Acting

Joe Linnane

Acting credits

Stage Fright poster
6.8

A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.

Stage Fright

1950

Secret People poster
6.4

This tale of intrigue finds Valentina Cortese involved in an assassination plot. She helps the police apprehend the conspirators after an innocent bystander is accidentally killed.

Secret People

1952

The Woman in Question poster
6.3

Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.

The Woman in Question

1950

Hunted poster
6.9

An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.

Hunted

1952

Captain Boycott poster
7.2

In 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Captain Charles Boycott band together to assert their rights, patriotic farmer Hugh Davin leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracise their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.

Captain Boycott

1947

Noose for a Lady poster
6.0

A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.

Noose for a Lady

1953

A Piece of Cake poster
5.3

Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide anything one can wish. Merlin becomes real and grants his host's wishes; not by conjuring the items out of thin air, but depriving them from other people's ownership, which leads to trouble.

A Piece of Cake

1948

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp poster
7.0

An angel finds that she needs money to fulfill her mission on Earth. Her only solution to this problem is to pawn her harp.

The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp

1954

Something Money Can't Buy poster
5.7

A British Army Officer returning to civilian life after WWII, starts a catering company with some of his ex-army pals.

Something Money Can't Buy

1952