Tom Walls

Maytime in Mayfair (1949)

, 1h34
Réalisé par Herbert Wilcox
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Musical
Thèmes Musique
Acteurs Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Nicholas Phipps, Dame Thora Hird, Michael Shepley, Tom Walls
Rôle Inspecteur
Note58%

Debonair Michael Gore-Brown inherits a dress shop and becomes romantically involved with its manager, Eileen Grahame. But when a rival shop across the street always seems to get the new fashions first, some investigation is required.

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The Interrupted Journey (1949)

, 1h20
Réalisé par Daniel Birt
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller
Acteurs Richard Todd, Valerie Hobson, Christine Norden, Tom Walls, Ralph Truman, Alexander Gauge
Rôle Mr. Clayton
Note66%

John North, a struggling writer, is running away with his mistress. After meeting her in London he is sure they are being followed both in the street and at the railway cafe where they have a cup of tea. Once they are on the train he still can't rid himself of his unease as they sit discussing their new life together. Once she is asleep, North goes out into the corridor to try and gather his thoughts and it is then he again sees the man he believes has been following them. In a fit of panic, North pulls the communication cord and jumps off the train. By chance the train is stopped just a couple of minutes away from his house. When he gets there he finds his wife, Carol, waiting for him as usual, as though nothing were wrong. Feeling a burst of fresh affection for her, he embraces her.

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Spring In Park Lane (1948)

, 1h31
Réalisé par Herbert Wilcox
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Comédie, Comédie romantique
Acteurs Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Tom Walls, Nigel Patrick, G. H. Mulcaster, Lana Morris
Rôle Uncle Joshua Howard
Note70%

The film tells the story of a footman, Richard, played by Michael Wilding, who is employed by Joshua Howard (Tom Walls), an eccentric art collector. His niece and secretary, Judy (Anna Neagle), has her doubts that Richard is the footman he pretends to be. In reality he is Lord Brent, brother of one of Judy's suitors, the Marquis of Borechester (Nicholas Phipps).

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While I Live (1947)

, 1h25
Réalisé par John Harlow
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Thriller
Acteurs Sonia Dresdel, Carol Raye, Tom Walls, Clifford Evans, Patricia Burke, Charles Victor
Rôle Nehemiah
Note65%

In 1922 in Cornwall, a prodigious young pianist and composer Olwen Trevelyan (Audrey Fildes) is struggling with the ending of a piano tone poem she is composing. Driven to complete the piece by her domineering elder sister Julia (Sonia Dresdel), Olwen becomes agitated and despondent, and one night sleepwalks to the edge of a cliff near their home. Julia follows her and shouts her name but Olwen, abruptly awakened, loses her balance and falls to her death on the rocks below. Julia is unable to come to terms with Olwen's death and the guilt of her own role in it, over the years becoming a reclusive, obsessive figure whose main raison d'être is to keep Olwen's memory alive. Olwen's final composition gains her posthumous recognition, and each year on the anniversary of her death it is broadcast on the radio.

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Master of Bankdam (1947)

, 1h45
Réalisé par Walter Forde
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame
Acteurs Anne Crawford, Dennis Price, Linden Travers, David Tomlinson, Tom Walls, Nicholas Parsons
Rôle Simeon Crowther Sr.
Note67%

The film is the story of Bankdam, a small Yorkshire Mill. Run by the Crowther family, around 1860 it prospers and grows under its patriarch owner, Simeon Crowther. After family upheavals the firm goes through several crises under the management of his sons Zebediah and Joshua, who tend in oppose one and other. Joshua dies with many others in Mill collapse, partially blamed on his brother Zebediah. Joshua's role is taken over by his son Simeon. The old patriarch, Simeon dies. Zebediah with ill health retires to Vienna for treatment leaving his son, Lancelot Handel, with power of attorney in his absence. Things at the Mill deteriorate and a fatally ill, Zebediah returns and, with a mob outside the door, in a final scene he makes amends and entrusts Bankdam, not to his own son, but to Simeon as he realises that he is the only person that can save Bankham.

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This Man Is Mine (1946)

Réalisé par Marcel Varnel
Genres Guerre, Comédie
Thèmes Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Tom Walls, Glynis Johns, Hugh McDermott, Nova Pilbeam, Barry Morse, Ambrosine Phillpotts
Rôle Philip Ferguson
Note60%

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Johnny Frenchman (1945)

, 1h52
Réalisé par Charles Frend
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Guerre, Comédie, Romance
Thèmes Mise en scène d'un animal, La mer, Transport, Politique
Acteurs Patricia Roc, Tom Walls, Françoise Rosay, Paul Dupuis, Ralph Michael, Arthur Hambling
Rôle Net Pomeroy
Note61%

The film is set between March 1939 and June 1940 in a small fishing port in Cornwall, whose inhabitants have a historic but largely benign rivalry with their counterparts from another port over the water in Brittany whose men fish the same grounds. Legally the French may not fish within three miles of the British coast, and vice versa, and alleged breaches of this rule are the cause of frequent spats between hot-headed Cornish harbour-master Nat Pomeroy (Tom Walls) and Lanec Florrie (Françoise Rosay), an equally redoubtable widow from the Breton port. Beneath all the bluster and posturing however, there is a mutual understanding and respect between the two communities.

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L'Auberge Fantôme (1944)

, 1h35
Réalisé par Basil Dearden
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Fantastique, Fantasy, Horreur
Thèmes Théâtre, Politique, Adaptation d'une pièce de théâtre
Acteurs Mervyn Johns, Glynis Johns, Sally Ann Howes, Françoise Rosay, Richard Bird, Tom Walls
Rôle Capitaine Meadows
Note65%

David Davies, un célèbre chef d'orchestre, apprend qu'il ne lui reste que trois mois à vivre et son médecin lui propose de faire un séjour à The Halfway House, un petit hôtel situé dans une partie isolée du Pays de Galles. Parallèlement, Richard French est également en route pour l'hôtel avec sa fille, Joanna, qui à son insu ses parents discuter de leur projet de divorce. À la gare, ils rencontrent un jeune couple, Terence et Margaret, et tous les quatre marchent ensemble jusqu'à l'hôtel. Se rendent également à l'hôtel William Oakley, un profiteur de guerre, et son ami le capitaine Fortesque, qui vient de refuser de travailler comme directeur de prison parce qu'il ne veut pas contribuer à l'effort de guerre.

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Love Story (1944)

, 1h53
Réalisé par Leslie Arliss
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Romance
Acteurs Margaret Lockwood, Stewart Granger, Patricia Roc, Tom Walls, Reginald Purdell, Walter Hudd
Rôle Tom Tanner
Note65%

Concert pianist Lissa Campbell (Margaret Lockwood) decides to leave her successful music career behind and devote herself to something more directly connected to the British war effort. After announcing her retirement from the concert stage, she applies for a position with the RAF as a WASP, but is rejected for health reasons. Soon after, she learns from her doctor that she is suffering from a heart condition and that she does not have long to live.

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Undercover (1943)

, 1h20
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Drame, Guerre
Thèmes Politique
Acteurs John Clements, Mary Morris, Tom Walls, Stanley Baker, Michael Wilding, Godfrey Tearle
Rôle Kossan Petrovitch
Note60%

The film is based on the Yugoslav resistance movement under the command of General Draza Mihailovich. But politics overtook the situation because Mihailovich and the Royalists were about to be abandoned and betrayed by the British government - as parts of the Chetnik movement co-operated with the Nazis - in favor of the Communist and Stalinist leader Josip Broz Tito at the time. Speaking in the British Parliament on February 22, 1944, the then Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, said: “General Mihailovic, I much regret to say, drifted gradually into position where his commanders made accommodations with Italian and German troops…”

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They Met in the Dark (1943)

, 1h44
Réalisé par Karel Lamač
Origine Royaume-uni
Genres Thriller, Espionnage, Romance
Thèmes Espionnage
Acteurs James Mason, Joyce Howard, Tom Walls, Edward Rigby, Ronald Ward, David Farrar
Rôle Christopher Child
Note61%

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