Joan Young
Рождение : 1903-02-01, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
Смерть : 1984-10-10
Mrs. Caporal
Two Egyptologists, Professor Fuchs and Corbeck, are instrumental in unleashing unmitigated horror by bringing back to England the mummified body of Tara, the Egyptian Queen of Darkness. Fuchs’s daughter becomes involved in a series of macabre and terrifying incidents, powerless against the forces of darkness, directed by Corbeck, that are taking possession of her body and soul to fulfill the ancient prophesy that Queen Tara will be resurrected to continue her reign of unspeakable evil.
Woman in Bus Queue with fur wrap
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Middle-Aged Woman
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
Sister Felicity
1937 год. Доктор-нейрохирург Кукровиц делает передовые операции на мозге — лоботомию. Его клиника очень нуждается в деньгах. Неожиданное предложение богатой вдовы миссис Виолет Вэнебл спонсировать строительство больницы взамен на согласие доктора сделать операцию лоботомии её душевнобольной племяннице Кэтрин Холли оказывается как нельзя кстати. Мучительные сомнения начинают одолевать доктора после знакомства с Кэтрин. Девушка испытала психическое потрясение прошлым летом: она стала свидетельницей смерти сына миссис Вэнебл Себастьяна в мексиканской деревушке, куда они вдвоём ездили отдыхать. И, как выясняется, за этой смертью кроется страшная семейная тайна...
Sir Francis' cook
Фильм основан на истории жизни Глэдис Эйлуорд, современной святой, чья неутолимая жажда творить добро заставила ее пройти полсвета. Всегда мечтавшая о миссионерской деятельности, горничная из Англии отправляется в Китай и открывает там приют для усталых и голодных погонщиков мулов, бродящих удаленными горными тропами.Постепенно ей удается преодолеть враждебность со стороны местного населения, она завоевывает сердце евразийского полковника и обращает в христианство властного мандарина. Но главный ее подвиг — спасение сотни бездомных детей, которых она уводит с захваченной территории в безопасное место во время вторжения в Китай японцев.
Mrs. Hackenfleuger
In a Swiss Alpine resort shortly after the War an army officer and upper-class Humpy Miller both set their sights on Mary, the landlord's daughter. When the two come down with chicken pox they are put in the charge of fellow guest Miss Cartwright, who turns out to be Humpy's old nanny. The two Englishmen unite not only against her tyranny but against a dense Greek who is also after Mary.
Mrs. Gullett, Inn Manageress
An unmarried couple are forced to adopt a series of pretexts when they stay at a country inn together with only one spare room.
Mrs. Round
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The "almost" is because of Dan Dance (Eddie Byrne), an old rogue who would rather drink and philosophize than work. The Village Council are determined to have a perfect record so they connive to have the old man put into the alms-house which has been unoccupied for many years, where he must abide by rules laid down 400 years ago. A new Vicar arrives and discovers that, because of the circumstances created by the Council, Dan Dance is entitled to 6,000 pounds a year at the expense of the village.
Glove Shop Colleague
Фильм посвящен трагической судьбе изобретателя первой в мире кинокамеры Уильяма Фриз-Грина. Свою деятельность Фриз-Грин начал в одной из фотостудий Бристоля и вскоре завоевал признание своими талантливыми снимками. Но ему хочется воспроизвести жизнь в движении. После долгих усилий ему удалось создать необходимый аппарат, но им никто не заинтересовался и бедность не покидала семейство Фриз-Гринов. Он похоронил первую жену, а вторая ушла, не вынеся постоянной нужды. Сыновья вступили в армию во время Первой мировой войны, и Фриз-Грин умер в полной неизвестности, одиноким, без всяких средств к существованию.
Mrs True
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Maggie
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
Potter
A man and his wife take to their house some men they rescue from a road crash and then find they have picked up some dangerous criminals.
Mrs. Barrow
Когда работающий во французском посольстве в Лондоне дворецкий становится подозреваемым в смерти его жены, в качестве свидетеля выступает только впечатлительный мальчик.
Mrs. Bond
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Agnes Atkins
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Mrs. Grimstone
Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Mrs. Venning
A young girl finds herself possessed by the spirit of a mischievous demon.
Mrs. McVitie
Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Mrs. Dibben
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
Sister Sewerby (uncredited)
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
Miss Pitt
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.