Jack Allen

Jack Allen

Birth : 1907-10-23, Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK

Death : 1995-05-25

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Jack Allen

Movies

House of Mortal Sin
GP
Also known as 'The Confessional', another of Pete Walkers's critiques of institutional hypocrisy, in which a troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
The Big Switch
Hornsby-Smith
Playboy John Carter picks up a woman in a discotheque and takes her home. When she is murdered and he is framed for the crime, he finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld plot.
They're a Weird Mob
Fat Man in Bar
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday urban Australians of the 1950s and '60s.... and assimilate.
Runaway Railway
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Bomb in the High Street
Superintendent Halsey
Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.
The Queen's Guards
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
The White Trap
Dr. Hayden
Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.
The Headless Ghost
The Live Earl of Ambrose
Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
Life in Danger
Jack Ashley
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Radio Cab Murder
Parker
Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Impulse
Freddie James
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
It Started in Paradise
Lord Chandos
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
The Sound Barrier
'Windy'
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
She Shall Have Murder
Maj. Stewart
A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
Conspirator
Raglan
A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Elizabeth of Ladymead
Maj. Wrigley in 1946
Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Spy for a Day
Captain Bradshaw
During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
The Four Feathers
Lieutenant Willoughby
A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.