Maureen Delaney

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The Long Arm
7

The Long Arm

Jun 01, 1956
Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Mystery
Tread Softly Stranger
7.4

Tread Softly Stranger

Aug 15, 1958
Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend plot a robbery that ends in tragedy.
Crime
Huit heures de sursis
7.3

Huit heures de sursis

Jan 30, 1947
Johnny McQueen est le dirigeant d'une organisation clandestine irlandaise. Kathleen et sa mère le cachent chez elles. Là, Johnny échafaude un hold-up qui permettra de financer les activités futures de son groupement. Malheureusement, pendant le hold-up, les choses tournent mal : Johnny est blessé et ne peut plus regagner sa cachette. Il disparaît dans les ruelles de Belfast. Immédiatement, une chasse à l'homme de grande envergure est mise en place, et la ville se retrouve quadrillée par la police. Le chef de celle-ci est bien décidé à capturer Johnny et les autres membres du gang. Quant à Kathleen, elle se décide à partir à la recherche de Johnny.
Crime
Une âme perdue
6.3

Une âme perdue

Aug 02, 1948
À la fin du XIXe siècle, à bord d'un navire reliant la Jamaïque à l'Angleterre, Olivia Harwood, récemment veuve, se charge de soigner plusieurs patients atteints de malaria, parmi lesquels se trouve Mark Bellis, un peintre mystérieux et tourmenté.
Drama
The Doctor's Dilemma
6.1

The Doctor's Dilemma

Jan 01, 1959
Four doctors face a serious dilemma when the beautiful wife of a TB-stricken artist begs one of them to cure her brilliant, but amoral, husband.
Drama
Captain Boycott
6.7

Captain Boycott

Aug 26, 1947
Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Drama
The Scamp
6.3

The Scamp

Oct 07, 1957
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
Drama
His Family Tree
4.5

His Family Tree

Sep 29, 1935
A father leaves his native Ireland and travels to America to visit the son he hasn't heard from in many years.
Comedy
Jacqueline
6

Jacqueline

Jun 04, 1956
Jacqueline is the daughter of Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil. The worker's worth is compromised by his crippling fear of heights. Dismissed from his job, he finds solace in the bottle. All seems hopeless until Jacqueline breaks through her father's self-imposed gloom and helps him to regenerate. An adaptation of the novel 'A Grand Man', by Catherine Cookson.
Drama
The March Hare
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The March Hare

Jan 01, 1956
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him.
Comedy
The Holly and the Ivy
6.6

The Holly and the Ivy

Dec 03, 1952
An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.
Drama
The Story of Esther Costello
6.9
Eighteen-year-old Esther has been deaf and blind since the accident which killed her mother. Wealthy Margaret Landi, a native of Esther's village in Ireland, is talked into helping to educate and possibly heal Esther. Margaret grows to love Esther as a daughter, but finds Esther's innocence threatened by sleazy promoters and her own sleazy ex-husband. Radiant performance by Heather Sears. Based on a book that nearly had Helen Keller's co-workers suing for libel due to perceived parallels between Carlo Landi and the husband of Annie Sullivan
Drama
Les Forbans de la nuit
7.5
Londres. Harry Fabian, un petit truand paranoïaque et mégalomane, plus ambitieux qu'intelligent, exerce les fonctions de rabatteur pour le compte de Phil Nosseross, patron du Silver Fox, une boîte de nuit du quartier de Soho, à Londres. Dans l'espoir de faire rapidement fortune, il décide d'organiser des combats de lutte gréco-romaine truqués. Un vieux lutteur, le Grand Gregorius, et la femme de son patron, qui tous deux poursuivent leur propre chimère, l'aident à trouver des fonds. Mais Harry s'attaque au monopole de Kristo. Et celui-ci, qui se trouve être le père de Gregorius, n'entend pas que quelqu'un d'autre le concurrence sur ce terrain...
Drama
Another Shore
5.1

Another Shore

Nov 24, 1948
A young Irishman comes up with an unusual plan to get the money to emigrate to Tahiti. One of the Ealing comedies.
Comedy
The Mark of Cain
5.8

The Mark of Cain

Mar 14, 1947
An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…
Crime
Quand se lève la lune
6.9
« La Majesté de la loi ». L'inspecteur Michael Dillon doit arrêter Dan O'Flaherty, un respectable vieillard fier et irascible. Il a frappé un mauvais vendeur de whisky et pourrait s'épargner la prison en s'acquittant d'une amende. Bien qu'il dispose de l'argent, O'Flaherty préfère la prison. « Une minute d'attente ». Lorsque le petit train entre en gare de Dunfail, le chef de station annonce une minute d'arrêt. Mais une clé se perd, une chèvre et une équipe de cricket doivent monter à bord, et la minute s'allonge. « Quand se lève la lune ». 1921. Sean Curran est un jeune patriote qui doit être pendu. Tandis que la foule s'est massée autour de la prison, deux fausses religieuses parviennent à le faire échapper…
Comedy
Les Amants du Capricorne
6.1
Charles Adare, aristocrate anglais, débarque en 1835 chez son oncle gouverneur à Sydney. Au cour d'un dîner, il retrouve sa cousine Harrietta, mariée à Sam Flusky. Elle semble complètement désorientée et arrive titubante et décoiffée. Sam raconte à Charles qu'il rencontra sa femme en Irlande alors qu'il n'était qu'un garçon d'étable. Il tua le frère d'Harrietta qui s'opposait à leur mariage...
Drama