Olive Sloane

Olive Sloane

出生 : 1896-12-16, London, England, UK

死亡 : 1963-06-28

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Olive Sloane

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The House in Marsh Road
Mrs. Morris
When a woman inherits a valuable house, her nasty husband and his mistress plot murder. But the house has a protective poltergeist who thwarts the wicked pair.
Wrong Number
Miss Crystal
Because she dials the wrong number, an old lady hears information which enables the police to solve a robbery and murder.
The Price of Silence
Landlady
Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
Serious Charge
Mrs Browning
Howard Phillips, a vicar who's new in the town of Bellington, wants to reach out to youth. The previous vicar's daughter, Hester Peters, who fears being a spinster, wants to be his wife. He tells her he's not interested. When he confronts a tough kid about something the youth has done, the lad sets out to frame the vicar. Hester, who's walked in on the confrontation, backs the youth's story. The town sides with her and the lad, turning against Phillips. He has a crisis of faith. What options does he have; can no one help him, his reputation, or his calling?
Brothers in Law
Mrs. Newent
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
The Last Man to Hang
Mrs. Bayfield
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
The Man in the Road
Mrs. Lemmin - the Landlady
A brilliant scientist who has lost his memory is hunted by Communist agents out to obtain a secret formula.
A Prize of Gold
Mavis
A U.S. sergeant, a British sergeant and a British pilot hijack gold for a German refugee's war orphans.
The Weak and the Wicked
Nellie Baden
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
Meet Mr. Lucifer
Mrs. Stannard
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
Alf's Baby
Margaret Mathews
Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she turns 21.
My Wife's Lodger
Maggie Ann Higginbotham
My Wife’s Lodger finds hapless soldier Willie Higginbottom (Dominic Roche) hoping for a hero’s welcome when he returns home after the war. But, while he was away, shifty spiv Roger the Lodger (Leslie Dwyer) got his arms around his wife and his feet under the table, and now Willie’s ditzy daughter (Diana Dors) only wants to sing, dance and jitterbug!
Tall Headlines
Mrs. Baker
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Curtain Up
Maud Baron
In a small town in the 1950's a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress herself arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.
Seven Days to Noon
Goldie Phillips
An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.
Waterfront Women
Mrs. Gibson
When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Once a Sinner
Lil
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections - including embezzlement. She ends up marrying him, but she can't give up her true love, slimy counterfeiter Jimmy Smart...
山羊座のもとに
Sal
In 1831, Irishman Charles Adare travels to Australia to start a new life with the help of his cousin who has just been appointed governor. When he arrives he meets powerful landowner and ex-convict, Sam Flusky, who wants to do a business deal with him. Whilst attending a dinner party at Flusky's house, Charles meets Flusky's wife Henrietta who he had known as a child back in Ireland. Henrietta is an alcoholic and seems to be on the verge of madness.
The Guinea Pig
Aunt Mabel
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
They Knew Mr. Knight
Mrs. Maudie Knight
After a chance train encounter with Laurence Knight, Tom Blake's family's fortunes prosper on the beneficence of the great financier. A developing friendship leads to the Knights selling their home to the Blakes when they move back to London. All looks rosy for the Blakes as share prices in Mr Knight's new business venture soar, but is their confidence misplaced?
The Dummy Talks
A ventriloquist is murdered during a theatre variety performance. A dwarf goes undercover as the dummy...
Thunder Rock
Woman Director
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Let the People Sing
Daisy Barley
An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Tower of Terror
Florist
Wartime Germany: Marie, a concentration camp escapee on the run from the Nazis, narrowly escapes drowing when she is rescued by Wolfe Kristan a half-mad lighthouse keeper. Brought aboard the lighthouse itself, she begins to fall in love with the assistant keeper who, unknown to her, is a British spy. As the couple become more intimate, Kristan's jealously finally pushes him over the brink and into full-blown madness...
Inquest
Lily Prudence
A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
Consider Your Verdict
The Woman
A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.
Stardust
Gloria Dane
Carla de Hulvea is a rumba dancer who makes news by posing as a South-American heiress. She is doing fine with her hoax until she meets American Peter Jackson, a high-pressure promoter who is looking for movie-producing money. He does some big-time bluffing on his own in order to get Carla to invest in a film he is making with his partner, Roy Harley. Through Carla, Roy meets actress Diana West, who is given a role in the movie, and Roy falls in love with her.
In the Soup
Defendant
A young married couple try to impress a rich relation by posing as maid and butler of the household.
The Private Secretary
Impecunious bus passenger
A timid and dim-witted clergyman is duped into helping a playboy avoid his creditors, inherit his uncle's fortune and get the girl.
Alibi Inn
Queenie
A British drama film directed by Walter Tennyson
Squibs
Barmaid
Squibs, a cockney flowerseller with a father overwhelmed by gambling debts wins through with the help of assorted friends and a romantically inclined policeman.
Sing As We Go
Violet
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
Music Hall
A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
The Good Companions
Effie
Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Trapped by the Mormons
Sadie Keane
Mormons capture women for their wives in this silent anti-Mormon propaganda film featuring the original organ music.