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1965
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An insurance investigator looks into the mystery surrounding the "accidental" death of a jockey. He finds that the death was...
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1961
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A British botanist goes bananas after he discovers a serum that turns his cuddly chimpanzee subject into a ferocious...
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Dean Foster
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1961
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The British The Court Martial of Major Keller is similar in theme if not in outcome to the American film Time Limit. Major...
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1961
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Despite its come-on title, The Day the Earth Caught Fire is an intelligent, disturbing piece of speculative fiction. Through...
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1961
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Glamorous French scientist Suzanne Dumasse (Marla Landi) startles the authorities when she insists that she has seen a white...
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1959
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The power of hypnotism provides the basis of this film that was released in "Hypnovision" (yet another promotional gimmick) A...
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1959
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In this supenseful and provocative high-seas drama, the captain of a luxury liner is suddenly faced with life or death...
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1957
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What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the...
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1957
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In this comedy, a custodian names the apartment boilers he maintains "Mavis and Ethel." The trouble begins when he loses his...
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1956
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In this lively British romantic comedy, a baronet decides that his son needs to experience life outside of his blue-blooded...
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1955
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Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character...
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1954
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So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now...
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1950
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1948
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1948
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Antonio
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1947
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1946
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the Duke
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1944
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The special appeal of Scots comedian Will Fyffe might be lost to American viewers unable to fathom Fyffe's bog-thick accent....
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1944
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Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th...
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1942
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Having underestimated Hitler in the 1930s, British propaganda specialists spent the early war years insisting they were...
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1942
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This wartime drama is set during WW II and centers on 6 survivors of a torpedo attack adrift in a lifeboat. One of them is a...
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1941
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In this family drama a crippled young man is arrested and accused of robbery. His father, a lawyer's clerk, must now defend...
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1940
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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In this actioner, a flashy young lawyer successfully defends some saboteurs. His friends and family are appalled as are the...
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1940
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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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In this lively spy caper, the male half of a married song-and-dance duo moonlights as a government spy. The trouble begins...
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Boris Vladimir
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1940
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips, based on James Hilton's novel, is a melodrama about a shy British teacher named Mr. Chipping...
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1939
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Col. Adraxine
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1937
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1937
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1937
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1936
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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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1936
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le Beau
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1936
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The time is WWI. A mysterious Italian secret agent known only as "Spy 77" has been responsible for the undermining of...
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Captain Larco
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1936
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In this tuneful and sentimental romance, a young architect from France falls in love with his employer's daughter....
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Count Ver-neuil
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1936
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Oskar Homolka plays a London movie-theatre owner who maintains a secret life as a paid terrorist. Homolka's wife...
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1936
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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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A house party becomes deadly as several murders are committed following the passing of a famous actress. Detective Austin...
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1935
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1935
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Peter Haddon plays Dorothy L. Sayers' amateur detective Lord Peter Wimsey in the Anglo-American The Silent Passenger. A...
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1935
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In this interesting drama, an opera singer, falsely convicted of murdering his wife's lover, must escape from Devil's...
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1934
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Originally released in 1934 as Death at Broadcasting House, this musty British whodunit was distributed in the US in 1941 to...
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Leopold Dryden
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1934
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In this mystery, an adaptation of an Agatha Christie tale, the unflappable Poirot looks into the death of a wealthy nobleman....
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Hercule Poirot
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1934
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Romance and espionage intermingle in this WW I drama that centers on an Austrian officer who falls in love with an Italian...
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1933
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The perfect crime is presented in this British crime drama. The crime is perpetrated by an unemployed ex-cop who swipes a...
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1932
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In this drama a Chinese mandarin admits that he stole a secret treaty. He does this to protect the true thief who is his...
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1932
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In this drama, a restaurant owner moonlights as a blackmailer to beef up his earnings. The trouble begins when he is found...
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1931
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Hercule Poirot
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1931
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The time is WWI. British guerilla fighter Col. Duncan Grant (Brian Aherne) makes his way behind enemy lines to foil the...
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1931
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No relation to the 1929 American crime melodrama of the same name, the British Alibi is based on Agatha Christie's The Murder...
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Hercule Poirot
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1931
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In this British crime drama, a Yankee crook uses a garage owner's son as his alibi after he robs a bank and shoots a cop. A...
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1930
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In this early talkie, Capt. Matt Denant (Gerald du Maurier) is a former war hero who intervenes when he sees a crooked...
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1930
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A mystery develops when some jewels are stolen from a wealthy widow and she is murdered, with the blame wrongly falling on a...
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Inspector Hanaud
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1930
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