This documentary from British director Stephen Frears represents England's entry in the British Film Institute commissioned...
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1995
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British director Alexander MacKendrick helmed this farcical romantic comedy set in Southern California. Carlo Cofield...
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Director
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1967
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A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy...
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1967
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Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of...
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Director
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1965
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Released in the US as A Boy Ten Feet Tall, Sammy Going South is a rugged youngster's-eye-view adventure set in South Africa....
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1963
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Ernest Lehman drew upon his experiences as a Broadway press agent to write the devastating a clef short story "Tell Me About...
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1957
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Director
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1955
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Originally released as High and Dry, The Maggie was one of the most endearing of the "regional" British comedies of the...
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Director
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1954
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Released in Britain as Crash of Silence, Mandy is a straightforward story about a handicapped child's efforts to adapt to a...
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Director
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1952
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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1951
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Screenwriter
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1950
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The Blue Lamp was an immensely popular British crime film (and the winner of the BFA Award), concentrating on interrelated...
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Screenwriter
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1949
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Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all...
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1949
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This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing...
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Screenwriter
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1948
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When his Hollywood starring career dried up in the mid-1930s, matinee idol Charles Farrell headed to England, where he played...
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Book Author
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1937
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