Martita Hunt

Martita Hunt
Total Credits at Criticker: 48 (Actor)
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Bonjour tristesse
Cecile, decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa, Cecile is afraid for her way of life.
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Great Expectations
A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor. (imdb)
Becket
An English king comes to terms with his affection for his close friend and confidant, who finds his true honor by observing God's divine will rather than the king's. (imdb)
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed. (imdb)
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Good Morning, Boys
A schoolteacher and his pupils visit Paris where they outwit a gang of crooks. (imdb)
The Brides of Dracula
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr Van Helsing is already on his way. (imdb)
The Spies
A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. As soon as the deal is struck his place is overrun by spies from both East and West, all in search of a renegade nuclear scientist. The psychiatrist's own sanity starts to break down as he submitted to unmitigated surveillance and deception. (imdb)
Anastasia
An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her. (imdb)
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Anna Karenina
Stefan and Dolly Oblonsky have had a little spat and Stefan has asked his sister, Anna Karenina, to come down to Moscow to help mend the rift. Anna's companion on the train from St. Petersburg is Countess Vronsky who is met at the Moscow station by her son. Col. Vronsky looks very dashing in his uniform and it's love at first sight when he looks at Anna and their eyes meet... (imdb)
The Story of Robin Hood
Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by hench men of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing. (imdb)
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Paradise Lagoon
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household; he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test. (imdb)
Song Without End
Musical genius Franz Liszt betrays his lover to court a married princess. (tcm.com)
Me and the Colonel
Danny Kaye, a Jewish refugee flees from the Nazis with an aristocratic anti-semitic Polish officer (Curd Jurgens) trying to get papers to England. Jurgens learns to appreciate Kaye, despite their competition for the same woman, and together they outwit their pursuers. (imdb)
The Man in Grey
At an estate auction in WWII England, two strangers meet and muse about their families' history and possible connections. Flashbacks reveal the story of the sweet, rich, and beautiful Clarissa Richmond and her friendship with bitter, impoverished Hesther Snow. (imdb)
The Wicked Lady
Lady Barbara Skelton is frustrated by the stifling conventions of seventeenth-century England and asserts her independence through stealing her best friend's husband, turning to gambling and becoming a highwaywoman.
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King\
Richard, raffish heir to the throne of Laurentia, accepts exile in order to live with the woman he loves - Marta Karillos. After seven years, however, on the death of his father, he is persuaded to return, to succeed to the throne, and to accept a proxy marriage to Princess Cristiane of Norseland.
The Fan
Lord Windermere appears to all -including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party... (imdb)
La Prima Notte
Isabelle is a beautiful adventuress with valuable jewels, looking for a rich husband. Alfredo works as a barman, having long ago lost his money to a swindler. Gerard is a painter who sells copies as genuine masterpieces. When Gerard learns that Alfredo looks just like a rich Arab prince, he concocts a scheme to get his hands on Isabelle's jewels.
When Knights Were Bold
Happy-go-lucky soldier Guy De Vere must leave India and return to the family seat at Little Twittering, for he has inherited the family title. Sir Guy finds all his relatives to be frozen stuffed shirts... except lovely cousin Rowena, who is mad about knighthood and chivalry. Struck in the head by a falling suit of armor, Guy dreams he and Rowena are back in 1400, as the unabashed farce continues... (imdb)
Bottoms Up
'Jimmy Edwards' reprises his radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys. (imdb)
Dangerous Exile
During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman. (imdb)
East of Piccadilly
The homicidal maniac,who is strangling young women in London's West Side, is being sought by both Scotland Yard and a young reporter/writer, Penny Sutton. She had found one of the murder victims and had set out to get the story for both her newspaper, and for the thriller yarns she writes. The trail leads to an eccentric millionaire living under an assumed name. Penny uncovers enough evidence to convict the man, but a new clue turns up in time to save him and unmask the real killer. (imdb)
Farewell Again
Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. (allmovie.com)
Folly to Be Wise
Army chaplain Captain Paris attempts to book various acts for the entertainment of a troop of soldiers. (imdb)
A Girl Must Live
A runaway schoolgirl falls among chorus girls planning to marry into the nobility. (imdb)
It Started in Paradise
A World of Fashion version of "All About Eve" in which one woman is out to beat another in their chosen profession while a younger one is off stage waiting for her chance to replace both. Taking place over a 14-year period, it begins, in 1938, when the chief designer of a once-famous couturier,now wallowing in tradition and an empty salon, performs a coup d'etat and reorganizes the whole establishment. Ruthless, she is successful until her flair for style dwindles, as does the business. (imdb)
King of the Damned
Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal colony is the setting for a prison revolt with a special twist...the prisoners want to stay on and govern themselves in a humane and productive working community. Well that's the theory anyway but circumstances make their venture a lot more complicated than that. (imdb)
Lady from Lisbon
Wishing to acquire the Mona Lisa, a South American racketeer makes a deal with the Nazis for the famous portrait. (imdb)
Love on Wheels
In this British musical, a shop assistant attempts to impress a girl by telling her that he is actually the manager. Unfortunately, when he is fired, he is also alone. Later he catches robbers trying to pillage the place. He is then rehired as the store manager for real. The girl comes back and he puts her in charge of the music department. (allmovie.com)
The March Hare
Sir Charles Hare, a young Irish baronet, gambles his all on one of his horses at Ascot. But the horse is 'pulled', and Sir Charles is forced to sell his Irish estate. His aunt, however, has some surprises in store for him. (imdb)
Meet Me Tonight
An omnibus featuring three Noel Coward tales, long on Coward humor which is to say very little at all, with the first, " The Red Peppers", featuring Kay Walsh, Ted Ray, Martita Hunt, Frank Pettingell and Bill Fraser, about a bickering vaudeville couple who form an alliance when some of theie company start to needle the, and ends up in some non-amusing slapstick. (imdb)
Melba
The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) named after her. (imdb)
The Middle Watch
In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two glamorous women are still aboard after they set sail and cannot turn back. To protect them, and himself, he hides the unwilling stowaways in his quarters. Unfortunately, they are too soon discovered and mayhem ensues. (imdb)
The Mill on the Floss
Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin. (imdb)
Trouble Brewing
George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself. (imdb)
Tudor Rose
A dramatization of Lady Jane Grey's short life, from her forced marriage (which she resisted) to her brief reign as monarch of England and finally to her beheading. The film portrays her as an innocent set up for the slaughter while the scheming courtiers and pretenders to the throne barely pay her mind, as they stab each other in the back in their attempts to gain power and influence. (imdb)
Old Mother Riley Joins Up
Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to volunteer for the Auxiliary Territorial Service. Mayhem ensues until she is able to prevent German spies from acquiring important documents.
Strange Boarders
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants. (imdb)
Prison Without Bars
Suzanne, Renee, Nina and Marta all hate being in prison, being slapped and treated badly, and so all the girls are trying to escape. Madame Appel just causes chaos all the time, with her harsh manners. When Yvonne with her free-thinking ways is put in charge of the school for misbehaving girls, and asks them to tell her their complaints, they don't believe her at first. (imdb)
The Seventh Survivor
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
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.
Pot Luck
Recently retired, big-headed, Inspector Fitzpatrick traces priceless vase to manor house owned by the ineffectual Pye. (imdb)
The Little Ballerina
A young girl has an ambition to dance with the famous Sadlers Wells troupe but first she must win a scholarship. Includes a performance of Les Sylphides by Margot Fonteyn.
Tales from Dickens
Anthology series on several of Dickens' works.
Welcome Mr Washington
Two penniless sisters decide to let part of their inherited estate be used as an airbase for the U.S. military.
Talk About Jacqueline
While yachting and flirting on the Riviera, a woman with a past meets a shy, retiring young researcher from the Far East and, against her better judgment, marries him. When he runs across some scandalous gossip touching her past, her younger sister steps in claiming she is the subject of the notoriety.
Miss Knowall
Miss Knowall (1940) - Short Film
Government film on the dangers of gossip.
Treasure Hunt
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.