
Joan Miller
Oyuncu · 1910 – 1988 · Nelson, British Columbia, Canada
Joan Miller was a Canadian actress who moved to London in 1931. In 1937, she appeared on the newly created BBC television network's first entertainment show, 'Picture Page Girl'. She made frequent appearances on radio, television, and in a few films in the decades after the war, in addition to extensive stage work in the United Kingdom.
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Film7.1SuçGerilimZırhlı araç sürücüsü ve eski eşi, yol üzerinde kendi aracının soyulmasını sağlamak için bir çeteyle işbirliği yaparlar.
Film7.1DramA single mistake puts a 19-year old girl behind bars, where she experiences the terrors and torments of women in prison.
Caged
1950 · 92 votes
Film7.1DramA court case ensues when a 47-year old man is caught with a 15-year old girl, and he claims he never knew she was so young.
Too Young to Love
1960 · 7 votes
Film5.6DramMaceraTony ve Felix, Karayipler'de kaçak yolcu taşıyıp geçinen iki yakın arkadaştır. Hayatları bol içki ve küçük işlerle geçmektedir. Bir gün, pasaportu olmadığı halde Küba'ya (La Habana) gitmek isteyen çok güzel bir kadın olan Irena ile anlaşırlar. Ancak yolculuk boyunca hem Tony hem de Felix bu kadına tutulur. Bu durum, aralarında kıskançlık ve güvensizliğe yol açar. İki eski dostun arkadaşlığı, Irena yüzünden bozulur ve ortaklıkları sona erer. Tony, gemiyi ve Felix'i terk ederek büyük bir yük gemisinde çalışmaya başlar. Ancak talihsiz bir kaza sonucu gemisi başka bir gemiyle çarpışır ve büyük bir yangın çıkar. Tony, geminin içinde, alevlerin ortasında sıkışıp kalır. Kurtulmak için zamanı çok azdır. O sırada, onu kurtarabilecek tek kişi, artık nefret ettiği ve daha önce öldürmeye yemin ettiği eski dostu Felix'tir. Felix yangına ve tehlikelere rağmen Tony'yi kurtarmak için gelir.
Film6.8DramRomantikA young man succumbs to gambling fever.
The Great Sinner
1949 · 23 votes
Film6.9DramSuçLocked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Yield to the Night
1956 · 42 votes
Film5.8DramSuçBased on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
No Trees in the Street
1959 · 11 votes
Film6.6KomediA clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.
Heavens Above!
1963 · 28 votes
FilmBelgeselIn this feature-length documentary from 1976, Leslie Mitchell and special guests recall the birth of BBC Television forty years before.
Film6.3DramLorna Blake, (Ursula Jeans) is a widow with two daughters. She augments her slender income by using her children to extort money - visiting the houses of the rich to tell a pathetic story and beg for help. And Lorna makes a rich capture when Sir Halmar Bernard, (Cecil Parker), proposes to her. She tells him that she has only one daughter, Molly (Jill Freud, credited as Jill Raymond). When her other daughter, Jay (Jean Simmons), is arrested for forging a cheque, she refuses to help her.
The Woman in the Hall
1947 · 7 votes
Film5.2DramSuçThis titillating bit of pulp sensationalism was the last in a string of "B" films that Cleo Moore starred in at Columbia. Moore plays Lila Crane, an ambitious clip-joint floozie turned photographer with flexible morals and a penchant for fast money.
Over-Exposed
1956 · 19 votes
- Film
Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.
- Film9.0Komedi
Max Miller plays a boxer's manager who fails to get fights for his simple-minded boxer. The manager sets up a scene in an American nightclub whereby his fighter gets the chance to knock down the reigning champion. The ruse fails to get the fighter a job but a female acquaintance of the champion takes a fancy to his opponent. The plot develops aboard a ship back to England.
Transatlantic Trouble
1937 · 1 votes
- FilmDram
The mysterious Mrs. Smith is entertaining - and one of her guests seems to know her from long before.
Suspect
1958
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- Dizi8.0Dram
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Festival
1963 · 1 votes