Peter Swanwick
Nacimiento : 1922-09-28, Nottingham, England, UK
Muerte : 1968-11-14
Finnish Policeman
Años de la Guerra Fría. El servicio de inteligencia británico sospecha que los soviéticos están colocando misiles en la frontera alemana. El polaco Leiser se traslada detrás el Telón de acero para investigar, pero su vida corre peligro. Una joven alemana le ayudará a evitar a la policía secreta y a cumplir con su misión. (Filmaffinity)
The Supervisor
After he resigns, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing; he only tries to escape.
Un asesino desconocido, que usa una media negra para ocultar su rostro, deja un puñado de narcisos amarillos en la escena de sus crímenes. Es la séptima película de Edgar Wallace producida por Rialto y está basada en la novela de Wallace "The Daffodil Mystery".
Freighter Pilot
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Inspector Knopf
Un cirujano plástico (con muy poca ética) se escapa de Inglaterra y se oculta en un circo que recorre Francia. Ahí consigue hermosas jóvenes a las que somete a operaciones de cirugía plástica. Cuando sus pacientes intentan escapar, el galeno las mata y simula accidentes.
Dr. Nichols
Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Stone
A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
Gen. Toppe
Durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un espía británico tiene que llevar a cabo en Alemania una arriesgada misión. Para ello, cuenta con la ayuda de un colega que finge ser vendedor de relojes. Cuando la identidad de este hombre se descubre y es asesinado, el espía encuentra un nuevo contacto en un cabaret: Lily, una mujer que finge ser cantante. La historia de amor que deben simular para llevar a cabo su cometido acaba haciéndose realidad.
Passport Official
A clerk sees his big chance to escape a humdrum existence, but his resolve is tested as many unexpected obstacles arise.
Harrison
A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
Hall Porter
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Spectacled Officer with General Breuer
Creta, 1944. Un grupo de partisanos comandados por el Capitán Stanley Moss y el Mayor Patrick Leigh Fermor secuestran al general alemán Karl Kreipe y lo trasladan a El Cairo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Monsieur Paul Bonnet
An American army officer working for British intelligence comes to post-war Berlin to solve a murder. His investigation is compromised when he falls for a nightclub singer, not realising she is an agent of the criminal mastermind he is on the trail of.
Travelling Salesman
An escaped killer hides out by forcing a travelling family to take him with them.
Nils Svenson
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
Mr Hall
After being arrested for assaulting a football referee, desperate train driver Bill (Arthur Askey) raids the railwaymen's holiday fund to cover his £55 fine. He knows he's going to be discovered though, leaving him no choice but to get the money back by hook or by crook! His last chance is to run a book on the United v City football derby. If that wasn't tense enough, Bill's son is also making his debut for United. It looks like it's going to be a day to remember - do you dare look? ...The Love Match.
Obra inspirada en los libros de Pat Reid. La película retrata la vida en un campo de prisioneros y los intentos de huida. Tiene como protagonistas a John Mills como Pat Reid, Bryan Forbes como Jimmy Winslow e Ian Carmichael como Robin Cartwright. Estuvo nominada al BAFTA de 1956.
Julius Meyerling
Peter Reynolds stars as Rex Banner, a newspaperman who makes it his life's mission to track down a vicious gang of thieves. When his informant winds up dead, Rex finds himself framed for murder.
Sgt. Working Party
In rural Norfolk, villagers are spurred to action when it is announced that the nearby RAF station is taking over the Island of Children, a much-loved and untouched bird sanctuary, for rocket practice.
Obergefreiter
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.
Mr Propert
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
Propert
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
Mr. Wimbush (uncredited)
Una banda de delincuentes juveniles se dedica a atracar ancianas, pero uno de ellos empieza a cometer delitos cada vez más graves.
Charlie Pott
Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a threat of ruining Michael's career. When her husband is murdered, Michael appears to be the only obvious suspect - but will the circumstantial evidence be enough to sentence him to death?
Jeremiah Higgins
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
Police Sergeant
Scotland Yard se moviliza con el fin de encontrar donantes de sangre para una chica que agoniza.
First Officer of Shona
Durante la Primera Guerra Mundial, un capitán de barco con tendencia a la bebida y una estirada misionera huyen de las tropas alemanas en una ruinosa embarcación y se ven obligados a remontar un peligroso río. Son, a primera vista, dos seres antagónicos, incompatibles, pero la convivencia y, sobre todo, las penalidades que tendrán que afrontar juntos para sobrevivir harán cambiar radicalmente su relación.
Night Porter (uncredited)
The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Chief Interrogator
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.