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Leslie Banks, CBE (9 June 1890 – 21 April 1952) was an English theatre and cinema actor, director and producer, now best remembered playing gruff, menacing characters in black and white movies of the 1930s and 1940s.
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12 October 1940
A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure.
17 June 1934
David Barr is the manager and chief designer of a British shipyard in decline. The shipyard is in financial trouble but Barr has a design for a new ship that will save them all.
27 October 1935
An engineer leads the building of a trans-Atlantic tunnel linking Britain and the United States.
16 February 1950
The middle-class family of a young woman cannot understand why she delays in marrying a respectable young man.
06 March 1950
Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England.
27 August 1945
A documentary account of the allied invasion of Europe during World War II compiled from the footage shot by nearly 1400 cameramen.
06 September 1941
Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
22 July 1940
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good.
19 February 1937
A beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
07 December 1942
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion.
07 January 1940
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime.
05 January 1937
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left.
24 November 1944
In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
01 January 1936
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks).
19 January 1942
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
11 May 1939
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
10 May 1935
A British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930s rules his area strictly but justly. He struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.
19 April 1975
Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.
10 November 1941
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier.
16 September 1932
When legendary hunter Bob Rainsford is shipwrecked on the perilous reefs surrounding a mysterious island, he finds himself the guest of the reclusive and eccentric Count Zaroff.
05 March 1937
The film is a historical drama set during the reign of Elizabeth I (Flora Robson), focusing on the English defeat of the Spanish Armada, whence the title.
01 December 1934
While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination attempt, only to learn that their daughter has been kidnapped to keep them quiet.
25 December 1933
A dancer falls in love with a puppeteer, much to the consternation of her manipulative manager. The puppeteer himself seems more interested in his puppets than in romance with her.
06 December 1940
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.
30 October 1938
Inspired by Edmond Rostand's 1897 play, this 1938 BBC Television studio production retells the comic and heroic drama of the 17th-century Gascon swordsman, poet, and philosopher, Cyrano de Bergerac (1990).
02 November 1936
A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
05 May 1940
An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.
21 February 1949
At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England.
07 August 1921
Youth meets Ambition and leaves Love, his mother, and his small-town roots for the big city. There, in his search for Experience, he meets Pleasure and hangs out at the Primrose Path with the likes of Temptation and Intoxication.
22 January 1934
Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists.
01 November 1939
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies.
23 December 1939
The head of Dartmouth Training College has been murdered, and his successor, Captain Hyde, suspects that he himself may have been the intended target.
16 July 1934
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party.
03 December 1947
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert.
