Rodney Ackland

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The Skin Game
5.3

The Skin Game

Feb 26, 1931

The Skin Game
1931 82 min 79 vues
Les Hillcrist, riches propriétaires terriens voient leur environnement transformé par l'installation d'un industriel, M. Hornblower. Celui-ci bouleverse le calme bucolique de la région avec ses usines. Lorsqu'un terrain mitoyen de la propriété des Hillcrist, la Gentry, est mis en vente, ils s'affrontent dans une vente aux enchères, remportée par Hornblower. Mais Mrs Hillcrist fait engager un détective privé qui révèle le passé trouble de Chloé, la belle-fille de l'industriel, et se sert de ces révélations pour le faire chanter et lui extorquer la Gentry. Mais le secret est mal gardé, le scandale éclate et Chloé se suicide. Les Hornblower, meurtris et humiliés, décident de quitter la région ; la victoire des Hillcrist est amère car ils y perdent leur dignité.
Drama
Alibi
6

Alibi

Aug 10, 1942

Alibi
1942 82 min 1 vues
In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.
Mystery
Temptation Harbour
5.1

Temptation Harbour

Feb 27, 1947

Temptation Harbour
1947 91 min 8 vues
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Crime
La Reine des cartes
6.5

La Reine des cartes

Mar 16, 1949

La Reine des cartes
1949 95 min 52 vues
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself the object of murderous and mercenary interest.
Drama
Love Story
6.4

Love Story

Nov 20, 1944

Love Story
1944 113 min 6 vues
After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Cornwall for the final fling of her life. While there, she falls in love with young mineral prospector Kit, a man whose dark secret prevents him from fighting in the War. Unbeknownst to Lissa, however, Kit's affections are also much in demand from a rival of hers.
Drama
Bond Street
6.8

Bond Street

May 12, 1948

Bond Street
1948 109 min 3 vues
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Drama
Letter from Home
1

Letter from Home

Dec 01, 1941

Letter from Home
1941 17 min 1 vues
Two evacuee children living in the United States receive a letter from their mother, Mrs Taylor, telling them of her life in Blitz-era London. Glimpses of the events of Mrs Taylor's typical day, including ration shopping and fire warden training, belie the letter's innocuous statements.
Documentary
Hatter's Castle
5.9

Hatter's Castle

Feb 02, 1942

Hatter's Castle
1942 102 min 7 vues
The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
Drama
Absolute Hell
5.7

Absolute Hell

Oct 05, 1991

Absolute Hell
1991 120 min 3 vues
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after World War II. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens. Originally aired as part of the anthology series "Performance."
Comedy
Lady Be Kind
1

Lady Be Kind

Apr 30, 1942

Lady Be Kind
1942 8 min 1 vues
A landlady changes her resentful attitude to her lodger when she realises the value of his work in a munitions factory.
Dangerous Moonlight
6.4

Dangerous Moonlight

Jun 26, 1941

Dangerous Moonlight
1941 94 min 8 vues
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Drama
Young Man's Fancy
5.8

Young Man's Fancy

Jul 31, 1939

Young Man's Fancy
1939 77 min 6 vues
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
Under Your Hat
5.3

Under Your Hat

Sep 01, 1940

Under Your Hat
1940 79 min 3 vues
In pre-Second World War England, a leading film star and his wife attempt to recover a secret carburetor stolen by enemy agents. Based on a popular stage musical starring Hulbert and Courtneidge, a husband-and-wife team who had made a series of successful comedy films during the 1930s.
Adventure
Night Watch
1

Night Watch

Jan 01, 1941

Night Watch
1941 8 min 1 vues
Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.
Documentary
Shadows
1

Shadows

Mar 31, 1931

Shadows
1931 57 min 1 vues
The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Crime
Uncensored
1

Uncensored

Aug 24, 1942

Uncensored
1942 107 min 1 vues
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the capture of the paper's staff, although they don't know their identities. One of them is a well-known entertainer, and when his jealous partner hears of the reward, he turns him in. The paper's publishers escape capture, but their staff doesn't. The paper's founders must find not only a way to keep from getting captured by the Nazis but keep their newspaper going and get their staff released.
Drama
Wanted for Murder
6.3

Wanted for Murder

Jun 17, 1946

Wanted for Murder
1946 101 min 30 vues
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Crime
49ème parallèle
6.9

49ème parallèle

Nov 24, 1941

49ème parallèle
1941 123 min 106 vues
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
War
A Call for Arms!
1

A Call for Arms!

Dec 31, 1940

A Call for Arms!
1940 8 min 1 vues
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
Drama
A Call for Arms!
1

A Call for Arms!

Dec 31, 1940

A Call for Arms!
1940 8 min 1 vues
"What a life for a couple of nudes!" Two dancers find a new way of doing their bit for the boys in this frothy wartime propaganda short. Lord Kitchener's famous finger persuades Joan and Ireen, dancers in a 'Non Stop Nudes' revue (not that we see anything that warrants that title), to make a radical career change. Swapping their skimpy costumes for dowdy munitions factory overalls, they join a growing domestic army of women keeping the machines rolling. Belfast-born Brian Desmond Hurst was essentially a feature film director, whose best-remembered work is the Dickens adaptation Scrooge, but whose credits also included the war films Dangerous Moonlight (1941) and The Malta Story (1953). The Call for Arms was one of three propaganda shorts he made between 1940 and 1941, the most memorable being Miss Grant Goes to the Door, in which a pair of village spinsters outwit a Nazi paratrooper.
Drama