Terence Fisher
Nascimento : 1904-02-23, Maida Vale, London, England
Morte : 1980-06-18
História
Terence Fisher (23 February 1904 – 18 June 1980) was a film director who worked for Hammer Films. He was born in Maida Vale, a district of London, England.
Fisher was one of the most prominent horror directors of the second half of the 20th century. He was the first to bring gothic horror alive in full colour, and the sexual overtones and explicit horror in his films, while mild by modern standards, were unprecedented in his day. His first major gothic horror film was "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957), which launched Hammer's long association with the genre and made British actors Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee leading horror stars of the era. He went on to film a number of adaptations of classic horror subjects, including "Dracula" (1958), "The Hound of the Baskervilles" (1959) and "The Mummy" (1959).
Given their subject matter and lurid approach, Fisher's films, though commercially successful, were largely dismissed by critics during his career. It is only in recent years that Fisher has become recognised as an auteur in his own right. His films are characterised by a blend of fairy-tale, myth and sexuality. They draw heavily on Christian themes, and there is usually a hero who defeats the powers of darkness by a combination of faith in God and reason, in contrast to other characters, who are either blindly superstitious or bound by a cold, godless rationalism.
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A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.
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Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
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A experiência do Barão Frankenstein deu errado, muito errado. Assim, outra vítima repousa em um túmulo provisório. De repente, uma corrente de água estoura, forçando o braço do cadáver para a superfície. Logo a corrente leva o corpo para cima. Em pânico, o ajudante do Dr. Frankenstein tenta esconder o corpo novamente. mas não é que cadáveres podem mesmo ser incontroláveis? Essa cena assustadora é destaque em Frankenstein Tem que Ser Destruído, quinto filme de Frankenstein da estrela do terror Peter Cushing, produzido pela lendária Hammer Studios. Com o então estreante Simon Ward (Young Winston) e Freddie Jones (The Elephant Man), como a mais nova criação do inventivo e mais célebre cientista do cinema.
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As forças do bem e do mal se enfrentam quando o Duque de Richelieu enfrenta um grupo de satanistas liderado pelo cruel Mocata pela alma de seu amigo. Mocata possui o conhecimento e o poder de invocar as forças da escuridão, enquanto o Duque e seus amigos tentam se proteger e não serem subjugados pelo terror crescente da chegada do "Anjo da Morte".
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Embora a Inglaterra esteja no meio de um inverno congelante, a pequena ilha escocesa de Fara experimenta uma onda de calor que ultrapassa os 40 graus e sobe diariamente.
Sem muito o que fazer, a jovem e linda Angela Roberts dá um jeito de esquentar ainda mais a situação enquanto um cientista misterioso recém chegado, o Dr. Godfrey Hanson, faz pesquisas com o solo e instala câmeras pela ilha.
Quando indagado, Godfrey diz suspeitar que a onda de calor seja obra de alienígenas e tentará provar sua teoria e dar um fim a tudo aquilo juntamente com o médico local, o Dr. Vernon Stone.
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O barão Frankenstein descobre uma técnica para preservar a alma após a morte do corpo, e transfere a de um jovem executado injustamente para o de sua namorada. Mas a moça acaba servindo como instrumento de vingança do rapaz.
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Ilha Pitkeys, costa da Irlanda. Neste lugar remoto onde não há telefone e apenas uma lancha é a única ligação com o continente, o cientista Lawrence Phillips Peter Forbes-Robertson) se isolou com sua equipe, em uma tentativa de achar a cura do câncer. Pouco depois Ian Bellows (Liam Gaffney), um morador da ilha, é dado como desaparecido. O policial John Harris (Sam Kydd) vai procurá-lo e o encontra morto e sem os ossos. Harry comunica o acontecido a Reginald Landers (Eddie Byrne), um pesquisador, que fica totalmente espantado com o caso. Landers pega a lancha, deixando os moradores da ilha isolados, e vai ao continente falar com um eminente patologista, Brian Stanley (Peter Cushing), que também fica muito surpreso e diz que o maior entendido em ossos era David West (Edward Judd).
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Mesmo depois que o conde Drácula fora destruído pelo Dr. Van Helsing (no filme Horror of Dracula), sua lenda ainda amedronta a população local. Jovens casais em férias na região dos Montes Cárpatos são aconselhados por moradores a desistir de seus planos, pois uma maldição vive escondida no interior da floresta. Julgando tratar-se de mera superstição, os viajantes ignoram o aviso e partem em direção ao desconhecido. Abandonados pelo cocheiro em plena floresta, eles chegam a um castelo.
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In the early 20th century a village experienced a series of inexplicable murders. All the victims were young men who had been turned to stone. The perpetrator of these deaths was a being so repulsive that she transformed the onlooker using the power of her deadly stare. Much of the time the creature took the form of a beautiful and seductive woman, but during periods of the full moon she becomes a living horror, vicious and deadly. A professor has come to investigate the deaths, bringing with him his beautiful assistant whose knowledge of the Gorgon is more intimate than anyone would ever realise.
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A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
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In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes herself to be a vampire, while a third is locked away in a padded cell. Another family member is thrilled when he finally invents a horseless carriage (50 years after Ford), and the family grandfather is found reading Playboy just before he dies. Trouble begins when members of the family begin to be mysteriously murdered. The American suitor must then discover which member of the strange family is in line to inherit the family fortune.
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.
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Compositor com rosto desfigurado se esconde nos subterrâneos da cidade e aterroriza um teatro. Ele sequestra Christine Charles, uma jovem cantora de ópera, a quem dá aulas de canto em segredo.
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Sobre um bebê indesejado, nascido na noite de Natal, caiu uma terrível maldição. Criado por Don Alfredo, o jovem Leon passa a sofrer transformações com a chegada da lua cheia. Só o amor verdadeiro e a compreensão podem salvá-lo de seu terrível destino.
Único filme cujo tema é a licantropia produzido pela Hammer Film Productions, The Curse of the Werewolf foi dirigido por Terence Fisher em 1961. Repleto de símbolos religiosos e pagãos, e com a tensão sexual a emergir de forma naturalmente animalesca. O então muito jovem Oliver Reed é o lobisomem do título, e representa-o com mais de sentimento e menos de ímpeto assassino do que é costume nestas andanças. Livremente baseado no romance The Werewolf of Paris, o filme desloca a ação para a Espanha do século XVIII.
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O Xerife de Nottingham planeja confiscar a propriedade do Senhor de Bawtry, um nobre que morreu na Cruzada. O Arcebispo de Canterbury, Hubert Walter, é contra este plano e o xerife planeja eliminá-lo. Robin Hood é convidado a realizar o assassinato do arcebispo para os conspiradores, liderados pelo Conde de Newark e Lord Melton, mas, ao perceber quem é o alvo pretendido, resolve ajudar o Arcebispo. Lady Marian também quer conhecer o Arcebispo para que ela possa conceder liberdade à família de um homem assassinado pelos homens do Xerife e ela também está ansiosa para encontrar Robin novamente, pois o conheceu quando achava que ele era um fora da lei comum, mas agora percebe que ele está do lado do bem.
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Londres, 1874. Henry Jekyll (Paul Massie) é um dedicado pesquisador que há 6 anos está casado com Kitty (Dawn Addams), mas lhe dá pouca atenção. Com isso ela se apaixonou por Paul Allen (Christopher Lee), o maior amigo de Jekyll. Paralelamente Henry desenvolve uma fórmula que faz vir à tona o lado negro de cada ser e, ao aplicar em si esta droga, Jekyll se altera não só psicologicamente como fisicamente. Logo ele está na Sphinx, uma casa noturna cara mas de má reputação. Lá encontra Kitty e Paul, que conversam com ele. Logo Jekyll está dançando com Kitty, que não imagina que este desconhecido que diz se chamar Edward Hyde é o seu marido, que ela tanto evita. Este encontro marca o início de várias tragédias.
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Marianne Danielle está viajando pelo Leste Europeu a fim de assumir o cargo de professora de francês em uma escola para moças na Transilvânia, agora livre da ameaça do Conde Drácula. Ela não é muito bem recebida pelos locais e acaba sendo acomodada no castelo da Baronesa Meinster, onde conhece o filho da nobre, que vive acorrentado à parede. Com pena do jovem, Marianne decide libertá-lo sem desconfiar que ele é um vampiro. Para sorte dela, o Doutor Van Helsing está por perto e promete por fim à vida de mais esse ser das trevas.
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Em 1830 na India, um capitão investiga o roubo de um artefato shamanico, realizado por um grupo de criminosos bandidos.
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Egito, 1895. Três arqueologistas britânicos, John Banning (Peter Cushing), Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) e Joseph Whemple (Raymond Hutley), descobrem o túmulo de uma princesa egípcia, Ananka (Yvonne Furneaux), que morreu há quatro mil anos. Sem imaginar o que realmente fazia, Stephen lê o "Pergaminho da Vida". Isto faz voltar a vida Kharis (Christopher Lee), o guardião da tumba, que recebe a ajuda de Mehemet Bey (George Pastell), um egípcio que não aceita o túmulo ter sido profanado por "infiéis". Três anos depois, Mehemet leva para a Inglaterra Kharis, que terá a missão de matar os três arqueólogos que lideraram a expedição que achou a tumba de Ananka.
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Um artista e cientista centenário em uma Paris de 1890 mantém sua juventude e saúde substituindo periodicamente uma glândula de seu corpo pela de uma pessoa viva.
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Peter Cushing é um perfeito Sherlock Holmes e André Morell um perfeito Dr Watson, neste clássico de mistério e terror, que conta também com a interpretação da lenda do horror Christopher Lee. Com envolventes interpretações e cinematografia assustadora, este excelente filme de grande qualidade, vai mantê-lo na expectativa - e ofegante - até à última imagem! Um mal demoníaco esconde-se num manto de névoa nos pântanos que povoam as lendas inglesas. Na forma de um cão infernal, ele alimenta-se da carne dos herdeiros do Palácio dos Baskervilles. Mas antes desta besta selvagem poder ferrar os dentes no novo dono da mansão, tem que colocar as suas malévolas mandíbulas no astuto intelecto do mais poderoso inimigo que alguma vez encontrou - o incomparável Sherlock Holmes.
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O Barão Frankenstein foge da execução na guilhotina e usa o pseudônimo Dr. Stein para abrir sua clínica na Alemanha. Lá, recomeça seus experimentos com cadáveres, mas um de seus pacientes tem um destino diferente do que Stein planejou.
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Jonnathan Harker morre aparentemente vítima de um vampiro. Ao investigar a misteriosa morte do amigo, Van Helsing encontra um diário que incrimina o Conde Drácula. Mas Lucy, a prometida de Harker, também foi atacada por um vampiro. O irmão e a cunhada da moça se unem a Van Helsing para capturar a sanguinária criatura.
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O Barão Frankenstein (Peter Cushing) descobre uma maneira de enganar a morte. Para testar sua descoberta, monta um corpo com pedaços de diferentes cadáveres. O resultado é uma criatura sem nome, irracional e sedenta de morte. Ciência ou loucura?"
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A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
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A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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A classic Robin Hood tale, starring Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Bernadette O'Farrell as Maid Marian. Released in 1991 by ITC, it was edited together (quite seamlessly) from episodes of the ITC 1955 TV series "The Adventures of Robin Hood".
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A race car driver marries a woman for her money and plans to murder her. An old suitor steps in to help her but the driver takes steps to eliminate the rival. But there's a flaw in the driver's plans.
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Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
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As a going away gift to a small village, the local Lord and Lady promise a new cottage to the local couple with the most grandchildren. Competitive instincts and petty jealousies ensue.
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An idol of auto-racing fans attempts a comeback after serving in the Air Force. When his former rival lies dying in the hospital he must decide whether to continue in the Grand Prix, or make peace with his adversary. Featuring race car greats Stirling Moss, Reg Parnell, John Cooper, Alan Brown, Geoffrey Taylor and Leslie Marr.
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A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
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Someone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
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When a beautiful girl offers Casey Morrow a lot of money for a mystery job, Morrow doesn't ask too many questions. But when the girl's father is found murdered the following day and Morrow's coat is soaked with blood perhaps a little more caution should have been exercised. An intriguing story of deception, greed and immorality.
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A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
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The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.
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A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.
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A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.
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Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
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Branded as criminally insane and incarcerated for a murder he did not commit, Speight escapes from the asylum, determined to clear his name. He befriends private detective Hugo Bishop who, convinced that the wrong man has been convicted, agrees to help find the real killer. They begin their search for the murderer closest to home where both Thelma Speight and her employer Maurice Jerrard were visibly distressed by the news of her husband's jailbreak. More than Speight's 'insanity' fuels their worries.
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Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information for him is murdered.
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David Anthony, a Harley Street physician, swaps duties with his brother, a medical missionary in Africa.
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A doctor changes a woman's face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns.
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A former pilot suffering from blackouts discovers that a fellow flyer is suspected of being mixed up with a web of smugglers. While searching for his missing buddy, he unwittingly becomes entangled in a morass of suspicion.
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A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
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A young woman becomes a murder target after inheriting her estranged father's estate.
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Vicky Barton and her brother, Johnny, take a trip to the 1896 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in a hotel. When the sister gets up the next morning, she finds her brother and his room had disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
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Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But Leonora could do without Barbara's husband, Christian (Noel Coward), whom she finds arrogant and off-putting ... at first. One evening alone together, romance is set ablaze, leaving Christian with a lot of explaining to do to Barbara.
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The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
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A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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Four people with very different backgrounds meet by chance at an English pub and gradually become carried away in a bout of thrill-seeking. When their spree gets out of hand, each person faces a moral choice with lasting consequences.
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Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
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Two brothers struggle for control of the family business in 19th century Yorkshire.
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A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
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A young singer meets a man who is the victim of a kidnap plot, and is assumed by the gang to be his girlfriend.
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While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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Frantic farce involving a neglected wife, a stolen diamond and four identical briefcases.
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Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
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The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
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In this he's on the dole, hungry and ready to do any job but quickly light-heartedly scams his way into society and a highly regarded position at a bank next to the beleaguered Robertson Hare. Here he invents a fraudulent business plan (Merrivale - you remember it surely?), the manager and chairman and another finance company are suck(er)ed in and it all snowballs from there. With of course a love interest as a dynamo.
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Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
