Michael Brooke
Actor · 1942 – 2014 · London, England, UK
Movies5
Movie6.9MysteryCrimeScotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
The Long Arm
1956 · 24 votes
Movie6.1HorrorScience FictionArmy radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and proceeds to terrorise a remote Scottish village. An American research scientist at a nearby nuclear plant joins with a British investigator to discover why the victims were radioactively burned and why, shortly thereafter, a series of radiation-related incidents are occurring in an ever-growing straight line away from the fissure.
X: The Unknown
1956 · 77 votes
Movie6.4ComedyA classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
The Magnet
1950 · 24 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerCrimeA young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.
The Yellow Balloon
1953 · 10 votes
Movie6.6CrimeA beautiful redhead becomes involved with a group of small-time hoodlums who plan and perform a daring diamond robbery.
The Secret Place
1957 · 5 votes
Series1
TV8.0DocumentaryLook at Life was a regular British series of short documentary films of which 507 were produced between 1959 and 1969 by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation for screening in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas. The films always preceded the main feature film that was being shown in the cinema that week. It replaced the circuit's newsreel, Universal News, which had become increasingly irrelevant in the face of more immediate news media, particularly on television with the launch of ITN on the Independent Television service, which began broadcasting in parts of the United Kingdom in 1955.
Look at Life
1959 · 1 votes