Charles Farrell
Рождение : 1900-08-06, Dublin, Ireland
Смерть : 1988-08-27
История
Charles Farrell was born on August 6, 1900 in Dublin, Ireland. He was an actor, known for Night and the City (1950), The Crimson Pirate (1952) and The Last Appointment (1954). He was married to Babbie McManus. He died on August 27, 1988 in London, England. Not to be confused with American actor Charles Farrell (1900-1990).
Tramp
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Chauffeur
После того, как бригада хирургов неудачно прооперировала его жену, оставив ее умирать, доктор Файбс решил: «Девятеро убили ее, девятеро должны умереть!» Одно за другим Файбс придумывает искусные убийства, основанные на ветхозаветных десяти казнях египетских. Это и нашествие саранчи и атака яростных крыс и летучие мыши — вампиры.
The Seller
Потерявшая мужа графиня Элизабет с горя начинает увлекаться чёрной магией и начинает практиковать купание в крови девственниц, помогающее вернуть молодость и красоту. Вскоре она встречает нового потенциального мужа — симпатичного лейтената, но тот, узнав о кровожадных пристрастиях Элизабет, решает повременить со свадьбой.
Landlord
После того как семья кровососов Карнштайнов похитила сестру барона Хартога, он отправляется на поиски, чтобы прекратить ее мучения. Открыв гробы вампиров, он вбивает им в грудь осиновые колы. Только молодой Миркалле удается избежать наказания
Policeman (uncredited)
Мюзикл снят мотивам одноименного спектакля. В мюзикле использованы песни времен Первой Мировой войны. Канун Первой мировой войны. Несколько сыновей из семьи Смитов отправляются воевать на фронт. Они станут свидетелями убийства эрцгерцога Фердинанда, встречи на Рождество немецких и британский солдат на нейтральной территории и массовой гибели ирландцев недавно прибывших на фронт.
Taxi Driver
Sebastian is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British Intelligence. While cracking enemy codes, Sebastian finds time to romance co-worker Rebecca Howard.
Charlie Stevens
A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Waiting Room Man
A court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Mungo Peddy
A novelist wakes up with a gun in his hand and a corpse in the house he woke up in. He doesn't remember how he got there or even if he committed the killing.
Bartender
English gunsmith, Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
Percy Simpson
London police and reporters from a local newspaper go after a gang of foreign criminals.
John Karver
A doctor receives an early morning callout and is kidnapped. American detective Nick Logan assists Scotland Yard in tracking down the perpetrator.
Percy Simpson
Henry Crossley is an artist whose wife is spending a week's holiday with her aunt. But when her aunt comes to see him, worried because her niece has not arrived, a police investigation into her disappearance begins. It seems that Henry was fully occupied at the time his wife went missing; but is his alibi completely truthful?
Posh Peterson
Before getting nabbed by the cops, a jewel thief hides a small fortune in stolen goods aboard an empty barge. But when he later returns to claim his loot, he runs into heaps of trouble with the boat's beautiful tenants and a pair of nosy old ladies. Directed by Charles Saunders, this amusing comedy finds the cunning criminal up against far stronger and more resilient adversaries than he ever anticipated. [Netflix]
Percy
A pair of reporters try to discover the link between three unsolved, seemingly isolated murders. The only connection between them is they all took place on the same day in three successive years. The police don't trust their instincts - but as 10th July nears again, a solicitor has started receiving threatening letters...
Arthur
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Poison Paul
Пресловутый странник морей восемнадцатого века, капитан Валло, он же «Кровавый Пират», и его команда морских разбойников захватывают испанский галлеон, полный оружия и амуниции. Когда Валло решает продать свою добычу Эль Либре, предводителю мятежников с острова Кобра, испанский представитель, барон Груда, предлагает пирату пятьдесят тысяч флоринов в обмен на Эль Либре. Валло оказывается в сложной ситуации, находясь между испанцами, мятежниками и своей собственной бунтующей командой. Кровавого Пирата спасает любовь дочери Эль Либре, Консуэло, он вновь завоевывает доверие своих подопечных и помогает жителям острова в их борьбе за свободу.
Simmonds
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground, involves them in a robbery.
Mickey Beer
Гарри Фабиан — Лондонский шустрила с честолюбивыми планами, которые никогда не срабатывают. Однажды, когда он сталкивается с наиболее известным греко-римским борцом в мире, Грегориусом, в лондонской борцовской арене, которой управляет его сын Кристо, он выдумывает схему, которая, как он думает, положит начало к его финансовой независимости.
Curley
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Jack
A London cabby finds a greyhound puppy in his cab, and gives it to his daughter. She raises it and trains it up at the race tracks; and in spite of crooked rival owners, the dog eventually wins the Greyhound Derby.
Don Dooley
Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
American Orderly
Старшина Питер Пенроуз начинает службу в подразделении бомбардировщиков и проходит путь от новичка до опытного лётчика. Он влюбляется в молодую девушку Айрис, которая живёт в отеле недалеко от военной базы. Но Питер не решается попросить руки Айрис, зная, что в любой момент может погибнуть, тем самым обрекая её на горькую участь вдовы...
Skipper
The famous detective and his trusty side-kick, Tinker, are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
Jim Bennett
George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot involving German spies.
Barry Scott
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
First Cab Driver
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Walker
A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Spike Nelson
Two convicts escape prison and get a job in a bakery. Their attempts to go straight are endangered by a third escaped convict.
Dave
A truck driver must carry a load of dynamite. Meanwhile, his girlfriend gets mixed up with a gang that sells stolen furs. Eventually, the truck driver must rescue his girlfriend from the bad guys and blows them and their loot to Kingdom Come.
Tovkatch
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son was sent to study under the Poles to learn how to defeat them in battle. However, the son falls in love with the daughter of a Polish nobleman.
Sergeant on Guard (uncredited)
An unjustly condemned corporal flees to Africa, chased by the captain blamed for his escape.
Palmer
Commander Stevenson, suffering from unrequited love drives to the coast while very drunk and interrupts some smugglers and informs Scotland Yard.
Scales
A bored millionaire wagers his doctor that he can support himself at a working class job for year without touching his inheritance.
Louis Brown
Alec Smart, who is engaged teaching in a prison, applies for the job of headmaster at a nearby public school to replace the previous headmaster who has been convicted of writing forged cheques and has just been sent to prison. Smart appeals to the Governor to write him a good reference which he pretends to. Afterwards he writes his real recommendation which is very negative about Smart's talents. The trustee who works as the Governor's secretary, Faker Brown, "accidentally" gets the two letters mixed up and delivers the one praising Smart. On the basis of the letter, Lady Dorking, the who runs the Board of Governors appoints Smart to the job. This angers her deputy, Colonel Crableigh, who had favoured promoting his nephew, the Deputy head.
Gang Member (uncredited)
This film is a caper story of greyhound racing and the efforts of a crooked dog owner to stop a rival's dog, Wild Boy, from running in the Greyhound Derby.
Milligan
Adapted from Lady Eleanor Smith’s novel, this 1934 feature tells the story of Joe Prince, an orphan child of circus people who, after many struggles, achieves his life-long ambition of owning a circus.
Bookmaker
Some sisters inherit a large sum of money.
Martin
With a title like Jack's the Boy, is it any surprise that the star of this breezy quota quickie is British music-hall favorite Jack Hulbert? The star plays the son of a celebrated Scotland Yard detective, who joins the force in hopes of following his father's footsteps. Unfortunately, Jack is something of a screw-up, and before long he has become the laughing stock of the force.
Funfair Patron
Шерлок Холмс и доктор Ватсон намерены защитить Мэри Морстан, девушку, до смерти напуганную сбежавшим убийцей, который разыскивает свое украденное наследство и жаждет отомстить тому, кто его украл. Он уже подбирается к Мэри в то время, как Холмс и Ватсон пытаются найти разгадку на странном карнавале, на котором присутствуют лишь карлики мужчины, покрытые татуировками. Когда же Мэри похищают, ситуация превращается в отчаянную борьбу за время.
Smiler
A British comedy film directed by Lupino Lane
Wharton
A Police Officer pursues a gang of blackmailers.
Tough Man in Street
Gracie Fields' second film Looking on the Bright Side was a smash hit film of 1932. It contains a lot of her biggest hit songs of the period.
Digger
As he pursues Joan Blossom, ruined gambler Jeff Cheddar is mistaken for two-faced financier Jay Cheddar, eventually leading to Joan's stockbroker father, Sir Henry Blossom, investing heavily in a supposedly worthless gold mine. Financial chaos ensues in a farcical comedy of confused identities, romantic entanglements, and a fortune hiding in a hat.
Williams
Slapstick comedy in which luckless slate club treasurer Bill Smithers is sent to prison for three years after being mistakenly accused of stealing funds.
George Wollmer
A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
Chicago Joe
Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.