Sydney Tafler

Sydney Tafler

Total Credits at Criticker: 27 (Actor)

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    Wide Boy
    The title, in British police parlance of the day, defines a petty crook whose criminal activities are minor and legal-borderline, but the title character in this film appears to stretch the definition. Benny (Sydney Taffer)steals a purse from Melissa Stribling and discovers a compromising letter in it from her boyfriend Colin Tapley, who is a wealthy surgeon and married. Benny starts a blackmail campaign that leads to murder. Susan Shaw is along as Benny's girlfriend, Molly. (imdb)
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    Fire Maidens of Outer Space
    A team of astronauts lands on a moon of Jupiter to find it populated with beautiful young women looking for mates. (imdb)
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    Carve Her Name with Pride
    Violette Bushell is the daughter of an English father and a French mother, living in London in the early years of World War 2. She meets a handsome young French soldier in the park and takes him back for the family Bastille day celebrations. They fall in love, marry and have a baby girl when Violette Szabo receives the dreaded telegram informing her of his death in North Africa. Shortly afterwards, Violette is approached to join the SOE (Special Operations Executive). (imdb)
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    The Birthday Party
    Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border (Robert Shaw) in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers (Patrick Magee, Sydney Tafler). They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a "party." Then, eventually, they take him away, a tongue-tied idiot. The trivial becomes the terrible, and with it a certain wonder, a certain pity. (imdb)
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    The Glass Tomb
    'Pel' Pelham is a veteran carnival barker who's happily married and desperately wants a good education for his young son. With money borrowed from bookie Tony Lewis, he persuades Sapolio, a professional "starving man," to attempt to break his own world's record of 65 days without food. Sapolio and his wife throw a party in their flat but when a girl in an upstairs apartment is murdered, suspicion falls on Pel and Tony Lewis, the girl's former boyfriend. (imdb)
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    No Kidding
    A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children. (imdb)
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    It Always Rains on Sunday
    The events of a wet Sabbath unfold in the pubs, homes, and markets of the East End. While petty criminals and the police play cat-and-mouse, and various love affairs start and stop, housewife Rose Sandigate finds she has a difficult decision to make. Her previous fiance has appeared after escaping from Dartmoor and is asking for her help in hiding him. (imdb)
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    The Saint\
    A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend. (imdb)
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    The Long Arm
    Police drama. The sleuths of Scotland Yard try to solve a series of burglaries. (imdb)
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    The Hundred Hour Hunt
    A doctor enlists the help of a policeman in order to search for a blood donor with a rare blood type.
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    Assassin for Hire
    Pretending to be rare stamp dealer, a man devotedly supports wife and musically talented younger brother as a professional hit-man. (imdb)
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    Bottoms Up
    'Jimmy Edwards' reprises his radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys. (imdb)
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    Dance Hall
    Episodic tale of four factory girls and their various romances at the local dance hall. (imdb)
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    The Galloping Major
    A syndicate is set up by a horse lover to buy a particular racehorse, but they accidentally buy the wrong horse. The horse is useless on the flat, so they decide to enter him as a jumper. (imdb)
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    Let\
    Anthony Newley plays a medical student who buckles under pressure. Hoping to get accustomed to dealing with people, he takes a job as a delivery boy. While thus employed, he meets and marries model Anne Aubrey, who's been impregnated by her previous beau. When Aubrey goes into early labor, Newley's first impulse is to panic. (allmovie.com)
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    Light Up the Sky!
    A comedy drama set in a WWII British Army Searchlight Squad. They are an odd bunch of misfits but somehow manage to get the job done. (imdb)
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    The Monkey\
    A mother wishes for the return of her dead son, and that wish is granted by a charm made from a severed monkey's paw. (imdb)
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    Johnny on the Run
    Janek (Eugeniusz Chylek) is a war orphan from Poland who now lives with a distant relative in Edinburgh, his aunt (Mona Washbourne) and her three children, but he is not made to feel at all welcome by his relatives, aside from his younger cousin Janet (Margaret McCourt) who shows him the only kindness.
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    Runaway Railway
    A group of young railway enthusiasts attempt to stop the closure of the local railway by trying to raise money to buy it and the steam engine "Matilda." They get help from a pair of men saying they are also enthusiasts. What the children don't know though is that these men are impostors and are really robbers who plan to rob the mail train. (imdb)
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    Mystery Junction
    In this crime drama, an escaped convict is recaptured and charged with killing two people in a lonely waystation during a snowstorm. Fortunately, a novelist is around to prove him innocent.
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    Operation Diplomat
    A surgeon operating on an unknown patient discovers he is involved in the kidnapping of a British diplomat. When his personal secretary is murdered for revealing the patient's identity, the police are called in. (Wikipedia)
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    Booby Trap
    An absent minded professor invents a pen that will explode on the sound of bells, then leaves it in a taxi. (imdb)
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    The Surgeon\
    When his patient dies during an operation, a surgeon resorts to murder to cover up his negligence.
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    Uneasy Terms
    Private eye Slim Callaghan is summoned to the country home of a Colonel Stenhurst, but the latter is murdered before he can talk to the detective. Was one of the Colonel's three daughters responsible?
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    Once a Sinner
    A lowly bank clerk marries a good time girl but she two-times him for her old crooked boyfriend.
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    Scarlet Thread
    Two villains team up to steal some jewelry. The robbery goes wrong and an innocent man is shot.
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    Information Please
    Instructional military film that shows the many deceptive ways that Germans might extract valuable information from British prisoners-of-war.
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