This television miniseries tells the familiar story of Spartacus, played in this endeavor by ER regular Goran Visnjic....
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Agrippa
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2004
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A man who has been able to avoid the consequences of his actions for nearly 50 years suddenly finds he must answer pursuers...
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Bertier
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2003
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In the tradition of Arthur Miller's McCarthy-era play The Crucible, this two-part TV dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials...
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2003
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2003
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One man takes on the Irish family law system and the Catholic Church in a bid to be reunited with his children in this drama,...
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Thomas Connolly
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2002
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The successful franchise of Paramount motion pictures based on novelist Tom Clancy's techno-thrillers featuring heroic CIA...
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Richard Dressler
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2002
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Based on a book by paranormal investigator John Keel, this spooky, X-Files-type supernatural thriller is purportedly based...
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Alexander Leek
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2002
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2002
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2002
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The fascinating story of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth is recounted in this British made-for-TV effort. It all begins in...
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King George VI
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2002
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2002
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Maverick American filmmaker Robert Altman takes a witty and absorbing look at the foibles of the British class system in this...
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Jennings
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2001
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The first British TV version of Nancy Mitford's autobiographical novel Love in a Cold Climate was telecast in seven hour-long...
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Matthew Radlett
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2001
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This film covers St. Patrick's early life and the 30 years he later spent preaching the Gospel throughout Ireland. Actors...
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2000
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In this made-for-TV retelling of the classic tale A Thousand and One Nights, a woman discovers the ability to spin a good...
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The Storyteller
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2000
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A kind of "best-of" account of the books of Genesis and Exodus, this two-part NBC miniseries aired in November 2000. Part...
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2000
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Renowned Greek filmmaker Michael Cacoyannis wrote and directed this adaptation of the classic final drama by playwright Anton...
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Leonid Gaev
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1999
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In 1994, an American family made international headlines when, during a trip to Italy, their son was shot in the head by...
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1998
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The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an...
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Sir Hugo Coal
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1995
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The title character in this five-part British miniseries was a university lecturer (Alan Bates) with a fondness for anagrams...
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1995
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Playwright Sam Shepard wrote and directed this bizarre combination of western film revisionism and Greek tragedy. Silent...
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Eamon McCree
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1994
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The difficult realities of life in Britain during the early Industrial Age are explored in this made-for-television...
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Josiah Bounderby
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1994
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During a train ride, an anxiety attack leads middle-aged illustrator John into an identity crisis. As his marital problems...
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John
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1992
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Marcel Proust, the toast of die-hard conoisseurs of difficult (but brilliant) literature everywhere, is famous for his...
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Marcel Proust
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1991
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From her vantage point as a neighbor, nightclub singer Lina (Liane Hielscher) observes and comments (through her act) on the...
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James Prentis
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1991
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Alan Bates stars as Hamish Partt an alcoholic writer in the made-for-TV Unnatural Pursuits. Simon Gray's teleplay contrives...
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1991
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Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing...
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Inspector Felix Detweiler
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1990
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Claudius
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1990
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Force Majeure (Uncontrollable Circumstances) begins with a drug deal involving tourists Phillipe (Patrick Bruel) and Daniel...
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Malcolm Forrest
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1989
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Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse....
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Guru/Dr. Marsfeldt
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1989
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Set in sexually repressive 1950's London, We Think the World of You features actor Alan Bates as Frank, a gay middle-aged...
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Frank Meadows
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1988
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1988
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A man struggling to escape the political unrest of Northern Ireland finds that his violent past still follows him in this...
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Jack Meehan
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1987
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Adapted from the one-act play by Hugh Whitemore, Pack of Lies originally aired as a "Hallmark Hall of Fame" presentation on...
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Stewart
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1987
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David Cornwallis
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1986
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After an artist ruins his marriage by having an affair, he slowly realizes what he has done in this drama based on a novel by...
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1985
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John Mortimer's autobiographical play Voyage 'Round My Father was given a class-A TV adaptation in 1984. Mortimer, best known...
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Son
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1984
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The BBC-produced An Englishman Abroad was first offered to American viewers October 27, 1984, as part of PBS' Great...
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Guy Burgess
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1983
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Jerry Jackson
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1983
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Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even...
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Jones
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1983
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British filmmaker John Schlesinger directs Separate Tables, a made-for-cable TV version of the Terence Rattigan plays Table...
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Major Pollock,Mr. Malcolm
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1983
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This dark comedy charts the chaos that results when the panicked staff of a major English hospital attempts to prepare for a...
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1982
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The returning soldier is amnesia victim Alan Bates, who remembers nothing of his life before suffering shell-shock--not even...
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Capt. Chris Baldry
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1982
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No relation to the 1949 Somerset Maugham "omnibus" film of the same name, 1981's Quartet is based on the roman a clef by Jean...
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H.J. Heidler
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1981
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1981
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1980
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The deeper, broader issues behind the rise and fall of one of the world's greatest ballet dancers and choreographers, Vaslav...
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Sergei Diaghilev
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1980
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Bette Midler stars as Rose in this somber drama loosely based on the life of the late Janis Joplin. She plays an ill-fated...
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Rudge
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1979
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An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his "better" patients, Crossley (Alan...
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Charles Crossley
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1978
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Originally telecast by the BBC from January 22 to March 5, 1978, The Mayor of Casterbridge was a seven-part adaptation of the...
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1978
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A New York wife learns about the satisfactions of single life in this landmark 1970s "woman's film." Unlike her dysfunctional...
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Saul Kaplan
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1978
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1976
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Listed variously as a 1975 and 1978 release (it was actually produced in 1976), The Collection is a videotaped staging of the...
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1975
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One of the more cinematic entries in the mid-1970s American Film Theatre series, In Celebration is adapted from the play by...
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Andrew Shaw
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1975
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on...
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Rudi Von Sternberg
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1975
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The made-for-television movie The Story of Jacob and Joseph tells the Biblical tale of Jacob (Keith Michell) and Esau...
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1974
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The American Film Theatre has made movies of a number of significant theatrical performances, including Laurence Olivier's...
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Ben Butley
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1974
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Story of a Love Story may well be the least-known of John Frankenheimer's films. Filmed in France, the story concerns highly...
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Harry
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1973
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The plight of an English couple struggling to raise a disabled child is given a darkly humorous treatment in this English...
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Bri
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1971
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues...
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Ted Burgess
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1971
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Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's three upper-class Prozorov sisters -- Masha, Olga, and Irina -- come no closer to their...
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1970
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Rupert Birkin
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1969
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John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a...
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Yakov Bok
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1968
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This 1967 version of Thomas Hardy's novel should have done better at the box office than it did, given the star power of...
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Gabriel Oak
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1967
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Polish filmmaker Jerzy Skolimowski directed Hands Up in 1967; he also wrote it, handled the art direction, and played a...
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1967
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The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been...
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Pvt. Charles Plumpick
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1966
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Georgy Girl is a bittersweet comedy drama about Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), a slightly overweight, working-class virgin in her...
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Jos
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1966
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Jimmy Brewster
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1964
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If ever there was a role that Anthony Quinn was born to play, it was the lusty, life-affirming title character in Zorba the...
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Basil
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1964
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Based upon a novel by Shelley Smith, The Running Man opens at the memorial service for Rex Black (Laurence Harvey), the owner...
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Stephen Maddox
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1963
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Mick
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1963
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Bryan Forbes' first directorial effort is set in a rugged Lancashire farm community. Three impressionable children, played by...
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Arthur Blakey, the Man
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1962
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This well-wrought romance takes place in Lancashire, England in an industrial area where Vic (Alan Bates) and Ingrid...
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Vic Brown
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1962
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Frank Rice
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1960
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