Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling...
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Mr. James, Jo's Father
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1964
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In Volume 32 of a collection culled from the 1963-1965 science fiction anthology television series, a pair of murderous...
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1964
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Uncle Simon
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1963
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Engineer Alan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson) is using his commercial radio station's antenna to probe into deep space in...
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1963
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With Five Weeks in a Balloon, 20th Century-Fox hoped to cash on the success of the studio's earlier Jules Verne adaptation...
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Fergusson
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1962
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This is a slightly uneven presentation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale about two evil princes, their pure-hearted brother,...
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1961
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Fittingly directed by Illinois native and bad-guy filmmaker Don Siegel, this action-packed film stars Mickey Rooney as the...
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Doc Saunders
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1957
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This second presentation of the classic dramatic anthology Du Pont Show of the Month is a lavishly mounted adaptation of...
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Earl of Hertford
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1957
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Future "Master of Disaster" Irwin Allen produced this curious but inarguably fascinating adaptation of...
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1957
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The 60-minute Mr. Krane was originally telecast March 21, 1957 on the daily network anthology Matinee Theatre. The story is...
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1957
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This surprisingly warm-and-fuzzy episode is narrated by child actress Evelyn Rudie, here cast as minister's daughter...
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1957
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Based on the Holy Scriptures, with additional dialogue by several other hands, The Ten Commandments was the last film...
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1956
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1956
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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The Rudolf Friml operetta The Vagabond King was first filmed in 1930, with Dennis King in the lead. On both sides of this...
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Tristan
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1956
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Based on a novel by Howard Swiggert, The Power and the Prize sets up a premise that had far more relevance in 1956 than it...
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Mr. Carew
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1956
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The third film version of Robert E. Sherwood's play Waterloo Bridge, Gaby is also the most antiseptic of the three. In the...
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Mr. Carrington
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1956
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Telecast live from Hollywood, this hour-long version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde stars Michael Rennie...
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Mr. Utterson
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1955
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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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Priam
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1955
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Lana Turner stars as Diane in this opulent costume drama. Set in 16th century France, the film finds the gorgeous Diane de...
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Ruggieri
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1955
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Edward Plantagenet (King Edward IV)
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1955
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Bait starts out with a cunning pre-credits sequence, wherein a dapper, erudite gentlemen (Sir Cedric Hardwicke), after...
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1954
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Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the...
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Gov. Phillips
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1953
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H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds had been on the Paramount Pictures docket since the silent era, when it was optioned as a...
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1953
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"Her Salome Will Steal Your Breath Away" was the classic advertising slogan attached to this opulent Rita Hayworth epic -- a...
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Caesar Tiberius
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1953
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When German sympathizer Count Paul Rona (George MacReady) pilfers a valuable jeweled glove from a French church during World...
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Fr. Goron
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1952
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Capt. F. Barclay
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1952
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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Dr. Karl Strolin
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1951
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Ezio Pinza stars as the title character, a prince who falls for nightclub singer Fredda Barlo (Lana Turner) when the two meet...
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Bernard
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1951
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Glenn Ford stars as American pilot Martin Ordway, who joins an expedition to scale a treacherous Swiss mountain peak. Each of...
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Nicholas Radcliffe
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1950
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1949
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Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character....
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Arthur Winslow
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1949
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Though the Mark Twain original has been refashioned into a Bing Crosby vehicle, this 1949 musical adaptation of A Connecticut...
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King Arthur
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1949
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A popular British stage play by William Douglas Home was the basis for this out-of-the-ordinary prison picture....
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Governor
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1949
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George Stevens's charming film version of Kathryn Forbes' collection of short stories entitled Mama's Bank Account features...
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Mr. Hyde
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1948
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Mr. Kentley
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1948
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A Woman's Vengeance concerns a "likely" murderer, Henry Maurier, played by Charles Boyer. It is no secret that Maurier is...
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Dr. Libbard
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1947
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This John Wayne adventure is set in South America's rugged Andes Mountains. The Duke has been assigned by a powerful US...
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1947
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One of the most ambitious productions ever turned out by Monogram studios, Song of My Heart represented the directorial debut...
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1947
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In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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Lord Belmont
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1947
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After 15 entries, MGM's "Dr. Kildare" series came to a quiet end with Dark Delusion. Although Dr. Leonard Gillespie...
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1947
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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Julian Wilde
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1947
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In this period drama, Joan Fontaine stars as Ivy Lexton, a woman with an unusual hunger for men. Though she already has a...
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Inspector Orpington
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1947
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Dr. Miller
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1946
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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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Ralph Nickleby
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1946
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Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, this is the story of a baroness who believes she has found love with an officer but...
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Dr. Albert Condor
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1946
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1945
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Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
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1944
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Former president Ronald Reagan may have genuinely believed that he was referring to a real-life act of selfless wartime...
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Admiral
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1944
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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Robert Burton
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1944
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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Director, Producer
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1943
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The time is World War II. A group of disillusioned French soldiers are approached by Nazi troops and promised safe passage to...
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Father Sebastian
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1943
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In this downbeat drama based on a novel by John Steinbeck (which was also adapted for the stage), German troops invade Norway...
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Col. Lanser
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1943
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Universal's "Invisible Man" series does its bit for the war effort in this slyly tongue-in-cheek action melodrama. Jon Hall...
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Conrad Stauffer
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1942
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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Adm. Bowen
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1942
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Universal's "Frankenstein" series descended from the "A" to the "B" category with The Ghost of Frankenstein, though...
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Frankenstein
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1942
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Though officially based on a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Buddington Kelland, RKO Radio's Valley of the Sun was...
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Warrick
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1942
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Bishop Coombes
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1941
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Wealthy, sheltered Joan Fontaine is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Cary Grant. Though warned that Grant is...
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Gen. McLaidlaw
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1941
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Victory was the first of Joseph Conrad's novels to be adapted to film, way back in 1919. The earliest talkie version,...
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Mr. Jones
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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Fleetwood Peyton
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1940
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A semi-sequel to the 1933 Universal horror masterwork The Invisible Man, The Invisible Man Returns stars Vincent Price in the...
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Richard Cobb
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1940
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This Victorian-era drama is based upon the classic novel by Thomas Hughes. It follows the exploits of a young boy forced to...
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Dr. Thomas Arnold
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1940
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Mr. Brink
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1939
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Dom Claude Frollo
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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Dr. David Livingstone
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1939
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Allan Quatermain
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1937
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When Errol Flynn insisted that Warner Bros. cook up a non-swashbuckler for his next vehicle, the result was Green Light....
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1937
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Though director Carol Reed seldom included Laburnham Grove on his resumé, he allowed that it was quite successful, and a cut...
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Mr. Baxley
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1936
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This period drama is based on the relationship between 18th-century British stage stars Peg Woffington and David Garrick....
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David Garrick
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1936
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H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future...
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Theotocopulos
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1936
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Calling the Tune uses its skeletal plot to celebrate the British record industry, circa 1936. Adele Dixon plays the daughter...
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1936
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Anna Neagle is every other inch a lady in the frolicsome costume epic Nell Gwyn. The star is of course cast as the title...
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Charles II
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1935
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Now famous as the first feature film produced in the three-strip Technicolor process, Becky Sharp is also an enjoyable effort...
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Marquis of Steyne
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1935
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Bishop Bienvenu
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1935
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That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's...
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Dr. Isaacson
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1934
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This lush historical drama chronicles the brief reign of the late Henry VIII's successor, Lady Jane Grey. After only nine...
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Earl of Warwick
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1934
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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Brigadier
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1934
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Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish...
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Rabbi Gabriel
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1934
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In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The...
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Gustav Dupont
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1934
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In this drama, a prominent playwright and thespian prides himself on his ability to take any woman and turn them into...
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Max Till
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1934
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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Alistair McBane
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1933
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The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his...
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Broughton
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1933
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The notorious Dreyfus case that sent tremors throughout France in the late 1800s is the subject of this early British sound...
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1931
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Capt. Alfred Dreyfus
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1931
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Actor Robert Montgomery would serve as a lieutenant in the U.S. Naval Reserve during WWII, but he was just a lowly seaman in...
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Host
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1931
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This 1926 British film was the second full-length biopic of naval hero Horatio Nelson. Cedric Hardwycke is superb in the...
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Horatio Nelson
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1926
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