Cast: Manning Whiley
Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Manning Whiley. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.
'Pimpernel' Smith
1941 · Movie · 120 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Howard
Cast Leslie Howard · Francis L. Sullivan · Mary Morris · Hugh McDermott
Plot It is mid-1939 and both Germany and England are preparing for an inevitable conflict. Professor Horatio Smith, an effete academic, asks his students to come with him to the continent...
6.6
66 votes
6.6
66 votes
The Seventh Veil
1945 · Movie · 94 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Compton Bennett
Cast James Mason · Ann Todd · Herbert Lom · Hugh McDermott
Plot A childhood trauma has left pianist Francesca Cunningham deeply disturbed and suicidal. Many hazy thoughts cloud her mind -- memories of abuse, memories of submission to her seemingly overbearing mentor,...
6.5
156 votes
6.5
156 votes
Uncle Silas
1947 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Charles Frank
Cast Jean Simmons · Katina Paxinou · Derrick De Marney · Derek Bond
Plot Caroline Ruthyn is the teen-aged niece of the her uncle Silas, a sickly and at one time unbalanced man who becomes her guardian on the death of her father. The...
5.5
21 votes
5.5
21 votes
Children of Chance
1949 · Movie · 99 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Luigi Zampa
Cast Patricia Medina · Manning Whiley · Yvonne Mitchell · Barbara Everest
Plot Set on the Island of Ischia, concerns the difficulties encountered by a local priest who founded a home for illegitimate daughters of allied soldiers.
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Design for Murder
1939 · Movie · 49 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Manning Whiley · Barbara Everest · Michael Drake · Hay Petrie
Plot A somewhat unbalanced college student kidnaps the leader of a group of students that has been constantly mocking and harassing him, and plans to bury him alive in a trunk.
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The Plot to Kill Roosevelt
1946 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Giacomo Gentilomo · William Freshman
Cast Derek Farr · Marta Labarr · Manning Whiley · Pamela Stirling
Plot A British intelligence officer discovers a plot to assassinate the President of the United States Franklin D. Roosevelt at the Tehran Conference during World War II.
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The Saint's Vacation
1941 · Movie · 61 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Leslie Fenton
Cast Hugh Sinclair · Cecil Parker · Arthur Macrae · Leueen MacGrath
Plot While on vacation, the Saint discovers a much-sought-after music box.
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
1941 · Movie · 82 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast Will Hay · Claude Hulbert · Felix Aylmer · Raymond Huntley
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Sailors Three
1940 · Movie · 86 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Walter Forde
Cast Tommy Trinder · Claude Hulbert · Carla Lehmann · Michael Wilding
Plot Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.
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Meet Sexton Blake!
1945 · Movie · 80 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Harlow
Cast David Farrar · Manning Whiley · Dennis Arundell · John Varley
Plot Famous detective and his trusty side-kick Tinker are called in by the War Office to find some important papers that were stolen from a man killed during an air raid.
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The Shop at Sly Corner
1947 · Movie · 91 min. · United Kingdom
Direction George King
Cast Oskar Homolka · Derek Farr · Muriel Pavlow · Manning Whiley
Plot In Britain, a man with a shady past uses his antiquities shop as a front for smuggled diamonds but his young shop-assistant starts blackmailing him, leading to murder and to...
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The Flying Squad
1940 · Movie · 64 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Herbert Brenon
Cast Sebastian Shaw · Phyllis Brooks · Jack Hawkins · Basil Radford
Plot Dedicated young Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of Mark McGill, murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London. Hindering his investigation is pretty Ann Perryman who...
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Bell Bottom George
1944 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Marcel Varnel
Cast George Formby · Anne Firth · Reginald Purdell · Peter Murray-Hill
Plot Nazi spies are out to destroy a new submarine killer, the "Firefly", being developed by the British navy. A hapless waiter named George, after being rejected for military service three...
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Pastor Hall
1940 · Movie · 95 min. · United Kingdom
Direction Roy Boulting
Cast Wilfrid Lawson · Nova Pilbeam · Seymour Hicks · Marius Goring
Plot This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. The small German village of Altdorf...
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