Writer/director Neil Jordan's debut feature is a tense thriller played out amid the violence in Northern Ireland....
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1982
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The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle....
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Paul Webster
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1962
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A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which the Spartans defend themselves for a Persian...
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Xerxes
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1962
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A rebellious teenager runs away from home and joins the SoHo beatniks when her widowed father remarries a much younger woman....
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Paul Linden
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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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This flawed sequel uses footage that was cut from its precursor, King Solomon's Mines, along with repeats of a few scenes...
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Rick Cobb
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1959
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Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble...
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Pharaoh
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1959
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The off-spring of the legendary British bandit dons his father's tights to help save his countrymen from the tyrannical rule...
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Des Roches
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1959
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The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also...
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1958
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In this African adventure set in Kenya, a woman gets involved in a love triangle involving a big-game hunter. ~ Sandra...
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1957
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Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the...
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1956
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John Wayne plays anti-Nazi Prussian sea captain Karl Erlich in Sea Chase, one of the many film commentaries released post...
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Comdr. Napier
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1955
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An 18-month-old baby disappears in London. The parents, US embassy worker David Knight and his wife Julia Arnall, are...
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Inspector Craig
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1955
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Refreshingly, the tropical melodrama Pearl of the South Pacific never takes itself too seriously. Virginia Mayo heads the...
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Bully Hague
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1955
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Cardigan
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1955
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Tony Curtis always seemed a little uncomfortable in costume epics, but this trait serves him well in Black Shield of...
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Earl of Alban
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1954
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Anna Neagle is so overpoweringly good in Lilacs in the Spring (aka Let's Make Up!) that a times it's easy to forget that her...
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King Charles
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1954
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In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond...
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Arthur Henderson,Perry Henderson
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1954
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Giles Gordon
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1951
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Obsessed was based on the William Dinner-William Moray play The Late Edwina Black, which also served as the film's original...
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Gregory Black
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1951
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There's stock footage galore in The Golden Horde, a second-feature recreation of the Arabian Nights era. Sir Guy...
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Sir Guy
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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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Jack Reddin
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1950
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Cage of Gold was a rare non-comic effort from Britain's Ealing Studios. Jean Simmons stars as Judith, who awakens the morning...
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Bill Brennan
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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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Sammy Rice
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1949
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Diamond City is a British "western", set not in Australia as was often the case but in the wilds of South Africa....
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Stafford Parker
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1949
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The "progressive" new British teaching methods of 1948 are sharply contrasted with the tried-and-true methods of the past in...
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David Traill
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1948
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The problem of "enemy" war brides was eloquently addressed in the British drama Frieda. In her English-language film debut,...
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Robert Dawson
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1947
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Mr. Dean
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1947
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Based on the novel by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Trojan Brothers offers the unlikely screen team of music hall funster...
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Sid Nichols
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1946
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David Warren
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1946
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In this WWII drama, James Mason plays naval commander Richard Heritage, who is distracted from his duties by a beautiful...
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Cmdr. Lippinscott
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1945
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That daring pulp-novel detective Sexton Blake is back again in The Echo Murders. David Farrar stars as Blake, a Sherlock...
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Sexton Blake
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1945
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In this melodrama, a pilot gets amnesia after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember by discussing the troop...
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1944
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In this war drama, an aspiring pilot who didn't make the grade, joins the air-sea rescue service instead. He is on a...
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Murray
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1944
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The title character in Meet Sexton Blake was created in 1893 as a way of cashing in on the immense popularity of Sherlock...
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1944
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That ubiquitous British character actor Frederick Leister essayed one of his largest and most rewarding screen roles in The...
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George Graham
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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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Inspector Thompson
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1943
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Headline serves as a vehicle for handsome David Farrar, who in 1943 was Britain's fastest-rising leading man. Farrar is cast...
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1943
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In this WWII thriller, an agent parachutes into Holland to retrieve an important document, posing as an American reporter....
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1943
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Beneath the gay billows of the big-top seethes a veritable stewpot of illicit romance, false friends, rivalry and murder in...
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Tom Danton
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1943
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Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film...
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1942
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A courageous canine, a former mascot for the Marines during WW II, almost ends up destroyed after he is framed by thwarted...
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Martin
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1941
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In this British drama set in rural Devon, a preacher finds himself deeply ambivalent about having to marry his beloved off...
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1941
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Sexton Blake, a British pulp-novel rip-off of Sherlock Holmes, was the principal character in several fast-paced programmers...
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1938
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In this sad melodrama, a kindly and popular old lady who owns the town candy shop inherits a modest fortune and finds...
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1938
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A Royal Divorce is the misleading title bestowed upon this dramatization of certain events in the lives of Napoleon and...
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1938
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