Kathleen Ryan

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Fureur sur la ville
6.5

Fureur sur la ville

Dec 12, 1950
Howard Tyler (Frank Lovejoy) est touché par la crise économique. Ancien soldat sans emploi et endetté, il peine à faire vivre sa femme enceinte (Kathleen Ryan) et son jeune fils. Un soir, il fait la rencontre de Jerry Slocum (Lloyd Bridges) qui lui propose un travail. Il recherche un chauffeur pour l'accompagner sur des cambriolages. Tyler refuse puis accepte pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille. Après plusieurs petits larcins, Slocum prépare un grand coup : l'enlévement du fils d'un riche citoyen de la ville. Tyler accepte et a pour mission de garder le kidnappé en attendant le versement de la rançon. Mais Slocum le tue ...
Crime
Laxdale Hall
6

Laxdale Hall

Apr 01, 1953
A starchy parliamentary delegation is sent to a remote Scottish Highlands community, where the residents are protesting the poor condition of their road by withholding their taxes, and spend a few days among the locals.
Comedy
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
Give Us This Day
5.9

Give Us This Day

Oct 14, 1949
Exiled from Hollywood due to the blacklist, director Edward Dmytryk briefly operated in England in the late 1940s. Though filmed in its entirety in London, Dmytryk's Give Us This Day is set in New York during the depression. Fellow blacklistee Sam Wanamaker is starred as the head of an Italian immigrant family struggling to survive the economic crisis.
Drama
Capitaine Mystère
6.3

Capitaine Mystère

Mar 26, 1955
En 1815, Michael Martin est membre d'un groupe révolutionnaire irlandais. Il est obligé de passer à la clandestinité et devient le second d'un célèbre capitaine rebelle.
Adventure
Christophe Colomb
5.7

Christophe Colomb

Oct 12, 1949
En 1485, Christophe Colomb et son jeune fils s'acheminent vers le monastère de La Rábida, en Andalousie. Il souhaite convaincre le père Perez, ancien confesseur de la reine d'Espagne, d'intercéder auprès de la souveraine pour pouvoir lui présenter son projet : ouvrir, par l'ouest, une nouvelle route maritime vers les Indes. Six ans plus tard, en 1492, le Génois prend enfin la mer avec La Niña, La Pinta et la Santa-María…
Action
Esther Waters
5.9

Esther Waters

Sep 28, 1948
Esther goes into service in Victorian England, only to be seduced by the sweet talking groom William, who then takes off with his employer's daughter. Left alone to bring up the child, Esther manages and after 7 years has a chance at happiness. Then William turns up again...
Drama
Prelude to Fame
6.2

Prelude to Fame

May 02, 1950
While vacationing in Italy, Nick Morell, son of John Morell, a famous English philosopher and amateur musician and his wife Catherine, becomes friendly with young Guido, and Morell discovers the boy has an extraordinary instinct for orchestration and a phenomenal music memory. A neighboring couple, Signor and Signora Boudini become aware of the boy's talents, and she appeals to his parents to let her educate him musically. Torn by their love for their son and, they feel,the duty to let the world hear his talent, they consent.
Drama
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
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
El aventurero
1

El aventurero

Nov 01, 1957
In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm his shipmate, sending the pilot, himself an ex-smuggler into such a rage that he kills two gang members and helps police capture the survivors and bring them to justice.
Crime