Stanley Baker

Stanley Baker

Born: February 29, 1928
Died: June 28, 1976
in Ferndale, Rhondda, Wales, UK
Stanley Baker was a Welsh actor and film producer perhaps best known for the 1964 film Zulu.

Movies for Stanley Baker...

Title: How Green Was My Valley
Character: Gwilym Morgan
Released: December 29, 1975
Type: TV
Life is harsh but uncomplicated and happy for the Morgan family in their coal mining village in the Rhondda Valleys. But as the 20th century approaches, the younger generation is restless.
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Zorro
Title: Zorro
Character: Col. Huerta
Released: March 6, 1975
Type: Movie
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.
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Pepita Jiménez
Title: Pepita Jiménez
Character: Pedro de Vargas
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
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Who Killed Lamb?
Title: Who Killed Lamb?
Character: Detective Inspector Jamieson
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
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The Changeling
Title: The Changeling
Character: De Flores
Released: January 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
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Innocent Bystanders
Title: Innocent Bystanders
Character: John Craig
Released: September 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Washed-up agent John Craig is given the task of proving his worth by tracking down a Russian scientist on the run. Cross and double-cross is the name of the game.
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A Breed of Men
Title: A Breed of Men
Character: Narrator
Released: June 8, 1971
Type: Movie
The story was inspired by the stay-down strikers in the 1930s who refused to leave the mines for three weeks. Ernie Bailey, one of the miners, relayed the story to director Karl Francis, but declined appearing in the film because HTV would not pay him on a scale comparable to Tom Jones. Mr. Bailey smoked to his dying day at the age of 99: always a staunch socialist.
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Popsy Pop
Title: Popsy Pop
Character: Inspektor Silva
Released: March 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Claudia Cardinale is Popsy, who double-crosses her older partner Silva (Stanley Baker). Silva has arranged to divert diamonds from a large corporate-run diamond mine in the South American jungle, and Popsy does her “pop” wrong as they are both pursued by police.
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Title: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Character: Inspector Corvin
Released: February 18, 1971
Type: Movie
Carol Hammond, the sexually frustrated wife of a successful London lawyer, is having bizarre, erotic dreams about her uninhibited neighbour, Julia Durer, who presides over noisy, sex and drug filled parties in the house next door. One night, Carol dreams culminate in violent death and she wakes to find her nightmares have become reality - Julia has been murdered and Carol is the main suspect. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
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Perfect Friday
Title: Perfect Friday
Character: Mr. Graham
Released: November 10, 1970
Type: Movie
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
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The Games
Title: The Games
Character: Bill Oliver
Released: August 7, 1970
Type: Movie
From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
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The Last Grenade
Title: The Last Grenade
Character: Maj. Harry Grigsby
Released: June 24, 1970
Type: Movie
British mercenaries (Stanley Baker, Alex Cord) finish their Congo feud in Hong Kong, with a woman (Honor Blackman) caught in the middle.
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Where's Jack?
Title: Where's Jack?
Character: Jonathan Wild
Released: April 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the adventures of Jack Sheppard, the thief and jail-breaker who became a folk hero in 1720s London.
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The Girl with a Pistol
Title: The Girl with a Pistol
Character: Dr. Tom Osborne
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
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Robbery
Title: Robbery
Character: Paul Clifton
Released: August 1, 1967
Type: Movie
In this fictionalised account of the Great Train Robbery, career criminal Paul Clifton plans an audacious crime: the robbery of a mail train carrying millions in cash.
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Accident
Title: Accident
Character: Charley
Released: February 9, 1967
Type: Movie
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
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Code Name: Heraclitus
Title: Code Name: Heraclitus
Character: Frank G. Wheatley
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A man who dies on an operating table is brought back to life, but he has total amnesia. A government agent decides that he would make a perfect undercover operative.
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Sands of the Kalahari
Title: Sands of the Kalahari
Character: Mike Bain
Released: November 24, 1965
Type: Movie
A diverse group of individuals struggle to survive in the Kalahari desert after their passenger plane crashes.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Robinson Crusoe
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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One of Them Is Named Brett
Title: One of Them Is Named Brett
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A look into the life of Brett, a boy born without arms due to thalidomide exposure.
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Dingaka
Title: Dingaka
Character: Tom Davis
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
An African tribesman seeks revenge against the people who murdered his daughter.
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A Fear of Strangers
Title: A Fear of Strangers
Character: Chief Inspector Dyke
Released: May 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A black saxophonist and small time crook is picked up by police on suspicion of murder. His problems multiply when the investigating officer lets his own issues influence the subsequent interrogation.
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Zulu
Title: Zulu
Character: Lt. John Chard R.E.
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
In 1879, during the Anglo-Zulu War, man-of-the-people Lt. Chard and snooty Lt. Bromhead are in charge of defending the isolated and vastly outnumbered Natal outpost of Rorke's Drift from tribal hordes.
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The Man Who Finally Died
Title: The Man Who Finally Died
Character: Joe Newman
Released: December 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Joe Newman, a naturalised Briton, is telephoned by his German father, whom he believed long dead, at the same time as a funeral is taking place in Bavaria - with his father's name on the coffin. His investigation in Bavaria reveals startling facts and the obstruction he meets makes him suspect foul play.
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Title: Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre
Released: October 4, 1963
Type: TV
Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967. The show was hosted by Bob Hope, but it had a variety of formats, including musical, dramatic, and comedy.
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In the French Style
Title: In the French Style
Character: Walter Beddoes
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
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A Prize of Arms
Title: A Prize of Arms
Character: Turpin
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
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Sodom and Gomorrah
Title: Sodom and Gomorrah
Character: Astaroth
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Lot leads his people to a fertile valley adjacent to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, hotbeds of vice and corruption ruled by the merciless Queen Bera. When Lot orders a dam to be busted in order to prevent the destruction of the cities by the attacking Helamites, the queen, in gratitude, allows Lot's people to settle in Sodom. Soon, however, the veneer of civilization begins crumbling as Lot and the Hebrews become corrupted by the Sodomites.
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Eva
Title: Eva
Character: Tyvian Jones
Released: October 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encounter with sultry Frenchwoman Eva Olivier. He falls for her instantly, despite already having wedding plans with Francesca Ferrara. Winning Eva's affection proves elusive; she's more interested in money than in love. But Tyvian remain steadfast in his obsession, going after Eva with a fervor that threatens to destroy his life.
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The Guns of Navarone
Title: The Guns of Navarone
Character: Pvt. 'Butcher' Brown
Released: April 27, 1961
Type: Movie
A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
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The Criminal
Title: The Criminal
Character: Johnny Bannion
Released: September 13, 1960
Type: Movie
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
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Hell Is a City
Title: Hell Is a City
Character: Insp. Harry Martineau
Released: April 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Set in Manchester, heartland of England's industrial north, Don Starling escapes from jail becoming England's most wanted man. Ruthless villain Starling together with his cronies engineered a robbery that resulted in the violent death of a young girl. Detective Inspector Martineau has been assigned to hunt him down and bring him in. From seedy barrooms, through gambling dens the trail leads to an explosive climax high on the rooftops of the city.
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Jet Storm
Title: Jet Storm
Character: Capt. Bardow
Released: September 16, 1959
Type: Movie
Crisis in the air: A passenger aboard a commercial airplane flying from London to New York threatens to detonate a bomb over the Atlantic.
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Yesterday's Enemy
Title: Yesterday's Enemy
Character: Captain Langford
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
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Blind Date
Title: Blind Date
Character: Insp. Morgan
Released: August 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
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The Angry Hills
Title: The Angry Hills
Character: Conrad Heisler
Released: July 29, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1941 Greece, on the eve of German occupation, cynical American foreign correspondent Michael Morrison arrives in Athens, intending to depart for London the following day. While there he is tricked into smuggling a list of resistance leaders out of the country and is pursued by the Germans.
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The Criminals
Title: The Criminals
Character: Luce Dorell
Released: December 28, 1958
Type: Movie
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
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Sea Fury
Title: Sea Fury
Character: Abel
Released: August 26, 1958
Type: Movie
The captain of a tugboat harboured off a Spanish village is lured into a romantic involvement with a young girl at the behest of her father, in the hope of getting his hands on the vessel. Meanwhile, a handsome English sailor, signs on to the boat and before long he and the girl fall for one another. Meanwhile a sinking freighter carrying explosive cargo has to be salvaged....
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Violent Playground
Title: Violent Playground
Character: Detective Sergeant Jack Truman
Released: January 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
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Campbell's Kingdom
Title: Campbell's Kingdom
Character: Owen Morgan
Released: September 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
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Hell Drivers
Title: Hell Drivers
Character: Tom Yately
Released: July 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
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Checkpoint
Title: Checkpoint
Character: O'Donovan
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
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A Hill in Korea
Title: A Hill in Korea
Character: Cpl. Ryker
Released: September 18, 1956
Type: Movie
Based on real events, A Hill in Korea charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean War. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the enemy surrounding them on all sides, the prospects look bleak. Facing almost insurmountable odds, they decide to stand a fight.
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Child in the House
Title: Child in the House
Character: Stephen Lorimer
Released: August 14, 1956
Type: Movie
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
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Alexander the Great
Title: Alexander the Great
Character: Attalus
Released: March 28, 1956
Type: Movie
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring enlightenment to people. The son of the barbaric and ruthless King Philip of Macedonia, Alexander achieved glory in his short but remarkable life.
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Title: Jane Eyre
Character: Rochester
Released: February 26, 1956
Type: TV
Jane Eyre is a six-part 1956 British TV adaptation of the novel by Charlotte Brontë.
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Helen of Troy
Title: Helen of Troy
Character: Achilles
Released: January 26, 1956
Type: Movie
Prince Paris of Troy, shipwrecked on a mission to the king of Sparta, meets and falls for Queen Helen before he knows who she is. Rudely received by the royal Greeks, he must flee...but fate and their mutual passions lead him to take Helen along. This gives the Greeks just the excuse they need for much-desired war.
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Richard III
Title: Richard III
Character: Henry, Earl of Richmond
Released: December 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.
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Beautiful Stranger
Title: Beautiful Stranger
Character: Louis Galt
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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The Good Die Young
Title: The Good Die Young
Character: Mike Morgan
Released: March 2, 1954
Type: Movie
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
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Hell Below Zero
Title: Hell Below Zero
Character: Erik Bland
Released: January 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Duncan Craig signs on a whaling ship, partly because his own business deal has fallen through, partly to help Judie Nordhall find her father. Rumor has it that her father may have been murdered by Erik Bland, son of her father's partner and her one-time lover. Duncan and Erik find themselves on rival whaleboats and, ultimately, on an ice floe.
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Knights of the Round Table
Title: Knights of the Round Table
Character: Modred
Released: December 22, 1953
Type: Movie
In Camelot, kingdom of Arthur and Merlin, Lancelot is well known for his courage and honor. But one day he must quit Camelot and the Queen Guinevere's love, leaving the Round Table without protection.
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The Tell-Tale Heart
Title: The Tell-Tale Heart
Character: Edgar Allan Poe
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Stanley Baker enacts the classic Edgar Allan Poe story in this chilling short film, only recently rediscovered after being lost for 50 years.
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The Red Beret
Title: The Red Beret
Character: Breton
Released: August 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a Canadian in the British 1st Parachute Brigade. He proves himself exceptionally skilled for a recruit, arousing the suspicion of his commanding officer who starts an investigation. He redeems himself during combat. The film was titled "Paratrooper" in the US.
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Character: Bennett
Released: February 24, 1953
Type: Movie
At the start of World War II, Cmdr. Ericson is assigned to convoy escort HMS Compass Rose with inexperienced officers and men just out of training. The winter seas make life miserable enough, but the men must also harden themselves to rescuing survivors of U-Boat attacks, while seldom able to strike back. Traumatic events afloat and ashore create a warm bond between the skipper and his first officer
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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Reporter
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
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Home to Danger
Title: Home to Danger
Character: Willie Dougan
Released: August 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
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Cloudburst
Title: Cloudburst
Character: Milkman
Released: July 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Canadian World War II veteran John Graham works in London as a code breaker. Tragedy strikes when his pregnant wife, Carol, is accidentally run over by two crooks who are speeding away from the scene of a murder. Haunted, grieving, and thirsting for revenge, Graham sets out to find the two fugitive murderers.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
Title: Captain Horatio Hornblower
Character: Mr. Harrison (Bosun)
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Horatio Hornblower leads his ship HMS Lydia on a perilous transatlantic voyage, during which his faithful crew battle both a Spanish warship and a ragged band of Central American rebels.
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The Rossiter Case
Title: The Rossiter Case
Character: Joe
Released: January 21, 1951
Type: Movie
The happy marriage of Liz and Peter Rossiter is shattered after Liz is paralysed in an accident. Peter soon finds solace with Honor, his sister-in-law, but when she tells him she is expecting his child he is racked with guilt and turns to drink. When Honor is found murdered with Peter's gun next to her, the police arrest him. Unable to remember his movements he must discover the secret behind "The Rossiter Case".
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Lilli Marlene
Title: Lilli Marlene
Character: Evans
Released: December 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
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Something in the City
Title: Something in the City
Character: Policeman
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as normal but runs into trouble when he is tailed by a reporter.
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Your Witness
Title: Your Witness
Character: Police Sgt. Bannoch
Released: March 6, 1950
Type: Movie
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Policeman at Garage
Released: August 3, 1949
Type: Movie
A British psychiatrist devises a devilish revenge plot against his wife's lover.
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All Over the Town
Title: All Over the Town
Character: Barnes
Released: April 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
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Undercover
Title: Undercover
Character: Petar
Released: July 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...