Nigel Kneale's Quatermass TV series spawned a brief film series produced over an eleven-year period; 1967's Quatermass and...
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1967
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Terror of the Tongs is a gory, garishly colored melodrama written by Jimmy Sangster in the tradition of the Fu Manchu films....
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Director
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1961
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Conrad Phillips, who has starred as William Tell in a popular British TV series produced by the same crew responsible for...
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1959
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The Wind Cannot Read is a tearful British star crossed romance effort set against the backdrop of World War II. RAF officer...
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Brigadier
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1958
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The original 1958 BBC television production of the last of Nigel Kneale's classic Quatermass scripts -- which is best known...
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Colonel Breen
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1958
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This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter...
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Capt. Rostron
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1958
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Gen. Paterson
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1957
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Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the...
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1956
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Anthony Steel stars in this fanciful wartime drama. Stationed in Libya, British soldier Steel is wounded, then nursed back to...
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1956
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Opening with elaborate preparations for the Queen of England's birthday, The Queen's Guards introduces the audience via...
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1955
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An H.E. Bates novel was the source for this psychological wartime drama set in Burma. Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two...
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1954
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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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1954
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A fair stab at yet another World War II comedy, this film by Michael Relph features the humorous antics of an ENSA troupe...
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1954
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After causing the needless death of another officer during a near-miss air disaster, a distraught army officer resigns from...
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1953
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Also known as Who Goes There?, The Passionate Sentry is a frothy British comedy distinguished by its flippant dialogue...
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Maj. Guy Ashley
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1952
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High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street....
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Maj. Elliott
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1951
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Director
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1951
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This sequel to the 1942 Oscar-winner Mrs.Miniver can be considered ill-advised, if only because the producers could never...
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1950
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Director, Baron Hugo Traun
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1950
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In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red...
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Associate Producer
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1949
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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1948
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In this war drama, an aspiring pilot who didn't make the grade, joins the air-sea rescue service instead. He is on a...
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1944
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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The game of football figures prominently in The Arsenal Stadium Mystery -- not the American gridiron version, but the...
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1939
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American leading lady Marian Marsh plays the title character in the British Girl Thief. Actually, the biggest thing young...
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Bill
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1938
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Harry Baur, who in the 1930s was the most distinguished character actor in Europe, was the star of the 1936 French historical...
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1938
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Bob Carter
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1937
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In this crime drama, an actress must give up her lover, the son of a prominent banker, because she has a scandalous past....
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1937
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour...
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Roddy Hammond
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1937
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The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape...
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1937
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Although Neil Grant's stage play Dusty Ermine enjoyed a 250-performance run in London, screenwriters Du Garde Peach and...
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Inspector Forsyth
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1936
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Admirals All was based on the British stage farce by Ian Hay and Stephen-King-Hall. Wynne Gibson takes over from the stage...
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Flag Lt. Steve Langham
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1935
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In this drama a rich banker loses his fortune in the stock market. His secretary's lover finds out that the banker has been...
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Peter Bradley
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1934
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A British aristocrat and his son travel to Russia to embark upon a thrilling search for the father's other son, who was...
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1934
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1934
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Guy Mallory
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1934
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This story of espionage in World War I is based on a true story. Marthe McKenna (Madeleine Carroll) is a nurse from Belgium...
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1934
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In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted,...
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1933
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The Woman in Command in this well-appointed British musical is vaudeville star Maisie Marvello, played by Cicely Courtenedge....
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Lt. Ronald Jamieson
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1933
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Toby Griffiths
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1933
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The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his...
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Ralph Morlant
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1933
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A Woman Commands is often cited as silent screen star Pola Negri's first talking picture. Actually, it was her first...
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Iwan
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1932
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In this romantic drama, an ambitious young dress designer decides to make an upward career move by making a play for her...
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1932
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Didn't the beautiful, ubiquitous Sally Blane ever take a day off in 1932? In Escapade, the busy Blane is cast as Kay Whitney,...
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Phillip Whitney
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1932
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First filmed in 1911, William Makepeace Thackeray's satirical novel Vanity Fair has undergone several cinemadaptations, most...
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Dobbin
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1932
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When economy expert Kerr works to cut the costs of the fleet in Malta, his lovely daughter, Matthews, is courted by the crew...
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1932
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In this romance, a typist is the secret mistress of a wealthy man. After three years of illicit romance, he suddenly dumps...
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1932
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1932
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Adapted from the stage play by former newspaperman Louis Weitzenkorn, Five Star Final is an uncompromising look at the...
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Phillip Weeks
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1931
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Dolores Costello spent the twilight months of her Warner Bros. contract in such trifles as Expensive Women. The star is cast...
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Arthur Raymond
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1931
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A wimpy king is forced to take responsibility for his little North Sea island kingdom after his iron-fisted wife goes on a...
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Granton
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1931
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Tom Ingleside
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1931
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A WWI American nurse stationed in London (Constance Bennett) meets a handsome flier and finds only sorrow in this three-hanky...
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Leslie Darrow
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1931
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Richard Dix plays a working stiff who submits to an odd experiment. It is scientist Allen Kearns' contention that a man and a...
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1930
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First filmed in 1926, the venerable stage melodrama Three Faces East was remade as a talkie in 1930. Set during WWI, most of...
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Capt. Arthur Chamberlain
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1930
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R.C. Sherriff's forceful drama about men at war, a long running hit in London as well as New York, is brought to the screen...
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Second Lt. Hibbert
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1930
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1930
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In the early days of sound film, one of Warner Bros.' big box-office draws was the aging stage actor George Arliss and, in...
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Lord Charles Deeford
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1929
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