Leighton Lucas
Nascimento : 1903-01-05, London, England, UK
Morte : 1982-11-01
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Ten years after the death of Robin Hood, the bandit of Sherwood Forest and defender of the Crown, the power-mad Duke Simon Des Roches plots to seize the British kingdom from its rightful heir, the boy prince, and only Robin's men stand in his way.
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Durante a WW2 na África do Norte, uma Unidade de Campo Médica deve atravessar o deserto em sua ambulância a fim de alcançar as linhas britânicas em Alexandria. Um grupo de militares e enfermeiras tentam uma perigosa e árdua viagem através dos desertos do Norte de África durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. O líder da equipe sonha com uma cerveja gelada quando chegar em Alexandria, mas os problemas simplesmente não desaparecem.
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While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
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A história de como os britânicos atacaram barragens alemãs na Segunda Guerra Mundial usando uma técnica engenhosa para lançar bombas onde elas seriam mais eficazes.
Adaptação feita por R.C. Sherriff do livro de Guy Gibson, Costa do Inimigo à Frente, Labaredas do Inferno (The Dam Busters) é um docudrama mostrando a concepção de uma nova arma britânica para destruir as barragens alemãs no complexo industrial do Ruhr e a execução do ataque feito pelo pelo Esquadrão 617, os Destruidores de Barragens (The Dam Busters). (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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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.
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A look at the 1953 transport infrastructure of York.
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A family reduced to imminent poverty by the father's disinclination to work; an American lawyer looking for the heir to half a million pounds; the scene is set for a hilarious tale of creative deception!
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The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.
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Jane resolve ajudar o amigo Jonathan, acusado de matar o marido da amante, a atriz Charlotte. Para isso, ela se infiltra na vida da atriz como governanta, tentando provar que Charlotte é a verdadeira responsável pelo crime.
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A humane prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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A sculptor is tortured from childhood by jealousy of the son of the woman who had him trained, but marriage and a family cures him.
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Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
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A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
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A documentary on the life of the people of the Aran Islands, who were believed to contain the essence of the ancient Irish life, represented by a pure uncorrupted peasant existence centred around the struggle between man and his hostile but magnificent surroundings. A blend of documentary and fictional narrative, the film captures the everyday trials of life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands.
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The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.