Leonard Sharp
출생 : 1890-05-24, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England, UK
사망 : 1958-10-24
Spectator at Fire (uncredited)
A Liverpool juvenile liaison officer struggles with a young and dangerous pyromaniac.
News Vendor
A prominent journalist is kidnapped by a lunatic who threatens to kill her unless she writes flattering articles about him.
Elevator Operator
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
Thomas the Watchman (uncredited)
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
Pavement Artist (uncredited)
정신이 오락가락한 80대 노파가 사는 조용한 집에 마커스가 방을 구하기 위해 찾아온다. 악기 연주 연습을 하는 사람이라고 소개하지만 실제로는 현금수송차량을 털 계획을 세우고 있는 악당이다. 각자 악기가방을 들고 모인 5인조 강도들은 교묘한 수법으로 현금수송차를 털고 그 돈가방을 할머니를 이용해 그 집으로 옮기는데 성공한다. 그들의 강도짓은 완전범죄로 보이는 듯 하지만 돈가방을 갖고 떠나려 하자 의외의 사건이 벌어지고 이들은 장애물이 되는 할머니를 살해하고 떠날 계획을 세우는데...
China Mender
A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
Tailor who rents shop to William Mossop
1890년대 맨체스터 근처의 살포드 거리. 홉슨 제화점의 주인(찰스 로튼 분)은 세 딸과 살아가는 홀아비로서 알콜 중독에 구두쇠로 소문나 있다. 점포를 돌보는 큰 딸은 혼기를 놓친 노처녀이고, 둘째, 셋째딸은 애인들이 있지만 아버지가 결혼 지참금을 내놓지 않아 결혼을 못하고 있다. 초조해진 큰 딸은 제화공과 자력으로 결혼하여 따로 독립한다. 사위가 경영하는 제화점은 나날이 번창하여 자리를 잡아 가지만 홉슨 제화점은 영락의 길을 걷는다. 그렇게 인색하던 장인 홉슨도 마음을 고쳐먹고 사위와 합작하여 제화점을 새로 차린다.
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Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
Old Skip
A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Mullins (as Len Sharp)
A sinister crook is implicated in blackmail, greed for emeralds, a secret formula and murder. Thee episodes from a 1952 British television series called "Inspector Morley, Late of Scotland Yard, Investigates" were joined together and released theatrically.
Old Joe / Crossing Sweeper
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife.
Beggar (uncredited)
해리 파비안은 런던의 거리를 헤매는 야심 많은 사기꾼으로 돈을 벌기 위해서라면 수단과 방법을 가리지 않는다. 어느 날 그는 은퇴한 세계적인 레슬링 선수 그레고리우스를 만나고 생각지도 않은 음모에 휘말리게 되는데…. 감독은 억압된 사회 속에서 생존을 위해 투쟁하는 사람들에게 초점을 맞춰 인간 본성을 탁월하게 묘사했다.
Mitch
The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Carter (uncredited)
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
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In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft dodger who is having an affair with his wife.
A ventriloquist is murdered during a theatre variety performance. A dwarf goes undercover as the dummy...
Bus Conductor (uncredited)
A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Miles
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Bob Joyce
Inspector Slade investigates a murder.
Bertha
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Baker
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Geordie Scott
Farmers are all losing their Sheep, all except 'Riggy's'. Is it because of his great sheepdog or something more sinister.
Man at Demonstration
Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Chip Shop Customer
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
Buller's Assistant
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Card Player at Billiard Halls (Uncredited)
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Convict
A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the charge of a prison for particularly hardened criminals. Believing he is being sent to a school rather than a prison, he celebrates accordingly only to find that his drunkenness accidently lands him on the wrong side of the prison bars. The Governorship is eventually restored to him, and he sets about popularising himself amongst the convicts by turning a blind eye to their shady dealings.
Jack
A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Revenue Man (uncredited)
A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Mr. Peabody
A worker at a gramphone record factory surprisingly creates a hit song.
Crew Member
Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coal barge down inland waterways. His tall tales catch him out when he is co-erced into commanding an unseaworthy ship by an unscrupulous shipping agent who means to have it wrecked. This was the first film to couple Will Hay with both Moore Marriott and Graham Moffatt.
Burgher at Auction (uncredited)
그는 1609년 스페인으로부터 독립해 무역국가로 성장, 부유한 부르주아 문화를 꽃피운 네델란드에서 태어나, 루벤스(1577-1640)와 함께 바로크 시대를 대표하는 화가입니다. 레이덴의 방앗간집 여덟째 아들이었던 그는 레이덴 대학을 그만두고 그림의 길을 걷기 위해 암스테르담으로 유학, 28세에 명문가의 딸 사스키아 반 오윌렌부르흐 와 결혼, 최고의 초상화가로서 인정받고 30대 초반에 엄청난 부와 명성을 쌓았지만, 42년(36세)에 아내 사스키아가 사망하고. 이해 그의 대표적 걸작, 야경 을 제작했는데 사람들로부터 외면 당해 결국 빚더미 위에 올라앉게 됩니다. 하지만 아들 타이터스와 그의 정성껏 보살피는 하녀 헨드리케 슈토펠스 와 54년에 얻은 딸 코르넬리아 덕분에 후기 작품에 전념하였으나, 생활은 날로 어려워졌으며, 56년(50세) 파산선고를 받아 무일푼이 되었고, 62년(56세)에는 헨드리케 마저 세상을 떠나고, 68년 아들 타이터스도 27살에 죽자, 이듬해 10월 유대인 구역의 초라한 집에서 임종을 지키는 사람도 없이 63세에 숨을 거둡니다. 에칭에 대한 모든 기술을 완성하기도 한 그는 유화 약 600점, 에칭 300여점, 소묘 천 수백점 등을 남겼는데 루벤스가 화가로서 성공을 거두고 부유했던 반면, 그가 죽을 때 남은 것이라고는 옷 몇 벌과 그림 도구들 뿐이었다고 합니다.