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George Carney

George Carney
Total Credits at Criticker: 20 (Actor)
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Good-Time Girl
A teenage runaway finds herself on the road to perdition after she gets involved in crime. Sentenced to three years at an "approved school", she plays the system for her own ends - and afterwards returns to her old ways, with tragic consequences. (Screen Online)
The Agitator
A socialist inherits the ownership of a major firm and begins wrestling with his beliefs. (imdb)
I Know Where I\
An ambitious young Englishwoman travels to a remote Scottish island to marry a wealthy industrialist. Weather conditions trap her on the mainland, delaying her journey. Forced to spend time with the local islanders and an impoverished naval officer, she begins to question her materialistic values and her planned future as she confronts her growing feelings for her host.
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Soldier, Sailor
Life aboard merchant ships with the Maritime Regiment of the Royal Artillery.
Tawny Pipit
Comedy of the efforts made by the entire village and the army to preserve rare birds nesting in a meadow, even from egg-stealers. (BFI)
Schweik\
Nazis are nothing to the wily good soldier Schweik (Lloyd Pearson).
Hard Steel
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Unpublished Story
During the London blitz, a British war correspondent and a female reporter help to uncover a peace organisation supported by Nazi agents which is fomenting panic and defeatism. (BFI)
Love on the Dole
During the depression in England, a young lady from Lancashire decides to be a rich bookmaker's mistress, just to help the rest of her family who are unemployed. (imdb)
Convoy
A tale of the highs and lows of life protecting the vital convoys between America & England during WWII. (imdb)
Lady in Distress
A passerby witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train. He then tries to track down the killer. (imdb)
The Stars Look Down
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree. Compromised, Davey's situation worsens as he realises Jenny still loves her former boyfriend. When he finds that his father and the other miners are going to have to continue working on a possibly deadly coal seam, he decides to act. (imdb)
Young Man\
An aristocratic Englishman is engaged to a brewery heiress. He's not happy though and, during a visit to a circus he meets and falls in love with a human cannonball.
Easy Riches
A quota quickie directed by Maclean Rogers in 1938, "Easy Riches" featured character players George Carney & Gus McNaughton as a couple of rival builders competing for the award of a big contract.
Kicking the Moon Around
Kicking the Moon Around is a 1938 British musical comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Bert Ambrose, Evelyn Dall and Harry Richman. In an effort to discover whether his fiancee is a golddigger a millionaire's son pretends to have lost all his money. The film marked Maureen O'Hara's screen debut as she made a cameo appearance speaking one line. (en.wikipedia.org)
Weddings Are Wonderful
Romantic comedy of misunderstandings.
Beauty and the Barge
A young girl is engaged to a man she doesn't love, and rather than marry him she decides to flee the situation altogether. She is helped by a crusty old barge captain. (imdb)
Father Steps Out
The film features 17 year old Dinah Sheridan as the daughter of the owner of a cheese factory (veteran actor Goerge Carney), who helps save her father from the action of a couple of swindlers.
Lest We Forget
Lest We Forget was Canada's official Great War film. It sparked controversy when it was shown across the country in 1935, during the midst of the worst depression in Canadian history, and with a growing anxiety over the increased aggression of international dictators. The film provided a contested venue for what the Great War had meant to a generation of Canadians. But this was no ordinary war film.
Say It with Flowers
Warm-hearted Cockneys stage a show to help a sick flower-seller. (imdb)
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