John Abbott — Actor (20)
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Madame Bovary (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Madame Bovary
director: Vincente Minnelli actor: Jennifer Jones / James Mason …
other title: A Sedutora Madame Bovary / Madame Bovary und ihre Liebhaber
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spending, leading to tragic consequences.
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One More Tomorrow (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
One More Tomorrow
director: Peter Godfrey actor: Ann Sheridan / Dennis Morgan …
Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party — until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine that opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long — scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.
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End of the Road (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
End of the Road
director: George Blair actor: Edward Norris / John Abbott …
other title: El motín de los presos
A crime writer believes that a man imprisoned for committing the notorious "Flower Shop Murder" is innocent of the crime. He believes he knows who the actual culprit is, and sets out to befriend the man and get enough evidence to prove that he is the real killer.
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The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Falcon in Hollywood
director: Gordon Douglas actor: Tom Conway / Barbara Hale …
other title: Le Faucon à Hollywood / El Halcón en Hollywood
Suave amateur detective Tom Lawrence--aka Michael Arlen's literary hero The Falcon--arrives in Hollywood for some rest and relaxation, only to find himself involved in the murder of a movie actor. There's no shortage of suspects: the costume designer to whom he was married, a tyrannical director, a beautiful young French starlet, a Shakespeare-quoting producer, even a New York gangster. Helping The Falcon solve the crime is a cute, wise-cracking cab driver and a pair of bumbling cops.
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The Saint in London (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Saint in London
director: John Paddy Carstairs actor: George Sanders / Sally Gray …
other title: El Santo en Londres
Suave soldier of fortune Simon Templer gets mixed up with a gang of counterfeiters who've murdered and robbed an European count of 1,000,000 pounds. He is aided reluctantly by Scotland Yard inspector Teal, who's convinced that Templar himself pulled off the heist, and less reluctantly by light-fingered Dugan and dizzy socialite Penny Parker.
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Sherlock Holmes in New York (1976) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Sherlock Holmes in New York
director: Boris Sagal actor: Roger Moore / John Huston …
other title: Sherlock Holmes a New York / Sherlock Holmes i New York …
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
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Thunder in the East (1952) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Thunder in the East
director: Charles Vidor actor: Alan Ladd / Deborah Kerr …
other title: Bagliori ad oriente / Donner in Fern-Ost …
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifist Prime Minister Singh hopes to reach an agreement with guerilla leader Khan, the maharajah is a fool, and the British residents are living in the past. Steve's love interest is Joan Willoughby, the blind daughter of a parson.
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The Web (1947) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Web
director: Michael Gordon actor: Ella Raines / Edmond O'Brien …
other title: Passione che uccide / Das Netz …
A brash young lawyer takes a short-term, high-paying job as bodyguard for a slick business exec being threatened by a former partner, and quickly realizes he may be in over his head.
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Street of Shadows (1937) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Mademoiselle Docteur
director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst actor: Louis Jouvet / Dita Parlo …
other title: Salonicco, nido di spie / Spione in Saloniki …
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
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Pursuit to Algiers (1945) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Pursuit to Algiers
director: Roy William Neill actor: Basil Rathbone / Nigel Bruce …
other title: Sherlock Holmes - Destinazione Algeri / Sherlock Holmes: Pursuit to Algiers …
After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean liner which also carries a number of suspicious persons, any of whom may be involved in a plot to also assassinate him.
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The Woman in White (1948) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Woman in White
director: Peter Godfrey actor: Alexis Smith / Eleanor Parker …
other title: Das Geheimnis der Frau in Weiß / La mujer de blanco …
A young painter stumbles upon an assortment of odd characters at an English estate where he has been hired to give art lessons to beautiful Laura Fairlie. Among them are Anne Catherick, a strange young woman dressed in white whom he meets in the forest and who bears a striking resemblance to Laura; cunning Count Fosco, who hopes to obtain an inheritance for nobleman Sir Percival Glyde, whom he plans to have Laura marry; Mr. Fairlie, a hypochondriac who can't stand to have anyone make the slightest noise; and eccentric Countess Fosco who has her own dark secret. The artist also finds himself drawn to Marion Halcomb, a distant relation to Laura for whom the Count also has plans.