Curse of the Pink Panther was released just after Trail of the Pink Panther with a script that has someone looking for the...
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Sir Charles Litton
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1983
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The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably...
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Nick Cartland
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1983
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Sir Charles Litton
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1982
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Set in India during World War II, this fair action drama relies heavily on the good acting talent gathered to convey its...
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Col. W.H. Grice
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1981
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Notorious international jewel thief Jack Rhodes (Burt Reynolds) is out to steal $30 million in uncut diamonds in this...
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Chief Inspector Cyril Willis
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1980
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The original British version of Escape to Athena ran 125 minutes; American prints were judiciously cut to 101 minutes,...
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Prof. Blake
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1979
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Based on the best-selling book by William Stevenson, this three-part NBC miniseries begins in 1939, just before the outbreak...
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Sir William Stephenson
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1979
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A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square was the original title of this British caper film. David Niven does his suave 'n' blase...
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Ivan (Bernard Drew)
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1979
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Colonel Race
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1978
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Though she owns a large estate and is herself a noblewoman, Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) is anything but rich. Indeed, if...
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Priory
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1977
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In this Disney comedy, a pair of spoiled kids, bored by their filthy rich grandfather, decide they'd rather be with their...
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J.W. Osborne
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1976
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Most Inspector Clouseau fans regard The Pink Panther Strikes Again as the best of the clumsy Parisian detective's "comeback"...
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1976
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As penned by Neil Simon, this satire of movie mysteries is set in motion when several prominent detectives are invited to the...
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Dick Charleston
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1976
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David Niven is an English tutor for the son of the Japanese ambassador to a Southeast Asian country. The two are used as...
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Walter Bradbury
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1975
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This horrendous horror spoof stars David Niven, who manages to keep a stiff upper lip as the title character. The Count, by...
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Count Dracula
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1975
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Enjoy this animated Reader's Digest presentation of the classic story by Oscar Wilde. ~ Rovi...
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1975
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Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences of Frank...
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Charles
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1972
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David Niven is Alex, a scholar who has won the Nobel Prize for developing a universal language. The U.S. State Department has...
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1971
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David Niven offers this look at the history and current reality of Scotland Yard. ~ Rovi...
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1971
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The Brain (Le Cerveau) is a tongue-in-cheek caper film with more twists and turns than a rural Oregon highway. David Niven...
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Col. Carol Matthews
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1969
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John Frankenheimer directed this tepid World War II comedy set in the Philippines. When four American soldiers -- Lieutenant...
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Lt. Cmdr. Finchhaven
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1969
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In this bitter drama that takes place in the immediate aftermath of World War II, British Major Giles Burnside (David Niven)...
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Maj. Giles Burnside
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1969
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Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill....
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Gerald Hardcastle
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1968
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This situation comedy comes from a Bob Fisher and Arthur Marx play. Jonathan Kingsley (David Niven) is the teaching...
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Jonathan Kingsley
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1968
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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Sir James Bond
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1967
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A fine cast distinguishes this unusual supernatural thriller. When London-based vintner Phillippe de Montfaucon (David Niven)...
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Philippe de Montfaucon
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1967
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Lady L (Sophia Loren) is an 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous adventures in flashback in this light sex comedy. While...
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Lord Lendale
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1965
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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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Dr. Jason Love
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1965
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1964
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1964
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An exercise in "black humor" bordering on the tasteless, Bedtime Story stars Marlon Brando and David Niven as a pair of...
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Lawrence Jameson
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1963
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Sir Arthur Robinson
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1963
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Sir Charles Lytton
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1963
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Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered City is an all-star...
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Maj. Peter Whitfield
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1962
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This drama by director Anthony Asquith, a noted lynchpin in British cinematic history, may wear too many hats to be...
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Tom Jordan
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1962
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This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured...
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1962
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Major Richardson
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1962
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer...
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Corporal Miller
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1961
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In this entertaining comedy by Charles Walters, everyone seems to get in on the act, even the dog and especially the four...
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Larry Mackay
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1960
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Viewers know they're in a 1959 comedy film early in the proceedings of Ask Any Girl, when secretary Shirley MacLaine is...
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Miles Doughton
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1959
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In this comedy, a married couple is deeply embarrassed when their daughter reveals her father's indiscretions on a national...
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Chris Walters
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1959
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Based on Terence Rattigan's play, Separate Tables is about a number of characters and their adventures at a British seaside...
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Maj. Pollack
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1958
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Produced for the Armed Forces overseas, this is a holiday spectacular created for Christmas. Fifty of the top stars of...
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1958
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Edward Chodorov's stage farce Oh, Men! Oh, Women! is somewhat unnecessarily overburdened by star names in this 1957 film...
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Dr. Alan Coles
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1957
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The Depression-New Deal subtext of the original 1936 My Man Godfrey was understandably dispensed with in this so-so 1957...
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Godfrey Smith
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1957
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Raymond
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1957
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Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who...
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Roger Tweakham/New Accountant
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1956
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This comedy is a remake of 1941's The Lady Eve, and tells the story of the vegetarian son of a prominent meat packer who is...
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Col. Harris
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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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Phileas Fogg
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1956
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Henry Brittingham-Brett
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1956
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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Duke of Brampton
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1955
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Dorothy and Campbell Christie's witty courtroom comedy/drama Carrington V.C. was given a classy screen treatment by director...
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Major Carrington V.C.
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1954
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1954
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David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star...
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Rex Allerton
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1954
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David Niven plays the new squire in a small Irish community. As snooty and restrictive as the old squire was warmhearted and...
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Jasper O'Leary
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1954
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This is the story of a chaste young TV-commercial actress (Maggie McNamara) who is romanced by a playboy architect...
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David Slater
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1953
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1952
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Don't be misled by the title, and by the presence of Glynis Johns in the cast. The "Venus" in Appointment with Venus is a...
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Maj. Valentine Morland
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1951
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The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered...
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B.G. Bruno
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1951
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The lady of the title is author Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), who writes a scathing best-seller in which she trashes all...
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Bill Shelby
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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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Capt. Pindenny
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1951
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Jacques Riboudeaux
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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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Scarlet Pimpernel/Sir Percy Blakeney
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1950
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Kenneth Marquis
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1949
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A Kiss in the Dark opens with a shot of Jane Wyman in a two-piece bathing suit. Alas, the dictates of cinematic construction...
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Eric Phillips
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1949
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Most of the story in this five-hanky British melodrama takes place over a 50 year period within a single London home, 99...
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Gen. Sir Roland Dane
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1948
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
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1948
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Barbara Stanwyck headlines this romantic tearjerker as a free-spirited concert pianist dying of tuberculosis. She checks into...
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Dr. Anthony Stanton
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1947
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When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds...
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Henry Brougham
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1947
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If the Perfect Marriage in this romantic comedy were truly perfect, there wouldn't be any story, would there? Outwardly an...
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Dale Williams
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1946
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Director Frank Borzage and star Ginger Rogers both came acropper in the lavish but dull historical biopic Magnificent Doll....
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Aaron Burr
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1946
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Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise...
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Peter Carter
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1946
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The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44...
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Lieutenant Jim Perry
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1944
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The First of the Few is a dramatization of the life of R.J. Mitchell, the aeronautical engineer who designed the Spitfire...
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Geoffrey Crisp
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1942
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Edgar Linton
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1939
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Tony Halstead/The Great Arturo
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1939
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Ginger Rogers slipped off her dancing shoes to play one of her best comic roles as Polly Parish, a salesgirl at a large...
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David Merlin
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1939
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The fourth cinematic version of the novel Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman by E.W. Hornung, this romantic caper is a virtual...
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A.J. Raffles
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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1939
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Set during the turn-of-the-century Moro uprising in the Philippines, The Real Glory stars Gary Cooper as an American Marine...
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Lieutenant McCool
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1939
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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Christopher Leigh
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1938
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Whenever things got slow at 20th Century-Fox, the studio revved up its old reliable "three girls looking for millionaires"...
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Steve Harrington
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1938
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Albert De Regnier
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1938
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This 1938 remake of Howard Hawks' 1930 film The Dawn Patrol is faithful to the original's basic plotline. The story is set...
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Lieut. Douglas Scott
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1938
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Filmed in Paris and along the French Riviera, Dinner at the Ritz afforded David Niven the chance to play his first starring...
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Paul de Brack
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1937
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Capt. Fritz von Tarlenheim
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1937
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Previously teamed in six early-1930s films, James Dunn and Sally Eilers bring the total up to seven with their last...
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Joe Gilling
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1937
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1936
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In this highly acclaimed adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel, Walter Huston plays Sam Dodsworth, a good-hearted, middle-aged...
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Major Clyde Lockert
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1936
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Just before his brief turn as a "singing cowboy," radio crooner Smith Ballew starred in Paramount's Palm Springs. Filmed on...
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1936
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1936
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This lavishly appointed Sam Goldwyn soap opera is set in Ireland during "the troubles." Irish rebel leader Dennis Reardon...
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Gerald Preston
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1936
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In this romantic mystery, based on the beloved characters of P.G. Wodehouse, the ever-impeccable, unflappable butler Jeeves...
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Bertie Wooster
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1936
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Legendary stage actress Pauline Lord made but a few films, but was always worth watching whenever she took command of the...
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1935
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It's the wild and woolly waterfront world of San Francisco in the late 1800s in this rambling tale of an outrageous nightclub...
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1935
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This romantic comedy-drama is set -- typical for producer Samuel Goldwyn at the time -- among the upper class. Joel McCrea...
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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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1935
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In this melodramatic adventure, a young woman is abducted by Chinese bandits. One of them is a free-lance pilot in need of...
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1935
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