Ann Todd
Nascimento : 1909-01-24, Hartford, Cheshire, England
Morte : 1993-05-06
História
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Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer.
She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blond beauty.
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Self
Um documentário que mostra a carreira épica e às vezes controversa do magistral diretor Alfred Hitchcock.
Mrs. Forbes-Duthie
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Archive Footage
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
Castle's Mother
A low-ranking Secret Service agent is conned into supplying information to Eastern Bloc countries. Although he is not a suspect due to his unimportant position, when his office partner is hauled in as a suspect he realises he has got himself into very deep water.
Birdy Wemys
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
Mrs. Kurka
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
Arabella Blood
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
Jane Appleby
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Helen
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Honor Stanford
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Solange Vauthier
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
Susan Garthwaite
História ficcional dos engenheiros aeroespaciais britânicos que tentam resolver o problema do voo supersônico.
O piloto de caça Tony, bem-sucedido durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, se casa com Susan, filha de um magnata do petróleo que também projeta aviões. O filme mostra a tentativa da empresa de quebrar a barreira do som, bem como as tensões entre pai e filha. Muitas filmagens do início dos anos 50 da aviação a jato na Grã-Bretanha, bem como cenas reais do avião Comet, primeiro avião a jato de passageiros do mundo. e Livre.
Madeleine Hamilton Smith
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Mary Justin
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Olivia Harwood
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Frances "Frankie" Tribe
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Gay Keane
Anthony Keane (Gregory Peck) é um advogado que fora contratado para defender o caso da Sra. Paradine (Alida Valli), acusada de matar o própio marido. Só que ele acaba por se apaixonar por ela, colocando em risco sua carreira profissional e seu casamento. O que Keane não espera é que a Sra. Paradine tem um caso com outra pessoa, e isso poderá influenciar decisivamente o julgamento final.
Kathryn Davis
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Francesca Cunningham
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Elena
After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion.
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
Kay Gordon
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Jane Kaye
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Ann Rider
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Madge Carne
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Carol Stedman
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Ann Daviot
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Mary Gordon
Baseado na obra de H.G. Wells, narra cem anos de história da humanidade, de 1930 até o século XXI. Esse período é atravessado por guerras que duram décadas, uma peste que aniquila metade da população e a reconstrução da civilização em busca do espaço sideral.
Phyllis Drummond
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
Jane Bell
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
Millicent
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
Peggy Murdock
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Pamela Crawford
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
