Jack Asher
Nacimiento : 1916-03-29, London, England, UK
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Norman Pitkin is the assistant helping to run a small, old fashioned dairy which is threatened by a larger, modern organisation. Pitkin does his best to save the dairy (and his horse) and the usual chaos ensues
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A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
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Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced labour camp. There she is hidden, disguised as a youthful prisoner, until her escape can be effected. The costs of keeping her identity secret fall on all the POW's as the Japanese embark on a policy of ruthless terror to extract her and the focus shifts to the conflicts of the group' s collective concerns against the necessities of personal survival.
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An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
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A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
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When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...
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When Francis and Douglas Oberon learn that their late grandmother has bequeathed the family fortune to distant cousin Toni, they immediately start plotting to get their hands on the money. They dream up a plot whereby they cannot fail to acquire a comfortable future; the lovely Toni must either be murdered, or married...
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Norman Puckle (Norman Wisdom), es vendedor, de bote en bote, de la tienda Dalton’s. Es un tipo bien intencionado pero algo torpe, y luego de ser rechazado por su enamorada Marlene, intenta suicidarse pero falla en todos sus intentos. Salvado, por un ofical de la marina, de caer desde un acantilado (su último intento de abandonar este mundo), su salvador lo convence para que ingrese a la armada prometiéndole que podrá tener muy cerca a numerosas chicas… pero antes tendrá muy cerca un buen número de líos.
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Inmerso en una investigación cuyo fin es separar las dos naturalezas del hombre, el doctor Jekyll degenera en el vengativo mister Hyde, cuyo objetivo es desafiar al jugador del que su mujer está enamorado. Pero el doctor Jekyll, horrorizado, se rebela contra su segunda naturaleza. Una intrigante historia basada en la novela de Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Después de que el joven barón Meinster sufra la mordedura del conde Drácula, para impedir que actúe como un vampiro, su madre decide confinarlo en sus habitaciones. Sin embargo, una joven lo libera sin sospechar las consecuencias de su acción.
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Dos arqueólogos, padre e hijo, dirigen una expedición que está estudiando en Egipto la tumba de la reina Anaka. El padre comete el inmenso error de leer en voz alta un conjuro que devuelve la vida a Kharis, el guardián de la reina, el cual, a partir de ese momento, no tiene más objetivo que eliminar a quienes han turbado el reposo de Anaka.
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Basada en una obra de Barré Lyndon, en la que previamente ya se inspiró "The Man in Half Moon Street" (1945). Un médico se mantiene joven y lozano gracias a periódicos trasplantes glandulares que ocultan su verdadera edad: 104 años. Pero, para ello, debe ser sacrificado algún que otro jovencito.
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Adaptación de una novela del escritor inglés Arthur Conan Doyle. Sobre los Baskerville pesa una maldición que ha traído muerte y desgracias sin cuento a las sucesivas generaciones de la familia. Cuando Sir Charles Baskerville aparece muerto en los páramos, Sherlock Holmes sospecha que el único miembro de la familia que permanece vivo, Sir Henry, será la siguiente víctima, pero no a causa de la maldición, sino debido a la ambición de alguien que saldría muy beneficiado de su muerte. El famoso detective sabe que debe descubrir al asesino antes de que sea demasiado tarde.
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Norman Truscott is a store worker who dreams of stardom. Vernon Carew is a singer whose star is fading. Vernon manages to get a recording of Norman singing and passes it off as himself.
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Un taxista se enamora de una muchacha francesa y la libera de una red de tráfico de blancas.
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Aunque la policía ha llegado a la conclusión de que la causa de la muerte de una mujer es el suicidio, la hija de la víctima sospecha que ha sido asesinada por su padrastro y está decidida a demostrarlo como sea.
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El doctor Frankenstein escapa a la muerte en la guillotina y se dedica a ejercer como médico de cabecera bajo el nombre de doctor Stein; pero no ha olvidado su proyecto de crear un ser humano.
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El conde Drácula decide abandonar su castillo de los Cárpatos y establecerse en Occidente. Pronto conoce a una joven de quien se enamora y a la que visita por las noches. Esta alarmante situación hace que la familia de la chica busque la ayuda del doctor Van Helsing.
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Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
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Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation post, reporting on enemy movements before the imminent offensive to liberate Tunis. However German infantrymen discover their operations. The ensuing battle for control of this small piece of land will decide who controls Tunis but more critically, the victors in the battle of democracy versus fascism.
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The life and loves of Music hall singer Vesta Tilley, who married into the nobility
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Condenado a muerte por una serie de crímenes que no ha cometido, el Barón Victor Frankenstein trata en vano de explicar a sus carceleros que el autor de esas muertes es un monstruoso ser, creado por él en su laboratorio secreto. Su diabólica ambición de crear vida llevó a Frankenstein a desafiar a Dios, fabricando un ser abominable a partir de cadáveres.
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Douglas Bader, uno de los grandes héroes británicos de la II Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), vio incrementada su popularidad cuando, en 1954, tras publicarse su biografía, apareció una versión abreviada de la misma en la popular revista Reader's Digest. En esa obra se basó el film de Gilbert, el más taquillero de Inglaterra desde el estreno de “Lo que El Viento se Llevó”. A pesar de que a finales de los años 20, a Bader le habían amputado las dos piernas, tras un accidente aéreo, gracias a unas prótesis de aluminio pudo participar en la Batalla de Inglaterra.
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Edward "Teddy" (Dirk Bogarde), que ha asesinado a su esposa con el objetivo de cobrar su herencia, acaba averiguando que tal herencia no existe. Inmediatamente después de volver a casarse, empieza a planear el asesinato de su segunda mujer. (FILMAFFINITY)
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An American loses all his money and finds himself stranded in England. He finds hope when he meets a female smuggler who has brought jewels into the country inside a teddy bear, but unfortunately, things quickly get out of hand.
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A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
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A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
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La película es un thriller desde sus inicios ya que sus títulos de crédito, cuatro hombres en un coche por las calles de Londres, cuatro hombres entregados a una misma causa, el robo a un furgón correo que transporta una gran suma de dinero. Cuatro hombres sin atencedentes criminales en sus espaldas, cada uno con una vida diferente al otro: un boxeador, un aviador, un funcionario y por último un desahogado con tiempo ilimitado para el ocio.
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An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
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Historia basada en hechos reales. En 1944, tras el fracaso de varios intentos de fuga en un campo alemán de prisioneros de guerra, un grupo de oficiales empieza a sospechar que entre ellos hay un traidor. El teniente Ainsworth, un artista en la vida civil, hace un maniquí llamado Albert para engañar a los guardias alemanes que pasan lista a los presos cuando vuelven de las duchas que están situadas fuera del campo.
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A woman falls in love with a ghost on All Hallows Eve.
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The story of a husband's implication in his wife's death, his stupid disposal of her body and the police enquiry which almost embroils him in a murder charge.
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Una banda de delincuentes juveniles se dedica a atracar ancianas, pero uno de ellos empieza a cometer delitos cada vez más graves.
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When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
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Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing grandmother and his younger brother. Before long, the old woman ends up dead—murdered. Fingers point strongly to one suspect, but is he really guilty?
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The adulterous Mrs Griffiths' corset has, unbeknown to her, a fortune stashed in it by her drunken, money-loving husband.
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A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
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Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
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Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
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Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
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A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
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A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
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A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
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Biografía del famoso y controvertido compositor italiano Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840).
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The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill (George Moon) also on board. They are transported to Elizabethan England where they come across Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth 1, Captain John Smith and Pocohontas. Will our time travellers return?
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Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up living on the tiny island. Thirteen is an unlucky number; and one-by-one they disappear ...
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A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.