Michael Balcon — Producer (42)
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Who Done It? (1956)
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Basil Dearden actor: Benny Hill / Belinda Lee …
other title: Un détective très privé / 谁闯的祸
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
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San Demetrio London (1943)
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Charles Frend actor: Walter Fitzgerald / Ralph Michael …
other title: Le navire en feu / San Demetrio …
Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
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Robert Stevenson actor: 鲍里斯·卡洛夫 / Anna Lee …
other title: Der Mann, der sein Gehirn austauschte / Cerveaux de rechange …
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
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巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: Steward Granger / 琼·格林伍德 …
other title: 深宫残梦 / 사라밴드 …
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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Secret Agent (1936)
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阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 actor: 约翰·吉尔古德 / 彼得·洛 …
other title: 间谍 / 密使 …
During World War I, a novelist declared dead is recruited by British intelligence and sent to Switzerland under a new identity to assassinate a German spy. Teamed with a fellow agent posing as his wife and an eccentric assassin known as “the General,” the trio close in on their target — until two of them grow ambivalent when their duty to the mission clashes with their consciences.
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Bulldog Jack (1935)
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沃尔特·福德 actor: Jack Hulbert / Fay Wray …
other title: Alias Bulldog Drummond
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.
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A Run for Your Money (1949)
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Charles Frend actor: Donald Houston / Moira Lister …
other title: 见钱眼开 / De la coupe aux lèvres …
Two Welsh coal-mining brothers win a trip to London to claim a monetary prize. They are supposed to meet a newspaper reporter who will be their escort. Instead, the brothers are launched into an adventure with some London riff-raff. It is up to the reporter to look out for the brothers, and what a job it turns out to be!
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The Goose Steps Out (1946)
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Basil Dearden / Will Hay actor: 威尔·海伊 / Charles Hawtrey …
other title: 鹅步升天 / Le Pas de l'oie
Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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The Night My Number Came Up (1955)
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Leslie Norman actor: Michael Redgrave
other title: 轮到我的那夜 / 8인의 승객 …
At a fashionable dinner party in Hong Kong a naval officer is coaxed into revealing details of a dream in which eight persons take off from Bangkok in a Dakota bound for Tokyo and crash in the Japanese mountains. Amongst those listening is Air Marshal Hardie who is due to fly to Tokyo the next day. Hardie initially dismisses the dream because he is scheduled to fly out in a Liberator, but as Hardie arrives at the airport he discovers that the Liberator has developed mechanical problems and has been replaced by a Dakota. When, just before the flight is due to depart, two soldiers board the plane making a complement of eight, Hardie fears that the Dream may be coming true and he is destined to die.
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The Long and the Short and the Tall (1961)
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Leslie actor: Richard Todd / Richard Harris
other title: 七小兵 / 长、短、高 …
The name The Long And The Short And The Tall is used as a suggestion of inherent differences in the main characters, with their only shared trait being their membership of the patrol and their stationing in the Burmese Peninsula. The play addresses the issue of British public perception of the Japanese after the conclusion of World War II. This unlikely group of people encounter an ethical situation, upon the capture a lone Japanese soldier who later becomes a prisoner of war. It explores war related issues about the treatment of Prisoners of War, and the justification of killing a man just because he has been labelled an 'enemy'.