Michael Ripper

Michael Ripper

Birthday: 1913-01-27

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK

Biography: Michael George Ripper (27 January 1913 - 28 June 2000) was an English character actor, fondly remembered for his many roles in the Hammer horror films.

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Secret People
Secret People

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the polic...

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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's

The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s schoo...

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The Brides of Dracula
The Brides of Dracula

A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his m...

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Pearls Bring Tears
Pearls Bring Tears

About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for th...

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Quatermass 2
Quatermass 2

In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the ...

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Moon Zero Two
Moon Zero Two

On the Moon in the year 2021, a former-astronaut-turned-salvager helps a millionaire space industria...

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Scars of Dracula
Scars of Dracula

The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when...

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The Secret of Blood Island
The Secret of Blood Island

Based on the true story of a British secret agent, shot down over Malaya near to a Allied POW forced...

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Rasputin: The Mad Monk
Rasputin: The Mad Monk

Rasputin, a crazed and debauched monk wreaks havoc at the local inn one night, chopping off the hand...

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The Man Who Could Cheat Death
The Man Who Could Cheat Death

Dr. Bonner plans to live forever through periodic gland transplants from younger, healthier human vi...

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The Devil-Ship Pirates
The Devil-Ship Pirates

A pirate ship, fighting in 1588 on the side of the Spanish Armada, suffers damage and must put into ...

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The Plague of the Zombies
The Plague of the Zombies

Sir James Forbes arrives in a remote Cornish village to identify a mysterious plague afflicting the ...

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The Reptile
The Reptile

Harry and Valerie Spalding arrive in the remote Cornish village to an unwelcoming and suspicious pop...

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Taste the Blood of Dracula
Taste the Blood of Dracula

Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis li...

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Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

In the shadow of Castle Dracula, the Prince of Darkness is revived by blood trickling from the head-...

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Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills
Witch's Dungeon: 40 Years of Chills

A look behind the scenes at Cortlandt Hull's "The Witch's Dungeon," a movie-themed Halloween attract...

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Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an ela...

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The Phantom of the Opera
The Phantom of the Opera

A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnappe...

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The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb
The Curse of the Mummy's Tomb

Those who have interfered with the Tomb of Ra-Antef are in terrible danger. Against expert advice, A...

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The Mummy's Shroud
The Mummy's Shroud

Archaeologists discover the final resting place of a boy king, removing the remains to be exhibited ...

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The Deadly Bees
The Deadly Bees

Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's...

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The Mummy
The Mummy

One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally m...

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Captain Clegg
Captain Clegg

A captain and his sailors investigate the rampaging "Marsh Phantoms" terrorizing a coastal town, but...

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The Scarlet Blade
The Scarlet Blade

A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters roy...

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Your Witness
Your Witness

Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the Brit...

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Darts Are Trumps
Darts Are Trumps

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expe...

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The Camp on Blood Island
The Camp on Blood Island

Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and ho...

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Up the Creek
Up the Creek

Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkel...

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Circle of Deception
Circle of Deception

Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divu...

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Alf's Baby
Alf's Baby

Three old bachelors 'inherit' an orphan baby, Pam, who is pursued by a car-stealing spiv after she t...

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Secret Venture
Secret Venture

An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret docume...

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The Belles of St. Trinian's
The Belles of St. Trinian's

The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hoc...

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Tale of Three Women
Tale of Three Women

A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Origina...

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Where the Bullets Fly
Where the Bullets Fly

In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy fr...

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A Case For P.C. 49
A Case For P.C. 49

A model’s scheme to murder a millionaire with the intention of inheriting his fortune is uncovered b...

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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles"...

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Captain Boycott
Captain Boycott

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken te...

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What a Crazy World
What a Crazy World

Unemployed East End lad Alf Hitchens has an on-off relationship with his girlfriend Marilyn and a dr...

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The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan
The Story of Gilbert and Sullivan

The career of W. S. Gilbert, a barrister turned comic librettist, and Arthur Sullivan, a composer tu...

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X: The Unknown
X: The Unknown

Army radiation experiments awaken a subterranean monster from a fissure that feeds on energy and pro...

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Girls at Sea
Girls at Sea

When HMS Scotia pays a visit to the French Riviera, the officers throw a lavish party to celebrate t...

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The Intruder
The Intruder

When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the t...

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That's Your Funeral
That's Your Funeral

Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other....

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The Steel Bayonet
The Steel Bayonet

Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. T...

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Vem Var Dracula
Vem Var Dracula

A look at "Dracula" in the arts and his supposed real-life inspiration Vlad Tepes....

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No Surrender
No Surrender

It's New Year's Eve in Thatcher's de-industrialising Britain. The scene is set at a seedy bar in Liv...

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Appointment in London
Appointment in London

Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England....

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Woman in a Dressing Gown
Woman in a Dressing Gown

A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in...

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The Rocking Horse Winner
The Rocking Horse Winner

A strange and tragic tale of a young boy who is able to predict race winners at the horse track by r...

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Journey to the Sea
Journey to the Sea

This is the story of a lorry's solitary journey with a new propeller for a trawler laid up in a port...

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The Anatomist
The Anatomist

To acquire a fresh supply of cadavers for use in his medical school experiments, Dr. Knox turns two ...

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Torture Garden
Torture Garden

Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful...

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A Prize of Arms
A Prize of Arms

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll....

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The Revenge of Frankenstein
The Revenge of Frankenstein

Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he ...

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Journey Into Darkness
Journey Into Darkness

"Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "...

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Luck of the Navy
Luck of the Navy

With Britain on the brink of war, an enemy spy plans to steal secret documents and lay the blame on ...

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Man Charged
Man Charged

A procedural routine murder investigation written by a former Detective Inspector...

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The Ugly Duckling
The Ugly Duckling

Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his i...

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The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel
The Adventures of P.C. 49: Investigating the Case of the Guardian Angel

A police constable goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of violent thieves....

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Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure
Old Mother Riley's Jungle Treasure

Old Mother Riley runs into a ghost who turns out to be an old pirate searching for buried treasure....

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No Sex Please - We're British
No Sex Please - We're British

A porn-store owner orders some new stuff from his supplier, but the delivery address gets mixed with...

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Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky

The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident ...

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Danger on Dartmoor
Danger on Dartmoor

The adventures of children lost in fog on Dartmoor, who encounter a wild dog, an escaped convict, an...

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Sammy's Super T-Shirt
Sammy's Super T-Shirt

A young boy's lucky t-shirt is transformed through a power surge and gives its wearer super-powers....

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The Creeping Flesh
The Creeping Flesh

A scientist comes to believe that evil is a disease of the blood and that the flesh of a skeleton he...

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Dead Lucky
Dead Lucky

Mike Billing's newspaper series about quasi-illegal gambling parties in Mayfair have so far been wor...

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Jackpot
Jackpot

Back in London after serving time, an ex-convict learns that his wife is not willing to return to hi...

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1984
1984

In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by fall...

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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
Blue Murder at St. Trinian's

With their headmistress under lock and key in her majesty's prison, the St Trinian's girls find them...

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The Punch and Judy Man
The Punch and Judy Man

Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Un...

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Blood Orange
Blood Orange

Discharged by his employer, a private eye stays on a jewel theft case after a model with information...

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The Green Man
The Green Man

Unknown to everyone but his shady Middle Eastern bosses, watchmaker Hawkins is actually a profession...

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Easy Riches
Easy Riches

A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George ...

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Geordie
Geordie

Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building cours...

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Father Steps Out
Father Steps Out

The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veter...

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Further Up the Creek
Further Up the Creek

The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey...

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Inspector Clouseau
Inspector Clouseau

Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland ...

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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

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These Dangerous Years
These Dangerous Years

A Liverpool gang member wins a singing contest is then called up for National Service where he clash...

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Revenge of Billy the Kid
Revenge of Billy the Kid

The horny farmer McDonald has his wicked way with a goat. Life returns to normal for the family, unt...

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Busman's Holiday
Busman's Holiday

A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals....

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The Pirates of Blood River
The Pirates of Blood River

A group of ruthless pirates attack a 17th Century Huguenot settlement on the Isle of Devon in search...

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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Lady Godiva Rides Again

Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain proc...

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A Matter of WHO
A Matter of WHO

Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilli...

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Yield to the Night
Yield to the Night

Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row....

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The One That Got Away
The One That Got Away

Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in...

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The Constant Husband
The Constant Husband

Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With ...

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Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

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Every Day's a Holiday
Every Day's a Holiday

A group of teenagers take jobs at a holiday camp for the summer and enter a TV talent show...

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Derby Day
Derby Day

Entertaining ensemble piece dealing with several characters who are on the way to the races on Derby...

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The Sea Shall Not Have Them
The Sea Shall Not Have Them

During the autumn of 1944, RAF Hudson, carrying a VIP passenger in possession of highly secret infor...

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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery
The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery

The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden...

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A Man on the Beach
A Man on the Beach

This weird short manages to pack in fraud, murder, alcoholism and transvestitism, with two somewhat ...

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Folly to Be Wise
Folly to Be Wise

A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on ...

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The Amorous Prawn
The Amorous Prawn

While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into...

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The Lost Continent
The Lost Continent

An eclectic group of characters set sail on Captain Lansen’s leaky cargo ship in an attempt to escap...

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A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special

Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in...

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Personal Affair
Personal Affair

A schoolgirl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves...

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The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth

Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the per...

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The Prince and the Pauper
The Prince and the Pauper

Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and so...

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Two Left Feet
Two Left Feet

Based on David Stuart Leslie's novel Two Left Feet is a story about Alan Crabbe (Michael Crawford a ...

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Richard III
Richard III

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, ...

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Petticoat Pirates
Petticoat Pirates

Undistinguished British farce (in Technicolor and CinemaScope). Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake...

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Not Wanted on Voyage
Not Wanted on Voyage

The scheming Albert Higgins and his dim witted mate Cecil Hollebone, set out on a ocean voyage under...

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The Rainbow Jacket
The Rainbow Jacket

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next ch...

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The Dark Road
The Dark Road

Crime thriller following the rise of a petty thief to underworld crime boss....

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The Spy Who Came In from the Cold
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold

British agent Alec Leamas refuses to come in from the Cold War during the 1960s, choosing to face an...

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The Funny Side of Christmas
The Funny Side of Christmas

Skits from: "The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin"; "The Les Dawson Show"; "Yes Minister"; "Only Foo...

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The Chequers Manoeuvre
The Chequers Manoeuvre

An army camp somewhere in England, deserted, or so it seems until you look more closely. For there y...

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Legend of the Werewolf
Legend of the Werewolf

A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into a...

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Macbeth
Macbeth

Hallmark Hall of Fame's second version of Shakespeare's classic play, with the same two stars and th...

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The Curse of the Werewolf
The Curse of the Werewolf

A child conceived by a mute servant girl transforms from an innocent youth to a killer beast at nigh...

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