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1986
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The 18th season of Doctor Who was inaugurated August 30, 1980, with episode one of the four-part "The Leisure Hive." The...
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Mena
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1980
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Mena
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1980
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In the second episode of a four-part story, the Doctor (Tom Baker) and Romana (Lalla Ward) have arrived at the Leisure Hive,...
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Mena
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1980
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Mena
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1980
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This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a...
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1979
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Vincentio (Kenneth Colley), Duke of Vienna, is a good and kindly ruler, but his leniency has allowed vice to thrive. So he...
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1979
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1978
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In Revenge of the Pink Panther, for the final time, the bumbling but impeturbable Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) maddens...
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1978
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Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious...
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1975
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1974
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Though not as widely known as Hammer's popular Dracula and Frankenstein series, this is one of the studio's more stylish and...
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1971
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During the 1970s, British TV fans were treated to two different sitcoms bearing the title You're Only Young Twice, both of...
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Matron Lottie Orchard
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1971
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Mrs. Alexander
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1971
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The drama Distant Thunder features John Lithgow as a Vietnam veteran haunted by his service in the war. The man is estranged...
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1970
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This televised adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, originally screened on Britain's ITV in 1969, stars Alec...
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1969
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A spaceman -- with a raygun -- for hire takes on a crooked land baron in this drama that moves Western themes into outer...
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Liz Murphy
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1969
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This crime drama finds American agent Novak (Yul Brynner) sent to Scotland Yard to help uncover a gang of forgers, murderers...
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1969
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Cry Wolf has become an all-purpose movie title, used for virtually everything but a retelling of the original "cry wolf"...
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1968
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In this Ivan Tors action adventure (that later served as the basis for the television series Cowboy in Africa, John Mills...
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Fay Carter
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1967
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Set in first century England, The Viking Queen is a loose retelling of the legend of Boadicea (also sometimes known as...
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1967
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Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short...
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1967
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In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack...
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1966
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1965
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the...
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1965
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Cornel Wilde co-produces, directs, and stars with his wife Jean Wallace in this uneven version of fabled King Arthur and the...
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1963
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Fernandel plays a most unlikely western bandit in the French spoof Dynamite Jack. Actually, the horse-faced comedian essays a...
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Pegeen
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1961
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In this darkly comic chiller, a surgeon suggest that his students steal corpses to use in their experiments. Unfortunately,...
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1961
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Although released in the United States as a 63-minute black-and-white film, this 93-minute British swashbuckler from the...
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1961
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Having been appointed to the Bench, wealthy and ambitious British lawyer Harvey Laurence (Donald Pleasence) is being fitted...
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1961
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Horror tale inspired by the classic Edgar Allan Poe story, in which a writer fantasizes murdering his friend over a beautiful...
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1960
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This enjoyably twisted British thriller was shot back-to-back with the equally warped Haunted Strangler and is one of the...
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1959
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After spending most of the 1950s in Europe, writer/director Robert Siodmak filmed his only picture in England: The Rough and...
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1959
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While still seeking a method to reverse his invisiblity, Peter Brady takes on a top-secret mission for the British...
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1958
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Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular...
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1957
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In this melodrama, a surgeon overcomes his humble beginnings to become a renowned physician. His success is threatened when...
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1957
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Director Peter Graham Scott adapted the screenplay of the British The Big Chance from a novel by Pamela Barrington....
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1957
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In this comedy, a pair of newlywed workers at an ad agency find themselves unable to honeymoon when she is suddenly assigned...
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1957
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The Anglo-American Behind the Headlines is not a remake of the 1937 RKO "B" of the same name, though both share a newspaper...
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1956
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This British drama is a soft-pedalled paean to the nursing profession. The story takes place in a large hospital, where...
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Maureen O'Brien
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1956
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In this religious drama, the lucky survivors of a recently crashed plane suddenly remember their faith in God. ~ Sandra...
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1956
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Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen...
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Susan Thorne
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1954
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Slim Callaghan, a fictional British private detective in the American "hard boiled" mode, was the central character in...
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1954
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In this charming 1954 feature, Harry and Davy are two orphans living with their grandparents in Nova Scotia. Their...
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Kirsty
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1954
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While ethnic humor was pretty much avoided by Hollywood in the politically touchy 1950s, Great Britain continued to turn out...
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Nicky
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1954
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In this low-budget British science fiction tale (which, not surprisingly, has gained a cult following), Nyah...
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1954
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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1951
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The River must be seen in its original Technicolor; it is difficult, if not impossible, to imagine anyone fully enjoying this...
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1951
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1949
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This British television comedy involves an Italian/Russian mobster who attempts a slick financial scheme. The title alone...
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