In this epic Ron Howard film, Joseph Donelly (Tom Cruise) is an impoverished 19th-century Irish tenant farmer who has...
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1992
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This is a modern-dress rendition of Shakespeare's famous "comedy," a semi-serious drama with a story featuring mistaken...
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Adam
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1992
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Percy Mannering
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1992
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The ballad seller
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1990
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An alternative to the general run of "triumph over the odds" biopics, My Left Foot is the true story of Irish cerebral palsy...
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1989
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Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land,...
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Doc Spencer
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1989
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Frederick Dorrit
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1988
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1988
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A wealthy man attempts to keep his fortune from falling into the hands of his avaricious relatives upon his death, and a...
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1986
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1985
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1985
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Charrington
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1984
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In this modest film set along the rocky seacoast and verdant hills of 19th-century Ireland, a young girl is made to feel...
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1983
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Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even...
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Steiner
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1983
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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1983
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In this adventure, a young lass looks to dashing Robin to help her protect her father's treasure which is stashed in an...
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1983
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A bachelor sets out to win the love of a women he lost 50 years previous. ~ Rovi...
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1982
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Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia"...
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Cardinal Dansher
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1981
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Filmed in Ireland, Cry of the Innocent stars Rod Taylor as an American insurance executive on a grim mission. A private plane...
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1980
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The romance between the wife of a 9th century Irish monarch and her husband's nephew is the focus of this drama also known...
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1979
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Impoverished Irish moonshiners are the focus of this gritty, bleak drama, allegedly the first motion picture ever shot in...
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A poteen-maker
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1979
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The 1979 TV movie Les Miserables was advertised as the 12th feature film to be based on the 1862 Victor Hugo novel (and that...
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1978
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Chris Marker's remarkable documentary about the rise and fall of the New Left in the 1960s and 1970s was originally released...
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1977
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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1977
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In this violent police drama, a determined officer single-handedly takes on gangsters to get his bloody revenge. ~ Sandra...
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1976
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An Israeli doctor (Helmut Griem) is working with guerrillas at an enclave when the Palestinians attempt to blow up a...
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David's Father
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1975
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1974
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1974
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In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina (Liv Ullmann) decides in 1654 to give up her throne...
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Oxenstierna
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1974
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The Last Circus Show is an Italian weeper that has everything but the bloodhounds and the ice floes. Renato Ceste stars as a...
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1974
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In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles...
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1973
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In this drama, a conservative Catholic priest representing the Pope is sent to Ireland to settle down a few influential...
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1973
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Sam
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1973
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1973
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1972
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This Italian action film focuses on a crook, framed as a drug kingpin, whose wife is killed by the mob as a result. He must...
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Corso
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1972
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In this Italian crime drama, Bertone (Enrico Maria Salerno) is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court...
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1972
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One of the most notorious American judicial cases of the 20th century is paced and photographed like a spaghetti Western in...
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1971
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In director Peter Brook's King Lear, Paul Scofield portrays the title character, a senile old ruler, whose susceptibility to...
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Duke of Albany
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1971
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A young man with a death wish and a 79-year-old high on life find love in Hal Ashby's cult black comedy. Deadpan rich boy...
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Sculptor
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1971
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In this interesting horror movie, a pleasure-seeking noblewoman uses contemporary black magic to toy with the young lovers...
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1971
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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Barkis
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1970
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In this British tragi-comedy taking place among emotionally bankrupt upper-class Scottish countrymen, Peter O'Toole plays Sir...
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Dr. Maitland
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1970
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Somewhat overshadowed by Joseph Losey's 1975 film on the same subject, the 1968 Italian/Bulgarian biopic Galileo is a...
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Galileo
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1968
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The classic Greek tragedy by Sophocles stars Christopher Plummer as the psychologically tortured Oedipus. The successful...
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Messenger
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1968
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy,...
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1967
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In the future, an oppressive government maintains control of public opinion by outlawing literature and maintaining a group...
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Captain
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1966
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It can't have been box-office considerations that motivated the title-change of the British I Was Happy Here to the...
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Hogan
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1966
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Dr. Love (David Niven) is a suave British secret agent sent to Lebanon to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington...
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Peter Rosser
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1965
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1965
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British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of...
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Father Maguire
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1963
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Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to...
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Capt. Ferris
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1962
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Dr. Grogan
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1962
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1961
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Father Carey (Nigel Patrick) is a priest who must decide whether or not an amnesia victim (Aldo Ray) is responsible for the...
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Prosecuting Counsel
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1961
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This uneven, wartime drama delves into the complexities of the political situation in Northern Ireland, compounded in World...
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Jimmy Hannafin
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1960
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Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a...
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1959
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After years of suffering through lookalike MGM musicals (at least, that was his complaint), Howard Keel was able to sink his...
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Peebles
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1958
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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Herbert "Birdie" Sparrow
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1958
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In this drama, a brilliant scientist is stalked by the Communists who want his secret formula. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1957
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Eschewing the Shakespearean original title (it's a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream), the British Ill Met by Moonlight...
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Sandy
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1957
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London's colorful but rundown Soho district is the setting for this thinnish romantic comedy. John Gregson plays a Soho...
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Sam Bishop
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1957
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To make the Rising of the Moon, American filmmaker John Ford returned to his Irish roots. An obscure and highly personal film...
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Inspector Michael Dillon
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1957
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A story of family interaction, this is an adaptation of an A.J. Cronin novel, with Dirk Bogarde in the title role. More a...
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Garcia
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1957
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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1956
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Jacqueline, played by Jacqueline Ryan, is the daughter of a Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil, played by John Gregson. The...
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Mr. Flannagan
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1956
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Set in Ireland, The March Hare stars Terence Morgan as Sir Charles Hare, a wastrelly aristocrat who gambles away his family...
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Lazy Mangan
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1956
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A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard...
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1955
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This drama is comprised of two short films originally made to be shown on British television. The first short is the story...
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1954
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This anthology is comprised of three stories. In the first a naive American tycoon boards the famous Orient Express and...
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1954
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Khadir
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1953
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Glenn Ford plays a convict who breaks out of a 19th century Nevada prison in the company of several less handsome inmates....
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1951
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Allegedly based on a Rudyard Kipling novel, this draws most of its inspiration from the 1939 film made of Kipling's narrative...
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Pvt. Dennis Malloy
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1951
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1951
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In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is...
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Duggie Lewis
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1951
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The brooding British romantic drama Gone to Earth is better known by its American title The Wild Heart. Filmed in England and...
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Edward Marston
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1950
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In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel...
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Chauvelin
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1950
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In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red...
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Corporal Taylor
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1949
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Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more...
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James Catter
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1949
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Gerald Vane
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1949
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In this costume melodrama, a virginal maid is impregnated by the footman in the household where they work. He offers to...
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Fred Parsons
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1948
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In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a...
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Rogers
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1948
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Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars...
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Pat
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1947
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Once a Jolly Swagman is the story of Bill Fox (Dirk Bogarde), a factory worker who dreams of fame and fortune as motorbike...
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1947
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Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins....
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1941
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One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and...
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1941
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In this drama, a cub reporter from the Daily Gazette attempts to catch a bank robber. He is assisted by a woman who wants to...
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1935
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Mat Donovan (Brian Magowan) battles the evil representative of an absentee landlord in this old-fashioned Irish drama made in...
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1918
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