George Merritt

George Merritt

Birthday: 1890-12-10

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Biography: No biography available.

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The Night of the Full Moon
The Night of the Full Moon

Story of how American secret agent pursued by enemy agents, hides out at remote English farm...

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Young and Innocent
Young and Innocent

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins f...

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Emil and the Detectives
Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner’s beloved novel has been adapted for film or television six times since its publicatio...

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The Case of the Frightened Lady
The Case of the Frightened Lady

A classic British thriller set in a sinister old house, based on a story by Edgar Wallace....

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Dracula
Dracula

After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he ...

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Crime Unlimited
Crime Unlimited

A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves....

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Q Planes
Q Planes

In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team u...

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Back-Room Boy
Back-Room Boy

Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a ligh...

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Convict 99
Convict 99

A disgraced school master, Benjamin Twist, is mistaken for a tough prison governor and assigned the ...

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The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac

Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed....

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The Man Within
The Man Within

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers....

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Hatter's Castle
Hatter's Castle

The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a ...

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The Full Treatment
The Full Treatment

Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a s...

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The Gaunt Stranger
The Gaunt Stranger

A lawyer receives a note telling him that he'll be dead in 48 hours - and Scotland Yard must work fa...

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Daughter of Darkness
Daughter of Darkness

In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest...

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Dusty Ermine
Dusty Ermine

A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an ...

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The Ghost Camera
The Ghost Camera

When a photograph is taken at the scene of a murder, the camera is tossed out of a castle window to ...

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I Was a Spy
I Was a Spy

During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding milit...

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They Came by Night
They Came by Night

A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist....

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The Wife of General Ling
The Wife of General Ling

In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms in...

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The Voice Within
The Voice Within

Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is f...

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A Window in London
A Window in London

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife wh...

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For You Alone
For You Alone

Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn b...

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The Root of All Evil
The Root of All Evil

Jeckie Farnish is a level-headed young woman, unlike her spoiled younger sister, Rushie. When the si...

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The Rat
The Rat

Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumm...

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They Drive by Night
They Drive by Night

“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to ...

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Undercover
Undercover

Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activi...

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Love Story
Love Story

After discovering that she has only a short time left to live, concert pianist Lissa travels to Corn...

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Everything Is Thunder
Everything Is Thunder

The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden ...

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Drake of England
Drake of England

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's ...

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I'll Turn to You
I'll Turn to You

When a soldier returns from the Far East after the war, he and his wife have to adjust to life at ho...

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Brown on Resolution
Brown on Resolution

Forever England gives John Mills his first leading role as Brown. Born after a brief affair between ...

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Doctor Syn
Doctor Syn

A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this Britis...

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F.P.1
F.P.1

Urged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by his f...

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My Song for You
My Song for You

In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woma...

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Me and Marlborough
Me and Marlborough

A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars....

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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk
Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to ...

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Prison Breaker
Prison Breaker

A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soo...

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Pool of London
Pool of London

Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London....

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A Canterbury Tale
A Canterbury Tale

Three modern-day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town while on their way to Canterbu...

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The Four Just Men
The Four Just Men

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of th...

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Crime on the Hill
Crime on the Hill

In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that t...

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The W Plan
The W Plan

A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talk...

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Small Town Story
Small Town Story

Canadian ex-serviceman Bob Regan returns to Oldchester, the English town where he was posted during ...

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Thread o' Scarlet
Thread o' Scarlet

'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)...

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The Creeper
The Creeper

A young man starts a new job as companion to a wealthy, eccentric recluse who lives in a large house...

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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel

Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the s...

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Spare a Copper
Spare a Copper

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi s...

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The Proud Valley
The Proud Valley

In a Welsh coal mining valley, a young man with a beautiful singing voice is called upon to make the...

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I, Monster
I, Monster

Christopher Lee stars in this Amicus production of “Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde” where the names have been...

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The Man Behind the Mask
The Man Behind the Mask

A young couple attend a masked ball before their planned (but secret) elopement. Suddenly everything...

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Bracelets
Bracelets

A jeweler is targeted by confidence tricksters pretending to be connected with the exiled Russian Ro...

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The Fire Raisers
The Fire Raisers

Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a ga...

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The Vulture
The Vulture

An amateur detective tracks down a gang of diamond thieves to Chinatown....

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The Silver Spoon
The Silver Spoon

“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI....

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No Escape
No Escape

“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and s...

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The Compulsory Wife
The Compulsory Wife

“Two young men and an attractive girl are invited to spend a week-end at a cottage of mutual friends...

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Demobbed
Demobbed

Demobbed from the army Nat, Norman and Dan get new jobs, solve a crime and stage a concert party....

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They Flew Alone
They Flew Alone

The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in t...

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Gasbags
Gasbags

It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold...

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Ships with Wings
Ships with Wings

Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for...

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The Ghost Train
The Ghost Train

Mismatched travellers are stranded overnight at a lonely rural railway station. They soon learn of l...

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Escape to Danger
Escape to Danger

During the Second World War a British schoolteacher working in Denmark is caught up when the Germans...

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Meet Maxwell Archer
Meet Maxwell Archer

Maxwell Archer, a private detective, attempts to clear a young man wrongly accused of murder....

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I'll Walk Beside You
I'll Walk Beside You

John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to ...

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Breach of Promise
Breach of Promise

Low-key British comedy starring Clive Brook as a successful playwright who is sued for breach of pro...

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Dreyfus
Dreyfus

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

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The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and...

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A Gentleman of Paris
A Gentleman of Paris

A prominent Parisian judge is a witness to a murder while he is at a rendezvous with his mistress. A...

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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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The Day the Earth Caught Fire
The Day the Earth Caught Fire

British reporters suspect an international cover-up of a global disaster in progress... and they're ...

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The Lodger
The Lodger

An elderly couple's lodger, a British musician (Ivor Novello), becomes the suspect in a series of ki...

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Educated Evans
Educated Evans

Cockney racing tipster Evans (Miller) is asked by a nouveau riche and socially aspirant couple to tr...

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Good-Time Girl
Good-Time Girl

Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in p...

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Gawain and the Green Knight
Gawain and the Green Knight

The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him....

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The Day Will Dawn
The Day Will Dawn

When Hitler invades Poland, sports journalist Colin Metcalfe (Hugh Williams) is unexpectedly reassig...

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My Brother's Keeper
My Brother's Keeper

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young...

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Windbag the Sailor
Windbag the Sailor

Will Hay plays a bragging sea captain whose maritime experience actually extends to navigating a coa...

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The Black Sheep of Whitehall
The Black Sheep of Whitehall

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a ...

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Something in the City
Something in the City

A man hides the fact that he lost his job from his wife by apparently going off to work each day as ...

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Noose for a Lady
Noose for a Lady

A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works aga...

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Quiet Weekend
Quiet Weekend

Comedy of a family trying to spend a country weekend which is disrupted by an unpleasant friend of t...

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Now You're Talking
Now You're Talking

Commissioned by the Ministry of Information and specifically target working class audiences; ‘Now yo...

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The Upturned Glass
The Upturned Glass

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a marri...

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I'll Be Your Sweetheart
I'll Be Your Sweetheart

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time w...

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Mr. Reeder in Room 13
Mr. Reeder in Room 13

Capt. Johnnie Gray is enlisted by Mr. J.G. Reeder to infiltrate a gang of forgers in Dartmoor jail o...

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Give Us the Moon
Give Us the Moon

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at hav...

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The End of the Road
The End of the Road

Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended fam...

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Marry Me
Marry Me

The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his...

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Cromwell
Cromwell

Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New W...

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Dark Secret
Dark Secret

A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of ...

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Waterloo Road
Waterloo Road

During WW2 a former railway employee who had been drafted, goes AWOL to hunt down the spiv and draft...

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Don't Take It to Heart
Don't Take It to Heart

A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiti...

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Rembrandt
Rembrandt

A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600...

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Young Man's Fancy
Young Man's Fancy

An aristocrat falls in love with a human cannonball...

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Love in Waiting
Love in Waiting

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain....

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Little Fella
Little Fella

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What Every Woman Wants
What Every Woman Wants

A marital comedy of wives trying to reform their husbands...

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Battle of Britain
Battle of Britain

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

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King Lear
King Lear

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their ...

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Quartet
Quartet

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...

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Let the People Sing
Let the People Sing

An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a vill...

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Tread Softly Stranger
Tread Softly Stranger

Unable to pay his bookie, a man returns to his hometown where his embezzler brother and girlfriend p...

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The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac

Famed concert pianist Stephen Orlac survives a plane crash, but his hands are permanently destroyed....

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