Janette Scott
Nascimento : 1938-12-14, Morecambe, Lancashire, England, UK
História
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Thora Janette Scott (born 14 December 1938) is an English actress. She was born in Morecambe, England. She is the daughter of actors Jimmy Scott and Thora Hird. She started her acting career as a child actress, known as Janette Scott, and became a popular leading lady. Among her best known roles was as April Smith in the 1960 film School for Scoundrels, based on the "One-upmanship" books by Stephen Potter, in which Ian Carmichael and Terry-Thomas competed for her attention. Scott wrote her autobiography at the age of 14. Her role in the film The Day of the Triffids is referenced in the opening song of The Rocky Horror Show ("Science Fiction/Double Feature") which made references to many B-movie sci-fi and horror films.
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Self
The comedy pioneer behind the Goon Show, Dr Strangelove and the Pink Panther series is explored in depth in this film, surveying his meteoric rise to fame and troubled personal life.
Sidney's Mother
Sidney Young é um escritor e intelectual desiludido que ao mesmo tempo ama e odeia o mundo das celebridades, da da fama e do glamour. Ele trabalha num revista britânica alternativa, chamada Post Modern Review, cujo conteúdo editorial é justamente alfinetar esse mundinho. Um dia Young recebe o convite para integrar a equipe de uma revista completamente oposta à sua – a conservadora Sharps, sediada em Nova York. Ele decide aceitar, mas terá de lutar para se encaixar no perfil de seu novo emprego. Além de sofrer para lidar com seu editor, uma pretendente a estrela e até uma colega de trabalho por quem vai se apaixonar.
Title Designer
Um jovem casal fica em um local isolado após o seu carro ter o pneu furado numa tempestade, e precisam se abrigar na residência bizarra do Dr. Frank-N-Furter. "Rocky Horror Picture Show" é um pesadelo erótico muito além de qualquer medida. Saudação macabra de Richard O Brien ao horror, à ficção cientifica, aos filmes B e ao rock, estrelando Tim Curry (em sua clássica interpretação de um transexual), Barry Bostwick e a vencedora do Oscar, Susan Sarandon.
Rachel
A pair of U.S. Navy officers are marooned on a South Pacific island with a group of women whom want to use them for marriage and mating purposes.
Dr. Maggie Sorenson
Dr. Steven Sorenson plans to tap the geothermal energy of the Earth's interior by means of a thermonuclear device detonated deep within the Earth. This experiment causes a crack to form and grow within the Earth's crust, which threatens to split the earth in two if it is not stopped in time.
Shirley Freeman
A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.
Cecily Femm
An American car salesman in London becomes mixed up in a series of fatal occurrences at a secluded mansion.
Princess Katherine
King Arthur learns one of his knights is plotting to take over and marry his daughter. After the King's death, the Knight wishing to marry the princess is ordered by the great wizard Merlin to remove the sword from the scabbard and prove his right to the throne.
Eleanor Ashby
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
Karen Goodwin
Em 1963, o diretor inglês Steve Sekely adaptou para as telas o clássico livro escrito por John Wyndham. É a história de uma chuva de meteoritos que causa cegueira na maior parte da população terrestre, além de afetar um determinado tipo de flores (as triffids), transformando-as em plantas carnívoras com a capacidade de locomoção.
Irene
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
Peggy Goddard
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Fran Blake
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charles Lunton; it matters little that most of his experiences are wildly embellished or even entirely fictitious...
April Smith
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
Judith Anderson
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.
Joanna Baring
Neagle stars a Frances Baring, a socialite widow attempting to keep her late husband's symphony orchestra going. Reluctantly she enlists the help of a young pop singer (Frankie Vaughan) who has fallen for Baring's daughter Joanna, played by a young Janette Scott.
Janet Royd
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
Susie Dean
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Janette Grant
A rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him. The girl attempts to commit suicide and then decides to elope.
Cassandra
Há mais de 3 mil anos, Tróia era próspera, cuja localização a permitiu dominar o Helesponto (hoje conhecido como estreito de Dardanelos). Esta era a única rota marítima que ia e vinha do oriente, o que gerava muitas riquezas para Tróia, que se tornou um troféu de guerra tentador para as nações gregas. Os troianos se lembravam de quando os gregos, liderados por Esparta, saquearam e queimaram a cidade dos ancestrais. Em razão disto os troianos haviam preparado fortes defesas, para a possibilidade de futuros ataques. Guardada por grandes muralhas, a nova Tróia era um abrigo impenetrável para um povo feliz.
Gwen Bentley
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household --- including the maid --- fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting, not the singer, but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.
Jess Lomax
Two years of deterioration sees John and Barbara Lomax's marriage reduced to bitter sniping and "keeping up appearances" for the sake of the children. When John's old friend Bill professes his love for Barbara, the marriage finally breaks up – causing their three children to react in different ways and their son secretly determined to do Bill harm.
Ethel Friese-Greene
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Elspeth Honey
Um engenheiro aeronáutico prevê que um novo modelo de avião falhará catastroficamente e de uma maneira inédita após um número específico de horas de voo.
James Stewart interpreta o engenheiro aeronáutico Theodore Honey, o protótipo de um professor: distraído, excêntrico, esquecido, mas brilhante. Seus estudos mostram que a aeronave que está sendo fabricada por seu empregador tem uma falha de design sutil, mas mortal, que se manifesta apenas após a aeronave ter voado um determinado número de horas. A caminho de um local de acidente para provar sua teoria, Honey descobre que está a bordo de um avião que se aproxima rapidamente do prazo mortal previsto.
Susan Hill
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.
Jennifer Parry
A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.
Toby
Jovem mulher entra em crise quando percebe que seu marido, um oficial do Exército britânico, está colaborando com os comunistas.
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A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
