John Salew
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1902-01-01
Locus Natus: Portsmouth, England, UK
Et ut: Джон Салью
Sailors Don't Care
Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
release : 1940.12.28popularis : 1.505
Night of the Demon
American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover that the colleague he was supposed to meet was...
release : 1957.11.09popularis : 17.733
The Lavender Hill Mob
A meek bank clerk who oversees the shipments of bullion joins with an eccentric neighbor to steal gold bars and smuggle them out of the country.
release : 1951.06.28popularis : 9.277
I See a Dark Stranger
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits...
release : 1946.07.04popularis : 2.978
Mystery Junction
In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a...
release : 1951.09.01popularis : 3.857
Back-Room Boy
Jilted by his fiancee, Arthur Pilbeam gets a job as far away from women as possible. Alone in a lighthouse, he soon finds that 12 other people end up...
release : 1942.04.15popularis : 5.701
The Impersonator
When a USAF sergeant stationed on a base in England is suspected and then accused of murdering a woman, both he and a local school teacher must race...
release : 1961.05.01popularis : 2.415
Wanted for Murder
The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
release : 1946.06.17popularis : 6.079
Beware of Pity
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
release : 1946.07.22popularis : 1.714
Father Brown
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
release : 1954.06.08popularis : 2.83
The Miser
Television broadcast of L'avare by Molière.
release : 1939.03.21popularis : 3.818
Face the Music
A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after...
release : 1954.01.29popularis : 6.675
Wicked as They Come
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
release : 1956.05.22popularis : 5.875
Time Flies
The Professor (Felix Aylmer) is showing Susie (Evelyn Dall) around his time machine when it accidently takes off with Tommy (Tommy Handley) and Bill...
release : 1944.05.08popularis : 5.061
Green Grow the Rushes
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going...
release : 1951.11.06popularis : 1.096
Turned Out Nice Again
George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and...
release : 1941.08.01popularis : 0.713
Tomorrow We Live
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and...
release : 1943.04.05popularis : 1.697
A Window in London
A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous...
release : 1940.06.15popularis : 3.497
His Excellency
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
release : 1952.01.22popularis : 1.247
Alive and Kicking
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an...
release : 1959.07.13popularis : 5.738
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being...
release : 1941.05.17popularis : 4.071
Bond Street
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the...
release : 1948.05.12popularis : 1.059
The Chinese Bungalow
All but a prisoner in the exotic Malayan retreat she shares with her Chinese financier husband, Yuan Sing (Paul Lukas), British singer Sadie Merivale...
release : 1940.04.06popularis : 4.994
The Blue Lamp
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the...
release : 1950.01.19popularis : 5.357
Cardboard Cavalier
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film...
release : 1949.03.31popularis : 3.562
Candles at Nine
A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he...
release : 1944.01.01popularis : 1.209
The Good Companions
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
release : 1957.04.22popularis : 2.209
All Over the Town
Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...
release : 1949.04.25popularis : 3.073
The Heart of a Man
Sailor Frankie Martin is offered a thousand pounds by a millionaire in disguise if he can earn a hundred pounds in a week by honest means. Frankie...
release : 1959.08.06popularis : 1.931
London Belongs to Me
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...
release : 1948.11.05popularis : 8.772
Duel in the Jungle
An American insurance investigator is sent to Rhodesia to investigate the mysterious death of a diamond broker who drowned whilst diving off the...
release : 1954.06.30popularis : 0.847
Left Right and Centre
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl...
release : 1959.06.23popularis : 8.831
Temptation Harbour
The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fails to report it to the police, and finds himself...
release : 1947.02.27popularis : 1.733
Murder in Reverse?
Tom Masterick, a dock worker, is wrongfully convicted of a murder charge. His death sentence is commuted to a long prison term. When released as an...
release : 1945.10.21popularis : 1.152
Kind Hearts and Coronets
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be...
release : 1949.06.21popularis : 10.833
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 : 1.534
Dead Men Are Dangerous
Unsuccessful writer Aylmer Franklyn takes the chance to change identities after he discovers a corpse. However, he soon finds himself accused of the...
release : 1939.02.01popularis : 2.361
Noose
Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion...
release : 1948.09.28popularis : 3.455
My Brother Jonathan
Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...
release : 1948.02.05popularis : 1.696
For Them That Trespass
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...
release : 1949.04.21popularis : 2.519
For Them That Trespass
In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...
release : 1949.04.21popularis : 2.519
Help Yourself
Joe the Burglar explains how he goes about his job for the benefit of the audience, providing a lesson in how to avoid being broken into.
release : 1950.02.15popularis : 0.321
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 Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he...
release : 1938.11.01popularis : 2.904
The Thief of Bagdad
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place,...
release : 1940.02.19popularis : 16.97
Neutral Port
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
release : 1940.12.06popularis : 1.112
Night Watch
Two lovers search for some privacy to kiss during the blitz.
release : 1941.01.01popularis : 1.107
Lease of Life
The parson of a small rural community knows he is dying and this makes him reconsider his life so far and what he can still do to help the community.
release : 1954.10.18popularis : 4.952
Rogue's Yarn
An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
release : 1957.08.01popularis : 2.572
The Bad Lord Byron
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
release : 1949.04.18popularis : 1.604
Suspected Person
After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of...
release : 1942.06.01popularis : 4.273
No Way Back
A gangster's girl loves a one-eyed boxer who is framed for robbery.
release : 1949.07.01popularis : 1.002
The Young Mr. Pitt
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
release : 1942.09.21popularis : 3.695
Atlantic Ferry
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
release : 1941.09.06popularis : 1.653
Diamond City
Set in the diamond fields of South Africa, Stafford Parker is a lawman trying to maintain a semblance of law and order in the "Wild South".
release : 1949.09.20popularis : 0.792
It's Great to be Young!
IT’S GREAT TO A YOUNG stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome (Cecil Parker) begins...
release : 1956.12.26popularis : 1.597
Witness for the Prosecution
Agatha Christie tale of a man on trial for murder: a trial featuring surprise after surprise. Not to be confused with the later Hollywood adaptation.
release : 1949.06.10popularis : 3.268
The Rake's Progress
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his...
release : 1945.12.06popularis : 5.029
The Day Will Dawn
Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat...
release : 1942.06.08popularis : 3.673
Tawny Pipit
Jimmy Bancroft, a fighter pilot, who is recovering from injuries sustained during the Battle of Britain, and Hazel Court, a nurse, come across a pair...
release : 1944.04.28popularis : 1.226
Secret Mission
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in...
release : 1942.10.05popularis : 3.696
The October Man
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...
release : 1947.08.28popularis : 5.198
Caravan
During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable...
release : 1946.06.03popularis : 3.342
Pastor Hall
The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching...
release : 1940.05.28popularis : 2.621
Too Hot to Handle
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner...
release : 1960.12.01popularis : 7.345
Street Corner
London policewomen handle rescues and larceny as they go about their work in Chelsea.
release : 1953.03.17popularis : 3.317
Millions Like Us
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a...
release : 1943.06.01popularis : 5.221
Dancing with Crime
When his best friend is murdered inside a London dancehall, a cab driver and his girlfriend involve themselves in the investigation and discover a...
release : 1947.06.25popularis : 3.872
The Way Ahead
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...
release : 1944.06.09popularis : 5.242
Bedelia
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney,...
release : 1946.07.08popularis : 5.569
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 having won the war, with full employment and general...
release : 1944.07.31popularis : 5.408
Night Was Our Friend
Martin's plane crashes in the jungle of Brazil. Nobody believes he survived. In the meantime his wife, Sally, has fallen in love with another man,...
release : 1951.12.01popularis : 2.412
Marry Me
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl...
release : 1949.06.07popularis : 2.264
No Highway in the Sky
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His...
release : 1951.06.28popularis : 6.53
Don't Ever Leave Me
Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous...
release : 1949.07.19popularis : 2.376
The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series...
release : 1950.01.31popularis : 4.386
Dark Secret
A young couple move into a charming rural cottage. They become fixated upon the mysterious death of the earlier female occupant.
release : 1949.10.30popularis : 1.117
One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
During the Allied Bombing offensive of World War II the public was often informed that "A raid took place last night over ..., One (or often more) of...
release : 1942.04.24popularis : 5.892
Hotel Sahara
World War II farce about the hotel of the title
release : 1951.07.09popularis : 6.909
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 visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady...
release : 1944.11.13popularis : 6.007
The Spider and the Fly
"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...
release : 1949.12.01popularis : 1.662
It Always Rains on Sunday
During a rainy Sunday afternoon, an escaped prisoner tries to hide out at the home of his ex-fiance.
release : 1947.11.28popularis : 6.728
The Bells Go Down
Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...
release : 1943.05.16popularis : 6.553
Uncle Silas
Following her father's death, a teenage heiress moves in with her guardian uncle who is broke and schemes to murder his niece for her vast...
release : 1947.10.08popularis : 6.978
The Astonished Heart
Several years after graduation, best friends Barbara (Celia Johnson) and Leonora (Margaret Leighton) reconnect as if not a day has gone by. But...
release : 1950.03.17popularis : 5.861
Three on a Spree
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what...
release : 1961.06.28popularis : 2.284