Glynis Johns — Actor (30)
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Don't Just Stand There (1968) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Don't Just Stand There
director: Ron Winston actor: Robert Wagner / Mary Tyler Moore …
other title: Fart over Feltet
In exchange for helping writer-adventurer Lawrence Colby smuggle 300 watch parts into Paris from Switzerland, Martine Randall asks Colby to help solve a complicated situation involving her friend Sabine Manning, a well-known author of sex novels.
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Another Time, Another Place (1958) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Another Time, Another Place
director: Lewis Allen actor: Lana Turner / Barry Sullivan …
other title: Estasi d'amore - Operazione Love / Elsket af to kvinder …
In England during WWII, an American news correspondent’s affair with a married British correspondent ends tragically when he is killed in action. Fearing a nervous breakdown as a result of his death, she travels to Cornwall to mourn with his family without any intention of revealing her relationship with him.
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The Adventures of Tartu (1943) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Adventures of Tartu
director: Harold S. Bucquet actor: Robert Donat / Valerie Hobson …
other title: Le avventure di Tartù
British Captain Terence Stevenson accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing undetonated bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he's parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. Tartu makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory of its manufacturing.
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The Sword and the Rose (1953) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Sword and the Rose
director: Ken Annakin actor: Richard Todd / Glynis Johns …
other title: La spada e la rosa / A Espada e a Rosa …
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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The Card (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Card
director: Ronald Neame actor: Alec Guinness / Glynis Johns …
other title: Asso pigliatutto / El personaje …
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so. If he can just manage to avoid a certain very predatory woman.
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Encore (1951) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Encore
director: Harold French / Anthony Pelissier … actor: Glynis Johns / Nigel Patrick …
other title: Todavía más / Dakapo …
Encore is a 1951 anthology film composed of adaptations of three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham: "The Ant and the Grasshopper", directed by Pat Jackson and adapted by T. E. B. Clarke; "Winter Cruise", helmed by Anthony Pelissier, screenplay by Arthur Macrae; "Gigolo and Gigolette", directed by Harold French, written by Eric Ambler. It is the last film in a Maugham trilogy, preceded by Quartet and Trio.
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The Weak and the Wicked (1954) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Weak and the Wicked
director: J. Lee Thompson actor: Glynis Johns / Diana Dors …
other title: Penitenziario, braccio femminile
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.
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Dear Brigitte (1965) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Dear Brigitte
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Fabian …
other title: Erasmo il lentigginoso / Minha Querida Brigitte …
Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.
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The Spider's Web (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
The Spider's Web
director: Godfrey Grayson actor: Glynis Johns / John Justin …
other title: La tela del ragno / Agatha Christie: Das Spinngewebe
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.
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Shake Hands with the Devil (1959) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Shake Hands with the Devil
director: Michael Anderson actor: James Cagney / Don Murray …
other title: Il fronte della violenza / Ein Händedruck des Teufels …
In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization by his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
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State Secret (1950) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
State Secret
director: Sidney Gilliat actor: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. / Glynis Johns …
other title: Segreto di stato / Staatsgeheimnis …
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.
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The Sundowners (1960) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Sundowners
director: Fred Zinnemann actor: Deborah Kerr / Robert Mitchum …
other title: I nomadi / Três Vidas Errantes …
In the Australian Outback, the Carmody family--Paddy, Ida, and their teenage son Sean--are sheep drovers, always on the move. Ida and Sean want to settle down and buy a farm. Paddy wants to keep moving. A sheep-shearing contest, the birth of a child, drinking, gambling, and a racehorse will all have a part in the final decision.
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The Halfway House (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Halfway House
director: Basil Dearden actor: Mervyn Johns / Glynis Johns …
other title: L'Auberge Fantôme / The Half-Way House …
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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No Highway in the Sky (1951) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
No Highway in the Sky
director: Henry Koster actor: James Stewart / Glynis Johns …
other title: Il viaggio indimenticabile / Die Reise ins Ungewisse …
James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor: eccentric, forgetful, but brilliant. His studies show that the aircraft being manufactured by his employer has a subtle but deadly design flaw that manifests itself only after the aircraft has flown a certain number of hours. En route to a crash site to prove his theory, Honey discovers that he is aboard a plane rapidly approaching his predicted deadline.
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Miranda (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Miranda
director: Ken Annakin actor: Glynis Johns / Googie Withers …
other title: Miranda på krogen
A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London. Comedy and romantic entanglements ensue.