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Helen Christie is a Actor born on 22 october 1914
Helen Christie was an Indian-born British film and television actress. She was married to Patrick Crean.
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Helen Christie
Birth name Helen Mary Christie
Birth 22 october 1914
Death 17 august 1995 (at 80 years)
Birth 22 october 1914
Death 17 august 1995 (at 80 years)
Helen Christie was an Indian-born British film and television actress. She was married to Patrick Crean.
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Lust for a Vampire (1971)
, 1h31Directed by Jimmy Sangster
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality, Bisexuality-related films, Erotic films, LGBT-related films, Vampires in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Yutte Stensgaard, Ralph Bates, Barbara Jefford, Suzanna Leigh, Helen Christie, Pippa Steel
Roles Miss Simpson
Rating57%
In 1830, at a finishing school in Styria, Mircalla arrives as a new student. A visiting author, Richard Lestrange, instantly falls in love with her; but Mircalla is a vampire—Carmilla Karnstein—who has been resurrected by her vampiric family. As students in the school, inhabitants of the nearby village and those who suspect Mircalla is responsible start to die, suspicion turns toward the Karnsteins and their ominous castle.
, 1h53Directed by John Krish
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Robin Phillips, Colin Blakely, Michael Elwyn, Kenneth Griffith, Donald Wolfit, Leo McKern
Roles Mrs. Clutterbuck
Rating56%
Paul Pennyfeather is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the services of an unsavory employment agency that secures a position for him at a sleazy Welsh boarding school for boys, presided over by the colorful Dr. Fagan. On staff at the school are an assortment of distasteful screwballs; Mr. Prendergast (Robert Harris) is a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes is a one-legged two-timer with his eye on Fagan's daughter, Flossie; and Soloman Philbrick is an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.
The Beggar's Opera (1953)
, 1h34Directed by Peter Brook
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Historical, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Théâtre, Musical films, Films about capital punishment, Films based on plays, Films based on operas
Actors Laurence Olivier, Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Griffith, George Rose, Stuart Burge, Stanley Holloway
Roles Betty Doxey
Rating60%
In the 1700s, a beggar is tossed into London's Newgate jail, along with a pile of papers upon which his unfinished opera is scribbled. The beggar boasts to the other prisoners that his opera, unlike others of the day, is about a real person, the dashing highwayman Captain Macheath, who, dressed in a red coat, holds off the world with a pistol in each hand, seduces women with five notes of a tune, and generally leaps from misfortune. To the beggar's disappointment, the other prisoners point out that his hero Macheath is among them, in irons and behind bars, and Macheath, who is scheduled to be executed the next morning, admits that there is "no arguing with reality." Taking the first page of the opera, Macheath begins singing, and the beggar, encouraged by Macheath's good voice, urges him to continue, until the following story, the beggar's opera, is sung for the prison inmates: While riding to London, feeling merry and free, Macheath robs a carriage, and steals a kiss and a locket from a maiden. Later, in London, Macheath's wife, Polly Peachum, pines for him. Polly's parents, shopkeepers Mr. Peachum and his wife, are scandalized to learn from their employee Filch that Polly has secretly married the highwayman. To make the best of the situation, as they are always eager to make money, they urge her to lure Macheath into a trap and collect the reward for his capture. Meanwhile, outside of town, Macheath encounters a carriage ridden by Newgate's jailor Mr. Lockit, Lockit's daughter Lucy and Mrs. Trapes, whom Lockit is wooing. Lucy, who met Macheath when he was once imprisoned, scolds him for taking her virtue without making good on his promise to wed. When Macheath rides off, Mrs. Trapes suggests that Lucy betray him for the reward and give the money to her father. Later, during a tryst in a hayloft, Polly warns Macheath that her parents are mounting an ambush. Macheath escapes with Polly's help after a swashbuckling fight, then hides in a back room of a tavern, where he is unable to resist socializing with the prostitutes, whom he considers friends. However, prostitute Jenny Diver has been bribed by Peachum and Lockit to betray him, and with the help of her colleagues, Macheath is soon captured. From his jail cell, Macheath urges Lucy to steal the jail keys and set him free, promising to marry her in return, but then Polly shows up and he is forced to introduce the women to each other. During the night, Lucy steals the keys and releases him, but later Polly sneaks back and, finding Macheath gone from the cell, screams in anguish without thinking, thus drawing attention to his escape. Meanwhile, Macheath disguises himself in the stolen cape and gloves of a lord and slips into a gaming house to avoid making good his promise to unite with Lucy. However, the proprietor recognizes the cape and alerts Lockit and Peachum about the impostor wearing it. Back at the jail, Polly is accused of freeing Macheath and is locked in Lucy's room, where Lucy, after losing track of Macheath, attempts to drug her. When they hear the recaptured Macheath being returned to prison, Lucy and Polly proceed to Macheath's cell and demand that he choose between them. He refuses, as he will soon be hanged and sees no reason to disappoint either of them. The next morning, riding atop his coffin as it is carted through the streets to the gallows, Macheath waves farewell to the friendly crowd that has gathered to see him off. At the gallows, after kissing both Lucy and Polly goodbye, Macheath is blindfolded and awaits his fate, and the opera comes to its incomplete end. The real Macheath, who is still in the jail, protests that he should not have to hang twice. After pondering the complaint, the beggar agrees and yells for Macheath's reprieve. The rest of the prisoners join in the chant and mob the turnkey, who comes to investigate the ruckus, allowing Macheath to escape. The highwayman steals a horse from the cart containing his coffin and when safely out of London, sings that his freedom has been returned because of a beggar's opera.
Castle in the Air (1952)
, 1h29Directed by Henry Cass
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors David Tomlinson, Helen Cherry, Margaret Rutherford, Barbara Kelly, A. E. Matthews, Patricia Dainton
Roles Jessie
Rating62%
The impecunious owner of a haunted Scottish castle has to juggle the advances of an American heiress who wishes to buy him out, the love of his longtime assistant who wants to marry him, and a Coal Board official who wishes to commandeer the estate. The British National Coal Board wants to annex the owner's castle as a group home for local miners and their families. Wealthy, much-married American Mrs. Clodfelter Dunne (Barbara Kelly) wants to claim the castle—and its owner, the Earl of Locharne (David Tomlinson)--for herself. Meanwhile, eccentric boarder Miss Nicholson (Margaret Rutherford) is obsessed with the idea that the Earl is actually the rightful King of Scotland. There is also a beautiful ghost, played by Patricia Dainton. "Castle in the Air" was based on the popular stage play by Alan Melville.
Wide Boy (1952)
, 1h7Directed by Ken Hughes
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Sydney Tafler, Susan Shaw, Ronald Howard, Melissa Stribling, Colin Tapley, Glyn Houston
Roles Sally
Rating64%
Black marketeer Benny winds up blackmailing a surgeon.
Up for the Cup (1950)
, 1h16Genres Comedy
Themes Sports films, Association football films
Actors Helen Christie, Wallas Eaton, Jack Melford, Fred Groves
Roles Jane Valerie hobson
Albert Entwhistle est un inventeur raté du Yorkshire qui assiste à la finale de la FA Cup. Il se fait voler sa sacoche contenant son argent et apprend, dans la foulée, que sa femme le quitte... Il retrouve finalement sa femme et apprend qu'une de ses inventions va le rendre riche et célèbre.