Movies starring Maurice Denham
Biography: Denham, William Maurice
He was awarded O.B.E. (officer of the British Empire) in 1992.
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When President De Gaulle decides to grant independence to French Algeria, several of the soldiers, who fought in that campaign, feel that De Gaulle is belittling the lives of the men who died there. So they form a group and make attempts at De Gaulle and fail. When several of their key members are killed or caught and eventually executed, the three top members decide to hire a professional assassin to take out De Gaulle. The man that they chose agrees to do it on the condition that he be alllowed complete autonomy. He also advises them to go into hiding until the job is done. And they do. When the French Security force learns that they have shut themselves off from the rest of world are curious what they are doing. So they abduct their errand boy, and once interrogated all he says is the assassin's code name, "The Jackal", they hypothesize that they have hired an assassin to go after DE Gaulle. Once De Gaulle is informed he refuses to alter his plans and will not allow extra security added. So his ministry decides that they should find the Jackal before he makes his move. They appoint the best detective in France, Claude Lebel to find him. Lebel plan is to contact every police department in the world and see if the Jackal comes from their country and if so to provide him with a description and/or a photo. Now Scotland Yard has a small lead but unfortunately they miss him but they have his passport so assuming that he is out of the country, they try and find the passport that he is using. Now when they think that they have him, he discards the identity that he is using and assumes another one. Can they find him before he gets De Gaulle? Search keywords
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Elspeth McGillicuddy, an old friend of Miss Marple, is witness of a murder of strangulation in a temporary train by the window of his coach's compartment. When the Inspecteur de La Peu consciencieux police cannot find a body along footprints and doubt of the validity of history, Miss Marple and Elspeth find the region where the body was probably thrown of the train, the manor isolated from an old, a sour millionaire, Luther Crackenthorpe. The niece Lucy de Miss Marple is recruited to ask for a job on the state in the hopes of finding the body. When it thinks it in an ancient sarcophagus in an Egyptian of house of dependency and treasures is étrusques of art, the police and Miss Marple is made intercede. Of course somebody in the big home is involved, but who?.
Elspeth McGillicuddy, un vieil ami de Mlle Marple, est témoin d'un meurtre de strangulation dans un train passager par la fenêtre de son compartiment d'entraîneur. Quand l'Inspecteur de La police Peu consciencieux ne peut pas trouver un corps le long des empreintes et doute de la validité de l'histoire, Mlle Marple et Elspeth trouvent la région où le corps a été probablement lancé du train, le manoir isolé d'un âgé, un millionnaire revêche, Luther Crackenthorpe. La nièce Lucy de Mlle Marple est recrutée pour demander un emploi sur l'état dans les espoirs de trouver le corps. Quand elle le trouve dans un sarcophage ancien dans un égyptien d'habitation de dépendance et des trésors étrusques d'art, la police et Mlle Marple sont faits intervenir. Évidemment quelqu'un dans la grande maison est impliqué, mais qui ?. |
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