
Patrick Aherne
Actor · 1901 – 1970 · King's Norton, Worcestershire, England, UK
Movies23
Movie8.2DramaMysteryAn ailing barrister is thrust back into the courtroom in what becomes one of the most unusual and eventful murder cases of the lawyer's career when he finds himself defending a man being tried for the murder of a socialite.
Witness for the Prosecution
1957 · 1.8K votes
Movie7.4ThrillerMysteryAn American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocco, and are drawn into a twisting plot of international intrigue when their young son is kidnapped.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
1956 · 1.6K votes
Movie7.3MusicAdventureA hapless carnival performer masquerades as the court jester as part of a plot against a usurper who has overthrown the rightful king of England.
The Court Jester
1955 · 221 votes
Movie7.2HorrorThrillerAn architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Dead of Night
1945 · 312 votes
Movie6.3WarActionIn North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
The Desert Rats
1953 · 101 votes
Movie6.0DramaHistoryAmber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
Forever Amber
1947 · 32 votes
Movie6.3DramaMysteryA cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
A Woman's Vengeance
1948 · 21 votes
Movie4.9Science FictionAdventureAstronauts blast off to explore the moon on Rocketship X-M or "Rocketship eXploration Moon". A spacecraft malfunction and some fuel miscalculations cause them to end up landing on Mars. On Mars, evidence of a once powerful civilization is found. The scientists determine that an atomic war destroyed most of the Martians. Those that survived reverted to a caveman like existence.
Rocketship X-M
1950 · 56 votes
Movie9.0War'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
Carry On!
1927 · 1 votes
Movie4.9CrimeHorrorThe son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951 · 12 votes
Movie6.3DramaHistorySophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and Edmund helps him flee to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.
Green Dolphin Street
1947 · 20 votes
Movie6.0CrimeBulldog Drummond forms a gang to rescue his wife and thwart his nemesis, Carl Peterson.
The Return of Bulldog Drummond
1934 · 18 votes
Movie6.7ActionComedyVentriloquist Jerry Morgan has failed with another love affair. The reason: when the relationship reaches the point when it is time to discuss marriage, his two dolls become mean and jealous. Morgan's dollmaker Papinek is a member of a spy ring who has stolen the secret plans for the top-secret Lafayette airplane. Since Morgan is leaving for Zurich the same night, he decides to hide the secret plan in the heads of the dolls.
Knock on Wood
1954 · 34 votes
Movie6.1DramaWarAfter being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
Rogue's March
1953 · 8 votes
Movie6.1AdventureRomanceAfter the war, Matt Gordon returns to Singapore to retrieve a fortune in smuggled pearls. Arrived, he reminisces in flashback about his prewar fiancée, alluring Linda, and her disappearance during the Japanese attack. But now Linda resurfaces...with amnesia and married to rich planter Van Leyden. Meanwhile, sinister fence Mauribus schemes to get Matt's pearls.
Singapore
1947 · 22 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerMysteryIn England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
Q Planes
1939 · 41 votes
Movie7.4ComedyThe mirthful adventures of Police-Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremias Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime-wave to save their jobs---and then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Ask a Policeman
1939 · 21 votes
Movie5.8DramaA couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
Thursday's Child
1943 · 4 votes
- Movie9.0CrimeMystery
A barber who mistakenly believes he has killed a burglar and seeks shelter in the home of a manicurist.
Come Into My Parlour
1932 · 1 votes
Movie8.0DramaA British drama film directed by Denison Clift
The City of Play
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.5MysteryBulldog Drummond investigates the murder of a sea captain who died before revealing the location of his hidden gold.
The Challenge
1948 · 2 votes
Movie5.8ComedyA music-hall star and his best mate are conned out of their earnings (twice!) and left with nothing but a beloved greyhound.
The Outcast
1934 · 4 votes
Movie5.6WarComedyAt the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Warn That Man
1943 · 8 votes
Series2
TV6.7Action & AdventureSci-Fi & FantasyIt's a bird! It's a plane! It's a syndicated TV adaptation of the beloved DC Comics superhero! You know the drill: When he isn't fighting for truth, justice and the American way, the man in tights dons a suit and glasses for his secret identity as Daily Planet newspaper reporter Clark Kent, who works alongside friends Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen for gruff boss Perry White.
Adventures of Superman
1952 · 63 votes
TV6.8Action & AdventureWesternSergeant Preston of the Yukon is an American action adventure northwestern television series based on the radio drama Challenge of the Yukon. It was initially broadcast in color on CBS across three seasons from September 29, 1955 to September 25, 1958. Richard Simmons stars as Sergeant William Preston, who patrols the Yukon Territory in search of renegades and outlaws, during the time of the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s.
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon
1955 · 8 votes