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Trottie True (1949) Brian Desmond Hurst, Jean Kent, James Donald, Hugh Sinclair
In the 1890s, Trottie True moves from bit theatre parts to stardom, and from balloonist Sid Skinner to more prominent men. Read More »
The Lost Hours (1952) David MacDonald, Mark Stevens, Jean Kent, Garry Marsh
During a London reunion of a World War II RAF unit, an American pilot gets into a fight with one of his buddies, who is drunk and belligerent. Read More »
Bluebeard’s 10 Honeymoons (1960) W. Lee Wilder, George Sanders, Corinne Calvet, Jean Kent
A golddigger inspires her older lover to murder wealthy women for the finances to keep her happy. Read More »
Sleeping Car to Trieste (1948) John Paddy Carstairs, Jean Kent, Albert Lieven, Derrick De Marney
Spies steal a diary from an embassy whose contents could ignite a war, then one of them steals Read More »
The Man Within (1947) Bernard Knowles, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood
Told in flashback, this movie opens with a scene of a seventeen-year-old boy Read More »
The Woman in Question (1950) Anthony Asquith, Jean Kent, Dirk Bogarde, John McCallum
When a fairground fortune-teller, Agnes (Jean Kent), is found strangled in her apartment Read More »
Good-Time Girl (1948) David MacDonald, Jean Kent, Dennis Price, Herbert Lom
A young girl from the ghetto gets involved with some criminals. Driving while drunk, she knocks down and kills a policeman. Read More »
The Magic Bow (1946) Bernard Knowles, Stewart Granger, Phyllis Calvert, Jean Kent
The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini. Read More »
Before I Wake / Shadow of Fear (1955) Albert S. Rogell, Mona Freeman, Jean Kent, Maxwell Reed, Mystery, Film-Noir
A woman travels to England to attend her parents’ funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn’t buy it. Read More »
Her Favourite Husband (1950) Mario Soldati, Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Gordon Harker, Comedy, Crime
While casing a bank he intends to rob, tough-gangster Leo discovers that Antonio, a meek, mild clerk in the bank is his exact double. Read More »
Caravan (1946) Arthur Crabtree, Stewart Granger, Jean Kent, Anne Crawford, Adventure, Drama, Romance
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
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The Loves of Joanna Godden (1947) Charles Frend, Robert Hamer, Googie Withers, Jean Kent, John McCallum, Drama
The story of a woman who loved three men for their different ways and discovered after many a heartache, that her first love was also her true love. Edward the Peacemaker was on the throne of England when Joanna Godden’s father died and bequeathed a large farm on the Romney Marsh of Kent. Beautiful, impetuous, self-willed, Joanna determined to defy convention and – a mere woman – run the farm herself. Her decision outraged the whole shire – not least her farmer neighbour Arthur Alce.
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