Miles Malleson — Actor (20)
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Vintage Wine (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Vintage Wine
director: Henry Edwards actor: Seymour Hicks / Claire Luce …
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
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The Perfect Woman (1949) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Perfect Woman
director: Bernard Knowles actor: Patricia Roc / Nigel Patrick …
other title: Geliebte nach Maß / La Mujer Perfecta …
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
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Geordie (1955) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Geordie
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Bill Travers …
other title: 若い河
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
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Folly to Be Wise (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Folly to Be Wise
director: Frank Launder actor: Alastair Sim / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: 愚蠢明智 / 畫裡真真 …
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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The Happy Family (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Happy Family
director: Muriel Box actor: 斯坦利·霍洛威 / Kathleen Harrison …
other title: La maison des Lords n'est pas à vendre
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
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The Naked Truth (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Naked Truth
director: Mario Zampi actor: 特里-托马斯 / 彼得·塞勒斯 …
other title: Die nackte Wahrheit / La verdad al desnudo …
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
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The Queen's Affair (1934) [Movie] IMDb Douban
The Queen's Affair
director: 赫伯特·威尔科克斯 actor: Anna Neagle / 费尔南德·格雷维 …
other title: Runaway Queen
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
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I'm All Right Jack (1959) [Movie] IMDb
I'm All Right Jack
director: John Boulting actor: 彼得·塞勒斯 / Ian Carmichael …
other title: 아임 올 라이트 잭 / Simpático Idiota …
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
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The Brides of Dracula (1960) [Movie]
The Brides of Dracula
director: Terence Fisher actor: Peter Cushing / Martita Hunt …
other title: 드라큘라의 신부들 / 吸血鬼ドラキュラの花嫁 …
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
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Dracula (1958) [Movie] Min reol
Dracula
director: Terence Fisher actor: Peter Cushing / Christopher Lee …
other title: Le Cauchemar de Dracula / I Draculas klor …
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
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Kidnapped (1960) [Movie] Douban
Kidnapped
director: 罗伯特·斯蒂文森 actor: 彼得·芬奇 / 詹姆斯·迈克阿瑟 …
other title: 历劫孤星 / 绑架
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The Importance of Being Earnest (1952) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Importance of Being Earnest
7.6 (15 ratings) director: 安东尼·阿斯奎斯 actor: 迈克尔·雷德格瑞夫 / 理查德·沃迪斯 …
other title: 贵在真诚 / 不可儿戏 …
Two young gentlemen living in 1890s England use the same pseudonym ('Ernest') on the sly, which is fine until they both fall in love with women using that name, which leads to a comedy of mistaken identities.
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Dead of Night (1945) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Dead of Night
8.3 (60 ratings) director: Alberto Cavalcanti / 巴兹尔·迪尔登 … actor: 默文·约翰斯 / 罗兰·卡尔弗 …
other title: 死亡之夜 / 深夜 …
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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The 39 Steps (1935) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The 39 Steps
7.4 (259 ratings) director: 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 actor: 罗伯特·多纳特 / 玛德琳·卡洛 …
other title: 39 계단 / 三十九夜 …
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.