
Jack Allen
Actor · 1907 – 1995 · Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK
Movies19
Movie5.8DramaThrillerA newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Conspirator
1949 · 24 votes
Movie7.1AdventureDramaA disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
The Four Feathers
1939 · 107 votes
Movie6.4HorrorA troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
House of Mortal Sin
1976 · 49 votes
Movie6.5DramaRomanceA young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.
The Sound Barrier
1952 · 61 votes
Movie6.0ComedyAn Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.
They're a Weird Mob
1966 · 26 votes
Movie5.6CrimeDramaFred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Radio Cab Murder
1954 · 7 votes
Movie5.2DramaCaptains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
The Queen's Guards
1961 · 5 votes
Movie6.5DramaA talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
It Started in Paradise
1952 · 2 votes
Movie4.7CrimePlayboy John Carter picks up a woman in a discotheque and takes her home. When she is murdered and he is framed for the crime, he finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld plot.
The Big Switch
1968 · 14 votes
Movie5.8CrimeThrillerA young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
The Breaking Point
1961 · 4 votes
Movie8.3CrimeDramaPanic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Life in Danger
1959 · 3 votes
Movie4.6CrimeDramaAn American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
Impulse
1954 · 15 votes
Movie7.2DramaCrimeServing a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.
The White Trap
1959 · 3 votes
Movie10.0CrimeThieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.
Bomb in the High Street
1963 · 1 votes
Movie10.0CrimeComedyA clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
She Shall Have Murder
1950 · 1 votes
Movie3.4FantasyHorrorThree teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
The Headless Ghost
1959 · 14 votes
Movie5.1CrimeDramaInternational crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Man from Tangier
1957 · 6 votes
Movie8.0DramaWarFour generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948 · 2 votes
Movie7.0FamilyAdventureA group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Runaway Railway
1965 · 4 votes
Series7
TV8.1Action & AdventureDramaJack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
The Sweeney
1975 · 28 votes
TV6.4Action & AdventureFamilyThe legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
1955 · 19 votes
TV7.7DramaSci-Fi & FantasyAfter resigning, a secret agent is abducted and taken to what looks like an idyllic village, but is really a bizarre Kafkaesque prison. His warders demand information. He gives them nothing, but only tries to escape.
The Prisoner
1967 · 220 votes
TV7.0ComedyFollows the exploits of Hut 29, a dysfunctional group of soldiers and their National Service conscription into the British Army during the post war years.
The Army Game
1957 · 4 votes
TV6.3CrimeDramaNew Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.
New Scotland Yard
1972 · 3 votes
TV7.0ComedyJennifer Corner is a rather scatterbrained middle-class housewife. Her husband Henry is a school art teacher, and they have three children, Henry, Robin and Trudi.
Not in Front of the Children
1967 · 3 votes
TV6.0DramaArmchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Armchair Theatre
1956 · 6 votes