Alan Osbiston
Nascimento : 1914-05-07, Sydney, Australia
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Steve Howard, a British sales executive living in Manchester, England, begins an affair with a young hitchhiker, Elle Patterson, to emotionally get away from his marriage to his wife Francis. But when Elle moves into a room in Steve and Francis's house, he must keep the true nature of his relationship with Elle under wraps at all costs.
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Durante a guerra do deserto no norte da África, um grupo de comandos britânicos disfarçados de soldados italianos devem viajar atrás das linhas inimigas e destruir um vital depósito de petróleo Nazista.
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Half-brothers Stefane and Antony despise their biological father, callous millionaire Charles Calvert. Because Charles refuses to share his wealth with his sons, Stefane and Antony ask hip American thrill-seeker Duffy to help steal the money they believe is their birthright. When Charles decides to move a large portion of his savings from Morocco to France, Duffy has an opportunity to stage a daring burglary attempt at sea.
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Um ex-espião britânico tropeça em um complô para derrubar o comunismo com a ajuda de um supercomputador. Mas quem está trabalhando para quem?
Harry Palmer deixou o Serviço Secreto Britânico e se tornou um detetive particular. Uma de seus primeiros trabalhos é entregar uma garrafa térmica aparentemente inocente a um velho amigo em Helsinque. Palmer suspeita do conteúdo da térmica e começa a duvidar dos motivos de seu amigo e do seu chefe, um bilionário texano.
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Em 1942, uma prostituta polonesa é assassinada em Varsóvia. A suspeita recai sobre três generais de alto escalão, e o Major Grau da Inteligência Alemã busca justiça apesar das atrocidades cometidas durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. As pistas levam Grau de Varsóvia para Paris e direto para o plano de assassinar Adolf Hitler em 1944, no qual dois dos generais estão profundamente envolvidos. O caso de Grau fica inacabado até 1965, quando então o verdadeiro assassino é levado à justiça. (e 16 Anos)
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In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
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James Burke (Peter O'Toole) é o primeiro oficial de um navio a vapor que durante um furacão, covardemente abandona o navio deixando seus passageiros para morrer afogados. Desonrado, Lord Jim procura uma forma de consertar seu erro - não somente perante os olhos da comissão da marinha inglesa, como também para si próprio. Assim, ele recebe a dura missão de entregar um carregamento de dinamite para uma tribo de nativos em algum lugar inexplorado do oriente e acaba se unindo aos nativos em sua luta contra O General (Eli Wallach), um brutal e rude opressor. Em sua jornada de aventuras, ele se encontra com Brown (James Mason), um pirata educado e cavalheiro que tem um plano misterioso o qual irá colocá-lo num confronto com seu verdadeiro destino. Agora, Lord Jim terá que aprender a diferença entre um herói e um covarde, uma verdade que é impiedosa e sem fuga.
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Saga inteligente e acachapante de um pelotão de soldados americanos, acompanhando-os através da Europa durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Cenas dramáticas intercaladas com imagens de noticiários. A guerra não tem vencedores, apenas sobreviventes. Matar destrói os assassinos, bem como os mortos, porque mata a decência, o autorrespeito e, finalmente, a própria vida. A história segue os passos de um pelotão de jovens soldados americanos desde os primeiros dias da Batalha da Inglaterra, passando pela luta feroz na Itália e na França, para terminar na paz inquieta de Berlim.
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When Chester accidentally memorizes and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new and improved rocket fuel, they are thrust into international intrigue, trying to stay alive while keeping the formula out of enemy hands.
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Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, e após a perda de dois mil soldados britânicos no estreito grego de Kheros, os alemães resolvem reforçar defesas na região. Mas a retirada dos Aliados foi cortada por uma fortificação costeira alemã na ilha de Navarone, dotada de dois poderosíssimos canhões. Agora um pequeno grupo aliado, apoiado pela resistência grega, precisa de destruir as duas armas a fim de viabilizar a retirada britânica.
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Archie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
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After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
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In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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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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James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s sick to death of carting goods back and forth across the world. Then he meets Manuela, a beautiful native girl smuggled on board by one of his crew, and comes to realise that she, too, is a lost soul. Gradually a love affair develops between them, and Prothero becomes dangerously blind to the responsibilities of his position.
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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.”
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Steve Stratton (Macdonald Carey) is a hardboiled hunter who catches and keeps wild animals in an African sanctuary in order to sell them to zoos and circuses. When he hires a new veterinarian named "P.J. Muir," he does not imagine that the "P" stands for Pamela, played by the gorgeous Rhonda Fleming!
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Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
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Durante a WW2 um Major da Reserva da Marinha Real deve trabalhar com um Capitão veterano e um grupo de recrutas incorrigíveis na tentativa do que é geralmente considerada como uma missão suicida. A ordem era a destruição secreta de todos navios alemães atracados num estaleiro rio acima em Bordeaux, na França ocupada. E o ataque seria feito usando... canoas.
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A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid that discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
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During the 1940s, Maurice Bendrix, a writer recently discharged from the armed service, falls in love with Sarah Miles, whom he interviews for a book. Sarah is married, but she and Maurice eventually give in to their mutual attraction, leading to an affair that lasts several months. Maurice's jealousy, along with the bombing of London by the Germans, seemingly leads to the end of their relationship. However, the reasons are later revealed to be more complex.
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An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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Baseado numa peça famosa e ambientada no ano de 1912. O jantar de uma família inglês da nobreza é interrompido por um inspetor de polícia que traz a notícia de que uma garota conhecida de todos os presentes morreu em circunstâncias suspeitas. Parece que qualquer um ou todos poderiam ter algo com sua morte. Mas quem é o misterioso Inspetor e o que ele pode querer deles? (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
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When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
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A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
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Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 1940 until the climactic raid on occupied St Nazaire in 1942. Trevor Howard plays Lt Cmdr Hugh Alginon Fraser, the newly appointed captain, back in service after having left the navy following a court martial.
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An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
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A tripulação de um submarino ficou presa no fundo do mar quando ele afundou. Como eles podem ser resgatados antes do ar acabar?
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A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the woman fell out a window and died. The surgeon, suspecting that she was murdered, set out to find her killer -- but, instead of turning the suspect over to the police, he planned to take his own revenge on the murderer.
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A musical set during the French Revolution.
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This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
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This brief documentary-style film presents the status of Great Britain near the end of the Second World War by means of a visual diary for a baby boy born in September, 1944. Narration explains to "Timothy" what his family, his neighbors, and his fellow citizens are going through as the war nears its end, and what problems may remain for new Englishmen like Timothy to solve.
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A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
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Anti nazi short.
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A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live music and theatre performances in various English locations.
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A documentary about the precursor to the Arts Council, the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts (CEMA), featuring an introduction by education minister R A Butler, an art exhibition in a factory and live music and theatre performances in various English locations.
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Tomorrow is Theirs examines provisions for secondary school education during the war, arguing for the importance of maintaining excellent, thorough schooling in spite of wartime obstacles.