Phyllis Stanley — Actor (6)

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Take Me to Town (1953) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Take Me to Town
director: Douglas Sirk actor: Ann Sheridan / Sterling Hayden …
other title: Eine abenteuerliche Frau / La Séductrice aux cheveux rouges …
Saloon entertainer Vermilion O'Toole and her former partner in crime Newt Cole escape from a train ride to prison and hide out in logging town Timberline. Meanwhile, the three sons of widower Will Hall come to town in search of a wife for their dad. Vermilion needs to lay low to escape the marshal, so she accepts the boys' offer to visit pioneer community Pine Grove. Once there, she annoys local Mrs. Grundys but eventually starts to fit in.

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Command Performance (1937) WikiData IMDb TMDB
Command Performance
director: Sinclair Hill actor: Arthur Tracy / Lilli Palmer …
Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.

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The Next of Kin (1942) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Next of Kin
other title: 近親 / 近亲 …
Lots of slogans such as "Be like Dad, Keep Mum" and "Keep it under your Hat" are visible on the walls in various scenes to reinforce the plot of this British wartime movie illustrating how gossipy talk can result in unknowingly giving valuable information to Nazi spies.

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The Black Sleep (1956) WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Black Sleep
other title: Die Schreckenskammer des Dr. Thosti / Les Monstres Se Révoltent …
In 19th century England, a noted brain surgeon rescues a former student from being hanged on a false conviction for murder, and spirits him away to an ancient, repurposed abbey far in the countryside. There, he connives his pupil into assisting him in mapping the functions of the various parts of the human brain, using living subjects who are under a terrible animation-suspending drug called "black sleep". Subsequently, the student, along with the daughter of one of the subjects, discover that most of these subjects have survived but are being kept in a dungeon-like cellar, in various stages of physical and mental derangement...