Steed and Emma investigate when several top British horticulturists suddenly vanish. It's all part of a master scheme to take...
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1965
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In this British comedy, a new nurse comes to replace her predecessor, the town pump, in an English country town. Soon, she...
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1964
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Producer-writer Brian Clemens was in top form with this episode, which originally aired on February 15, 1964. Cathy Gale adds...
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1964
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In this romantic comedy, a free-wheeling member of the U.S. Air Force goes AWOL. While traveling, the man and his girlfriend...
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Aunt Phoebe
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1962
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Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to...
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1962
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Sister Agnes
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1962
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1962
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This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious...
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1961
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In this drama, an ex-WW II pilot leads a quiet life in Hong Kong when suddenly the US government asks him to do some spying....
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1961
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Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John...
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1960
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Terry-Thomas plays the military-officer head of an amiable gang of amateur British thieves. He is recruited for this task by...
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Beatrice Appleby
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1960
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In this film, American Professor Dana Andrews investigates a devil-worshipping cult active in England. The cult has...
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Mrs. Karswell
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1958
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Alan Burgess' novel The Small Woman was the source for the British/American co-production Inn of the Sixth Happiness. Set in...
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Mrs. Lawson
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1958
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1958
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Miss Pross
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1958
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Based on a novel by Hammond Innes, the British Campbell's Kingdom is set in the Canadian Rockies. Dirk Bogarde plays Bruce...
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1957
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This satire takes a sharp poke at the intrinsic laziness of British aristocracy who would rather die of starvation than...
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1957
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The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back...
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1957
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Based on Montague R. James' classic shiver tale Casting the Runes, Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon) is an exercise...
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Mrs. Karswell
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1957
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Mary Hilton (Diana Dors) is a young salesgirl in the cosmetics department of a major London store, who chances to meet -- and...
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1956
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Not quite a full-fledged musical, As Long as They're Happy can be described as a romantic comedy with song-and-dance...
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1955
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Arthur Watkyn's droll theatrical piece For Better, For Worse was expertly adapted for the big screen in 1954. Popular young...
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Miss Mainbrace
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1954
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Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the...
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1954
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1954
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Laurence Olivier makes his singing debut in this lively adaptation of John Gay's 18th century theatrical piece The Beggar's...
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Mrs. Trapes
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1953
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This comedy is set in an Irish mansion and centers on its enigmatic owner. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1952
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Made in Heaven is predicated on one of Britain's most curious annual traditions. During the yearly Dunmow Flitch, a side of...
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1952
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John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the...
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1952
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1952
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Set in a quiet British village, Franchise Affair details the ramifications of a malicious lie. Schoolgirl Ketty Kane...
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Aunt Lin
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1950
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A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the...
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1949
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Jean-Pierre Aumont heads the largely British cast of Affairs of a Rogue. Set in the years just following the Napoleonic wars,...
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Miss Knight
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1948
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Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this...
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1946
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Released in the US as The Randolph Family, Dear Octopus was based on the internationally popular play by Dodie Smith. The...
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1943
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The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding....
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Aunt Mary
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1941
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As part of a reciprocal deal, teeny-tiny PRC Pictures released several Associated British-Pathe films to American theaters....
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1940
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In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her...
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1940
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In an unusual move for a mere program picture, RKO Radio filmed A Saint in London on location in England, using a largely...
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Mrs. Buckley
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1939
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In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to...
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1939
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Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to...
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1938
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The irrepressible Jessie Matthews heads the cast of the buoyant musical Sailing Along. Matthews plays Kay Martin, a popular...
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1938
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Wallflower Jane Wilton (Diana Churchill) has always lived in the shadow of her beautiful and popular sister Beatrice...
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Grandma
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1938
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In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found...
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1938
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While W.C. Fields poked fun at the asinine notion of a high-speed airplane with an open observation deck in...
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1937
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Star Jack Buchanan shared directorial credit with cinematographer Lee Garmes for the breezy British musical comedy The Sky's...
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1937
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In this musical, an enigmatic masked woman catches the roving eye of a wily playboy gambler at a masquerade ball. If he knew...
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Mme. Alary
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1937
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April Blossoms is based loosely on incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert, here portrayed by legendary tenor...
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1937
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It's a tossup as to which George Eliot novel has most often been adapted to the screen, though it appears that...
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1937
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In this drama, an officer is perjured by another and is sentenced to Devil's island. Meanwhile, the perjurer is flirting...
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1937
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1936
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Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a wandering troupe of English actors wend their way toward Spain. En route they toy with the father...
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1936
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Anthony Asquith evokes a vivid impression of Russia in 1916 in I Stand Condemned. The story follows handsome Russian officer...
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Mme. Sabline
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1936
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Robert Young decides to create a "scoop" by fabricating the impending arrival of a female big-game hunter named Mrs....
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1936
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Sir Francis Drake (Lang), first English circumnavigator of the globe, is featured in this exciting adventure with his amazing...
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1935
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Drake of England was released variously to the British Empire, its commonwealths and the United States as Drake the Pirate...
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Elizabeth I
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1935
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Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel...
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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It's difficult to believe that Sigmund Romberg's treacly operetta Blossom Time was ever produced anywhere outside of a high...
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1934
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1934
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Polish opera star Jan Kiepura makes a rare film appearance in the British Be Mine Tonight. Kiepura plays an opera star who...
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Mrs. Pategy
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1933
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This musical tells the love story of a manicurist and a night waiter who discover that they are sharing the same apartment....
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1933
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In this comedy, a jilted fiance takes a job as the maid of the woman that seduced her lover away from her in hopes that she...
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1931
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For the first three-quarters of the twentieth century, women were expected to sacrifice all their aspirations in favor of...
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1923
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Fred Volpe is Charles Dickens' bumbling do-gooder come to life in The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick. While on a country outing...
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1921
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