Bruce Seton

Bruce Seton

Born: May 29, 1909
Died: September 27, 1969
in Simla, Punjab, India

Movies for Bruce Seton...

The 9th Wonder of the World:  The Making of 'Gorgo'
Title: The 9th Wonder of the World: The Making of 'Gorgo'
Character: Prof. Flaherty (archive footage)
Released: March 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Retrospective documentary on the making of Gorgo (1961).
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Title: Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Character: Beadle
Released: December 6, 1963
Type: Movie
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
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Dead Man's Evidence
Title: Dead Man's Evidence
Character: Col. James Somerset
Released: August 1, 1962
Type: Movie
When a British secret agent's body washes up on the coast of Ireland, evidence implies that he was a traitor providing information to the Russians.
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Ambush in Leopard Street
Title: Ambush in Leopard Street
Character: Nimmo
Released: June 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A retired thief reforms a gang for one final heist, everything seems to be going smoothly until complications start to arise
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The Frightened City
Title: The Frightened City
Character: Assistant Commissioner
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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Greyfriars Bobby
Title: Greyfriars Bobby
Character: Prosecutor
Released: July 17, 1961
Type: Movie
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
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Gorgo
Title: Gorgo
Character: Prof. Flaherty
Released: February 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
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Freedom to Die
Title: Freedom to Die
Character: Felix
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
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Just Joe
Title: Just Joe
Character: Charlie
Released: July 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.
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The League of Gentlemen
Title: The League of Gentlemen
Character: Patrolman (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
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Operation Cupid
Title: Operation Cupid
Released: April 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
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The Heart of a Man
Title: The Heart of a Man
Character: River Police Inspector
Released: August 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie tries his hand as a boxer, a bouncer and a commissionaire, and finally finds success as a singer. He also falls for the charms of night club chanteuse Julie, and this leads to further success when he wins a recording contract.
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John Paul Jones
Title: John Paul Jones
Character: 1st Villager
Released: June 16, 1959
Type: Movie
The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
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Violent Moment
Title: Violent Moment
Character: Inspector Davis
Released: March 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Douglas Baines, a wartime army deserter, is lying low in a shabby flat with his girlfriend Daisy and the couple's small son, Jiffy. Returning home with a toy for Jiffy's second birthday, he learns that Daisy has had the boy adopted. When she refuses to tell him where the boy is, he strangles Daisy and goes on the run.
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Life in Danger
Title: Life in Danger
Character: Landlord
Released: January 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
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Hidden Homicide
Title: Hidden Homicide
Character: Bill Dodd
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
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Make Mine a Million
Title: Make Mine a Million
Character: Supt. James
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Sid Gibson is a soap powder salesman who decides what he really needs is TV advertising. The problem is, he's absolutely broke. He calls upon his friend Arthur Ashton, who arranges to sneak a plug for Sid's suds into a live TV spectacular. The public goes bananas for the product but to maintain sales Sid and Arthur must arrange for ever more outrageous plugs on TV shows. The Ascots races, the Edinburgh Military Tattoo - no show is safe.
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Title: The Adventures of William Tell
Character: Colonel Bullinger
Released: September 15, 1958
Type: TV
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
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Title: The Invisible Man
Character: Kemp
Released: September 14, 1958
Type: TV
British scientist Peter Brady, while working on an invisibility formula, suffers a tragic accident which turns himself invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so, while working on a method to regain his visibility, he undertakes missions for his government stopping bad guys.
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: King Richard The Lionheart
Released: January 5, 1958
Type: TV
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.
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Title: Ivanhoe
Character: Earl of Ashington
Released: January 5, 1958
Type: TV
Ivanhoe is a British television series first shown on ITV in 1958-59. The show features Roger Moore in his first starring role, as Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, in a series of adventures aimed at a children's audience. The characters were drawn loosely from Sir Walter Scott's 1819 novel.
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Undercover Girl
Title: Undercover Girl
Character: Ted Austin
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Nightclub employee Joan Foster (Kay Callard) assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
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The Crooked Sky
Title: The Crooked Sky
Character: Mac
Released: March 31, 1957
Type: Movie
An American detective unmasks a gambler as the head of a banknote counterfeiting gang.
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There's Always a Thursday
Title: There's Always a Thursday
Character: James Pelly
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A meek, lowly employee at a London brokerage firm sees his life change when he's suspected of being a notorious womanizer.
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West of Suez
Title: West of Suez
Character: Major Osborne
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
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Breakaway
Title: Breakaway
Character: Webb
Released: July 16, 1956
Type: Movie
When Johnny Matlock whisks away a cold war secret from under the noses of Berlin's top secret agents, his every move is followed when he returns to England. His girlfriend Paula is kidnapped but her handbag is discovered at the scene of the crime by the aristocratic private eye, Duke Martin. Inside it he discovers the secret formula that the agents are searching for and tracks down her sister Paula. As Johnny grows frantic for the safe return of his girlfriend, Duke Martin plays a deadly game of double bluff with the enemy agents.
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Title: Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Character: Capt. Hartnett (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1956
Type: TV
Colonel March of The Department of Queer Complaints investigates unusual cases, locked-room murders, and mysteries concerning the supernatural.
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Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Character: Will Scatlock (uncredited)
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: Fabian of the Yard
Released: November 13, 1954
Type: TV
Fabian of the Yard is a British police procedural television series based on the real-life memoirs of Scotland Yard detective Robert Fabian, made by the BBC and broadcast between November 1954 and February 1956. It is considered the earliest plice procedural to be made for British TV, sharing many points of commonality with the U.S. series Dragnet which had gone on air in 1951. There were 36 episodes in total, of 30 minutes each. The first 30 were broadcast consecutively on Saturday evenings between 13 November 1954 and 22 June 1955, with the exceptions of Christmas Day and New Year's Day which happened to fall on a Saturday. For unknown reasons, the final six episodes were held back, and were later broadcast intermittently between November 1955 and February 1956. The series was later broadcast in the U.S. under the name Fabian of Scotland Yard.
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Delayed Action
Title: Delayed Action
Character: Sellars
Released: July 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves. For a lofty fee, they convince the author to confess to their crimes and then kill himself. Yes, you're way ahead of us: Ayres has a change of heart and decides that he loves life. Delayed Action was produced by Robert Baker and Monty Berman, the men behind the popular 1960s TV adventure series The Saint.
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Eight O'Clock Walk
Title: Eight O'Clock Walk
Character: Detective Chief Inspector
Released: March 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
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Mogambo
Title: Mogambo
Character: Wilson (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1953
Type: Movie
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley's cheating wife Linda.
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The Cruel Sea
Title: The Cruel Sea
Character: Tallow
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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Emergency Call
Title: Emergency Call
Character: Sgt. Bellamy
Released: May 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
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Worm's Eye View
Title: Worm's Eye View
Character: Squadron Leader Briarly
Released: April 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Incidents in the lives of a group of R.A.F. men living in billets.
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Blackmailed
Title: Blackmailed
Character: Supt. Crowe
Released: January 30, 1951
Type: Movie
A blackmailer is murdered, and those who witnessed the scene agree to keep quiet; the complication is that the scene is also witnessed by a young artist, a victim of blackmail as well. (BFI Website)
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Take Me To Paris
Title: Take Me To Paris
Character: Gerald Vane
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
Mr. Armstrong’s racing stable is preparing to send one of its top horses to run in Paris's Maisons Lafitte, when the thoroughbred is unexpectedly injured. Its replacement is Dunderhead, lesser fancied, but favourite of jockey and stable lad, Albert. Meanwhile, two crooked stable hands plan to use the cross channel trip to smuggle forged banknotes.
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Portrait of Clare
Title: Portrait of Clare
Character: Lord Steven Wolverbury
Released: November 13, 1950
Type: Movie
The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Title: Paul Temple's Triumph
Character: Bill Bryant
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
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The Blue Lamp
Title: The Blue Lamp
Character: PC 'Jock' Campbell
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
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Whisky Galore!
Title: Whisky Galore!
Character: Sergeant Odd
Released: June 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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Scott of the Antarctic
Title: Scott of the Antarctic
Character: Lt. H. Pennell R.N.
Released: November 29, 1948
Type: Movie
The true story of the British explorer Robert Falcon Scott and his ill-fated expedition to try to be the first man to discover the South Pole - only to find that the murderously cold weather and a rival team of Norwegian explorers conspire against him
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Bond Street
Title: Bond Street
Character: Sergeant
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
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Look Before You Love
Title: Look Before You Love
Character: Johns
Released: January 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff.
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The Curse of the Wraydons
Title: The Curse of the Wraydons
Character: Jack Wraydon
Released: December 16, 1946
Type: Movie
Tod Slaughter goes about the countryside strangling everybody. His evil scheme is to destroy the family who wronged him. He secret lab is complete with a torture chamber, featured in the films climax. Probably the most maniacal portrayal Tod ever gave.
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The Middle Watch
Title: The Middle Watch
Character: Captain Randall
Released: May 11, 1940
Type: Movie
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
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Return to Yesterday
Title: Return to Yesterday
Character: Journalist (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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Lucky to Me
Title: Lucky to Me
Character: Lord 'Tiny' Tyneside
Released: November 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Lucky to Me is a 1939 British musical comedy film directed by Thomas Bentley and starring Stanley Lupino, Phyllis Brooks and Barbara Blair. It was based on Lupino's own 1928 stage show So This is Love which he had co-written with Arthur Rigby. The film was made by ABPC at its Elstree Studios. It was the last film of Lupino who had made a string of successful musical comedies during the Thirties.
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Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Title: Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Character: Lt. Travers
Released: September 18, 1939
Type: Movie
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
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Weddings Are Wonderful
Title: Weddings Are Wonderful
Character: John Smith
Released: October 4, 1938
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
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Father Steps Out
Title: Father Steps Out
Character: Johnnie Miller
Released: December 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father from the action of a couple of swindlers.
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The Green Cockatoo
Title: The Green Cockatoo
Character: Madison, tall henchman
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
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Racing Romance
Title: Racing Romance
Character: Harry Stone
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly finishes a mere second in the Oaks, Harry's snooty fiancee, Muriel, who never liked the setup anyway, disgustedly heads for greener pastures. Harry promptly marries Peggy, and, after an official investigation of the Oaks' results, Brownie gets revenge on the fickle Muriel.
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Love from a Stranger
Title: Love from a Stranger
Character: Ronald Bruce
Released: April 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
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Café Colette
Title: Café Colette
Character: Roger Manning
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A diplomat falls in love with an exiled Russian princess.
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Jack of All Trades
Title: Jack of All Trades
Character: Dancer
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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The End of the Road
Title: The End of the Road
Character: Donald Carson
Released: October 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Itinerant Scot performers: One daughter of a veteran trouper weds a ne'er do well and dies in childbirth.Her spendthrift man goes but later returns to bleed the old man out of remaining savings.Another daughter makes good as a singer.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Title: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Character: Mark
Released: March 1, 1936
Type: Movie
It is England in the 1830s. London's dockside is teeming with ships and sailors who have made their fortune in foreign lands. Sweeney Todd, a Fleet Street barber, awaits the arrival of men whose first port of call is for a good, close shave. For most it will be the last time they are seen alive. Using a specially designed barber's chair, Sweeney Todd despatches his victims to the cellar below, where he robs them of their new found fortunes and chops their remains into small pieces. Meanwhile, Mrs Lovett is enjoying a roaring trade for her popular penny meat pies.
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Annie Laurie
Title: Annie Laurie
Character: Jamie Turner
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
British comedy film directed by Walter Tennyson
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Blue Smoke
Title: Blue Smoke
Character: Don Chinko
Released: December 1, 1935
Type: Movie
British sports film directed by Ralph Ince.