Howard Douglas
Bekannt für: Acting
Geburtstag: 1896-01-12
Geburtsort: Hackney, London, England, UK
Auch bekannt als:
The Desperate Women
The film is a cheesy but sincere plea for proper sex education--and against illegal abortion.
Veröffentlichung : 1955.01.01Popularität : 1.387
Dear Murderer
When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.06.23Popularität : 5.329
Meet Mr. Callaghan
A young woman is framed for the murder of a wealthy man who met his death at the hands of his heirs.
Veröffentlichung : 1954.06.01Popularität : 1.719
Stage Fright
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Veröffentlichung : 1950.02.23Popularität : 15.452
Jungle Street
In this crime drama, a mugger accidently kills a man during a robbery and finds himself blackmailed into cracking a nightclub safe. The mugger...
Veröffentlichung : 1960.01.07Popularität : 1.352
The Wife of General Ling
In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime suspect is a prosperous...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.04.07Popularität : 0.56
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually...
Veröffentlichung : 1953.10.26Popularität : 1.08
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.09.27Popularität : 2.586
The Night Comes Too Soon
When ghosts inhabit an Englishwoman's home, Dyall, a ghost hunter of sorts, takes on the poltergeists. Developments reveal a trio of spirits that...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.11.30Popularität : 0.645
Men Without Honour
A lawyer, who has been accused of being dishonest, works with the police to expose two share pushers who have employed him, saving the investors from...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.01.09Popularität : 0.203
Brief Ecstasy
A remarkable story of love lost and found, as a young couple are separated by circumstance, and plunged into emotional turmoil by a reunion...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.07.31Popularität : 1.02
The Challenge
Dramatization of the first climbing of the Matterhorn in 1865.
Veröffentlichung : 1938.09.14Popularität : 3.348
My Brother Jonathan
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.02.05Popularität : 3.762
A Window in London
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.06.15Popularität : 1.396
The Stars Look Down
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls...
Veröffentlichung : 1940.01.22Popularität : 3.111
Rebecca
Adaptation of the novel Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier from 1947.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.01.19Popularität : 0.877
Escape Route
When nuclear scientists are kidnapped and smuggled behind the Iron Curtain, an FBI man and a British agent are assigned to catch the kidnappers.
Veröffentlichung : 1952.12.01Popularität : 1.507
Hue and Cry
A 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...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.02.01Popularität : 3.467
Design for Murder
When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad,...
Veröffentlichung : 1939.03.27Popularität : 0.262
Return of a Stranger
James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.10.04Popularität : 0.558
Treasure Island
Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.07.19Popularität : 22.177
The Big Noise
A clerk in an oil company is promoted ostensibly to take the blame when it looks like the bosses' dodgy dealings will be found out by the authorities.
Veröffentlichung : 1936.01.01Popularität : 0.717
Under a Cloud
Jimmy Forbes returns to England after being on the run in Australia for 20 years. He finds that his wife has gone up in the world and become wealthy....
Veröffentlichung : 1937.08.01Popularität : 1.243
Fire Over England
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the...
Veröffentlichung : 1937.03.05Popularität : 4.068
Death at Broadcasting House
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Veröffentlichung : 1934.11.01Popularität : 2.189
Whistle Down the Wind
When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second...
Veröffentlichung : 1961.07.25Popularität : 6.726
Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.02.01Popularität : 0.765
No Limit
George Shuttleworth is convinced that he has the talent to win the Isle of Man TT races, despite what his neighbours back home in Wigan may think....
Veröffentlichung : 1935.10.28Popularität : 1.809
They Made Me a Fugitive
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Veröffentlichung : 1947.06.24Popularität : 5.008
A Christmas Carol
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.12.27Popularität : 1.143
Wanted for Murder
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.06.17Popularität : 2.255
The Upturned Glass
A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a married woman and how after the affair was over, the...
Veröffentlichung : 1947.06.17Popularität : 2.12
State Secret
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.09.11Popularität : 4.746
Three Hats for Lisa
French movie pin up Sophie Hardy is Lisa Milan, a gorgeous Continental film star who's just arrived at Heathrow. She's in London for the premiere of...
Veröffentlichung : 1965.01.01Popularität : 0.972
I See a Dark Stranger
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.07.04Popularität : 2.823
Miranda
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.
Veröffentlichung : 1948.04.06Popularität : 5.623
Trottie True
Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.09.29Popularität : 4.806
The Plank
A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists...
Veröffentlichung : 1967.05.18Popularität : 8.065
Born of the Sea
Fishing village drama concerning the adoption of a baby boy, the only survivor of a wreck. He grows up only to lose his life as a member of the...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.01.01Popularität : 0.663
The Echo Murders
Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Veröffentlichung : 1945.12.17Popularität : 1.954
Man on the Run
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow...
Veröffentlichung : 1949.05.20Popularität : 2.754
Night Boat to Dublin
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Veröffentlichung : 1946.01.08Popularität : 3.38
The Agitator
The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a...
Veröffentlichung : 1945.01.24Popularität : 4.155
Cup-Tie Honeymoon
Joe Butler, a soccer player whose father is the company chairman, is faced with a difficult choice: should he play the championship match on his...
Veröffentlichung : 1948.06.01Popularität : 0.151
Appointment with Crime
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are...
Veröffentlichung : 1946.05.13Popularität : 1.308
The Silent Passenger
A really well made British murder mystery from British Gaumont studios. Story opens with a dead body found in a trunk. Who's the cold-blooded killer?
Veröffentlichung : 1935.06.01Popularität : 1.736
Off the Dole
Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from...
Veröffentlichung : 1935.06.01Popularität : 3.446
Old Mother Riley's New Venture
Old Mother Riley becomes manager of a hotel - stolen diamonds, murder and pie fights follow.
Veröffentlichung : 1949.07.01Popularität : 0.881
The Mudlark
It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
Veröffentlichung : 1950.10.03Popularität : 3.999