Tag Archives: Ann Todd

A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love Read More »

Penny Applebee’s parents were divorced when she was quite young and she grew up with her mother. Read More »

The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Read More »

London’s jewel thieves are under the thumb of a mysterious fence Read More »

The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she Read More »

A small, sedate British village is shocked when its residents begin receiving hate-filled diatribes, known as “poison pen letters”. Read More »

Olivia Harwood, missionary’s widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. Read More »

Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died Read More »

The Passionate Friends were in love when young, but separated, and she married an older man. Read More »

Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. Alec repudiates his father’s attempts for a final reconciliation. David Graham, convinced of his son’s innocence and, despite his preoccupation with himself and his own alcoholism, mounts a last-ditch effort to find the true murderer in the 24 hours remaining until the planned execution. Graham encounters the wealthy and famous car manufacturer Robert Stanford, tyrant at home and in the office and an apparent womanizer, Stanford’s young, curiously troubled wife Honar, their ill-at- ease son Brian, himself disturbed by his parents’ relationship, and Vicky Harker, a young, brainless secretary at Stanford’s factory who has been climbing up the career …
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Tony successful fighter pilot during World War II marries into the family of a wealthy oil magnate who also designs airplanes. The movie traces the company’s attempt to break the sound barrier, as well as tensions between father and daughter. Lots of footage of early 50s jet aviation in Great Britain as well as shots of the Comet airliner, world’s first jet passenger plane.
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One dark summer night, Francesca Cunningham, a once world famed pianist, escapes from her hospital room and tries to commit suicide by jumping off a local bridge. She is rescued and taken back to the hospital and undergoes psychological treatment by Dr. Larsen. Larsen, desperately wants to know the events and persons who drove her to this state and help her. He makes Francesca talk about her past – a past with a controlling guardian, Nicholas, no friends, kept apart from the man she loved and forced to practice the piano 5-6 hours a day.
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