David Horne — Actor (7)
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It (1941) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
director: Walter Forde actor: Gordon Harker / Alastair Sim
Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
The Door with Seven Locks (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Door with Seven Locks
director: Norman Lee actor: Leslie Banks / Lilli Palmer
other title: Edgar Wallace: Die Kammer des Schreckens / La Chambre aux supplices
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. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
Seven Sinners (1936) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Seven Sinners
Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
21 Days (1940) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
21 Days
director: Basil Dean actor: Vivien Leigh / Laurence Olivier
other title: Fatalità / 21 días juntos
After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Spaceways (1953) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Spaceways
director: Terence Fisher actor: Howard Duff / Eva Bartok
other title: Viaggio nell'interspazio / Enquête dans l'espace
A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.
The Rake's Progress (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Rake's Progress
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Rex Harrison / Lilli Palmer
other title: Der letzte Sündenfall
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
Crimes at the Dark House (1940) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Crimes at the Dark House
director: George King actor: Tod Slaughter / Sylvia Marriott
other title: Lo strangolatore
In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.