Jean Gillie

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La rapace
5.9

La rapace

Sep 14, 1946
Une jeune femme récupère le cadavre de de son petit ami qui vient de passer à la chambre à gaz. Elle demande à un médecin de le ramener à la vie afin qu'il lui révèle l'endroit où il a dissimulé un important butin .....
Crime
L'Affaire Macomber
6.2

L'Affaire Macomber

Apr 20, 1947
Robert Wilson, un chasseur de gros gibier, et Margaret Macomber sont interrogés par la police après la mort suspecte de Francis, l'époux de Margaret, retrouvé tué par une balle dans le dos au moment où leur avion atterrit à Nairobi au Kenya. Quelques mois auparavant, Francis et Margaret avaient demandé à Wilson, dont c'était le métier, d'organiser un safari. En fait, le but des époux était de repartir de zéro, pour donner une dernière chance à leur couple, alors en pleine crise...
Adventure
The Gentle Sex
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The Gentle Sex

May 23, 1943
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
Comedy
Le Saint face au Tigre
5.3
Un homme est assassiné à la porte de l'appartement du Saint. Avant de mourir, l'homme arrive à prononcer quelques mots à Simon Templar l'envoyant dans un village du nom de Baycombe à la recherche d'un criminel mystérieux surnommé "Le Tigre"...
Mystery
Tawny Pipit
6.2

Tawny Pipit

Apr 28, 1944
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair of rare birds nestling in a field. After a run in with the army, and a couple of thieves, they, with the cooperation of the village people and the Ornithology Society, help the eggs to hatch. A wonderful look at life in a small village, during World War II.
Drama
The Girl in the Taxi
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The Girl in the Taxi

Sep 02, 1937
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
Music
Flight from Folly
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Flight from Folly

May 21, 1945
An out of work show girl poses as a nurse and undertakes the job of looking after Clinton Clay, a composer and playboy, jilted by his Russian wife. She stands up to his tantrums and supersedes his wife in his affections.
Comedy
Sweet Devil
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Sweet Devil

Jan 12, 1938
Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
Comedy
This'll Make You Whistle
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A filmed version of the stage musical from London's West End, Jack stars in a frothy tale of a bachelor who finds himself engaged to two girls simultaneously. Elsie Randolph, Jack's long standing stage partner co-stars with him, along with Jean Gillie who was rapidly establishing her career in films as a bubbly comic player. Songs include the title song & "There isn't any limit to my love", both quite popular hits in the UK at the time.
The Middle Watch
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The Middle Watch

May 11, 1940
Through a series of unforeseen events, two glamorous young ladies find that they are obliged to spend the night on board the battleship HMS Falcon, where they have been attending a 'bon voyage' reception. At first it seems that Captain Randall will be able to keep them concealed, but then the Admiral unexpectedly arrives on board and orders the ship to sea.
Comedy
A Call for Arms!
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A Call for Arms!

Dec 31, 1940
"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