Elsie Wagstaff
출생 : 1899-07-01, Leytonstone, Essex, England, UK
사망 : 1985-07-16
Wild One
해머가 프랑켄슈타인을 주인공으로 내세운 여섯 번째 작품. 몬스터와 프랑켄슈타인이 최후의 결전을 벌이는 마지막 장면은 당시로서는 굉장히 잔인하고 폭력적이란 점에서 영화의 하이라이트를 이룬다. 몬스터로 출연한 데이비드 프로우즈는 후에 시리즈의 다스 베이더를 연기해 컬트배우의 지위에 올랐다. (2011년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 할리우드 저예산 B급영화 기획전) 프랑켄슈타인을 동경하던 젊은 의학도 사이먼이 정신병원에서 프랑켄슈타인과 조우하면서 벌어지는 비밀스런 실험에 관한 이야기. (2012년 제13회 전주국제영화제)
Wedding Guest
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Mrs. Ransley
English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Auntie Dorothy
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.
Aggie Harker
A doctor in 1890 England, in order to cure his wife's "sick mind," injects her with snake venom. She later gives birth to a daughter whom the villagers call "The Devil's Baby" and in a fit of fear they end up burning the family's house down. Years later a Scotland Yard detective is sent to the village to investigate a rash of deaths that are caused by snakebite.
Mrs. Seaton
체코 출신의 카렐 라이츠가 앨런 시리토의 대중 소설을 영화화한 이 작품은 노동 계급의 투쟁에 초점을 맞춘다. 체제에 대한 적개심에 불타는 한 젊은 선반공이 체제에 대항해 싸우는 과정 속에서 스스로 상상력과 지식이 모자란다는 사실을 깨닫는다. 일반적인 극영화의 결말로 보이지 않는 마지막 장면 등은 이 작품이 받은 다큐멘터리 기법의 영향을 분명하게 보여준다. 프리시네마의 주요 인물 카렐 라이츠의 첫 장편.
Ada Seymour
Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Bendrix Landlady
During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
Mrs. Simon (voice) (uncredited)
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.
Wilding's maid
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.
Dependant Relative (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.
Theatre Barmaid (uncredited)
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.
Aunt Nora
A private detective (Bruce Lester) and an aspiring actress (Hy Hazell) join forces to thwart a man's scheme to murder his wealthy--and much older--wife. British thriller, directed by Francis Searle.
Mrs. Ford
Factory Worker
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Mrs. Wilkins
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Mrs. Ginochie
Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
Mrs. Baird
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.
Eve Wainwright (as Elsie Wagstaffe)
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
The Welfare Officer
Balloon unit WAAFs catch German spies.
Mrs. Catherick
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
Mrs. Hopkins
Ealing comedy starring music hall star George Formby. An eager newspaper reporter (Formby) goes undercover to expose a gang of counterfeiters. Posing as a wrestler and waiter in his investigative efforts, George proves a greater menace to public order than the criminals he is chasing.
Aunt Hetty
Struggling young actress Jenny (Marjorie Browne) joins her dad (Mark Daly) when he moves into Aunt Hetty's (Elsie Wagstaff) boarding house. Aunt Hetty overworks them, but Jenny is lucky enough to find love in the form of aspiring songwriter Tom (Hal Thompson). But their romance is threatened and nearly destroyed by the jealous star actress of the local pantomime company. However, the young lovers move on to bigger and better things after winning a London West End theatre contract.
Jael
Adapted from the novel by Elizabeth Craik it tells the story of John Halifax who, despite humble beginnings, becomes a highly respected local businessman. As partner in a mill he weathers the turbulent economic times of the early 1800s.
Emily
The daughter of a mill-owner is sent undercover to the mill of a rival, where she gets mixed up in romantic antics.