to Munich
Character: Admiral Hassinger
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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Ten Days in Paris
Title: Ten Days in Paris
Character: General de Guermantes
Released: June 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
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Cheer Boys Cheer
Title: Cheer Boys Cheer
Character: Tom Greenleaf
Released: August 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
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The Ware Case
Title: The Ware Case
Character: Judge
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
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If I Were King
Title: If I Were King
Character: Father Villon
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
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Strange Boarders
Title: Strange Boarders
Character: Col. Lionel Anstruther
Released: May 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
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A Yank at Oxford
Title: A Yank at Oxford
Character: Dean Snodgrass
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.
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Victoria the Great
Title: Victoria the Great
Character: Archbishop of Canterburry
Released: September 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Tudor Rose
Title: Tudor Rose
Character: Clergy at Execution
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Broken Blossoms
Title: Broken Blossoms
Character: High Priest
Released: May 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
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Scrooge
Title: Scrooge
Character: Spirit of Christmas Future
Released: November 26, 1935
Type: Movie
Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
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Royal Cavalcade
Title: Royal Cavalcade
Character: Father
Released: April 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Made in commemoration and celebration of the Jubilee of King George V, this is the story of the first twenty-five years of his reign, told through the many travels of a penny that was minted in the year of his accession: 1910. Through a series of individual stories, Royal Cavalcade covers a period of striking change in every area of life – from the suffragette movement to the trenches of World War One, the effects of the Depression to single events such as the first ever Royal Command Performance, featuring Anna Pavlova and George Robey.
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Lord Edgware Dies
Title: Lord Edgware Dies
Character: Lord Edgware
Released: July 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A talented American actress enlists the help of the famed Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, to negotiate a divorce from her husband, Lord Edgware, only to find him the next day stabbed to death in his library. Who would want him dead?
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A Night Like This
Title: A Night Like This
Character: Micky the Mailer
Released: March 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Going under cover, P.C. Mahoney passes for a gentleman to get into the notorious Moonstone Club. There he meets Clifford Tope, a ne'er do well who is love with cabaret star Cora Mellish. She in turn has run up steep gambling debts and has paid off the Club's blackmailing owner with a stolen necklace. As things heat up Cora seeks help from the easy-going Tope.
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Black Coffee
Title: Black Coffee
Character: Sir Claude Amory
Released: August 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
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These Charming People
Title: These Charming People
Character: Minx
Released: July 23, 1931
Type: Movie
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
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The Skin Game
Title: The Skin Game
Character: Mr. Hillcrist
Released: February 26, 1931
Type: Movie
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
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The Loves of Robert Burns
Title: The Loves of Robert Burns
Character: Lord Farquhar
Released: March 3, 1930
Type: Movie
Biography of the ploughboy poet.
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The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Title: The Burgomaster of Stilemonde
Released: May 20, 1929
Type: Movie
In Belgium during the first World War , the Uhlans order the burgomaster to be shot by his son-in-law.
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Eugene Aram
Title: Eugene Aram
Character: Squire Lester
Released: February 28, 1924
Type: Movie
A blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.