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Easy Money (1948) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Easy Money
director: Bernard Knowles actor: Jack Warner / Greta Gynt
other title: 橫財艷福
A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Holiday Camp (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Holiday Camp
director: Ken Annakin actor: Flora Robson / Dennis Price
other title: 黛绿年华 / Cupido de vacaciones
The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
The Happy Family (1952) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Happy Family
other title: La maison des Lords n'est pas à vendre
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
The Passionate Stranger (1957) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Passionate Stranger
other title: 激情的陌生人 / 假鳳虛凰
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!