Ann Todd
Рождение : 1909-01-24, Hartford, Cheshire, England
Смерть : 1993-05-06
История
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Dorothy Anne Todd (24 January 1907, Hartford, Cheshire – 6 May 1993, London) was an English actress and producer.
She was born in Hartford, Cheshire and was educated at St. Winifrid's School, Eastbourne. She became a popular actress from appearing in such films as Perfect Strangers (1945) (as a nurse) and The Seventh Veil (1945) (as a troubled concert pianist). She is perhaps best known to American audiences as Gregory Peck's long-suffering wife in Alfred Hitchcock's The Paradine Case (1947). She later produced a series of travel films. Her autobiography is entitled The Eighth Veil, an allusion to the film which made her a star in Britain. Todd was known as the "pocket Garbo" for her diminutive, blond beauty.
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Self
Interviews and archival footage weave together to tell the story of the Master of Suspense, one of the most influential and studied filmmakers in the history of cinema.
Mrs. Forbes-Duthie
Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.
Archive Footage
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
Castle's Mother
Морис Кастл - британский экс-дипломат, работающий в африканской секции министерства иностранных дел. Когда его маленькая рабочая группа определяется как источник утечки информации, ему вспоминают его прошлое, и зловещие игроки вторгаются в его упорядоченную жизнь...
Birdy Wemys
Led by a sinister minister, a controlling religious sect called the Brethren has taken control of widow Birdy Wemys, sending her unstable son, Kenny, into a spiraling descent into madness and murder. No woman is safe when Kenny's religious mania overpowers him and leads to a rampage of carnage and chaos!
Mrs. Kurka
A woman attempts to cover up the thefts committed by the manager at the shop she works at.
Arabella Blood
The son of a notorious pirate is placed on the path of righteousness by his love for a beautiful young woman.
Jane Appleby
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Helen
A writer reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection after a safari in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, after Earnest Hemingway's short story.
Honor Stanford
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.”
Solange Vauthier
A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense attorney, Delfot (Michael Redgrave), to unravel the mystery behind his actions.
Susan Garthwaite
Томи лётчик-ас женится по любви на Сью дочери владельца крупного авиационного завода Джона Риджфильда. Риджфильд одержим идеей создания реактивного самолёта, способного достичь скорости звука и преодолеть звуковой барьер. После войны Томи устраивается на работу в фирму тестя лётчиком-испытателем..
Madeleine Hamilton Smith
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man. They know nothing about her long-standing affair with a Frenchman.
Mary Justin
Мэри прилетает на отдых в Швейцарию раньше своего мужа и ночью в отеле вспоминает о своей первой любви, от которой отказалась ради брака с банкиром. Утром она встретит этого человека, которого не видела 9 лет, ведь по стечению обстоятельств он остановился в соседнем номере.
Olivia Harwood
In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Frances "Frankie" Tribe
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
Gay Keane
Блестящий молодой адвокат Энтони Кин берется за защиту очаровательной Маддалены, вдовы полковника Парадина, обвиняемой в убийстве мужа, слепого калеки. Сверхуверенный в себе юрист, он предсказывает ей быстрое и легкое судебное разбирательство. Постепенно ее гипнотическое обаяние полностью подавляет его волю и способность критически мыслить. «Она не может быть убийцей, она СЛИШКОМ прекрасна как женщина», — этот вывод очень расстраивает его красивую и ревнивую жену. Убежденный в невиновности мадам Парадин — Алида Валли, он пытается доказать в суде, что убийство — дело рук слуги покойного, молодого красавца Андрэ Латура. Тот ведет себя очень странно, что-то скрывает, путается в показаниях, но Маддалена заявляет, что если Энтони и дальше будет строить ее защиту, обвиняя невиновного, она возненавидит его…
Kathryn Davis
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Francesca Cunningham
В центре истории в прошлом прославленная пианистка Франческа Каннингем, которая находится на лечении в больнице и хочет покончить с собой. Доктор Ларсен пытается восстановить события, которые довели ее до такого состояния, прибегая к гипнозу…
Elena
Роберт и Кэтрин отпраздновали скромную свадьбу перед тем, как Вторая мировая война разделила их на три года. Служба в флоте меняет их обоих, и они понимают, как сильно им претила прежняя мирная жизнь вместе. Оба боятся неизбежного воссоединения, и каждый решил попросить развода, но действительно ли их браку пришел конец?
Training film for officers of the ATS, encouraging compassion and understanding for the young woman in their charge.
Kay Gordon
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Jane Kaye
A remake of Oswald Mitchell's own 1934 production, a story of Jayne Kaye (Ann Todd), a successful singer in America who returns to Britain during the Blitz to find her ex-husband and son who have fallen on hard times.
Ann Rider
The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Madge Carne
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Carol Stedman
London's jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence, who ruthlessly exposes any thief who crosses him. Desperate, Scotland Yard re-hires ex-Inspector Barrabal who, as a known drunkard, is ideally suited to go undercover with a faked criminal record (which may spoil his chances with lovely Carol Stedman).
Ann Daviot
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Mary Gordon
Город Эвритаун, 1940 год. Канун Рождества. Люди готовятся к празднику, на улицах много гуляющих, звучат песни. Но в то же время повсюду рядом с надписями в честь Рождества — на плакатах, расклеенных на стенах, на трамваях, в крупных газетных заголовках — слово «война», «угроза войны», «мир на пороге войны», «европейский ультиматум». В уютной мирной квартире Джона Кэбела трое мужчин, в том числе Пиппа Пассуорти, обсуждают последние события.
Phyllis Drummond
Bulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
Jane Bell
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
Millicent
The arrival of Mr. Knox, the new sports instructor at a British public school, heralds trouble. He imposes his dominant personality to influence colleagues and the headmaster alike, and then attempts to force himself on Millicent, the assistant matron.
Peggy Murdock
The Ghost Train is a 1931 British comedy thriller film directed by Walter Forde and starring Jack Hulbert, Cicely Courtneidge and Ann Todd. It is based on the play The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley. The film's art direction is by Walter Murton. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
Pamela Crawford
A drama film directed by Louis Mercanton
