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1988
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This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by...
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1965
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The first of Allen Drury "all names changed to protect the guilty" political novels, Advise and Consent was brought to the...
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Sen. Seabright "Seab" Cooley
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1962
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Under Ten Flags is a fact-based British maritime epic set during World War II. Allied ships are being victimized by a German...
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Adm. Russell
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1960
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Sempronius Gracchus
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1960
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Having just recovered from a heart attack, fabled British barrister Sir Wilfred Robards (Charles Laughton) has been ordered...
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Sir Wilfrid Robarts
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1957
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In this release of a live telecast that originally aired on January 30, 1956, host Charles Laughton and conductor Max...
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1956
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Director
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1955
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1954
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A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's...
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Henry Horatio Hobson
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1954
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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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King Herod
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1953
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This costume drama was based on the historical fiction of Margaret Irwin, which embellishes the facts of the early years of...
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Henry VIII
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1953
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Though out of favor with many Abbott and Costello buffs, Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd is actually a lot of fun, so...
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Capt. Kidd
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1952
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This anthology film assembles five respected directors and a top-notch cast to bring a handful of stories by the great...
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Soapy, The Cop and the Anthem
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1952
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1951
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Fred K. Begley
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1951
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Sire Alan de Maletroit
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1951
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Though hampered by a small budget that shrank with each shooting day, director Burgess Meredith fashioned a serviceable film...
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Inspector Jules Maigret
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1949
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Federal agent Robert Taylor journeys to a mythical South American community, there to break up a war-surplus contraband...
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A.J. Bealer
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1949
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Earl Janoth
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1948
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The Girl From Manhattan is a minor but watchable variation on the old "mortgage-on-the-farm" plot device. The girl of the...
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The Bishop
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1948
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Based on the novel by Erich Maria Remarque, Arch of Triumph is a complicated war romance directed by Lewis Milestone. Dr....
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Haake
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1948
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Based on a novel by Robert Hichens, The Paradine Case concerns Anna Paradine (Alida Valli), on trial for the murder of her...
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Judge Horfield
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1947
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As appealing as ever in 1946, Deanna Durbin was admittedly getting a bit long in tooth for her ingenue-like role in Because...
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Sheridan
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1946
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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Capt. William Kidd
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1945
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Philip
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1944
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Sir Simon de Canterville/The Ghost
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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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1943
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Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
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Arthur Lory
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1943
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In this drama set at the end of WW I, Sgt. Jocko Wilson leaves England to return to Australia. He brings with him, two...
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Jocko Wilson
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1943
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When two young island-dwelling people fall for each other, their rival parents do not embrace the romance with welcomed arms...
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Jonas Tuttle
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1942
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Rear Admiral Stephen Thomas' (Charles Laughton) spoken tribute to "the finest Naval officer I knew" provides the framework...
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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Charles Smith
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1942
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A man trying to make his dying father happy makes his love life very complicated indeed in this musical comedy starring...
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Jonathan Reynolds
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1941
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Like its predecessors, this third cinema version of Sidney Hoiward's Pulitzer Prize-winning play They Knew What They Wanted...
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Tony Patucci
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1940
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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Producer, Sir Humphrey Pengallan
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1939
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Quasimodo
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1939
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After befriending talented dancer and pickpocket Libby (Vivien Leigh), street performer Charles (Charles Saggers) strikes up...
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Screenwriter, Charles Saggers
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1938
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Ginger Ted
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1938
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Rembrandt van Rijn
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1918 and 1923, Harry Leon Wilson's novel achieved movie classic status when it was remade by...
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Marmaduke Ruggles
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1935
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Javert
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1935
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The 1932 publication of Charles Nordhoff and James Norton Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty sparked a revival of interest in the...
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Capt. William Bligh
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1935
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Based on a successful stage drama, this historical romance stars Norma Shearer as Elizabeth Barrett, an invalid largely...
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Edward Moulton Barrett
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1934
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Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII....
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Henry VIII
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1933
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In this campy "adult-oriented" drama from the early 1930s, the ruthless manager of a Malaysian rubber plantation marries a...
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Horace Prin
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1933
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The Clerk
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1932
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William Marble
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1932
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It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among...
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Sir William Porterhouse
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1932
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Director Cecil B. DeMille returned to Paramount Pictures for this typically epic production, which became his first box...
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Nero
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1932
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Dr. Moreau
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1932
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A mentally unstable naval officer goes mad with jealousy when his wife's recent lover shows up as a lieutenant on the...
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Commander Charles Storm
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1932
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A smuggling organization leader hides his identity as a Dutch-Chinese tramp steamer skipper until he is discovered by a...
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1931
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This grim and gripping British melodrama was originally released in 1931 under the title Wolves. The scene is a Labrador...
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Capt. Job
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1930
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Just before making his talkie directorial debut with Atlantic, director E.A. DuPont dashed off the silent "backstage" drama...
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1929
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Captain Kidd
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