Phyllis Calvert — Actor (13)
Child in the House (1956) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Child in the House
director: Cy Endfield actor: Phyllis Calvert / Eric Portman
other title: Ein Kind kommt ins Haus / 屋裡的孩子
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companionship, the eleven-year old girl becomes friends with the housemaid. When at long last, she meets her dad, she must vow to never reveal his location to the police.
The Walking Stick (1970) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Walking Stick
director: Eric Till actor: David Hemmings / Samantha Eggar
other title: Die Krücke / El precio de amar
A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
Mr. Denning Drives North (1951) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mr. Denning Drives North
director: Anthony Kimmins actor: John Mills / Phyllis Calvert
other title: Der Täter fährt nach Norden / 夜间北行
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.
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim
other title: Inspector Hornleigh Goes To It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Oscar Wilde (1960) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Oscar Wilde
other title: 王爾德淚史
England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt (1940) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
director: Walter Forde actor: Arthur Askey / Richard Murdoch
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Blithe Spirit 1970 West End版 [Performance] Douban
part of Performance: Blithe Spirit
theater: Globe Theatre director: 未知
other title: 1970 West End版 playwright: Noël Coward actor: Amanda Reiss / Beryl Reid
“多年以后你跟她情深似海,会不会想到欠我一个未来。”
都说,前任最好是像死了一样,可是谁曾想死去的前任忽然回来了……
一个凉风习习的夏日夜晚,流行小说家查尔斯和妻子露丝在家里举办小型家宴。
一半为新书做研究,一半为给大家助兴取乐,他请来灵媒阿卡蒂夫人进行了一场招魂会,不料却召来了查尔斯早逝的前妻艾薇尔的灵魂。
妻子露丝对于丈夫声称看到前妻鬼魂的事儿,大为不爽。
当这位“二把刀”灵媒阿卡蒂夫人告诉查尔斯,她压根儿不知道怎么把艾薇儿这个逍遥的小魂儿给原路送回的时候,一场闹剧就此开始!
艾薇尔和露丝争风吃醋,查尔斯的生活鸡飞狗跳。
艾薇尔一心想把查尔斯据为己有。
谁知道好戏还在后头,一场荒唐闹剧,让人笑出眼泪心里还有一丝凉……
和许多考沃德的剧类似,《前任不敲门》讲述的是,夫妻被困在同一个空间之中,相爱相杀的故事。只不过这一次,现任前妻,阴阳相隔。
乔治大间谍 (1940) [Movie] Douban
Let George Do It
director: Marcel Varnel actor: George Formby / Phyllis Calvert
other title: Let George Do It
At the start of World War II, musician George Hepplewhite (George Formby) gets on a boat thinking he is on his way to Blackpool, but arrives in Bergen, Norway instead, where he is mistaken for another ukelele player. He then meets the desk girl at the hotel, Mary Wilson (Phyllis Calvert), who is a British undercover agent and thinks he is one too. The duo manage to find and break a code that the Nazis are using to sink allied shipping. (wiki)
Kipps (1941) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Kipps
director: Carol Reed actor: Phyllis Calvert
other title: 情重金轻 / 情重金輕
Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants...
Uncensored (1942) [Movie] Douban
Uncensored
other title: 自由儿女 / We Shall Rise Again
An adaptation of Oscar Millard's novel, 'Uncensored'. This Black and White film runs 83 min / UK:108 min. The film was banned in Sweden because of political prejudice. One should go for the UK version for a full account of this true story of the clandestine newspaper 'La libre Belgique' published in Brussels during the German occupation.
Following the occupation of Belgium in the Second World War, the Nazis set up their own propaganda machine. To counter the Nazi press, a group of Belgian patriots revive 'La Libre Belgique', with Delage, a popular Brussels entertainer, and Julie Lanvin, daughter of a newspaper editor, as principal members of its secret staff. The Germans offer a reward for the capture of the paper's sponsors. Delage's disgruntled cabaret partner, Charles, develops a grudge against him and gives him away. Delage and Julie evade capture, but their colleagues are arrested.
While the Germans announce the end of 'La Libre Belgique' Delage and Julie bring out a new edition in secret and make the Germans a laughing stock, so that they are obliged to release their captives. The group is re-formed and, under Delage's and Julie's leadership, the work goes on.