Ann Todd
Nacimiento : 1909-01-24, Hartford, Cheshire, England
Muerte : 1993-05-06
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Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer.
She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blond beauty.
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Self
Documental que muestra la épica y a veces controvertida carrera del director de cine Alfred Hitchcock.
Mrs. Forbes-Duthie
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Archive Footage
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
Castle's Mother
Maurice Castle (Nicol Williamson) es un mediocre empleado del servicio de inteligencia británico que trabaja recopilando rutinaria información de los países de África. En la época del Appartheid estuvo destinado en Sudáfrica y se casó con una nativa. Castle observa impotente cómo un compañero y amigo suyo es implicado erronéamente en un caso de contraespionaje.
Birdy Wemys
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
Mrs. Kurka
En una tienda de comestibles en Praga, Alena, una atractiva joven, tiene una aventura con Vorell, el gerente de la tienda, un hombre casado. Aunque es plenamente consciente de que Vorell es un sinvergüenza que ha estado robando licor de la tienda, la necesidad física de Alena por él es tan grande que no puede romper su relación. Al llevar a cabo un inventario, se descubre que 80 botellas de brandy contienen té. Cuando los dos auditores de la compañía, Kurka y Bazant, interrogan a los empleados, Alena sale corriendo de la tienda, presa del pánico. Kurka, un hombre intolerante cuyo sentido del deber ha destrozado su matrimonio, inmediatamente culpa a Alena. Cuando Alena, totalmente perturbada, recurre a Vorell para pedirle consejo, este le sugiere con total falta de sensibilidad que asuma ella la culpa, ya que la pondrían en libertad condicional, mientras que él, en caso de ser acusado, sería enviado a prisión...
Arabella Blood
Robert, hijo del famoso Capitán Blood, es un joven inquieto, amante de las aventuras. Arabella, su madre, quiere que estudie, pero él, seducido por las hazañas de su padre, decide embarcarse. Su madre, sirviéndose de un ardid, lo enrola en un barco con destino a Londres para que estudie en la universidad. Durante el viaje conoce a Abby y se enamora de ella. El barco es abordado por unos piratas, cuyo capitán, un antiguo enemigo de su padre, aprovechará la ocasión para hacerle pagar a Robert todo el odio que sentía por su progenitor.
Jane Appleby
Penny Appleby, una joven a la que un accidente ha dejado en silla de ruedas, decide irse a vivir con su padre, al que no ve desde hace diez años, y con su nueva esposa, pero a su llegada descubre que su padre no está. Con el paso de los días, Penny está cada vez más convencida de que ha muerto, pero nadie la cree, excepto el chófer, y juntos inician una investigación.
Helen
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Honor Stanford
Un hombre alcohólico (Michael Redgrave) dispone tan solo de 24 horas para probar que su hijo (Alec McCowen) no es culpable de una violación y un asesinato. Filme inspirado en "Someone Waiting", obra teatral de Emlyn Williams.
Solange Vauthier
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
Susan Garthwaite
Fictionalized story of British aerospace engineers solving the problem of supersonic flight.
Madeleine Hamilton Smith
Siglo XIX. Los Smith, una poderosa y rica familia de Glasgow, se trasladan a una nueva casa. Una de las hijas, Madeleine, es la niña de los ojos de su padre. Él desea que su hija se case con cierto caballero de notable posición, pero el corazón de Madeleine pertenece a un joven humilde... (FILMAFFINITY)
Mary Justin
En el Londres de la posguerra, Mary Justin se encuentra con el universitario Steve Stratton, su verdadero amor desde la juventud. Pero ahora se encuentra casada con un rico financiero bastantes años mayor que ella, ya que optó por tener una vida segura y acomodada, sin embargo el encuentro reaviva viejas llamas. (FILMAFFINITY)
Olivia Harwood
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Frances "Frankie" Tribe
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Gay Keane
La hermosa señora Paradine (Alida Valli) es acusada de haber asesinado a su marido ciego. De su defensa se encarga el abogado Keane (Gregory Peck) que, aunque está casado con una atractiva mujer (Ann Todd), se enamora perdidamente de su cliente y se deja convencer de su inocencia.
Kathryn Davis
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Francesca Cunningham
Una joven abandona su casa y llega a ser una gran concertista de piano, pero su mente se desequilibra a causa de la actitud de su psiquiatra y su guardián.
Elena
Aunque la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945) separa a un matrimonio, su amor se fortalece todavía más durante la contienda.
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
Kay Gordon
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.
Jane Kaye
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Ann Rider
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Madge Carne
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Carol Stedman
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Ann Daviot
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Mary Gordon
A mitad de los años treinta, la Segunda Guerra Mundial no ha estallado todavía, pero parece sentirse en el aire que se respira. Cuando llegue, acontecimiento inexorable para los futurólogos, supondrá una conmoción que dará origen a un futuro de desastres en el que se impondrá como única forma de gobierno la más feroz de las dictaduras
Phyllis Drummond
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
Jane Bell
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
Millicent
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
Peggy Murdock
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Pamela Crawford
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
