In this taut British drama, a wanderer becomes friends with a would-be runaway teenage girl. The two end up in a local barn...
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1964
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The British town of Warlock is scandalized by Hazell's cottage-turned-tearoom with the local inspector found in a...
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1964
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Freedom to Die has the look of a half-hour TV drama inflated to feature-film length. Paul Maxwell plays Craig Owen, an...
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1962
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Conrad Phillips stars as a British secret agent not named James Bond in Dead Man's Evidence. The story is set in motion by...
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1962
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Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons...
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1962
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Sean Connery plays one of his early roughneck types in the British gangster picture Frightened City. The story takes place in...
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1961
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Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and...
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1961
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Gorgo is an attempt to make a Japanese-style "giant reptile" flick in an English setting. The story begins when underwater...
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1961
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In this romantic comedy, three bunglers find jobs at a matchmaking service. None are pleased with their jobs until a...
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1960
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The title of the 60-minute British programmer Ambush in Leopard Street tells the whole story. Retired thief James Kenney...
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1960
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Joe is played by Leslie Randall in this lean British programmer. Working at a detergent company, Joe is ignored by his bosses...
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1960
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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1959
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A talented director (Charles Saunders) and cast cannot do very much with this weak story about an odd double deception. Two...
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1959
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In this thriller, a novelist is quite upset to discover himself awakening with a gun in his hand. He is more dismayed to...
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1959
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A persuasive ad man cons a British TV makeup artist to slip in a promotion for Bonko Detergent during a show in this comedy....
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1959
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Escaping from an insane asylum, Ellen Summers (Lana Morris) calls upon "Invisible Man" Peter Brady, claiming that she being...
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1959
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The tiny country of Bay Akim is in the thrall of a particularly vicious band of gunrunners. Teaming with secret agent Zena...
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1959
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In this mystery, the wife of the recently kidnapped Dr. Manning enlists the assistance of a Scotland Yard detective and a...
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1958
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In this drama, a man becomes fixated on a doll belonging to his illegitimate son. The obsession begins after his lover gives...
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1958
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While running an experiment in his lab, young British scientist Peter Brady is exposed to a radition leak--and rendered...
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1958
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In this comedy, a milque-toast bank clerk is forced to deliver blackmail money to a seductive woman. Misunderstandings...
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1957
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In this charming children's adventure, a big game hunter's son doesn't share his father's love of killing; he prefers his...
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1957
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Kay Callard plays Joan Foster, the title role, in the British quickie Undercover Girl. She works in a nightclub that serves...
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1957
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In this British detective yarn, a Yankee sleuth teams up with Scotland Yard to catch the culprits behind a successful...
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1957
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In this suspense movie, a Yankee mercenary is hired to blow up an Arab dignitary. A gun battle thwarts the bombing and the...
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1957
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In this thriller, a secret formula purported to prevent metal fatigue during supersonic flight is stolen. Now, rival groups...
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1956
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In this crime drama, a man finds a rare stamp, takes it to an expert for appraisal, and finds that it is a forgery. This...
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1955
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Norman Wisdom made his third film appearance in the slapstick musical Man of the Moment. This time, Norman is a clerk in the...
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1955
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Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves....
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1954
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The iniquities of circumstantial evidence are explored in the compact crime drama Eight O'Clock Walk. Because he was the last...
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1954
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Fabian of the Yard is a feature-length compilation of episodes from the British TV series of the same name. Bruce Seton plays...
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1954
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In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette,...
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1953
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In this drama, a woman with a sordid past desires to marry. Her intended is so in love that he disregards the many warnings...
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1952
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In this comedy, five fighters from the Royal Air Force end up staying in a family home during WW II. Their bitter landlady...
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1951
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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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1951
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In this comedy, dishonest stable boys from Britain and France join forces in a smuggling operation. Using a horse blanket,...
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1951
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In this entry in the series, amateur sleuth and aspiring novelist Temple and his wife look for a kidnapped scientist whose...
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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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Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a...
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1951
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Portrait of Clare is largely offered in flashback. The title character, played by Margaret Johnston, spends 10 years in...
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1950
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Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all...
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Sgt. Odd
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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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1949
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John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the...
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1948
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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1948
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In this crime drama, a nurse is accused of murdering the ailing wife of a British lord. Just before the woman died, the...
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1948
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Ann Markham (Margaret Lockwood) is an employee with the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Though ostensibly businesslike and...
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1948
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Based on a play by Maurice Sandoz, The Curse of the Wraydons opens with written narration setting the scene: England at the...
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1946
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1945
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In this comedy, an office clerk marries his secretary on the sly, their secret honeymoon is interrupted when he is sent to...
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1939
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In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two...
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, the boisterous Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to...
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1939
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1938
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In this comedy a young woman weasels out of a vacation with her parents and away from the young man they want her to date by...
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1938
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In this comedy, an impoverished bumbler becomes a waiter at a fancy party and finds himself mistaken for one of the wealthy...
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1938
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1938
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In this farce, a loosely moraled chorine gets involved with a married man and the fiancé of the man's daughter. The real...
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1938
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In this strange drama, a clown secretly aspires to becoming a great prizefighter. Someone spots him in a fight and hires him...
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1937
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Like Rick's Café Americain, the Café Colette is a rendezvous for virtually every spy in Europe. Greta Nissen stars as Russian...
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Roger Manning
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1937
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In this romance, the owner of a garage buys Brownie, a racehorse from Miss Peggy Landstone and subsequently hires her as the...
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1937
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Dave Connor (Robert Newton) is a fixer for the London mob, who goes against his boss Terrell (Charles Oliver) for a big...
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1937
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Ronald Bruce
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1937
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"Father" is British blowhard George Carney, a well-to-do cheese manufacturer. Despite his business savvy, Carney falls victim...
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1937
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Jack Hulbert is Jack Warrender in Jack of All Trades. A spoof of Big Business, 1930s style, the film begins as Jack ends a...
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1936
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La Fosse's new lover, a boxer, rescues her from a deadly plot by her former lover during an amateur production of Carmen. ~...
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1936
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In this mid-19th century costume romance, a Scottish minister's daughter falls in love with an army officer. Their love is...
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1936
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1936
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Annie Laurie bears little resemblance to the old Scottish ballad, but does serve as a suitable vehicle for Scots character...
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1936
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Legendary Scots entertainer Harry Lauder makes one of his rare screen appearances in End of the Road. Lauder plays John...
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Donald Carson
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1936
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A bone-chiller that still manages to inject humor, this movie was based on an actual event and even spawned Stephen...
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Mack
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1936
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Burly American character actor Ralph Ince both directs and stars in the British Blue Smoke. Ince plays a prizefighter whose...
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1935
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1935
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In this crime drama, a con artist posing as a financier cheats his peers out of a large sum of money, resulting in suicide...
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1935
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1935
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