Exploitation master Jess Franco directs Devil's Island Lovers, a film set in a South American prison. The story concerns a...
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1974
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1974
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1974
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This gory British horror satire features a hammy Michael Gough as Doctor Storm, the demented overseer of a bizarre health...
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Pollack
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1973
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The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly...
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1973
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Expert Brtish farceurs Reg Varney and Norman Rossington carry the weight of Double Take on their bony shoulders. Our heroes...
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1972
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The popular Australian comic strip The Wonderful World of Barry McKenzie was first brought to the screen in this raunchy 1972...
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Mr. Gort
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1972
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A star-studded cast highlights this musical adaptation of the classic fantasy tales of Lewis Carroll. One day young Alice...
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1972
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1972
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This gory low-budget British outing involves a team of archaeologists landing on fog-shrouded Snape Island -- recently the...
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1972
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1972
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This entry in Hammer Films' long-running vampire series of the '60s and '70s is one of the most evocative and original. The...
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Dietrich
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1971
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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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1970
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Director Jesus Franco's surrealistic reworking of Bram Stoker's short story "Dracula's Guest" has acquired a substantial cult...
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Dr. Alwin Seward
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1970
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In this farce, four people go to extremes to inherit the giant fortune of a wealthy practical joker. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1970
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Dr. Frankenstein
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1970
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Victor Frankenstein (Ralph Bates) is the son of the Count who plans his father's demise. He inherits the castle and the...
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1970
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The most horrifying part of this British spooker is seeing former clean-cut teen idol Frankie Avalon cast as Chris, a London...
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1970
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand...
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1969
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Not to be confused with Massimo Dallamano's contemporaneous treatment of the Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch classic, this...
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Kapp
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1969
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This exotically titled Avengers episode is a working of the 1962 "Cathy Gale" installment "The Big Thinker." The title...
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Jason
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1969
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Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying...
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1967
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In this drama, a singer on her husband's weekly television show suddenly decides to begin a new life without him. She then...
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Bathroom Salesman
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1967
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Lion hunters beware! Chief M'Gobo is watching and waiting to throw a deadly voodoo curse upon anyone who harms his sacred...
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Maj. Thomas
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1965
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Based on a novel by Richard Hughes, this drama takes an unusual look at both seafaring pirates and the true nature of...
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Mathias
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1965
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The BBC comedy series World of Wooster was based on P.G. Wodehouse's whimsical short stories about upper-class twit Bertie...
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Jeeves
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1965
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The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians...
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1965
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This obscure little science fiction/horror film (a British-American co-production) stars Willard Parker as a heroic astronaut...
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1964
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They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college...
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Prof. Hughes
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1964
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Murder Most Foul represented Margaret Rutherford's third appearance as Agatha Christie's spinsterish sleuth Miss Marple. The...
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Theatrical Agent
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1964
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In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in...
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Cornwallis
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1964
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In this confused parody, a lovely South Seas island girl travels to England following her father's death and becomes the...
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Charles Poole
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1964
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Tommy Morris
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1964
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A stodgy British patriarch sends his naive daughter to Europe so that her rock & roll singing boyfriend will dump her....
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1963
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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1963
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After several years' absence, Dirk Bogarde returns to the popular British "Doctor" film series in Doctor in Distress. Where...
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1963
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This colorful slapstick comedy concerns an honest locksmith who gets talked into a safecracking scheme by a couple of...
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Grantley
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1963
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When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket....
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1963
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In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a...
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1963
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The original British title for No Place Like Homicide was What a Carve-Up. This level of sophistication was maintained for...
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Guy Broughton
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1962
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Smooth Tongue
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1962
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Terry-Thomas stars in this British comedy as J. Barker-Rynde, a detective assigned to look into some dirty dealings at a...
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Dr. Crossley
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1962
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Prawn
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1962
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Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...
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Withers
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1962
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In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and...
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Calloway
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1962
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This Ernie Kovacs cult comedy was the last film directed by Mario Zampi and follows the exploits of Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) who...
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Raphael
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1961
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A battered houseboat on the Thames provides the setting for this romantic British comedy. Two newlyweds rent the leaky...
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Leonard Watson
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1961
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A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't...
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Dr. Adrian Bland
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1961
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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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1961
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Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal...
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1961
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Able-bodied seaman Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) plans to marry Shirley Hornett (Vera Day), and the ceremony is about to take...
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1961
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Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against...
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Maj. Charlie Scott
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1960
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In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...
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Dunstan Dorchester
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1960
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Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's...
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1960
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This fast-paced, standard crime story about a caper gone awry is directed by Rilla Wolf and stars Terence Morgan as Dominic,...
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1960
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Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the...
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Robert Ross
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1960
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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Bertram Tracepurcel
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1959
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Don't Panic Chaps! is one of the least distinguished films in a run of 1950s British comedies set during World War II. This...
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Capt. von Krisling
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1959
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Set in an Italian P.O.W. camp during World War II, this conventional escape drama shines the most in the portrayals of the...
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Capt. Rupert Callender
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1959
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Long, long, after her days of filmic glory in the 1930s and 1940s, skating star Sonja Henie made her last movie appearance in...
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1958
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Brady is approached by Raphael Constantine (Dennis Price), a man with a horribly disfigured face. His voice choking with...
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1958
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In this crime drama a murderer covers his tracks by framing his wife. He does this by posing as his victim and forcing his...
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1957
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Released in the U.S. as Your Past Is Showing, the British The Naked Truth is a wickedly funny satire of the tabloid-press...
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Nigel Dennis
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1957
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Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) is an honest, decent man, dedicated to his job as an insurance claims assessor -- until he...
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Tracey Moreton
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1957
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Rock Around the World purports to be the life story of pop singer Tommy Steele, engagingly played by himself. The film traces...
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1957
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Adapted from a novel by Bernard Victor Dyer, Port Afrique offers an unusual screen romantic team in the form of two-fisted...
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Robert Blackton
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1956
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Harold Armytage
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1956
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
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Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel
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1956
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A bellboy gets sweet revenge upon the employers at the hotel where he once worked after he inherits a lot of money in this...
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1956
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Maj. Frank
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1955
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Based on a true event from 16th century Spain, this costume drama follows the tragic life of Ana de Mendoza, Princess of...
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Mateo Vasquez
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1955
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The eight witnesses of a murder of a scientist can only help so much as they are all blind. ~ Rovi...
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1954
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Arthur Watkyn's droll theatrical piece For Better, For Worse was expertly adapted for the big screen in 1954. Popular young...
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1954
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In this suspenseful mystery, a woman is imprisoned for murdering her husband. All that knew him are sympathetic to the...
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1953
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In this murder mystery, a police detective begins suspecting that his sister's newest beau is a murderer. Unfortunately, he...
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1953
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Jack Hawkins plays a former British army officer who is surprised in his home one evening by a burglar. His surprise is...
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Leonard Perry
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1953
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Young Robert Fontaine, Jr. (Billy Gray) lives with his hard-working father (George Murphy) and mother (Nancy Davis), who is...
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1952
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Matthew Ibbetson
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1952
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A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family...
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1952
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Clive Hunter
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1951
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Future "spectacle" director J. Lee Thompson is confined to the theatrical limitations of his source material in Murder...
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Matthew, Stephen's Landlord
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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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Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests....
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Simon Abbott
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1951
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I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a...
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Tom Pettigrew
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1951
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The Lost People is a pedantic British drama set in a large, abandoned German theatre just after the War. A disparate group of...
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1950
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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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A frequent visitor to the Late Late Show, the Anglo-American Snowbound is set in the frozen Alps. Robert Newton and Dennis...
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Neil Blair
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1949
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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and...
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Louis Mazzini
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1949
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Shortly after the end of World War II, a pair of British soldiers hold an increasingly hostile group if refugees in a German...
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Ridley
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1949
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The Dancing Years was written by British theatrical favorite Ivor Novello, who also penned the songs. Set in...
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Rudi Kleiber
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1949
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George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in...
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Lord Byron
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1949
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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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Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her...
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1948
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Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off...
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Red
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1948
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When a wealthy man discovers that his wife is having an affair, he murders her lover, committing the perfect crime. ~ Rovi...
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Richard Fenton
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1947
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The misery caused by a long-term feud between two Irish families provides the framework in this drama based on a book by...
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1947
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The White Unicorn would be worth watching if only for that lyrical title. The film itself, however, isn't quite so whimsical,...
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1947
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Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for...
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1947
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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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The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini....
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1947
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In this British melodrama, an indigent writer suffers from amnesia, forgets that he is in love with an aristocratic lady,...
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1946
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Adapted from a novel by Osbert Sitwell, A Place of One's Own has a double-edged title: It refers to a physical place as well...
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Dr. Selbie
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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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Dick Warren
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1945
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Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of...
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Sgt. Peter Gibbs
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1944
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