A well-to-do widower with a cozy mistress and a country estate falls for his young houseguest, the inexperienced daughter of...
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1970
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This exotically titled Avengers episode is a working of the 1962 "Cathy Gale" installment "The Big Thinker." The title...
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Pelley
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1969
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1968
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A former World War II submarine captain and his friend turn to smuggling when a former crew member lays out a plan to...
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1968
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During an important conference, a key delegate suddenly runs out of the building and into the street, where he is promptly...
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1967
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Another classic "Emma Peel" installment, this episode was first telecast in England on December 4, 1965. A series of...
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1965
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(Women Beware Women episode)
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1965
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Prof. Zimmer
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1963
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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1963
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After injecting new life into classic movie monsters Dracula and Frankenstein, Hammer Studios apply their Gothic touch to...
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Alfredo
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1961
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Even as respected small-town banker Wyndham Roberts (Meredith Edwards) is seated in his regular pew during Sunday morning...
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1961
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Five passengers on a seaplane find that a crash has stranded them on an island used for nuclear testing in this disaster...
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1960
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For pretty Jean Francis (Lisa Gastoni), the nightmare begins when she inadvertently witnesses a robbery-murder. Rapson...
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1958
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Four terrifying stories from The Veil television series are introduced by Boris Karloff with titles "Summer Heat," "Vision of...
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1958
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Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very...
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1958
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Off-his-trolley concert pianist Stephen Murray craves both money and publicity. He hopes to attain both by kidnapping...
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1957
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Prejudice is a main theme in this crime drama that follows the case of a West Indian man accused of a murder because of his...
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1957
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Orlando Sims
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1956
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1956
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This film consists of two episodes from the "Inspector Stryker" series of mysteries. In the first, Stryker enlists the help...
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1954
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1954
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This crime drama contains two stories. In the first, a luckless fellow has even worse luck when he is suspected of murder...
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1954
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This film offers a trio suspenseful dramas. In the first, an unhappy wife refuses to mourn the death of her husband, a miner...
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1954
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In this crime drama, an author of crime novels is falsely convicted for the murder of his wife. The real culprit is the one...
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1954
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Released in the U.S. by Lippert Studios, I'll Get You was filmed in Britain as Escape Route. George Raft stars as Steve...
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Michael Grand
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1953
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1953
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Handel's "Messiah" becomes a bone-of-contention in a tiny Welsh community in this comedy. The trouble begins when the...
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1953
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Valley of Song perpetuates the British stereotype of Welshmen as pugnacious rubes. The story involves a Welsh valley men's...
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Geraint Llewellyn
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1953
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In this detective drama, an investigator from an insurance company is hired to look into the mysterious murder of a wealthy...
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1953
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This mystery is based upon the popular radio quiz show, Twenty Questions and chronicles the endeavors of panelists to solve a...
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1950
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In this comedy, two brothers, both of them Welsh coal-miners, win a contest and get to go on a day trip to London. Upon...
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Screen Story
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1949
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Also known as While I Live, this British programmer serves as an excellent dramatic showcase for veteran farceur Tom Walls....
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Peter
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1947
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The hard lives of those living on the rugged Hebrides are chronicled in this drama that is partially comprised of footage...
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Director, Roddy
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1947
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The Flemish Farm is based on a true story. Clifford Evnas plays Duclos, a Belgian airman who joins the British air corps at...
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Jean Duclos
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1943
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The oft-filmed story of the WW I espionage agent known as "Fraulein Doktor" was given another go-round in the British Under...
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1943
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Suspected Person was one of several Associated British Pathe productions released in the U.S. by PRC pictures....
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Jim Raynor
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1943
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In this episode of the mystery adventure series, Simon "The Saint" Templar finds a dead man on his doorstep. Soon the ace...
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Sidmarsh
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1943
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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Fred Carrick
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1942
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Filmed in the North Country of England, this is a film noir set in the 1930s as a family struggles with poverty and...
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Larry Meath
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1941
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The modest but intriguing British melodrama At the Villa Rose was released in the U.S. by Monogram and given the more prosaic...
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1941
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In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to...
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1941
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Penn of Pennsylvania was the original British title of the economical biopic The Courageous Mr. Penn. Clifford Evans stars as...
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William Penn
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1941
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Proud Valley was directed by Pen Tennyson, whose early death in WW2 robbed the British movie industry of one of its more...
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1940
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As part of a reciprocal deal, teeny-tiny PRC Pictures released several Associated British-Pathe films to American theaters....
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Maurice Thevenet
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1940
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A London jeweler who fences stolen goods so that he too might become wealthy and therefore respectable, learns the value of...
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1940
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This British "quota quickie" benefits from the presence of the delightful musical comedy star Evelyn Laye. But there is...
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1939
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North Sea Patrol is a remake of the 1927 film of the same name; both were adapted from Luck of the Navy, a stage play by Mrs....
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Lt. Peel
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1939
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In this melodrama, a performing crack-shot and a blues singer fall in love. When he abandons her, his brother, the target in...
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1939
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When the Russians find and destroy the hidden artillery, the 13 man Austrian gun crew is suspected of harboring a traitor in...
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1938
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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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Ford
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1937
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Erudite novelist Jack Pathurst (Paul Lukas) happens to be a passenger of the sailing ship Elsinore when a mutiny breaks out....
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Bert Rhyne
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1937
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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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Cmdr. Connolly
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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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1935
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