Eric Cross
Nacimiento : 1902-05-31, London, England, UK
Muerte : 2004-03-01
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In this thriller, two gangs of jewel thieves battle it out in a deserted cottage. Murder ensues when the owners of the cabin show up. Listed as lost by the BFI.
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Peggy Mount and David Kossoff star as Ada and Alf Larkin in this big screen version of the hugely popular 1950s TV comedy. Alf Larkin has finally made good his dream to own a pub. The trouble is, it's got no customers. But leave it to the Larkins to find unorthodox ways to bring in the punters.
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A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
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A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
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Gillie, una niña de doce años que vive en un pequeño pueblo británico, presencia casualmente un asesinato: Korchinsky, un marinero polaco, en un arrebato de ira, mata a su amante después de encontrarla con otro hombre. Gillie recoge el arma del crimen e intenta huir; Korchinsky consigue alcanzarla, pero es incapaz de hacerle daño. Entre ambos se crea un extraño vínculo afectivo, que lleva a Gillie a despistar a la policía para salvar a su nuevo amigo.
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Loot goes missing in robbery double-cross. Gang members, an ex-lover and a handsome stranger are left to sort it out.
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Después de que su avión sea abatido durante la Batalla de Inglaterra, el piloto alemán Franz Von Werra es enviado a un campo de prisioneros. Desde el primer momento su único objetivo será la fuga. Después de diversos intentos fallidos, es enviado a un nuevo campo de concentración en Canadá. En esta ocasión, consigue huir y, después de atravesar la frontera, llega a Estados Unidos, donde pide asilo político, ya que todavía es un país neutral.
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After returning home to a rugged island near Nova Scotia, Joanna, daughter of the local bigwig, struggles to choose between three eligible bachelors -- the rebel (Patrick McGoohan), the steadfast friend (Michael Craig) and the poetry-quoting newcomer (William Sylvester). As the local lobster supply dwindles due to overfishing, the island's inhabitants encounter economic difficulties.
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A British theater actress unable to get out of her contract is assisted by an American playwright when a pair of her scissors is discovered lodged in her producer's back.
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Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
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Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
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After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it – but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
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An English colonel finds love with an American widow, to the displeasure of his children.
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Detective Inspector Campbell (Gordon Jackson) looks into the murder of a teacher at a girls school where there are a number of suspects, including her colleagues and the married man she had been seeing.
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Robbie (Jon Whiteley), un niño huérfano de 6 años, vive falto de cariño y cuidado con sus padres adoptivos en Londres. Tras prender un pequeño fuego en la casa, y temiendo un severo castigo, el chico huye y comienza a vagar por las calles londinenses. Finalmente se refugia en un edificio donde se encuentra a Chris Lloyd (Dirk Bogarde), y al hombre qué ésta acaba justo de matar... (FILMAFFINITY)
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Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of the son.
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A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
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Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
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A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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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.
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The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target. He enlists the help of his own son Philip, a reluctant cadet at the college, to help him confirm his suspicions about planned enemy action... but meanwhile, there is a Secret Service agent staying at the college observatory, the foreign-born professor of astronomy is behaving strangely, and Naval Intelligence disclaim any knowledge of what is going on...
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Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail on behalf of the Bank of England.
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A Chicago gangster steals jewels and frames his band leader double.
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Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.
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John Zinga, a descendent of slaves, has an ancient medallion around his neck and a fragment of song passed down generations. He is an English dockworker with a magnificent voice and a yearning to learn his roots.
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A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
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A bumbling yachtsman sails to the South of Spain with a fiery seductress, only to become the pawn in her dangerous game of love.
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A bank teller who believes he has been unjustly fired gets together with two professional thieves to rob the bank.
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Turn of the Tide is a 1935 British film directed by Norman Walker. It was the first feature film made by J. Arthur Rank. It is set in a North Yorkshire fishing village, and relates the rivalry between two fishing families. The actors included John Garrick, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Wilfrid Lawson speak in the local accent. The work is based on the novel Three Fevers by Leo Walmsley.
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The manager of a gambling club tries to swindle the owner.
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During a horrific storm at sea, the crew realizes that there is a murderer among them who is killing them off one by one.
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A motorcycle champion becomes a stunt rider after he is banned from speedway racing.
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Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.