Patrick Allen — Actor (34)

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The Big Switch (1968)
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Pete Walker actor: Sebastian Breaks / Virginia Wetherell …
other title: Strip Poker - Verdammt zum Tod
Playboy 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.

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The Body Stealers (1969)
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Gerry Levy actor: George Sanders / Maurice Evans …
other title: Galaxy horror / Alien Invasion …
In Britain, bodies of NATO paratroopers are being snatched during routine jumps by a mysterious red-beam of otherworldly origin.

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Night of the Big Heat (1967)
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other title: Demoni di fuoco / Brennender Tod …
While mainland Britain shivers in deepest winter, the northern island of Fara bakes in the nineties, and the boys at the Met station have no more idea what is going on than the regulars at the Swan. Only a stand-offish visting scientist realizes space aliens are to blame.

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Lady Oscar (1979)
Lady Oscar
Jacques Demy actor: Catriona MacColl / Barry Stokes …
other title: Lady Oscar - Il film / 凡尔赛玫瑰 …
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.

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Persecution (1974)
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Don Chaffey actor: Lana Turner / Trevor Howard …
other title: La strana signora della grande casa / Verfolgung …
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).

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The Domino Principle (1977)
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Stanley Kramer actor: Gene Hackman / Candice Bergen …
other title: Il principio del domino: la vita in gioco / Das Domino Komplott …
Roy Tucker, a Vietnam war veteran with excellent shooting skills, is serving a long prison sentence when a mysterious visitor promises him that he will be released if he agrees to carry out a dangerous assignment.

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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
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other title: Corruzione a Jamestown / Vertraue keinem Fremden …
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.

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Protect and Survive (1976)
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Bill Stewart actor: Patrick Allen
Protect and Survive was a public information series on civil defence produced by the British government during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was intended to inform British citizens on how to protect themselves during a nuclear attack, and consisted of a mixture of pamphlets, radio broadcasts, and public information films. The series had originally been intended for distribution only in the event of dire national emergency, but provoked such intense public interest that the pamphlets were authorised for general release.

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1984 (1956)
1984
Michael Anderson actor: Edmond O'Brien / Jan Sterling …
other title: Nel 2000 non sorge il sole / 一九八四 …
In a totalitarian future society, a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

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Threads (1984)
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Mick Jackson actor: Karen Meagher / Reece Dinsdale …
other title: Ipotesi sopravvivenza
Documentary style account of a nuclear holocaust and its effect on the working class city of Sheffield, England; and the eventual long run effects of nuclear war on civilization.

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Dunkirk (1958)
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Leslie Norman actor: John Mills / Richard Attenborough …
other title: Dunkerque / O Drama de Dunquerque …
A British Corporal in France finds himself responsible for the lives of his men when their officer is killed. He has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are being dragged into the war with Operation Dynamo, the scheme to get the French and British forces back from the Dunkirk beaches. Some come forward to help, others were less willing.

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The Devil Rides Out (1968)
The Devil Rides Out
Terence Fisher actor: Christopher Lee / Charles Gray …
other title: Die Braut des Teufels / Les Vierges de Satan …
The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.