Charles Farrell
Nacimiento : 1900-08-06, Dublin, Ireland
Muerte : 1988-08-27
Historia
Charles Farrell was born on August 6, 1900 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Night and the City (1950), The Crimson Pirate (1952) and The Last Appointment (1954). He was married to Babbie McManus. He died on August 27, 1988 in London, England. Not to be confused with American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990).
Tramp
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Chauffeur
Después de que un equipo de cirujanos acabaran con la vida de su esposa durante una chapucera intervención quirúrgica, el Dr. Phibes (Vincent Price), un diabólico personaje, asesina a varios médicos con métodos horribles, todos ellos sacados de antiguas escrituras. El detective de Scotland Yard, Troute (Peter Jeffrey), está tras su pista con la ayuda del doctor Vesalius (Joseph Cotten), el jefe del equipo médico del que formaban parte los asesinados, y a los que Phibes responsabiliza de la muerte de su mujer.
The Seller
Hungría, siglo XVII. Después de enviudar, la anciana condesa Elizabeth Nádasdy, del linaje de los Báthory, descubre fortuitamente una forma de volver a ser joven; pero el precio a pagar por aquellos que la rodean será alto y sangriento.
Landlord
Un joven caballero acude al castillo de los Karnstein para vengar la muerte de su hermana, muerta por los vampiros. Allí, tras apoderarse del sudario de uno de los vampiros, lo atrae hacia sí. Pero el terror lo paraliza, y sólo lo salva la cruz que pende de su cuello. Y entonces, decapita a una vampira.
Policeman (uncredited)
Musical basado en una obra del mismo título que retrata a la famlia Smith durante la Primera Guerra Mundial (1914-1918). (FILMAFFINITY)
Taxi Driver
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Charlie Stevens
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Waiting Room Man
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Mungo Peddy
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Bartender
Un sheriff se enfrenta a dos bandas rivales. Como es británico y no conoce el Oeste, decide recibir lecciones de la dueña del salón. Comedia británica en clave de western para lucimiento de la explosiva Jayne Mansfield.
Percy Simpson
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
John Karver
A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
Percy Simpson
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Posh Peterson
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Percy
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Arthur
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Poison Paul
Siglo XVIII. Todo un clásico del cine de piratas que narra las correrías de Burt Lancaster y su acrobático e inseparable compañero Cravat, unos temibles corsarios que aterrorizan a las tripulaciones de los barcos que navegan por el Mediterráneo.
Simmonds
La historia de un boxeador y motorista que intenta seducir a una hermosa muchacha durante el carnaval.
Mickey Beer
Harry Fabian trabaja a comisión como gancho de un club, pero es ambicioso y sueña con hacerse independiente. Para conseguirlo no dudará en embaucar al campeón del mundo de lucha greco-romana para que se enfrente a su hijo Kristo, que controla la lucha en Londres.
Curley
Morgan se une a una banda dirigida por Narcy. En su primer encargo, huye de un accidente de coche después de matar a un policía. Pero acaba siendo reconocido como el conductor y es enviado a la cárcel. Buscando venganza se escapa y se dirige a Londres. En el camino lo ayuda una mujer (Sra. Fenshaw), que le encarga el asesinato de su marido...
Jack
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Don Dooley
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
American Orderly
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
Skipper
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Jim Bennett
Los espías nazis están dispuestos a destruir un nuevo asesino submarino, el "Firefly", que está siendo desarrollado por la marina británica. Un desafortunado camarero llamado George, después de haber sido rechazado para el servicio militar en tres ocasiones, finalmente "se une" cuando, durante un ataque aéreo, lo confunden con un verdadero marinero. Pronto, sin saberlo, se topa con el escondite secreto de los espías nazis que intentan destruir la luciérnaga. Sobrevienen complicaciones.
Barry Scott
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
First Cab Driver
En Polonia, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un joven pianista huye de su país para continuar su carrera profesional. Al poco tiempo conoce a Carole Peters, una periodista estadounidense de la que se enamora y con la que viaja a Inglaterra. Pero, al llegar allí, se alista en un escuadrón aéreo polaco y vuelve a su país para rescatar a sus camaradas. Carole no duda en acompañarle.
Walker
La historia de los altibajos de quienes protegían los convoyes vitales entre Estados Unidos e Inglaterra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Spike Nelson
Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.
Dave
A truck driver must carry a load of dynamite. Meanwhile, his girlfriend gets mixed up with a gang that sells stolen furs. Eventually, the truck driver must rescue his girlfriend from the bad guys and blows them and their loot to Kingdom Come.
Tovkatch
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
Sergeant on Guard (uncredited)
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Palmer
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
Scales
Ernest Bliss (Cary Grant) es un rico y apuesto caballero que se aburre muchísimo. Un día, preocupado, decide visitar al doctor Sir James Aldroyd, que le aconseja un método para curar su aburrimiento: trabajar y vivir durante todo un año sin tocar ni un penique de su fortuna. Ernest, convencido de que lo conseguirá, hace con su médico una apuesta de 50.000 libras.
Louis Brown
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Gang Member (uncredited)
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
Milligan
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Bookmaker
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
Martin
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Funfair Patron
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Smiler
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Wharton
A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.
Tough Man in Street
Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
Digger
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Williams
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
George Wollmer
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
Chicago Joe
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.