J.O.C. Orton

J.O.C. Orton

Total Credits at Criticker: 1 (Actor), 1 (Director), 15 (Writer)

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    Bon Voyage
    Bon Voyage (1944) - Short Film
    A young English RAF pilot is debriefed by French officials about his escape from occupied territory, and in particular one person who may or may not have been a German agent. (imdb)
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    Oh, Mr. Porter!
    Through the influence of a relative, a hopeless railway employee is made stationmaster the sleepy Irish station of Buggleskelly. Determined to make his mark, he devises a number of schemes to put Buggleskelly on the railway map, but instead falls foul of a gang of gun runners. (imdb)
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    Cottage to Let
    A wartime cottage on a Scottish estate becomes a focus of attention when not only the new tenant but a London evacuee and a downed fighter pilot all move in. The interest may not be unconnected with the fact that the landowner is also a key British military inventor. For a start, the butler is obviously a Scotland Yard flatfoot. (imdb)
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    Back-Room Boy
    The man who sends out the pips on the B.B.C. goes gay one night and syncopates the rhythm. Consequently he is sent to a lonely lighthouse with a bad local reputation for mysterious disappearances, to start a new meteorological station. (BFI)
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    Turn of the Tide
    Rivalry between two fishing families. (imdb)
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    Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
    The plot pits Hornleigh and Bingham against a clever gang of Nazi espionage agents. Most of the action takes place aboard a speeding train, with our heroes never quite certain who can be trusted and who can't. Phyllis Calvert contributes to the intrigue as one Mrs. Wilkinson, who is, not all she seems to be. (imdb)
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    Jack of All Trades
    Jack Hulbert is Jack Warrender in Jack of All Trades. A spoof of Big Business, 1930s style, the film begins as Jack ends a long spell of unemployment by taking a waiter's job at a fancy society reception. (allmovie.com)
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    Non-Stop New York
    A young woman finds herself as the intended victim of a murder plot on a transatlantic flight from London to New York. (imdb)
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    The Frozen Limits
    The Crazy Gang join the 1898 gold rush. Unfortunately it's now 1939 and they're a bit late. (imdb)
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    Just Smith
    A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles, with an eye toward marrying off her daughter. The pair are invited to stay at a posh country country home back in England, their eyes set on a safe full of bonds. (imdb)
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    The Flying Doctor
    On his wedding night, Sandy Nelson decides to abandon his young bride, Jenny and to go work in Sydney as a painter on the Harbor Bridge. He befriends a doctor, John Vaughan, who is in love with a married woman. Vaughan decides to accept a job as flying doctor in the outback. Sandy gets in a brawl at a cricket match, serves time in prison, then heads for the outback and discovers gold. He is shot in a bar room fight and loses his eyesight.
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    Soldiers of the King
    When Cicely Courtneidge's mother (also played by Miss Courtneidge, albeit in heavy makeup), retires, Cicely succeeds as Queen of the Marvellos, a family of music-hall performers. However, when young Dorothy Hyson begins an affair with a young soldier, Miss Courtneidge is trapped between her responsibilities and memories of her affair years ago with another young soldier. (imdb)
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    Time Flies
    A minor music hall star uses a professor's time machine to travel back to the Elizabethan era.
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    Cut It Out: A Day in the Life of a Censor
    An intrusive censor interferes with the filming of a melodrama.
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    Windjammer
    Adapted from the book By Way of Cape Horn by A.J Villiers, Windjammer is a beautifully-filmed record of the last journey of the Grace Harwar, a full-rigged Windjammer sailing from Australia to England via Cape Horn.
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