Freda Jackson
Nascimento : 1909-12-29, Nottingham, England, UK
Morte : 1990-10-10
História
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Freda Maud Jackson (29 December 1907 – 20 October 1990) was an English stage actress who also worked in film and TV. Born in Nottingham, she was famous for her stage role as the cruel landlady Mrs. Voray in the play No Room at the Inn in the mid-1940s; she appeared in the film adaptation of 1948. Her later screen roles were mostly on TV, including a role on the first episode of Adam Adamant Lives and on Blake's 7. Her final film appearance was in 1981; she died nine years later in Northampton, aged 82.
She was married to the artist Henry Bird. She "was reputed to have had a relationship" with Errol Flynn while both were at the Northampton Repertory Theatre.
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A Stygian Witch
Deuses do Olimpo, terríveis monstros mitológicos e heróis mortais fazem deste espetáculo de imaginação uma aventura imperdível. Harry Hamlin é Perseu, o filho mortal de Zeus (Laurence Olivier), que luta para salvar a vida da princesa Andrômeda (Judi Bowker) do monstro marinho Kraken. Para tal, ele precisa de uma arma tão letal quanto difícil de conseguir: A cabeça de Medusa! Acompanhado de um grupo de corajosos guerreiros e montado no fabuloso Pegasus, o cavalo alado, Perseu parte em uma aventura sem precedentes pelas terras fantásticas da mitologia grega.
Lafone
While on a Pyrenees vacation in 1922, upright English gentleman Richard Chandos (Malcolm McDowell, A Clockwork Orange, Heroes) encounters the villainous Vanity Fair (Eileen Atkins, Cold Mountain). Mistress of the turreted Chateau Jezreel and leader of a motley band of criminals, she will inherit millions if she can force her stepdaughter to marry. Pitting his wits against this formidable adversary, Chandos determines to rescue the beautiful young woman. But Vanity Fair keeps one step ahead of him, a trick forever up her sleeve and murder in her heart.
Tia Zorina
Numa área remota na fronteira entre o Texas e o México, um grupo de cowboys acham um caminho para um vale onde seres pré-históricos habitam. Enquanto tentam retornar eles trazem junto um exemplar de dinossauro para apresentar em um show de variedades.
Mrs. Pervis
Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Letitia Witley
A young man visits his fiancé's estate to discover that her wheelchair-bound scientist father has discovered a meteorite that emits mutating radiation rays that have turned the plants in his greenhouse to giants. When his own wife falls victim to this mysterious power, the old man takes it upon himself to destroy the glowing object with disastrous results.
Mrs Bales
O primeiro segredo é o que não dizemos às pessoas, o segundo segredo é o que não nos dizemos, e o terceiro segredo é a verdade.
Um proeminente psicólogo londrino parece ter tirado a própria vida, causando uma grande descrença entre seus colegas e pacientes. Sua filha adolescente se recusa a acreditar que foi suicídio, pois isso iria contra todos os princípios que seu pai defendia, portanto ela está convencida de que foi assassinato. Ela pede a ajuda de um ex-paciente para tentar chegar à verdade. A verdade, no entanto, revela-se surpreendente e perturbadora. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Anne Winters
An advertisement in the personal column brings elderly Mrs Winters to town with her Salviani painting and leads her to an adventure she could never have imagined.
Mrs. Hartley
Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Mrs. Seagrim
No século XVIII, uma criança abandonada é criada por um nobre inglês. Quando adulto, Tom Jones torna-se um playboy mulherengo. Mas quando seu tutor morre e ele se apaixona por Sophie, vê-se obrigado a mudar o seu comportamento. O roteiro é baseado no romance The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, de Henry Fielding, publicado em 1749.
Mrs Hitchcock
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Mrs. Weyman
A wealthy business man fires one of his employees and becomes the victim of murder attempt. The fired man becomes the prime suspect, but it appears that he himself has been murdered.
Clara
Após presenciar a morte de sua estimada dona, um gato inofensivo se transforma em um vingativo assassino em busca dos culpados pelo desaparecimento de sua dona.
Greta
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.
Vengeance
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.
Trixie
Giani is a pimp who preys on the naïve, ‘just off the bus’ young women who come to post-war London for fortune.
Mrs. Tucker
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Mrs. Morgan
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Mrs. Freeman
An amoral, psychotic playboy incites three men who are down on their luck to commit a mail van robbery, which goes badly wrong.
Mrs. Helen 'Nelly' Alistair
When a nightclub singer is arrested for murder, his pregnant girlfriend moves into a boarding house for women, but the mother-to-be soon discovers that her new lodgings harbors a horrific secret.
Ma Smith
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Mrs. Hannah
Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Mrs. Voray
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Mrs. Joe
Um humilde órfão de repente se torna um cavalheiro com a ajuda de um desconhecido benfeitor.
Gypsy
A paraplegic mistakes a man's pity for love.
Mistress Quickly
Henrique V (Laurence Olivier) foi o rei da Inglaterra de 1413 até 1422, e se envolveu em um episódio heróico e patriótico. Ele partiu em uma pequena expedição até a França para reivindicar a coroa daquela nação. Só que quando ele chegou a Agingcourt, foi recebido pelo vasto exército francês, que não estava nem um pouco disposto a deixá-lo passar.
Prudence Honeywood
Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
