David Niven is Alex, a scholar who has won the Nobel Prize for developing a universal language. The U.S. State Department has...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1971
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom stars Shirley MacLaine as Harriet Blossom, the wife of a moderately successful British brassiere...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this...
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Screenwriter, Short Story Author
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1966
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While on a drinking binge, Dianne Castillejo (Lois Nettleton) accidentally caused the drowning death of her adopted son, but...
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Screenwriter
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1963
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This is a typical costume drama and adventure story with plenty of fencing, and swash and buckle but not much ingenuity....
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Screenwriter
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1962
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Joe is played by Leslie Randall in this lean British programmer. Working at a detergent company, Joe is ignored by his bosses...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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Any murder mystery featuring a pigeon named Herman can be trusted to offer more mirth than mayhem and that is the case with...
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Play Author, Short Story Author
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1959
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Dismissed when first released, later heralded as one of director Alfred Hitchcock's finest films (and, according to...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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During a Christmas office party, executive Tony Gould (Joseph Cotten) is confronted in his office by his secretary -- and...
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Screen Story
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1958
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George Nader plays a reporter whose career is ruined by liquor. A comeback opportunity presents itself when Nader is a...
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Screenwriter
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1958
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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Screen Story
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1957
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While on vacation in Mexico, a wealthy woman dies in the back seat of the car owned by her daughter Janet (Mary Scott) and...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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Screen Story
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1957
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Previously filmed as a theatrical feature in 1939, Alec Coppel's semi-serious mystery play I Killed the Count was adapted 17...
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Screen Story
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1957
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Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Hell Below Zero was one of several 1950s films made in Britain by Hollywood's Alan Ladd. The star plays Duncan Craig, who...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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In this bright British comedy, we meet Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) as he stands before a firing squad and then...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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Herbert Lom deservedly receives star billing in the British farce School for Brides. Lom plays Ford, the crafty butler of...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1951
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Alec (Peter Reynolds) thinks he's a "Smart Alec" because he's dreamed up the perfect murder. He kills his uncle in a manner...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Blacklisted in Hollywood, director Edward Dmytryk managed to find work in England. Dmytryk's Obsession is based on...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1949
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A confirmed bachelor and a reclusive movie star tangle in this lively French comedy. The trouble begins when the bachelor...
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Short Story Author
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1949
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Radio personality Levis manages to stop a Buddhist art connoisseur from collecting a rare artifact in this comic thriller. ~...
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Screenwriter, Short Story Author
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1948
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Originally titled Smithy, Pacific Adventure is the story of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, Australia's first great aviator. In...
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Screenwriter
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1946
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In this British murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigates a puzzling killing of an Italian count. The Yard assigns a...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1940
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Screenwriter
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1939
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The British I Killed the Count was based on the tricky stage puzzler by Alec Coppel. Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it...
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Play Author
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1939
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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