Bonar Colleano
Actor · 1924 – 1958 · New York City, New York, USA
Bonar Colleano was an American born British stage and film actor who tragically died in a car crash in Birkenhead aged just 34.
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Movie7.7RomanceFantasyA British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
A Matter of Life and Death
1946 · 489 votes
Movie7.2DramaWarDuring the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information, is shot down and ditches in the North Sea. Fighting the elements and trying to keep up morale, the occupants of the aircraft's dinghy talk about their lives awaiting the rescue they hope will come. The film's title reflects the motto of the RAF's Air Sea Rescue Service, one of whose high speed launches battles against its own mechanical problems, enemy action, time and the weather to locate and rescue the downed crew and the vital secret papers they carry.
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
1954 · 17 votes
Movie5.7DramaExiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
Give Us This Day
1949 · 15 votes
Movie5.6DramaAdventureTony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
Fire Down Below
1957 · 37 votes
Movie5.4RomanceActionA notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
Zarak
1956 · 7 votes
Movie6.8ThrillerSpies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948 · 10 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaSpurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Sturgis embarks on an investigation that takes him from New York to London, Lisbon, Rome, Naples and finally Athens in pursuit of McNally's shapely associate, Gina Broger.
Interpol
1957 · 21 votes
Movie6.0DramaWarLife on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in the bomber offensive. The film centres around Pilot Officer Peter Penrose, fresh out of a training unit, who joins the squadron, and quickly discovers about life during war time. He falls for Iris, a young girl who lives at the local hotel, but he becomes disillusioned about marriage, when the squadron commander dies in a raid, and leaves his wife, the hotel manageress, with a young son to bring up. As the war progresses, Penross comes to terms that he has survived, while others have been killed.
The Way to the Stars
1945 · 32 votes
Movie6.4DramaWarDuring World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.
Tank Force!
1958 · 12 votes
Movie5.0DramaMysteryAn Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
A Tale of Five Cities
1951 · 9 votes
Movie5.8RomanceDramaA factory worker quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Once a Jolly Swagman
1949 · 15 votes
Movie7.2ComedyMusicTwo strangers meet when they both miss their trains, and end up spending a penniless day and night together. An English version of 'It Happened One Night'.
One Night with You
1948 · 2 votes
Movie6.5CrimeDramaA happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Time Is My Enemy
1954 · 8 votes
Movie10.0DramaMysteryAmerican woman in Europe romanced by local gigolo; problems ensue.
Flame and the Flesh
1954 · 2 votes
Movie6.6DramaWarDuring the World War II in Italy, Sergeant Joe Mooney is leading his small squad on the front-lines but is ordered to avoid rescuing a soldier trapped in no man's land.
Eight Iron Men
1952 · 7 votes
Movie6.6CrimeDramaJewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Pool of London
1951 · 37 votes
Movie6.1DramaRomanceEpisodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall in Chiswick, London. Unusual at the time, the film tells its story from a feminine perspective. Today, it is mainly recognised for its post-war London atmosphere, with bomb sites, trolleybuses and rationing.
Dance Hall
1950 · 7 votes
Movie7.0ComedyDramaLady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
While the Sun Shines
1947 · 1 votes
Movie5.6ComedyAn American soldier stationed in England is ready to go on his honeymoon with his new wife when his ex-wife, a gorgeous blonde, shows up and insists that they're still married. His two buddies try to help him out of his predicament, but his troubles are only just starting.
Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
1953 · 7 votes
Movie6.1AdventureCrimeA detective tracking a stolen gem begins to suspect there's more to the case than just theft.
The Man Inside
1958 · 11 votes
Movie6.7ComedyMusicA group of feisty, talented young performers pool their resources and buy a dilapidated theatre to showcase their acts – but unscrupulous property developers also want the theatre and resort to dirty tricks to disrupt the first night's performance!
Stars in Your Eyes
1956 · 3 votes
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A private detective, desperate for money to pay for an operation on his small son, bargains with a protection gangster chief to have himself killed and gets his girl to collect the insurance money.
Movie6.4DramaCrimeSent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Good-Time Girl
1948 · 16 votes
Movie6.4CrimeDramaThe son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Wanted for Murder
1946 · 34 votes