Sydney Tafler
Aithnichte airson: Acting
Co-là-breith: 1916-07-31
Àite breith: Hackney, London, England, UK
Cuideachd aithnichte mar: Сидни Тэфлер
The Long Arm
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The...
Saoradh : 1956.06.01Popularity : 4.612
The Spy Who Loved Me
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as...
Saoradh : 1977.07.07Popularity : 26.846
Secret People
This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent...
Saoradh : 1952.02.05Popularity : 8.29
Carry On Regardless
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...
Saoradh : 1961.04.04Popularity : 7.014
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
Saoradh : 1951.06.28Popularity : 6.393
Way Off Beat
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Saoradh : 1966.06.08Popularity : 3.769
It Always Rains on Sunday
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
Saoradh : 1947.11.28Popularity : 7.5
Berserk!
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Saoradh : 1967.11.01Popularity : 5.379
Dial 999
A man tells his wife that the police are after him for having killed a bookie during an alcoholic binge, but that he is innocent and is being framed...
Saoradh : 1955.12.01Popularity : 2.086
Carve Her Name with Pride
London, England, during World War II. After living a tragic life experience, young Violette Szabo joins the Special Operations Executive and crosses...
Saoradh : 1958.02.18Popularity : 6.016
The Cockleshell Heroes
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
Saoradh : 1955.11.16Popularity : 3.882
The Saint's Return
A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Saoradh : 1953.10.12Popularity : 7.295
The Counterfeit Plan
An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who...
Saoradh : 1957.01.01Popularity : 1.06
Promise Her Anything
A widowed mother decides to go after the child psychologist she works for because she thinks he'll be able to provide for her toddler, the catch is...
Saoradh : 1966.02.22Popularity : 3.348
The Glass Cage
A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act...
Saoradh : 1955.04.15Popularity : 5.762
Wide Boy
Picking a pocket leads to blackmail and murder for a petty criminal in London.
Saoradh : 1952.04.01Popularity : 6.115
Bottoms Up!
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save...
Saoradh : 1960.03.25Popularity : 2.807
Mystery Junction
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a...
Saoradh : 1951.09.01Popularity : 5.4
Blind Man's Bluff
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results...
Saoradh : 1952.01.01Popularity : 1.146
Light Up the Sky!
Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.
Saoradh : 1960.07.05Popularity : 1.337
Operation Diplomat
A physician is forced to operate on a mystery figure under shady circumstances.
Saoradh : 1953.12.01Popularity : 2.775
Once a Sinner
Impoverished British bank clerk John Ross is hopelessly in love with drop-dead gorgeous Irene James. Ross will do anything to win Irene's affections...
Saoradh : 1950.07.01Popularity : 2.94
Reach for the Sky
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing...
Saoradh : 1956.07.05Popularity : 3.617
The Floating Dutchman
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify...
Saoradh : 1952.01.01Popularity : 3.234
London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...
Saoradh : 1948.11.05Popularity : 7.957
A Kid for Two Farthings
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr. Kandinsky, who likes to...
Saoradh : 1955.08.15Popularity : 5.291
The Bank Raiders
A third rate con man lands himself the job of a get-away driver for a bank heist that has complications.
Saoradh : 1958.10.01Popularity : 1.564
Hotel Sahara
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
Saoradh : 1951.07.09Popularity : 4.145
The Sandwich Man
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
Saoradh : 1966.07.01Popularity : 2.437
The Galloping Major
A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they...
Saoradh : 1951.05.07Popularity : 10.3
Fire Maidens of Outer Space
An astronaut and crew land on Jupiter's 13th moon and find a monster and women from Atlantis.
Saoradh : 1956.07.01Popularity : 7.958
Make Mine Mink
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series...
Saoradh : 1960.08.09Popularity : 3.102
Alfie
A young man leads a promiscuous lifestyle until several life reversals make him rethink his purposes and goals in life.
Saoradh : 1966.03.29Popularity : 12.383
Scarlet Thread
Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run.
Saoradh : 1951.05.01Popularity : 1.449
The Cellar and the Almond Tree
The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed...
Saoradh : 1970.03.04Popularity : 6.057
Assassin for Hire
Antonio Riccardi, a rare stamp dealer who is secretly a hired killer, pays for the violin lessons of his gifted brother Giuseppe. To meet the...
Saoradh : 1951.04.01Popularity : 3.054
The Birthday Party
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a boarder in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask...
Saoradh : 1968.12.09Popularity : 1.937
Runaway Railway
A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine...
Saoradh : 1965.01.01Popularity : 2.803
There Was a Young Lady
A super-efficient secretary circumvents the schemes of smash-and grab gangsters.
Saoradh : 1953.01.01Popularity : 2.38
The Woman for Joe
A carnival boss and a little person from the sideshow compete for the same woman.
Saoradh : 1955.08.25Popularity : 3.333
Johnny on the Run
A Polish boy runs away from his unkind foster mother in Edinburgh and finds a new home in a lakeside village for orphans of all nations, after...
Saoradh : 1953.06.01Popularity : 0.951
Danger Point
Three irresponsible teenagers borrow a yacht belonging to the local Sea Scouts and run out of fuel. They hoist the sail in an endeavour to stop the...
Saoradh : 1971.01.02Popularity : 2.239
The 7th Dawn
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Saoradh : 1964.09.02Popularity : 2.617
The Sea Shall Not Have Them
During autumn of 1944, an RAF Hudson carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret information is shot down and ditches in the North Sea....
Saoradh : 1954.06.01Popularity : 3.796
Cottage to Let
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly...
Saoradh : 1941.09.06Popularity : 4.65
Uneasy Terms
Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective....
Saoradh : 1948.07.06Popularity : 2.008
Passport to Pimlico
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...
Saoradh : 1949.10.26Popularity : 8.068
The Monkey's Paw
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Saoradh : 1948.06.01Popularity : 1.844
Booby Trap
An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi
Saoradh : 1957.07.01Popularity : 1.337
Emergency Call
A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare,...
Saoradh : 1952.05.19Popularity : 7.119
Baby Blues
Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she...
Saoradh : 1973.12.06Popularity : 0.79
Oy Vay Maria
Jewish boy loves Catholic girl - will love triumph over family objections?
Saoradh : 1977.11.08Popularity : 0.626
Sink the Bismarck!
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World...
Saoradh : 1960.02.11Popularity : 14.367
The Surgeon's Knife
A doctor becomes the victim of extortionists when one of his patients dies under questionable circumstances.
Saoradh : 1957.10.01Popularity : 0.845
The Crowning Touch
Several stories linked by a hat.
Saoradh : 1959.06.01Popularity : 1.411
Time, Gentlemen, Please!
Because of its high productivity and "almost" 100 per cent employment, the town of Hayhoe, England is expecting a visit from the Prime Minister. The...
Saoradh : 1952.07.01Popularity : 1.959
No Kidding
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the...
Saoradh : 1960.11.01Popularity : 3.24
A Weekend with Lulu
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on...
Saoradh : 1961.04.10Popularity : 4.788
The Adventurers
The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the...
Saoradh : 1970.03.25Popularity : 6.624
Interpol
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles...
Saoradh : 1957.04.02Popularity : 3.993
Venetian Bird
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect...
Saoradh : 1952.10.01Popularity : 1.742
Dance Hall
Episodic 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...
Saoradh : 1950.06.08Popularity : 8.174
The Crowded Day
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
Saoradh : 1954.10.01Popularity : 4.523
No Room at the Inn
A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Saoradh : 1948.11.22Popularity : 1.647
Guilty?
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching...
Saoradh : 1956.04.10Popularity : 1.79
The Square Ring
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.
Saoradh : 1953.07.13Popularity : 1.661
Too Many Crooks
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland...
Saoradh : 1959.03.08Popularity : 3.402
Nightmare for a Nightingale
An opera singer finds out her late husband isn't actually dead when he shows up at her apartment. In the heat of the moment, she kills him but his...
Saoradh : 1975.10.02Popularity : 2.275
Five Golden Hours
A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely...
Saoradh : 1961.02.01Popularity : 3.347