Alec Finter
Actor · 1900 – 1968 · Chiswick, London, England, UK
Movies10
Movie6.4AdventureAn American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the coast. The broker was insured for $1 million so the insurers are suspicious.
Duel in the Jungle
1954 · 7 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
Movie6.9DramaCrimeLocked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Yield to the Night
1956 · 41 votes
Movie6.5ComedyCrimeA gang of street boys foil a master crook who sends commands for robberies by cunningly altering a comic strip's wording each week, unknown to writer and printer. The first of the Ealing comedies.
Hue and Cry
1947 · 50 votes
Movie5.4ComedyAround the turn of the century, in England, alcoholic Uncle Willie is the bane of his family, of which his brother-in-law is the family spokesman. It is decided to let Uncle Willie buy a bicycle shop in order to impress Virginia van Stuyden, an American heiress in love with Frank. This pleases Uncle Willie's young nephew, Charles. Complications arise when stuffy lord, Sir George Probus, at whose home Virginia is staying, becomes shocked when she attends a carnival.
Isn't Life Wonderful!
1953 · 7 votes
Movie6.6DramaAdventureArchaeologists Van Heflin and Eric Portman undertake an expedition in Tunisia in search of an ancient mask.
South of Algiers
1953 · 5 votes
Movie5.8CrimeA £20,000 insurance claim is lodged when a nightclub is destroyed by fire, and claims investigator Mike Davies is assigned to get to the bottom of things. One suspect is Harry Drayson, the club owner but if he torched his own property for the insurance, how safe are his other, heavily insured properties?
Man with a Gun
1958 · 4 votes
Movie8.0CrimeFrom the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
The Case of The Smiling Widow
1957 · 1 votes
Movie6.3RomanceCrimeYoung Raymond Rudford,sculptor, is on trial for slitting the throat of his uncle, who had adopted and raised him after Raymond's parent's died when he was a young boy. The prosecution allows his motive was fear of being disinherited if he married his fiancé, the fair Alicia Atherton, against his uncle's wishes, and the prosecution lays a mountain of evidence against Raymond, including his razor, dragged from an artificial lake on the estate, as the murder weapon; Raymond's bloody fingerprints and footprints found at the scene of bedroom crime, and his bloody shoes, found in his cupboard and bloody monogrammed-handkerchief found under his uncle's death bed. Raymond's only defense is that he could not have committed the crime as he goes into a paroxysm of dread at the mere sight of blood, a phobia he has had ever since childhood when his dog was run over by a lorry and the dog's blood was splattered into his face.
What Happened Then?
1934 · 4 votes
- MovieTV MovieHorror
BBC live outside broadcast from the Theatre Royal, Stratford, of Tod Slaughter’s production of his melodrama Spring-Heeled Jack.
Series1
TV8.0DramaComedyA half-hour anthology series.
Lilli Palmer Theatre
1955 · 1 votes