Ruth Dunning

Ruth Dunning

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Ruth Dunning

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Jude
Fay
Twelve-year-old Jude has never met Dick, his father. One Sunday afternoon Dick impulsively engineers a meeting, which has distressing consequences.
O Pantera Negra
Lesley's Mother
A gung-ho ex-military man pursues a secret life of crime, culminating in the kidnapping of a teenage heiress.
The House in Nightmare Park
Agnes Henderson
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
Hoffman
Mrs. Mitchell
A businessman blackmails his young secretary into spending a weekend with him.
As Três Vidas de Thomasina
Mother Stirling
A gata de uma jovem escocesa, Thomasina, aparentemente morre nas mãos de seu pai, um veterinário.A relação entre a garota e seu pai, que não está muito bem, é resolvida com o retorno de Thomasina e o aparecimento de uma bela e misteriosa bruxa que parece ter poderes de reviver e curar animais.
Dangerous Afternoon
Miss Letty Frost / Irma Randall
The manager of a halfway house for female ex-cons takes action when a blackmailer threatens to expose her secret.
Urge to Kill
A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
And Women Shall Weep
A mother tries to prevent her younger son being led astray by his delinquent elder brother.
Hot Summer Night
Nell Palmer
Jacko, a respected union man, is fighting for the promotion of a Jamaican colleague to chargehand, but when his daughter brings home her black boyfriend, he realises that racial prejudice is rife within his own home. This powerful drama exposes the deep-seated racial tensions hidden in British family life during the late 1950s. Written for the stage by Unity Theatre's Ted Willis, this television recording was filmed a few weeks after the play's successful West End run, and most of the stage cast repeat their roles here, including the terrific John Slater, Andree Melly and Lloyd Reckord. The drama's interracial kiss is probably the first to be shown on British TV.
It's a Great Day
Gladys Grove
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
Pecadoras Inocentes
Prison Matron
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.
Intimate Relations
Leonie
Yvonne is seething when her devoted son, Michael, declares his intention to marry Madeleine, despite the latter's admitting to having an affair with a mysterious older man. At the same time, George, Michael's father, confides in Yvonne's sister, Leo, that he is in fact Madeleine's other lover. Together, they hatch a plot to end Madeleine's hopes of marriage - by threatening to reveal George's scandalous secret to his son.
The Woman in the Hall
Shirley Dennison
Lorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
Save a Little Sunshine
Miss Dickson
Dave Smalley buys a lost Archaeopteryx fossil by accident at an auction and uses the reward money for this to buy a share in his landlady's lodging- house. She turns him into an exploited man-of-all-work about the house, but after a lady guest persuades him that he resembles Napoleon he becomes convinced that he is a born leader and mounts a takeover bid to reverse their roles.
All That Is England
Austin promotional short, showing a tour around the country by many Austin models, from the Seven to the Ascot.