Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories...
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Sir Roger Avery
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1980
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The wife of a greedy Yankee entrepreneur comes back to haunt him after he scares her to death in this thriller. He is after...
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1979
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Lionel Jeffries directed Water Babies, a children's fantasy based on the story by Charles Kingsley that incorporates...
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Sir John
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1979
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This children's fantasy is about the "Wombles," borrowed from a British TV series, who are furry creatures (actors in suits),...
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Roland Frogmorton
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1977
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Les Charlots, a French comedy/music troupe, caper through this James Bond spoof. Responding to news that the real James Bond...
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Protocol Chief
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1975
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks was produced several years after Walt Disney's death and released in the fall of 1971. As it turned...
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Emelius Browne
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1971
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Those who worried that the Disney studio would collapse without the presence of the late Uncle Walt were put at ease when the...
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Thorndyke
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1968
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This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot...
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Quadrant
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1966
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This sci-fi fantasy film was supposedly inspired by a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem. It is also the last film made by...
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Harold Tufnell-Jones
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1965
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An American widower and his 18-year-old daughter live on a Caribbean houseboat. Romance and adventure ensue when they invite...
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1965
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Long resistant to film adaptations of her Mary Poppins books, P.L. Travers finally succumbed to the entreaties of...
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Mr. Banks
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1964
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Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies...
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1963
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This romp through the comedic world of spy-chase stories starts with Dick Lanchester (David Tomlinson), a less-than-brilliant...
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Dick Lanchester
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1960
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This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role...
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Lt. Fairweather
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1958
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Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an...
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Lieutenant Fairweather
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1958
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Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular...
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'J'
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1957
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The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they...
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Tom Baker
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1957
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Jill Day plays Mary in this frolicksome British comedy. While on vacation in Switzerland, Mary finds herself the object of...
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Humpy Miller
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1956
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Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? never really answers its own question, but has no difficulty delivering laughs in full...
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Frank Betterton
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1953
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Most of this hectic British comedy takes place in an ancient Scottish castle. The British National Coal Board, following a...
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Earl of Locharne
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1952
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Made in Heaven is predicated on one of Britain's most curious annual traditions. During the yearly Dunmow Flitch, a side of...
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Basil Topham
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1952
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All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property...
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Algy Longworth
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1951
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Capt. Puffin Cheyne
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1951
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now...
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John Barton
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1950
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Based on a true story (believe it or don't!), The Wooden Horse is set in a wartime German prison camp. It being the duty for...
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Phil
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1950
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Ronnie Waring
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1949
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By 1949, British stage and film star A.E. Matthews was more widely celebrated for his advanced age (eighty) than his...
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Lord Tony Pym
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1949
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A persistent case of hiccups causes all sorts of problems for a pretty young socialite in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1949
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Landfall takes place during the early portions of WWII. RAF pilot Rick (Michael Denison) is transferred to another squadron...
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1949
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The action in the British Marry Me! centers around a marriage bureau. Utilizing the "omnibus" approach made popular by such...
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David Haig
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1949
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Based on a novel by Mary Mitchell, Warning to Wantons is the story of 17-year-old Renee (Anne Vernon). After wriggling out of...
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Count Max Kardak
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1949
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The fictional Hugget Family makes the first of three film appearances in this domestic comedy from Great Britain. ~ Sandra...
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1948
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Long before he became the Disney Studios' favorite stuffy Brit, David Tomlinson enjoyed top billing in the 1948 comedy Love...
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1948
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This disaster movie is based on the true story of ways in which a diverse group of plane passengers managed to survive after...
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1948
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Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous...
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1948
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In this comedy, the Huggett family patriarch decides to run for public office. His entire platform is built upon a promise...
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1948
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Easy Money is a satire of that most venerated of all middle-class British traditions, the football pool. The film is divided...
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1948
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Set in Yorkshire in the 19th century, this period drama centers upon a family of mill owners. The story shifts from the...
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1947
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When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to...
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1947
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Filmed in 1945 and released in the US the following year, the Anglo-American Journey Together is a tribute to the Royal Air...
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Smith
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1946
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Produced, directed and scripted by Peter Ustinov (who did not star), Secret Flight was released in Great Britain in 1946, but...
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Edward Watlington
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1946
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I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre....
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1946
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Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain...
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1945
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Sleeping Car to Trieste is a remake of one of the best railroad melodramas of the 1930s, Rome Express. The film's "maguffin"...
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1945
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The "Scarlet Pimpernel" legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also...
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1941
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The old reliable plot device known as premarital hanky-panky was the basis of the Esther McCracken stage play Quiet Wedding....
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1941
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In this old-joke-filled farce, a married couple has to put up with an obnoxious mother-in-law whose husband gets caught...
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1941
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Plumber/coronet player Lupino and retired major Maltby bumble through the organization of a show for the soldiers in this...
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1940
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