
Kay Callard
Actor · 1923 – 2008 · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Movies21
Movie5.5MysteryDramaSomeone knocked out a man and left him for dead during a fishing trip in Portugal. That someone is either his fetching wife, or two business partners, all sporting guilty faces after his unexpected return. Two more murders and a frame-up befall the quartet before an inspector closes the case.
The Unholy Four
1954 · 13 votes
- Movie8.0CrimeDrama
Two crime drama tales of plans for a murder gone wrong. In the first story, a man plots to murder his daughter's blackmailer and then himself. In the second story, a doctor hypnotizes a man who's been having an affair with his wife to kill her, or hopefully she will kill him. Originally released to television as individual episodes of "The Vise".
Final Column
1955 · 1 votes
Movie5.9WarIn Greece during the war a small group of British commandoes and patriots land on an island with orders to attack two airfields from which the Luftwaffe is threatening allied forces in Egypt. The island is crawling with troops, and even moving by night the men soon run into trouble.
They Who Dare
1954 · 24 votes
Movie4.9HorrorA psychiatrist treats a woman who is convinced that she turns into a killer leopard because of a family curse.
Cat Girl
1957 · 22 votes
Movie7.0DramaEnglish doctor John Winthrop (Francis Matthews) must protect his new wife, Ann (Kay Callard), from his wealthy and entirely too overbearing mother, Katherine (Margaretta Scott), who has some strong opinions about her son's new union. But things go too far when John accuses Katherine of trying to kill Ann with medication. Could she do such a thing -- and will these three ever have a good relationship?
A Woman Possessed
1958 · 3 votes
Movie5.0DramaRomanceArrogant aristocrat Rupert Campbell-Black has high social position, women at his feet, money and fame in the world of show jumping. But Rupert has a rival - the brooding gypsy Jake Lovell, whose loathing for the "Pin Up of Penscombe" has driven him to the top of the riding world to match Rupert's skills. A bitter feud festers between the two stars, who have fought and fornicated their way round the show rings of the world, and now comes to a showdown at the Los Angeles Olympics. As rivals in love and sport, the stage is set for what becomes a compulsive blend of sex, romance, and adventure.
Riders
1993 · 3 votes
Movie8.0CrimeDramaThe wife of a condemned man tries to save him in England by finding the real killer.
Man in the Shadow
1957 · 1 votes
Movie5.4CrimeNightclub employee Joan Foster assists the brother of a murdered reporter to expose a drug ring.
Undercover Girl
1958 · 6 votes
Movie5.0ComedyDuring New Year's Eve, a young model spends the day searching for her grandmother, who has suspiciously gone missing.
Find the Lady
1956 · 3 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaPaul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an incarcerated criminal whose cellmate holds the secret to the valuable contents within a safe deposit box. When the cellmate dies, Owen breaks out of jail in search of the stash. Unable to open the box, the fugitive abducts Linda (Felicity Young), the dead man's daughter. Tension mounts as the girl plays for time to prevent her own demise.
Freedom to Die
1961 · 5 votes
Movie4.9MysteryCrimeAn insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy involves a device which can implant visual imagery in the minds of patients, ostensibly to help them relax.
Escapement
1958 · 9 votes
- Movie9.0DramaCrime
Edgar is unhappily married to rich Clare. He plots with his mistress Stella to kill Clare, as she refuses to divorce him and gives him little money. However, it is Edgar who is found murdered, and Clare has to stand trial to prove her innocence.
Links of Justice
1958 · 2 votes
Movie6.1CrimeDramaA gang of four would-be robbers plans to steal a fortune in currency hidden aboard the "Flying Scotsman" in a railroad stateroom by cutting through the wall of the adjacent stateroom, but find themselves up against numerous unexpected drawbacks, including interference by their fellow passengers.
The Flying Scot
1957 · 14 votes
Movie5.3ThrillerCrimeCulver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
The Hypnotist
1957 · 6 votes
- Movie7.0Drama
An ambitious and unscrupulous young woman joins an advertising agency.
Top Floor Girl
1959 · 1 votes
Movie5.2CrimeInterpol detective Caesar Smith tracks robbers of the Royal Mint van. He travels to Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and establishes the guilt of a London coffee importer.
The Great Van Robbery
1959 · 4 votes
Movie6.3ComedyA money-to-burn and girl-chasing Texas oilman, and a sensitive, dignified entomologist find themselves in charge of a brood of wild kids whose parents, both famous explorers, are reported lost while on an African safari.
The Reluctant Bride
1955 · 3 votes
Movie9.0DramaAdventureIn this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary.
West of Suez
1957 · 1 votes
Movie4.9ThrillerMysteryA man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed for the murder. The wife and her brother hide him and try to find out who the real killer was. The more they investigate, the more holes they begin to find in the husband's story.
Dial 999
1955 · 10 votes
Movie5.8ComedyCrimeHenry 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?
Stolen Assignment
1955 · 6 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
Feature film derived from edited episodes of the television series "Secret File, U.S.A."
Assignment Abroad
1955 · 1 votes
Series1
TV8.0CrimeDramaA half-hour 1950s detective television series that took different forms and titles during its run. From October 1951 to June 1954, ABC Mystery Theater stars Tom Conway as the titular character, a plainclothes English detective working with the NYPD Homicide Division. The Vise (seasons 1–4): Donald Gray portrays Saber as a one-armed private detective based in London. Broadcast on ABC from October 1954 to June 1957. Saber of London (seasons 5–7): Gray reprises his role in this final iteration, broadcast on NBC from September 1957 to May 1960.
Mark Saber
1954 · 2 votes