Alfie Bass
Nascimento : 1921-04-08, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
Morte : 1987-07-15
História
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Alfred Bass was an English actor. He was born in Bethnal Green, London, the youngest in a Jewish family with ten children; their parents had fled persecution in Russia. He appeared in a variety of stage, film, television and radio productions throughout his career.
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Consumptive Italian
Um avião carregando um foguete espacial sofre um acidente. Mas quando o Serviço Secreto Britânico vai examinar os destroços, não encontra nenhum vestígio da espaçonave. Assim, James Bond (Roger Moore) tem a missão de investigar o caso e começa indo visitar o multimilionário que construiu a aeronave e tem idéias bastantes estranhas de qual deva ser o destino da raça humana.
Fernet
Jacques Clouseau (Peter Sellers), o famoso detetive, é pego em uma emboscada por Philippe Douvier, que decide matá-lo. Só que Clouseau é mais esperto e consegue escapar, porém sua morte é anunciada na mídia, o que leva a todos acharem que ele está realmente morto. O detetive francês passa a tirar vantagem dessa situação e arma um plano na encolha para saber quem armou pra cima dele.
Kelly
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces. Of course, the aunt has equally strong desires and refuses to be outdone. Soon all three are offering the many courters the chance to Come Play with Me!
Tramp
Smoke bombs fail to dislodge an old busker who has taken over the kids' headquarters, an abandoned circus caravan. One of Magpie's hidden treasures, a half-eaten fish, finally drives him out.
Mr. Spencer (segment "Pride")
The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
Charlie
A young woman trades her upper-class existence for a new life in an economically depressed suburb of London.
Self (archival footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
Pie Merchant
After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group of outlaws. Although initially suspicious of the aristocrat's motives, the men are soon won over by his integrity and prowess and Robin transforms them into a formidable fighting force, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. As word of his fame and valour spreads, a legend is born.
Shagal, the Inn-Keeper
O famoso professor Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) e seu desastrado assistente Alfred (Roman Polanski) viajam para a remota Transilvânia para pesquisar vampiros. Eles são hospedados em uma pousada por Shagal e, logo, o tímido Alfred se apaixona por Sarah, a filha de cabelos ruivos. Quando Sarah é sequestrada pelo misterioso conde von Krolock, o professor Abronsius e Alfred dirigem-se para o seu assustador castelo. A dupla de cientistas é recebida pelo conde e pelo seu alegre filho Herbert que os convidam para um baile de vampiros logo mais a noite.
Gatekeeper
Um escravo astuto deve unir uma cortesã virgem e seu jovem mestre apaixonado para ganhar sua liberdade. Pseudolus é o escravo mais preguiçoso de Roma e tem apenas um desejo: comprar sua liberdade. Quando seu mestre e sua amante saem para o dia, ele descobre que o jovem mestre se apaixonou por uma virgem da casa de Lico, um traficante de escravos especializado em mulheres bonitas. Pseudolus inventa um acordo em que ele será libertado se puder adquirir a garota para o jovem herói. É claro que não pode ser tão simples assim quando tudo começa a dar errado. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Harry Clamacraft
Alfie é um charmoso conquistador que vive em Londres. Ele tem várias aventuras amorosas, pois sempre quer mais mulheres na sua "coleção". Ele as usa, pois não tem nenhum tipo de censura e pula de uma cama para outra sem nenhum remorso. Porém Alfie não é tão despreocupado ou indiferente como tenta passar para a audiência, para quem fala diretamente diversas vezes. Tentando ser livre como um pássaro, ele ignora quem realmente o ama e seu filho acaba sendo criado por outro homem. Somente após várias conquistas e vitórias dúbias ele começa a questionar sua vida.
Fleming
Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.
Joseph Bindle
Based on the book of Herbert Jenkins, a comedy about a accident prone furniture remover and his mate.
Doorman
Help é o segundo filme da banda Britânica The Beatles. O álbum homónimo saiu no mesmo ano. O filme conta a história dum culto indiano que a cada dia escolhe uma vítima para ser sacrificada perante a deusa da morte kaili. Para isso, fornecem-lhe um anel que usará até que chegue a hora da sua morte. Porém este anel desaparece e descobre-se que foi enviado para Inglaterra, como presente a Ringo Starr, que caso não o devolva, se tornará a nova vítima. Porém, há um problema, ele não consegue tirá-lo do dedo.
Flute
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Bob Cratchit
A Christmas Carol retelling
Fish Curer
When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
The Small Man
A incrível, mas verdadeira, história de como um imitador foi recrutado para imitar o General Montgomery para enganar os alemães sobre suas intenções antes da campanha do Norte da África. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Jerry Cruncher
British barrister Sydney Carton lives an insubstantial and unhappy life. He falls under the spell of Lucie Manette, but Lucie marries Charles Darnay. When Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned family retainer, he becomes entangled in the snares of the brutal French Revolution and is himself jailed and condemned to the guillotine. But Sydney Carton, in love with a woman he cannot have, comes up with a daring plan to save her husband.
Excused Boots Bisley
A group of misfit soldiers are desperately trying to fiddle themselves some leave. Instead they wrangle a posting to the British Middle-East protectorate of Darawa. Their frustrations and disappointment at landing one of the harshest territories is compensated when they discover a secret passage to the King's harem.
Tinker, Truck Driver
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
Rudge Harvey
A blind and deaf woman dedicates her life and sacrifices all she has for her son, a good-for-nothing troublemaker who gets mixed up with a criminal gang that tries to frame him for a robbery.
May
A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
Organist (Uncredited)
Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding, though Emma makes sure the stag night is a brief one. Next day Albert fails to show up for the wedding. He eventually turns up at the house and confides in the vicar that if family life is anything like the Hornetts he wants no part of it. When the Hornetts are told this Emma declares that she sees that has been a "very wicked woman" and will mend her ways but, as the young couple eventually marry and move into their own house , one wonders how long her change of heart will last.
Ticket Collector
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
Sammy
Newspaper reporters compete with London police to solve a murder.
Alf the Bird Man (uncredited)
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to tell Joe stories. When Kandinsky informs Joe that a unicorn can grant wishes, the hopeful lad ends up buying a baby goat with one tiny horn, believing it to be a real unicorn. Undaunted by his rough surroundings, Joe sets about to prove that wishes can come true.
Blagg
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back in shape, Willy crosses paths with a gang of crooks who's specialty is fixing the races with doped dogs.
Fender
Fender is a lowly clerk in the warehouse of clothing manufacturers Ranting and Co. His one ambition is to have an overcoat of his own. Refused one by the cold hearted Ranting he asks a tailor friend, Morry, to make him one instead, but dies of cold before he can take delivery of it. Unwilling to give up his only desire even in death, he returns as a ghost to persuade Morry to steal him the overcoat he so coveted in life.
Sailor (uncredited)
After World War II the crew of a motor gunboat join together to buy their old vessel and go into business for themselves. This may sound like a laudable scheme, but the business they choose to go into is smuggling.
The Soldier
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a Royal Navy officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
Fred Frames
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
Harry
The British Passing Stranger stars Hollywood actor Lee Patterson as a deserting American GI. He drifts about until he falls in with a gang of gunrunners. He wants to quit, but can't until he makes enough money to support himself and his love Diane Cilento. Just before this is possible, Cilento's ex-boyfriend blows the whistle on the crooks. Just long enough not to wear out its welcome, The Passing Stranger is a passing good little film noir.
Cab Driver
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
Ernie Gordon
A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Carrell
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.
Ernie
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.
Frank Forbes
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
A con man hides out in a boys' school, posing as a professor. When the undisciplined and lazy boys have to pass a few tests, cheating becomes the only option.
Soldier
The wife of a rubber plantation owner must put her marriage problems on hold when her family is forced to defend themselves during a native uprising.
Spider Wilkes
Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby day. It cleverly blends dramatic, romantic and comic elements, including the woman and lover who have murdered her husband, and the working class couple who are excited about their chance to go to the races, but end up listening to it on the radio in the car-park because they've got such a bad view.
Tipster
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
Dallyn
A young couple get involved with a smuggler
Shorty
O tímido Holland, um quase aposentado, sonha em ser rico e viver a boa vida. Fielmente, por 20 anos, ele tem trabalhado como um agente de transferência bancária para a entrega de barras de ouro. Um dia ele se torna amigo de Pendlebury, fabricante de souvenirs. Holland observa que, com o equipamento de fundição de Pendlebury, pode-se fundir o ouro em Torres Eiffel como um brinquedo de aparência inofensiva e contrabandear o ouro da Inglaterra para a França. Em seguida os dois contam uma história para conseguir a ajuda dos criminosos profissional Lackery e Shorty (Baixinho). Juntos, os quatro executam seu planos, o que os leva a inesperadas reviravoltas.
Newsboy
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Lorcan
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!
Alf
Jewel thieves, murder and a manhunt swirl around a sailor (Bonar Colleano) off a cargo ship in London.
Basher Walker
Jackie lives in poverty with his widowed mother. In a bid to escape poverty he gets involved in a robbery that sees him sentenced to three years in Borstal where he meets a tough crowd, tougher than anything on the outside.
Orderly
In the final days of World War II, in a MASH unit in Burma, a severely wounded corporal watches in dismay as fellow soldiers pack-up to return home but a caring nurse and five remaining soldiers bring him solace.
Bert the Barge Mate
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Speedway track manager
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
1st Urchin
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Dicey Perkins
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Redcoat
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Frank
A doctor talks about the number of injuries and deaths resulting from automobile accidents.
Waiter at the Royal (uncredited)
Laura (Celia Johnson) e Alec (Trevor Howard) se conhecem por acaso em uma estação de trem, quando ele remove um cisco do olho dela. Ele é um médico, ela é uma dona de casa. Ambos são de classe média, têm meia-idade e são razoavelmente felizes em seus casamentos. Em pouco tempo passam a se encontrar todas as quintas-feiras, mas apenas como bons amigos. Gradativamente surge uma paixão mútua e eles continuam a se encontrar regularmente, apesar de saberem que este amor é impossível.
Corporal
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
Peter Broadley
Ministry of Information dramatized vocational film on assistance in finding jobs after the Second World War.
Tom - Newspaper Reader
An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.