John Salew

John Salew

Birthday: 1902-01-01

Place of Birth: Portsmouth, England, UK

Biography: No biography available.

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Sailors Don't Care
Sailors Don't Care

Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring....

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Night of the Demon
Night of the Demon

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover...

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The Lavender Hill Mob
The Lavender Hill Mob

A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal go...

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I See a Dark Stranger
I See a Dark Stranger

Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her...

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Mystery Junction
Mystery Junction

In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonel...

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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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The Impersonator
The Impersonator

When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a wom...

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Wanted for Murder
Wanted for Murder

The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist th...

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Father Brown
Father Brown

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two ...

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Beware of Pity
Beware of Pity

A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues....

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The Miser
The Miser

Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière....

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Face the Music
Face the Music

A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narr...

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Wicked as They Come
Wicked as They Come

A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder....

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Time Flies
Time Flies

The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accident...

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Green Grow the Rushes
Green Grow the Rushes

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of A...

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Turned Out Nice Again
Turned Out Nice Again

George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddl...

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Tomorrow We Live
Tomorrow We Live

British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French...

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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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His Excellency
His Excellency

A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony....

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Alive and Kicking
Alive and Kicking

Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escap...

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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It

Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (G...

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Bond Street
Bond Street

Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Li...

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The Chinese Bungalow
The Chinese Bungalow

All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan...

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Who Killed Jack Robins?
Who Killed Jack Robins?

Directed by Jirí Weiss...

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The Blue Lamp
The Blue Lamp

P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new ...

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Cardboard Cavalier
Cardboard Cavalier

A historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwynn. In Cromwellian England, royalists commiss...

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Candles at Nine
Candles at Nine

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is so...

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The Good Companions
The Good Companions

The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth....

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All Over the Town
All Over the Town

Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. ...

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The Heart of a Man
The Heart of a Man

Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hun...

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London Belongs to Me
London Belongs to Me

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 ...

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Duel in the Jungle
Duel in the Jungle

An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diam...

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Left Right and Centre
Left Right and Centre

At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservativ...

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Temptation Harbour
Temptation Harbour

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa...

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Murder in Reverse?
Murder in Reverse?

Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is comm...

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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Kind Hearts and Coronets

When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic...

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Warn That Man
Warn That Man

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at t...

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Dead Men Are Dangerous
Dead Men Are Dangerous

Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corps...

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Noose
Noose

Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempt...

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For Them That Trespass
For Them That Trespass

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examini...

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My Brother Jonathan
My Brother Jonathan

Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the ...

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For Them That Trespass
For Them That Trespass

In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examini...

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Help Yourself
Help Yourself

Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a less...

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It's in the Air
It's in the Air

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal ...

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The Thief of Bagdad
The Thief of Bagdad

When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with th...

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Neutral Port
Neutral Port

A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Cap...

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Night Watch
Night Watch

Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz....

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Lease of Life
Lease of Life

The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so fa...

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Rogue's Yarn
Rogue's Yarn

An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but a...

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The Bad Lord Byron
The Bad Lord Byron

Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to deter...

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Suspected Person
Suspected Person

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and the...

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No Way Back
No Way Back

A gangster's girl loves a one-eyed boxer who is framed for robbery....

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The Young Mr. Pitt
The Young Mr. Pitt

This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit...

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Atlantic Ferry
Atlantic Ferry

The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic b...

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Diamond City
Diamond City

Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblanc...

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It's Great to be Young!
It's Great to be Young!

IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic n...

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Witness for the Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution

Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to...

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The Rake's Progress
The Rake's Progress

Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides...

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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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Tawny Pipit
Tawny Pipit

Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Brit...

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Secret Mission
Secret Mission

World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a h...

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The October Man
The October Man

Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murd...

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Caravan
Caravan

During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, a...

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Pastor Hall
Pastor Hall

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of S...

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Too Hot to Handle
Too Hot to Handle

A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho dis...

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Street Corner
Street Corner

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th...

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Millions Like Us
Millions Like Us

When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the service...

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Dancing with Crime
Dancing with Crime

When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve ...

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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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Bedelia
Bedelia

Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington...

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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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Night Was Our Friend
Night Was Our Friend

Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wif...

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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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No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor...

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Don't Ever Leave Me
Don't Ever Leave Me

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila F...

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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery

The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an...

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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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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing

During a raid on Germany, a British bomber crew is forced to bail out after their plane is damaged. ...

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Hotel Sahara
Hotel Sahara

World War II farce about the hotel of the title...

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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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The Spider and the Fly
The Spider and the Fly

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline inte...

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It Always Rains on Sunday
It Always Rains on Sunday

During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance....

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The Bells Go Down
The Bells Go Down

Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service)...

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Uncle Silas
Uncle Silas

Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and sc...

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The Astonished Heart
The Astonished Heart

Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton)...

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Three on a Spree
Three on a Spree

A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million p...

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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

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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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A Girl in a Million
A Girl in a Million

A young scientist freed by divorce from a nagging wife, isolates himself from women. His peace is br...

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We Dive at Dawn
We Dive at Dawn

A gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a B...

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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 Shakedown
The Shakedown

Augie comes out of prison and finds his old vice racket has been taken over by the sinister Gollar, ...

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