Adapted from the classic play by John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World opens with the arrival of a...
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1962
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This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books...
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1961
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Distinguished British actress Vanessa Redgrave makes her feature film debut in this hospital-set drama that chronicles the...
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1958
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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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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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The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and...
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1955
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The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents...
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1953
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1951
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Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British...
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1951
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The Gay Lady is better known by its British title, Trottie True. Jean Kent stars as Trottie, a turn-of-the-century British...
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1949
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In this costume drama, a woman finds herself the prize in a battle between two jealous brothers. Eventually she marries the...
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1947
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The misery caused by a long-term feud between two Irish families provides the framework in this drama based on a book by...
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1947
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Theirs is the Glory earned some of the highest critical praise ever afforded a British wartime docudrama. This is the filmed...
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1946
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The British Alibi is based on the warhorse story by Marcel Archard, previously filmed in France in 1931. Raymond Lovell steps...
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1943
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1943
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That ubiquitous British character actor Frederick Leister essayed one of his largest and most rewarding screen roles in The...
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1943
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Dangerous Moonlight was the original British title for the wartime drama Suicide Squadron. Anton Walbrook plays a famed...
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1941
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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 British thriller, a barber must steal to fund his wife's addiction to spending money. She uses the cash he took to...
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1939
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In this European drama, a girl in reform school finds herself falling in love with school physician, but must compete with...
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1938
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The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the...
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1937
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A Somerset Maugham novel was the source of the British The Tenth Man. John Lodge plays George Winter, a self-made businessman...
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1937
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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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Hollywood leading-man John Lodge later became governor of Connecticut. Before he turned to politics, however, Lodge found...
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1936
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This horror film, based on Poe's classic story "The Tell-Tale Heart," chronicles the mental break-down of a psychotic who...
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1934
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This 51-minute adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's Tell Tale Heart was a labor of love for co-producer-director Brian Desmond...
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1934
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In this melodrama set within an Irish hospital, a handsome young physicician is pursued by two women. He is attracted to one...
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1934
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