Carl Jaffe
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1902-03-21
Locus Natus: Hamburg, Germany
Et ut: Carl Jaffé
Subway in the Sky
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his...
release : 1959.11.01popularis : 0.733
Squadron Leader X
Equipped with an RAF uniform, an English accent, a photograph of his "wife" and a packet of Players (cigarettes), a German agent is parachuted into...
release : 1943.03.01popularis : 0.884
First Man into Space
The first pilot to leave Earth's atmosphere lands, then vanishes; but something with a craving for blood prowls the countryside...
release : 1959.02.27popularis : 3.389
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway. Her businessman...
release : 1961.12.28popularis : 7.014
The Saint in London
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds....
release : 1939.06.30popularis : 1.322
Uncensored
During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter...
release : 1942.08.24popularis : 0.882
House of Secrets
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
release : 1956.10.23popularis : 3.419
Over the Moon
Young Jane Benson just about manages to make ends meet running the large family house in Yorkshire. In love with local doctor Freddie Jarvis, she...
release : 1939.10.12popularis : 4.241
Escapement
An insurance investigator tumbles onto a series of similar deaths, by brain hemorrhage, of patients of a psychiatric clinic in France where therapy...
release : 1958.03.04popularis : 4.645
Desperate Moment
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear him of a false murder charge. (BFI Website)
release : 1953.03.17popularis : 10.425
The Traitor
One time members of a resistance group come together every year to remember their dead leader, betrayed to and executed by the Nazis. When it seems...
release : 1957.03.01popularis : 3.244
The Hostage
In this political thriller, set within an unnamed country, revolutionaries try to prevent their leader's execution by kidnapping the president's...
release : 1956.12.01popularis : 2.911
The Man from Morocco
With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the...
release : 1945.04.17popularis : 3.701
Lilli Marlene
Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German...
release : 1950.12.08popularis : 1.459
A Tale of Five Cities
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is...
release : 1951.03.01popularis : 4.294
Operation Amsterdam
When Germany invades Holland in 1940, a British intelligence officer and two Dutch diamond merchants go to Amsterdam to persuade the Dutch diamond...
release : 1959.01.12popularis : 2.752
Man on a String
U.S. spies catch a Moscow-born U.S. citizen helping spies, and they force him to counterspy.
release : 1960.05.20popularis : 2.061
Warn That Man
At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a...
release : 1943.07.13popularis : 1.473
Battle Beneath the Earth
Government officials discover a horrible plot: the Chinese are tunneling their way to the United States.
release : 1967.10.01popularis : 1.669
Up Jumped a Swagman
A dreamy Australian singer comes to London to seek his fortune and falls for a down-to-earth lass and a high-strung debutante at the same time.
release : 1965.12.21popularis : 0.337
I Was a Male War Bride
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her...
release : 1949.08.26popularis : 5.716
The Dancing Years
The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart,...
release : 1950.07.19popularis : 1.047
Fiddler on the Roof
In a small Jewish community in a pre-Revolutionary Russian village, a poor milkman, determined to find good husbands for his five daughters, consults...
release : 1971.11.03popularis : 16.938
The Night Invader
Dick Marlow, a British agent, has parachuted into the occupied Netherlands to retrieve vital documents. Whilst on the trail of the papers, he poses...
release : 1943.12.05popularis : 4.474
Appointment in London
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will...
release : 1953.02.17popularis : 3.163
Gasbags
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by...
release : 1941.02.01popularis : 1.278
An Englishman's Home
A German spy is dispatched to Britain to search out targets for a planned invasion.
release : 1940.01.27popularis : 0.858
Satellite in the Sky
A bomb dooms the first space satellite, manned by a selfless crew, a stowaway reporter (Lois Maxwell) and a mad scientist (Donald Wolfit).
release : 1956.07.21popularis : 3.807
Two Thousand Women
During the Second World War, three downed English airmen hide out with women's internment camp in France.
release : 1944.11.06popularis : 1.361
The Awakening
"The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
release : 1954.07.14popularis : 1.57
The Lion Has Wings
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the...
release : 1939.11.03popularis : 1.607
State Secret
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is...
release : 1950.09.11popularis : 5.625
Rockets Galore
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
release : 1958.10.19popularis : 2.193
Park Plaza 605
Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza...
release : 1953.09.11popularis : 3.64
I Accuse!
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an...
release : 1958.03.05popularis : 6.852
All Hands
From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators....
release : 1940.05.31popularis : 1.133
The Double Man
In a complex piece of espionage the Russian secret service attempts to kidnap a high ranking officer in the CIA and replace him with a double of its...
release : 1967.04.25popularis : 4.101
Second Best Bed
A newly married couple run into difficulty when the wife refuses to obey her husband.
release : 1938.07.18popularis : 1.292
The Blind Goddess
Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, Hugh Williams, accused by his secretary Michael...
release : 1948.09.14popularis : 1.672
I Didn't Do It
Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only...
release : 1945.08.06popularis : 2.306
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered...
release : 1943.07.26popularis : 9.616
Cross Channel
Charter-boat owner "Tex" Parker is framed on a murder rap by a gang of jewel-and-American currency smugglers operating from the coasts of England and...
release : 1955.09.29popularis : 0.77
The Case of The Smiling Widow
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
release : 1957.01.01popularis : 0.851
Ivanhoe
Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of...
release : 1952.07.31popularis : 14.226
Port of Escape
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene,...
release : 1956.05.01popularis : 2.313