In this comic-detective movie, Dangerous Davies, a bungling gumshoe uses archaic methods to solve his cases. This time he...
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Sgt. Ben
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1981
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"M"
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1979
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In this adaptation of Dickens' classic, Scrooge and company are animated. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Ghost of Christmas Present
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1977
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Though not Ian Fleming's most famous James Bond novel, 1962's The Spy Who Loved Me was distinguished by the unique device of...
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1977
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This Hallmark Hall of Fame adaptation of the classic fairy tale Beauty and the Beast stars George C. Scott and his wife Trish...
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Beaumont
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1976
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1974
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The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with...
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1974
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1974
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Filmed in Spain, this TV movie stars Stuart Whitman as a painter who drops out of sight for seven years. Upon resurfacing, he...
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Francis Cumberland
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1973
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Roger Moore makes his first appearance as "Bond...James Bond" in 1973's Live and Let Die. Bond is dispatched to the States...
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1973
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Uncle Bob
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1971
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1971
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10 Rillington Place is the true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling "normality" by...
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1971
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In this melodrama, a runaway flees a bad home life and ends up working on an aging widower's farm. Time passes, and the man...
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1971
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Though Roger Moore was born in England and established himself as star of the British TV series The Saint, Crossplot...
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1969
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It wasn't as well received at the box office as the pictures that preceded it or followed it, but Peter Hunt's On Her...
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1969
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Ramon (Francis DeWolff) is the Armenian merchant who lives in his mansion outside of London. He has augmented his income over...
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1968
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Neil Connery stars in this forgettable spy actioner about a plastic surgeon who is blackmailed by the Allies. He is pressed...
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Commander Cunningham
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1967
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James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure....
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1967
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A farmer turns to highway robbery because of the greed of the people around him. ~ Rovi...
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1966
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A robbery is prevented by an undercover art dealer pretending to be a criminal. ~ Rovi...
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1965
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1965
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Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...
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1965
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A British sex farce, this movie stars Nyree Dawn Porter as a flirtatious young waitress, Eileen. Her seductive ways so arouse...
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1965
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1965
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Thunderball finds James Bond matching wits with the sinister espionage organization S.P.E.C.T.R.E, (which stands for Special...
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1965
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With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy...
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M
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1964
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British pop performer Michael Sarne stars as young Ricky, a kid from London's East End who is yet another victim of urban...
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Matt Flint
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1964
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In this crime drama, a rivalry within a publishing house turns deadly when theft and blackmail get involved. ~ Sandra...
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1964
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This British comedy details what happens to five sailors and a passenger as they spend fifteen hours on shore leave in London...
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George Hudson
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1964
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Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy...
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Henry Houghton
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1964
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Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing), magistrate of an 18th century coastal village where a little smuggling has always gone on...
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1963
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From Russia With Love, the second in the series of James Bond films, is the film that solidifies all the Bond film elements...
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1963
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Bryan Forbes' first directorial effort is set in a rugged Lancashire farm community. Three impressionable children, played by...
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Mr. Bostock
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1962
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Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service...
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M
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1962
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Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl....
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1962
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1962
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Bernard Lee, better known as "M" in the James Bond movies, makes one of his periodic appearances as novelist Edgar Wallace's...
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1962
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Detective Superintendent Hanbury
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1961
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Supt. Meredith
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1961
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In this drama, based on a story by Edgar Wallace, a prominent business man is robbed and killed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1961
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Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet....
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Capt. George Gort
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1960
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Richard Attenborough stars in this British drama as Tom Curtis, an ordinary man with a job in a factory. A new employee,...
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Bert Connolly
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1960
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Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson....
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Capt. Hoseason
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1960
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Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the...
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Lt. Col Huxley
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1959
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Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose...
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Patrick Mathry
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1959
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Maggie Smith makes her film debut in this outing as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of...
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Vic Sloane
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1958
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1958
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The mental breakdown of a guilt-ridden man provides the drama in this fascinating psychological profile that stars Richard...
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Inspector Thompson
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1958
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One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent...
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Charles Foreman
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1958
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Jack Lemmon and Robert Mitchum star as Tony and Felix, co-owners of a tramp-steamer service in the West Indies. Threatening...
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Dr. Sam
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1957
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A story of family interaction, this is an adaptation of an A.J. Cronin novel, with Dirk Bogarde in the title role. More a...
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1957
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A Graham Greene novel was the basic source for the British psychological melodrama Across the Bridge. Rod Steiger plays Carl...
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Detective Inspector Hadden
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1957
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In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery,...
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Flight Sgt. Harris
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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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Capt. Patrick Dove, "Africa Shell"
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1956
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Richard Attenborough stars as a former crew member of a British gunboat, which was distinguished by a heroic wartime record....
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1955
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Basil Dearden was co-producer and co-director of the British "slice of life" drama Out of the Clouds. Filmed in...
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1955
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Crest of the Wave is the original British title of Seagulls over Sorrento, filmed at MGM's Elstree facilities in 1953 and...
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Lofty Turner
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1954
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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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Insp. Valentine
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1954
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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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Dr. Harris
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1954
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Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred...
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1954
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Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's...
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1953
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Petty Officer Wheatley
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1953
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Twelve-year old Frankie (Andrew Ray) feels guilty after his best friend falls to his death when they are playing in a...
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Constable Chapman
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1953
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Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in...
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1952
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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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1951
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1951
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All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property...
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1951
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A foundering British submarine provides the basis for this gripping drama. The trouble begins when the sub strikes a mine....
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1951
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White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the...
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1951
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Don't be misled by the title, and by the presence of Glynis Johns in the cast. The "Venus" in Appointment with Venus is a...
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1951
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This espionage drama was based on the true story of Odette Sansom Churchill, who became an unlikely hero during WWII. Born in...
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Jack
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1950
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Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He...
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1950
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Cage of Gold was a rare non-comic effort from Britain's Ealing Studios. Jean Simmons stars as Judith, who awakens the morning...
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1950
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Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar...
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1950
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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Sgt. Paine
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1949
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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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Inspector Cherry
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1949
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Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from...
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1948
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1948
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Fans of British film star Anna Neagle had a field day with her bravura Technicolor vehicle Elizabeth of Ladymead--though not...
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John, 1903
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1948
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Originally released in England as The Courtneys of Curzon Street, The Courtney Affair entertainingly covers the first 45...
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1947
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This holiday comedy is set during the Christmas of 1946 and centers upon a fellow who has returned to his native Canada to...
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1946
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Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins....
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The Duke
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1941
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Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire...
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Roy Barnes
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1940
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Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby...
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Nelson
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1940
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In this British WW II comedy, a brave member of the Police War Reserve eventually becomes a hero when he exposes a conspiracy...
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1928, the old Edgar Wallace novel The Terror was dusted off for another cinematic go-round ten years...
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Ferdie Fane
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1939
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The Crazy Gang, a pre-Monty Python group of British "nut" comedians, were popular on stage and screen from 1935 through 1962....
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1939
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The Black Tulip may sound like an action-packed swashbuckler, but is in fact a low-key melodrama set in long-ago Holland....
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1937
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African-American students who have accepted Rhodes scholarships may feel like wincing at Rhodes of Africa, an unabashed...
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1936
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1935
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1934
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Tom Tyler and Wally Wales, both refugees from the silent range, starred in this very low-budget oater from Poverty Row...
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1933
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