
Acting
Jack Allen
Born 1907-10-23 · Sandbach, Cheshire, England, UK
Acting credits
7.1A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
The Four Feathers
1939
6.5A troubled young girl goes to confession at the local church. Unfortunately, the sexually frustrated priest she confesses to becomes obsessed with her. At first, the priest stalks the girl, but later it is revealed that he will stop at nothing, including blackmail and murder, just to get close to her.
House of Mortal Sin
1976
5.8A newlywed suspects her husband of being a Communist spy.
Conspirator
1949
3.4Three teenagers encounter a ghost who is in limbo until he retrieves his lost head. They do their parts to help him find it.
The Headless Ghost
1959
6.5A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.
The Sound Barrier
1952
4.0Short film about a youth club and its patron, who at first had been opposed to its activities
Ticket to Happiness
1959
7.0A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men claiming to be enthusiasts but who turn out to be robbers who plan to hold up the mail train
Runaway Railway
1965
5.8A young man's gambling losses cause him to become embroiled in a currency heist.
The Breaking Point
1961
4.7Playboy John Carter picks up a woman in a discotheque and takes her home. When she is murdered and he is framed for the crime, he finds himself drawn into a seedy underworld plot.
The Big Switch
1968
6.0An Italian sports journalist arrives in Australia but finds no work. The only employment he can find is as a builder's labourer. At first, he cannot comprehend the culture, but eventually he finds mateship and romance.
They're a Weird Mob
1966
5.1International crook Armstrong flees post-war Tangier with priceless forgery plates and is pursued to London where he accidentally swaps coats in a barber's shop with film actor Chuck Collins, setting off a train of events.
Man from Tangier
1957
5.6Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Radio Cab Murder
1954
7.2Serving a jail sentence for a crime he didn't commit, Paul Langley makes several attempts to escape from prison, in order to clear his name. He also has other problems, his wife is about to go into labor with their first baby.
The White Trap
1959
6.5A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
It Started in Paradise
1952
4.6An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. One thing leads to another, and he soon finds himself enmeshed in a plot involving a diamond robbery, gangsters and murder.
Impulse
1954
8.3Panic and fear overtake a small British farming community after a homicidal child-killer escapes from a local mental hospital.
Life in Danger
1959
NRDuring World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Spy for a Day
1940
5.2Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
The Queen's Guards
1961
8.0Four generations of a British family live through their experiences in the Crimean War, Boer War, WWI and WWII.
Elizabeth of Ladymead
1948
10.0A clerk in a law office investigates a murder, and finds that nearly all her colleagues at work have a motive.
She Shall Have Murder
1950
10.0Thieves disguised as soldiers plan to use a bomb scare as part of their plan to rob a bank.
Bomb in the High Street
1961
The journey of a mobile bank in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland.
By Lochaber I Will Go
1960