Donald Calthrop
Oyuncu · 1888 – 1940 · London, England, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Donald Esme Clayton Calthrop (11 April 1888 – 15 July 1940) was an English stage and film actor. Calthrop made his first stage appearance at eighteen years of age. His first film was The Gay Lord Quex released in 1917. He starred as the title character in the successful musical The Boy in the same year. He then appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1940, including five films directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He died in Eton, Berkshire from a heart attack while he was filming Major Barbara (1941).
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Film6.5DramGerilimLondra, 1929. Çok meşgul bir Scotland Yard dedektifi olan Frank Webber, kız arkadaşı Alice White'tan çok işiyle ilgileniyor gibi görünmektedir. Kendini görmezden gelinmiş hisseden Alice, onu şık dairesine davet eden zarif ve iyi huylu bir sanatçıyla çıkmayı kabul eder.
Film5.5GerilimGizemLondra'da terk edilmiş bir ev olan "17 Numara"da, bir grup yabancı tuhaf olayların içinde bulur kendini. Bir hırsız, bir dedektif, kaçak bir çift ve şüpheli karakterler, kayıp bir mücevherin peşinde tesadüfen bu evde kesişir. Ancak evin sırları ve bir ceset, işleri tehlikeli bir kovalamacaya dönüştürür.
Film5.6KomediCharley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
1940 · 7 votes
Film5.9GizemSuçWhen actress Diana Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation.
Murder!
1930 · 159 votes
Film6.0GizemGerilimA fake psychic suddenly turns into the real thing when he meets a young beauty. (TCM)
The Clairvoyant
1935 · 20 votes
Film6.2TarihDramIn 1588, relations between Spain and England are at the breaking point. With the support of Queen Elizabeth I, British sea raiders such as Sir Francis Drake regularly capture Spanish merchantmen, bringing gold from the New World.
Fire Over England
1937 · 43 votes
Film7.1DramThe husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Shooting Stars
1928 · 19 votes
Film5.3DramA young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything goes wrong when the young woman is attacked and held hostage by a crazed attacker.
The Man Behind the Mask
1936 · 6 votes
Film6.1KorkuBilim KurguDr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.
The Man Who Changed His Mind
1936 · 34 votes
Film7.0KomediA comedy film directed by Norman Walker
Uneasy Virtue
1931 · 1 votes
Film5.0MüzikKomediA series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Elstree Calling
1930 · 23 votes
Film6.4DramSavaşDuring World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating matters is the guilt she feels when she has to treat the German casualties inflicted as a result of the information she's passed on, and the fact that the local German commandant is falling in love with her.
I Was a Spy
1933 · 5 votes
Film6.2KomediMüzikShortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Let George Do It!
1940 · 15 votes
Film6.3GizemGerilimAnn Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.
Love from a Stranger
1937 · 13 votes
Film6.4KomediDramIt is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Friday the Thirteenth
1933 · 10 votes
Film5.0DramStephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
Sorrell and Son
1934 · 1 votes
Film7.5KomediLove blossoms after a young man rescues a pretty girl who attempted to drown herself.
Man of the Moment
1935 · 2 votes
Film6.8KomediIdealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Major Barbara
1941 · 26 votes
Film6.1DramFantastikEbenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.
Scrooge
1935 · 53 votes
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A wealthy recluse is murdered in an absolutely sealed room.
The Clue of the New Pin
1929 · 1 votes
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It's a Cop
1934 · 1 votes
Film6.0KomediDramA visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.
Thunder in the City
1937 · 6 votes
Film8.0SuçKorkuMathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.
The Bells
1931 · 1 votes
Film5.7KomediMüzikA gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Band Waggon
1940 · 7 votes