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Selsdon Mowbray/The Burglar
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1992
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Scorchers is set way down in steamy Louisiana, deep in bayou country where the women get hot and hotter--or not hot at all....
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1992
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1991
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This award-winning TV production tells the true story of a heroic woman's underground operation to spirit Allied soldiers out...
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Father LeBlanc
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1991
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At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back in the black column. Her efforts to get...
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1991
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A murder investigation at a cloistered boy's school is the subject of this British made-for-television adaptation of...
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George Smiley
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1991
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Angela Lansbury stars as an unmarried teacher at a Minnesota Catholic grade school. An ongoing battle with new bishop...
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1990
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Cheech Marin and Eric Roberts play two draft-dodging hippies who flee to a commune in Central America where they stay for 20...
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1989
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Marcus Brody
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1989
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1989
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Based on John Trenhaile's A Man Called Kyril, this byzantine-plotted spy melodrama stars Ian Charleson in the title role....
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1989
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When a father attempts to return to his abandoned family after 23 years his grown son tries to murder his drunk, unemployed...
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Monty Berg
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1989
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1989
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This 60-minute TV adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's 1886 doppelganger yarn stars Anthony Andrews as kindly London medico...
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1989
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In one of her first adult starring roles, Nicole Kidman played the lead in the three-part Australian miniseries Bangkok...
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1989
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Maruschka Detmers stars as Hannah Senesh, a real-life Hungarian Jew who became a martyr to the cause of freedom during WW II....
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1988
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1988
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Washburn
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1988
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Based on the novel by Marion Meade, this costume drama retelling of the doomed 12th century romance of Abelard and Heloise...
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Fulbert
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1988
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Made for television from the Dylan Thomas classic, the film concerns a traditional Christmas in Wales around the turn of the...
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1988
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A weekend stay at a Vermont summer house provides glimpses into the lives of six unhappy people, plagued by unrequited...
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Howard
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1987
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Director James Ivory brings his subdued, "Masterpiece Theater" style to a forbidden subject -- homosexual love. Maurice is...
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Dr. Barry
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1987
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1987
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Based on a scandalous South African murder trial of the 1940s, this drama tells the story of a prominent British lord who is...
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1987
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This fast-paced thriller examines the amorality of a nation's secret services and the responsibility of journalistic...
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Vernon Bayliss
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1986
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Col. Hugh Phelps
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1986
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This is a standard sci-fi horror-thriller that mixes romance together with lumpy underground mutants and a pivotal mad...
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Dr. Savary
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1986
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Mr. Emerson
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1986
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This made-for-TV adaptation of Anita Brookner's novel is an account of a novelist, still smarting from a failed...
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1986
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Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry was especially written by playwright James Prideaux for Katharine Hepburn. It would have been...
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1986
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Told from the perspective of an innocent young teen and the writings in her diaries, this drama about an actual, sensational...
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Sir Henry Broughton
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1986
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In this conventional drama, Victor is a graying older man (Denholm Elliott) who loses his apartment in a fire. The blaze was...
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Victor
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1985
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This 1985 television production faithfully adapts Charles Dickens' Bleak House, an indictment of Victorian England's corrupt...
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1985
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Elliott Templeton
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1984
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A British couple's attempts to circumvent local food-rationing regulations trigger a chaotic series of events in this...
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Dr. Charles Swaby
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1984
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Alexandre Dumas fis first dramatized his own novel La Dame aux Camelias in 1852. Before the century was out, the work had...
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1984
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1983
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The Blue Dress is a 70-minute romantic idyll which threatens to culminate in tragedy at any moment. Denholm Elliott plays a...
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1983
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Sir Ralph Skelton
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1983
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In this classic mystery story, Sherlock Holmes (Ian Richardson) is requested to investigate deaths around the Baskerville...
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Dr. Mortimer
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1983
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The "nature-nurture" theory that motivated so many Three Stooges comedies is the basis of John Landis's hit comedy. The...
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Coleman
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1983
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Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to...
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Bishop
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1982
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Thirteen months and ten million dollars were lavished upon this ten-hour, four-part TV miniseries about legendary...
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Niccolo Polo
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1982
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The arrival of a mysterious stranger disrupts the lives of the members of a British family in this dark, psychological...
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Thomas Bates
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1982
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As a family travels during their vacation, they offer a ride to a hitchhiker and soon find it may have been a bad idea. ~...
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1982
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Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) is no ordinary archeologist. When we first see him, he is somewhere in the Peruvian jungle in...
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Marcus Brody
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1981
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1981
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Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each...
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Parker [An Englishman's Home]
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1980
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Stefan Vognic
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1980
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Leonard Rossiter stars in the madcap British farce Rising Damp, as Rupert Rigsby, the bigoted and conniving landlord of a...
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Seymour
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1980
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Jack Hill
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1980
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Skinner
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1979
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In this drama, a black man fights for freedom from racial oppression in the troubled country of Rhodesia. ~ Iotis Erlewine,...
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1979
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William Leigh
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1979
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This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege...
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1979
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1979
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This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated...
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1978
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Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and...
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1978
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The concept behind the 1977 Hound of the Baskervilles involved having "underground" director Paul Morrissey bring an...
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Stapleton
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1978
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The Sweeney started out as a British TV detective program all about Scotland Yard's Flying Squad. Its popularity spawned a...
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Jupp
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1978
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The French Riviera felt the heavy hand of German occupation much later than the rest of the country, and was a haven for...
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Man
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1978
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It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas. What's...
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1977
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John Cleese co-wrote and stars in this satiric comedy as the less-than-spectacular progeny of the world's greatest detective....
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1977
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Christopher Lee stars in this weak occult melodrama as Father Michael Rayner, an excommunicated priest who decides to save...
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Henry Beddows
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1976
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Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis...
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1976
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1976
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Though the story told in Robin and Marian is unfamiliar to most audiences, it is actually quite faithful to several of the...
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1976
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A young woman's romantic dalliance with a criminal unexpectedly changes her life for the better in this drama. Heather...
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John Grey
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1976
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1975
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An American reporter becomes entangled in international intrigue and murder while on assignment to interview a British art...
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1975
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The picturesque streets of Vancouver, British Columbia provide the setting for this thriller that is based on Ardies' novel...
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Cmdr. Petapiece
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1975
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The 1972 British farce Percy was about the world's first penis transplant; Percy's Progress constitutes the sequel, with...
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Sir Emmanuel Whitbread
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1974
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Richard Dreyfuss put himself on the map with his performance in this movie about how ambition and greed can drive someone at...
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1974
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1974
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Henrik Ibsen's oft-filmed play A Doll's House was adapted for the screen in this Anglo-Canadian production. Claire Bloom...
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Nils Krogstad
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1973
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Vault of Horror is the first sequel to 1972's horror hit Tales from the Crypt. It is also known as Tales from the Crypt, Part...
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Diltant
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1973
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Low-brow British humor abounds in this farcical account of Edwin Anthony, the first man to receive a successful penis...
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1971
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1971
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This anthology picture about a bad-luck mansion is a thriller with four episodes--all framed by a police investigation. A...
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Charles
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1971
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The first appearance of Bette Davis in a made-for-television film has an evil mastermind (Davis) plotting against a CIA agent...
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1971
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Filmed on location in the Philippines Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero is set in the last months of World War II....
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1970
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Like Socrates of ancient Athens, Michael Rimmer (Peter Cook) of modern England believes the key to success is to ask the...
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Peter Niss
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1970
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In this made-for-television version of Stevenson's classic tale of terror and suspense, a crazy doctor develops a formula...
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1968
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This is one of several film versions of the classic play by Anton Chekhov. The depressing tale of unrequited love begins when...
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1968
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Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is in his last year of high school and hoping to lose his status as a virgin, in this romantic...
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1968
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Narrator Rudy Vallee announces that he knows we are a "real high class audience," thus he has "some swell story to tell."...
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1968
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Inspector Barrada
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1967
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1966
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This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule,...
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Baker
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1966
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When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea...
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1966
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James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version...
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Lieutenant Colonel Larkin
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1965
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You Must be Joking? draws its laughs from an Army endurance test. Over a 48-hour period, five officers in the British...
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1965
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The story of revolutionary Victorian nurse Florence Nightingale is told in this drama. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1965
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Charlie Prince
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1964
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American audiences were disappointed when the nude scenes featuring sexy Baby Doll (1956) star Carroll Baker were excised...
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Macey
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1964
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1963
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Based on a novel by Constantine Fitzgibbon, this two-part British miniseries was set sometime in the 1990s. Weakened by...
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1962
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Produced by Mike Todd Jr., Scent of Mystery was a misguided attempt to introduce a new gimmick to motion pictures. The plot...
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Oliver Larker
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1960
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An animated classic romance, this is the story of a handsome young chimneysweep and a beautiful princess. The voices are...
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1959
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Heavily in debt, John Manbridge (Denholm Elliott) cannot wait to inherit the money promised him by his wealthy uncle Felix...
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1959
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1958
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This biopic chronicles the true experiences of a British government representative who is sent with his wife to wild, exotic...
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Arthur Grimble
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1956
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The Night My Number Came Up was based on an actual incident in the life of Britain's Sir Victor Goddard. Michael Redgrave...
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Flight Lt. McKenzie
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1955
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Framed in flashback form, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined...
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Dennis
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1955
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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed,...
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Michael "Mick" Gregory
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1954
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Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen...
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Martin Blake
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1954
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Filmed in England, They Who Dare is undeservedly the least-known of director Lewis Milestone's sound films. Set in the...
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Sgt. Corcoran
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1954
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Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra...
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Wilson
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1953
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In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette,...
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Sub-Lt. Morell
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1953
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Breaking the Sound Barrier juxtaposes the history of jet aviation with an intensely personal fictional story....
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1952
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1951
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1949
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