Patricia Burke
Nacimiento : 1917-03-23, Milan, Italy
Muerte : 2003-11-23
Historia
Patricia Burke was an English singer and actress in cinema, stage and TV. She was the daughter of actress Marie Burke and British operatic tenor Thomas Burke.
Mother Superior
En una lujosa casa de citas de Madame Grenier, en el París ocupado por las tropas alemanas, el mayor Robinson, miembro del servicio secreto británico y ex cliente de la casa, se dedica a liquidar a los oficiales del estado mayor alemán cuando van sin uniforme, lo cual tiene como consecuencia que Grenier y sus chicas ingresen en la resistencia.
Sid James learns of the joys of owning a budgerigar.
Mrs. Mavroyannis
La vida en una alejada isla griega cambia para siempre cuando dos cargas atómicas caen accidentalmente de un avión de la OTAN. El gobierno trata de recuperar su carga, sin causar alarma, por lo que envía agentes disfrazados de inversionistas en la búsqueda de un lugar para construir un resort. Unos lugareños encuentran una de las bombas y creyendo que oculta un tesoro, despliegan todo su ingenio para tratar de abrirla. Mientras tanto, los veraneantes, ignorantes del peligro se dedican a bailar y divertirse al ritmo de una música frenética. Para no despertar sospechas, los agentes del gobierno también organizan su propia fiesta. En la playa empiezan a aparecer peces muertos.
Norma Brent
What appears to be a cut-and-dried case of murder of an aging one time showgirl on Hampstead Heath by her lover is complicated by several factors, including a far more respectable paramour, and her insistence that a great inheritance was due her that nobody can verify.
Edna Jones
Respectable schoolmaster returns from work on the eve of a wedding anniversary holiday to find a strange man dead in their bathroom and his wife missing.
Mrs. Lloyd
When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race to clear his name and find the real killer.
Miss Prew
Two reporters are held hostage in old castle, by thief, looking for jewels, that he had buried, after robbing a local house.
Ann Murray
Three women staying at a remote Welsh inn toss coins into a well wishing to improve their miserable lives. Along comes postman Evans (who also wrote the original play and collaborated on the screenplay) to help them out and set them straight.
Diana Harding
Set on Blackpool’s Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch spaces, Jim falls for Jane (Hazel Court), the girl on a nearby candy floss stall. The two begin dating but Jim fails to mention he is already married.
Christine Sloan
In 1922, young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan, troubled and sleepless over her inability to finish the final notes of her composition, falls to her death from the cliffs of Cornwall. 25 years on, Olwen has gained posthumous fame as a result of her tragic death and her haunting uncompleted composition 'The Dream of Olwen'. Her reclusive sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), who has never come to terms with Olwen's death, becomes convinced that Olwen has returned when she meets an amnesiac woman who looks like her.
Gabrielle Girard
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Betty Todd
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.