Norman Shelley

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Le Merveilleux Voyage de Gulliver
5.6
Malgré une brillante carrière de chirurgien qui l'attend, Gulliver décide d'écouter son cœur et quitte sa famille et l'Angleterre, pour sillonner les mers à la découverte d'autres cultures. Durant son voyage, son navire est emporté par une terrible tempête. Seul rescapé, il échoue sur la plage d'une île habitée par un petit peuple aux grandes ambitions...
Fantasy
Je sais où je vais !
7.1

Je sais où je vais !

Nov 16, 1945
Joan Webster est une jeune anglaise prête à tout pour réussir sa vie. A l’occasion d’un dîner avec son père, elle lui fait part de son intention d’épouser un riche homme d’affaires résidant à Kiloran, une île de l’archipel des Nouvelles-Hébrides. Joan traverse la Grande-Bretagne pour atteindre Kiloran jusqu’à ce que des intempéries climatiques la bloquent sur l’île voisine de Mull. Elle y rencontre alors un jeune officier de la Royal Navy, Torquil McNeil, décidé lui aussi à rejoindre Kiloran. En l’espace de quelques jours, les deux jeunes gens vont apprendre à se connaître et à s’aimer malgré toutes leurs différences...
Romance
The Angry Silence
7.1

The Angry Silence

Mar 10, 1960
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Drama
Dancing with Crime
6.1

Dancing with Crime

Jun 25, 1947
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a major criminal operation hiding behind the club's friendly facade.
Crime
Le Retour de Frankenstein
6.4
Le baron Frankenstein, de nouveau en exil, s'installe dans une pension de famille, tenue par la belle Anna, avec Karl, son assistant. Il y entreprend une dangereuse transplantation cervicale.
Horror
Daughter of Darkness
5.8

Daughter of Darkness

Jan 21, 1948
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favors from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...
Thriller
Strange Stories
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Strange Stories

Jan 01, 1953
'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television.
Drama
Blind Man's Bluff
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Blind Man's Bluff

Jan 01, 1952
Young Anthony Pendrell plays the precocious son of Scotland Yard inspector Norman Shelley. Pendrell's efforts to emulate his father usually results in nothing but irritation for his elders. But when a boarding house becomes the headquarters for a criminal gang, it is Pendrell who cracks the case.
Crime
A Place to Go
6.2

A Place to Go

Jul 01, 1963
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Crime
La lampe bleue
6.5

La lampe bleue

Jan 19, 1950
PC George Dixon qui doit prendre sa retraite sous peu, prend une nouvelle recrue, Andy Mitchell (Hanley), sous son égide, l'introduction au rythme de nuit accommodants. Dixon est un héros Ealing « ordinaire » classique, mais aussi anachronique, non préparé et incapable de répondre à la violence de Tom Riley (Bogarde). Appelé à la scène d'un vol qualifié dans un cinéma local, Dixon se retrouve face à face avec Riley, un jeune désespéré armé d'un revolver.
Crime
The Furry Folk on Holiday
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Animal puppet cartoon demonstrating three aspects of accident prevention, not swimming whilst the tide goes out, not burying broken glass in the sand and remembering kerb drill. Produced as part of the Tufty child safety campaign.
Animation
Quel bandito sono io
5.5

Quel bandito sono io

May 11, 1950
While casing a bank he intends to rob, gangster Leo discovers one of the clerks, Antonio, is his exact double. He kidnaps Antonio and robs the bank, posing as Antonio. But Leo hadn't accounted for the involvement of Antonio's wife, Dorothy.
Comedy
The General's Day
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The General's Day

Nov 20, 1972
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Comedy
Down River
1

Down River

May 08, 1931
A murderous skipper involved in dope trafficking.
Ah ! Dieu que la guerre est jolie
6.6
Satire sur la Première Guerre mondiale basée sur une comédie musicale du même nom, dépeignant le "Game of War" et se concentrant principalement sur les membres d'une famille (nom de famille Smith) qui partent à la guerre. Une grande partie de l'action du film tourne autour des paroles des chants de marche des soldats, et de nombreuses scènes décrivent certains des incidents les plus célèbres (et infâmes) de la guerre, notamment l'assassinat du duc Ferdinand, la rencontre de Noël entre les Britanniques et les Des soldats allemands dans le no man's land et l'anéantissement à leurs côtés d'une force de soldats irlandais nouvellement arrivés au front, après avoir réussi à capturer une crête longtemps disputée.
Comedy
Otley
6.15

Otley

Mar 11, 1969
Gerald Otley est un petit voyou amateur à la nonchalance étudiée et décontractée, qui s'est fait une règle de ne jamais dormir deux nuits au même endroit. À un ami qui l'héberge, il dérobe une petite boîte à tabac, sans s'apercevoir que l'objet contient une bande magnétique. Le lendemain, son hôte est retrouvé mort. Otley, soupçonné d'en savoir plus long sur les activités du défunt que ce qu'il veut bien avouer aux enquêteurs, est bientôt entraîné à son corps défendant dans les démêlés entre services d'espionnage rivaux. Enrôlé par Scotland Yard, il doit faire équipe avec la charmante Imogen...
Comedy
The Monkey's Paw
5.8

The Monkey's Paw

Jun 01, 1948
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Thriller
Vote for Huggett
6.6

Vote for Huggett

Feb 01, 1949
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Comedy
Private Information
6.4

Private Information

Mar 26, 1952
A woman suspects that the local council is corrupt and building defective drains that could cause public health issues.
Drama
Coulez le Bismarck !
6.777

Coulez le Bismarck !

Feb 11, 1960
L' histoire de l'un des plus célèbre combats navals de la seconde guerre mondiale. Durant le printemps 1941, le Bismarck, le cuirassé le plus célèbre de l'Allemagne nazie, est coincé dans un port norvégien. Il parvient à s'échapper et est pris en chasse par la Marine anglaise. Commence alors une poursuite anthologique, un combat à mort sur l'océan déchaîné...
War
Power Lines
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Power Lines

Apr 08, 1944
The manufacture of cables for transmitting electric power is shown. Copper bars are rolled and drawn into wire, which is twisted into strands, and covered for insulation and protection with layers of rubber, lead, cloth and paper. The completed cables are then given high-voltage tests before being dispatched from the factory.
Documentary
Le Prix du Silence
5.8

Le Prix du Silence

Jun 06, 1959
Roger Fenton a été libéré de prison et regardé fixement pour construire une nouvelle vie. Mais son passé le rattrape lorsqu'un visiteur âgée est assassiné dans son bureau.
Drama
L'Étrange Aventurière
6.3
Une jeune femme d'origine Irlandaise, convaincue que les Anglais sont le mal incarné, décide de se tourner vers l'IRA. Alors que celle-ci la rejette, elle ne tarde pas à être repérée par un espion nazi qui lui propose de travailler pour le IIIe Reich...
Drama
Strawberry Roan
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Strawberry Roan

Dec 31, 1944
Farmer Chris Lowe meets and falls in love with Molly , a chorus-girl. Despite the fact that she is a city girl through and through, she accepts his proposal of marriage and after the wedding goes to live on the farm. Chris realises that the transition for Molly will be difficult, and in an attempt to ease her into farm life, buys her a strawberry roan calf to look after. Unfortunately Molly finds the adjustment to rural life extremely difficult and does not settle down. She fails to integrate into the local community and starts to feel she has made a big mistake.
Drama
Enterprise
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Enterprise

Jan 01, 1951
A BAFTA Special award nominated animated documentary that's based on the animated look at the annual report of ICI as shown in "Balance 1950" from 1951.
Animation
Crown Court
5.4

Crown Court

Mar 11, 1981
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama
Moi, Claude empereur
7.8

Moi, Claude empereur

Dec 06, 1976
Claude raconte sa vie dans une énorme autobiographie qui devrait, selon la Sibylle, être découverte dans 2000 ans. Il commence par le règne d'Auguste et par les manigances criminelles de l'impératrice Livia, prête à tout pour que son fils Tibère hérite de l'Empire. Puis, c'est au tour de l'empereur Tibère, qui laisse Séjanus, ambitieux sans scrupules, gouverner à sa place. Caligula, un fou sanguinaire qui se prend pour un dieu, lui succède. Enfin, Claude raconte son règne personnel, caractérisé par les débauches de sa femme Messaline et les intrigues de sa dernière épouse, Agrippine la Jeune.
Drama
Raffles
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Raffles

May 13, 1977
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".
Drama
The Venturers
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The Venturers

Mar 11, 1975
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients. Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire. The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
Drama
Codename
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Codename

Jun 30, 1970
Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.
Drama
The Main Chance
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The Main Chance

Jul 11, 1975
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
Drama
Crown Court
5.4

Crown Court

Mar 11, 1981
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama
Justice
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Justice

Aug 16, 1974
Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
Drama
All Creatures Great and Small
7.7
Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon. Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.
Comedy