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Irene Handl (27 December 1901 - 29 November 1987) was a British character actress.
Absolute Beginners TrailerHotel du Lac TrailerIt's Your Move Trailer
Irene Handl (27 December 1901 - 29 November 1987) was a British character actress.
Total trailers found: 110
17 June 1970
Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren.
28 April 1977
Two alluring young ladies live with their beautiful widowed aunt on a secluded wooded estate. The women have earned themselves quite a reputation in the surrounding towns and men from all over the region are frequent visitors to the small countryside home, hoping to encounter one, or preferably both, of the seductive nieces.
28 May 1958
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships.
10 October 1959
The movie takes place during WWII. A dashing British RAF Officer is earmarked for a secret mission behind enemy lines in occupied France, but wishing to distract the enemy, enlists a person to double for him and thereby draw attention to North Africa .
19 June 1966
In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
28 September 1954
The unruly schoolgirls of St Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey.
01 August 1978
The death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years.
15 August 1955
Joe is a young boy who lives with his mother, Joanna, in working-class London. The two reside above the tailor shop of Mr.
04 March 1977
While a private detective is away on vacation, his not particularly bright assistant takes it upon himself to "solve" a case that comes in.
07 March 1961
Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work.
20 December 1967
Two young women arrive in London to make it big in show business, and become corrupted by money and fame in the process.
24 March 1960
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life.
02 June 1969
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia.
07 May 1956
To Laura Hammond's large family, she is simply the mother who makes all their lives run more smoothly.
03 November 1960
Good natured comic caper charting the misadventures of a hapless bunch of Brighton based petty crooks dogged with disaster at every turn.
01 June 1943
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 factory making aircraft parts.
09 June 1958
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past.
10 March 1947
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a receiver of stolen goods.
22 December 1960
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed.
10 April 1961
Fred, Tim and Deirdre plan a fun weekend break on the coast. What they didn't make allowances for was the company of Deirdre's mother who insists on coming along as her daughter's chaperone.
23 May 1949
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town.
28 July 1941
Eccentric Cambridge archaeologist Horatio Smith takes a group of British and American archaeology students to pre-war Nazi Germany to help in his excavations.
01 November 1960
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition.
06 May 1961
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
03 April 1966
Morgan, an aggressive and self-admitted dreamer, a fantasist who uses his flights of fancy as refuge from external reality, where his unconventional behavior lands him in a divorce from his wife, Leonie, trouble with the police and, ultimately, incarceration in a lunatic asylum.
04 April 1977
Some British soldiers in Singapore are more concerned with finding sex than finding Communists.
18 August 1959
Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
23 June 1959
At the Earndale by-election natural history expert and TV personality Bob Wilcot for the Conservatives finds himself up against Billingsgate girl Stella Stoker for the socialists.
30 December 1941
Humorously using the arrogant and bumbling Mr. Proudfoot, this film serves a dual purpose of emphasizing the importance of obeying blackout hours, as well as easing the stress of the time period by encouraging laughter.
10 March 1959
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall.
28 January 1945
Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes.
01 February 1949
A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II.
02 March 1986
Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel.
24 November 1945
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey.
17 May 1943
Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby.
01 September 1947
Eileen Hannay (Dinah Sheridan) is the singing star of an Irish operatic society but gives up to marry Terry O'Keefe (John Bentley).
28 August 1940
An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted.
16 May 1951
A lawyer's plan to break up his daughter's budding romance backfires when the boyfriend's father becomes involved.
30 January 1959
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her.
22 February 1960
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station.
31 July 1944
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 happiness for all (or nearly all).
30 November 1953
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
06 November 1944
A retired general helps out by sheltering some evacuees during WWII.
01 February 1941
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising.
16 June 1970
Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean.
01 May 1981
Riding High is a 1981 British drama film directed by Ross Cramer and starring Eddie Kidd, Irene Handl and Murray Salem.
04 March 1958
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot.
11 September 1980
A rather incoherent post-breakup Sex Pistols "documentary", told from the point of view of Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren, whose (arguable) position is that the Sex Pistols in particular and punk rock in general were an elaborate scam perpetrated by him in order to make "a million pounds.
05 July 1954
Duncan Lamont plays Jane Hylton's jealous husband. In a confrontation, Lamont accidentally shoots Hylton's lover.
14 August 1961
Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons.
26 October 1939
A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.
16 November 1954
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
06 September 1943
Wartime commando story based on fact. Allied airman risks return (on the ground) to occupied France for the honour of his regiment.
28 July 1944
While Lady Christabel Beauclark, a bird fancier, is scurrying about demanding certain territorial rights for British birds from other countries, Her Ladyship's niece is falling in love with the family butler, Tom Gilbey.
02 February 1954
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts.
07 February 1944
Gert and Daisy attempt to retrieve an old dress containing £2,000. They have to impersonate two thespians, and bring all sorts of trouble to a stage-play.
31 August 1940
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
14 October 1957
The dining room of the Jolly Fiddler has long been presided over by Albert, an aged but very shrewd waiter.
13 October 1948
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
01 May 1938
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident.