Photographer and filmmaker Bruce Weber has often made his enthusiasms and obsessions a part of his work, and he introduces...
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2004
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Daddy
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1991
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Grace Gardner (Lee Remick) is a money-minded television manager who hires out-of-work air personality James Marriner...
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James Marriner
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1987
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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1981
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Having made as many films as he had years, at 31, Rainer Werner Fassbinder essayed a slightly different approach for his 32nd...
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Hermann Herman
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1978
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The first English-language film from Alain Resnais, this drama about a spiteful, alcoholic novelist contains the French...
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Claude
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1977
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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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Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning
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1977
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Yet another in the stable of spy movies which depict espionage as a dirty business. Here, we have Dirk Bogarde heading the...
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Alan Curtis
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1975
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Max (Dirk Bogarde) is a discreet, unassuming night porter working in a posh hotel in Vienna in 1957, tending to the guests'...
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Max
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1974
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In this convoluted spy thriller, a Russian ambassador places his life on the line when he steals classified documents and...
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Boyle
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1973
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Based on a novel by Thomas Mann, Death in Venice stars Dirk Bogarde as a German composer who is terrified that he has lost...
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Gustav Von Aschenbach
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1971
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This colorful documentary covers the history of the Basilica in the Cathedral of St. Peters in Vatican City. Ralph...
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Prince Charlie
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1970
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In 1969, The Damned (La caduta degli dei) was director Luchino Visconti's most controversial film to date. Set in the 1930s,...
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Friedrich Bruckmann
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1969
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Justine (Anouk Aimee) is a Jewish prostitute living in Egypt who manages to sleep her way to the top. Marrying a financial...
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Pursewarden
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1969
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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John Frankenheimer directed this intense film adaptation of the Bernard Malamud novel. During the days of Czarist Russia, a...
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Bibikov
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1968
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Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) is an undisciplined mathematics genius who works in the "cipher bureau" of the British government....
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Sebastian
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1968
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The complex relationships among an Oxford professor, one of his students, and the young woman who captivates both of them is...
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Stephen
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1967
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Dirk Bogarde is a no-good rotter who returns to his family after several years' absence. Only his seven children are present...
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Charlie Hook
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1967
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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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Maj. McGuire
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1966
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A popular British comic strip series served as inspiration for this light-hearted espionage adventure, which if nothing else...
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Gabriel
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1966
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Julie Christie won an Oscar for her portrayal of a bored, amoral fashion model in this cynical melodrama from director John...
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Robert Gold
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1965
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This British television documentary, hosted by Dirk Bogarde, is about the aborted 1937 film I Claudius. The film, directed by...
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1965
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King and Country was adapted by Evan Jones from John Wilson's play Hamp. Misfit World War I British soldier Tom Courtenay, on...
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Capt. Hargreaves
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1964
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A scientist's attempts to clear the name of a friend nearly destroy his life in this intelligent science fiction drama. Prof....
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Dr. Henry Longman
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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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Simon Sparrow
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1963
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Wealthy wastrel James Fox hires insouciant cockney Dirk Bogarde as a valet. No sooner has he donned his working clothes than...
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Hugo Barrett
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1963
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Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author,...
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Nicholas Whistler
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1963
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This is a standard yet uneven drama featuring Judy Garland as Jenny Bowman, a powerful singer who obviously has a passion for...
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David Donne
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1963
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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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Melville Farr
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1962
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This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this...
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1962
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Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but...
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Lt. Scott-Padget
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1962
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Based on the true story of Sergeant-Major Charlie Coward (played by Dirk Bogarde) during World War II, this conventional...
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Charles Coward
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1962
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This unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A Night to Remember (1958) director...
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Anacleto
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1961
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This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a...
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Arturo Carrera
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1960
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Franz Liszt
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1960
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A man is forced to prove who he really is -- and discovers that it isn't as easy as one might think -- in this drama. Sir...
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Sir Mark Loddon
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1959
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The Wind Cannot Read is a tearful British star crossed romance effort set against the backdrop of World War II. RAF officer...
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Flight Lt. Michael Quinn
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1958
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This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers...
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Louis Dubedat
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1958
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Sydney Carton
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1958
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The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back...
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Dr. Simon Sparrow
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1957
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Based on a novel by Hammond Innes, the British Campbell's Kingdom is set in the Canadian Rockies. Dirk Bogarde plays Bruce...
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Bruce Campbell
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1957
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Eschewing the Shakespearean original title (it's a quote from A Midsummer Night's Dream), the British Ill Met by Moonlight...
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Maj. Paddy Leigh-Fermor "Philidem"
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1957
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A story of family interaction, this is an adaptation of an A.J. Cronin novel, with Dirk Bogarde in the title role. More a...
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Jose
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1957
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The recent Mau Mau uprising in Kenya served as story material for the 1955 British film Simba. White farmer Dirk Bogarde and...
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Allan Howard
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1955
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This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his...
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Dr. Simon Sparrow
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1955
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Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his...
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Edward Bare
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1955
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The direction of The Sleeping Tiger was credited to Victor Hanbury, but this was actually a pseudonym for the blacklisted...
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Frank Clements
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1954
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them is our candidate for the most dramatic title of any British World War II film. Happily, the film...
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Flight Sgt. Mackay
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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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Lt. Graham
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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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Tony Howard
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1954
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Based on a novel by Martin Albrand, Desperate Moment is set in postwar Germany. Simon van Halder (Dirk Bogarde) serving a...
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Simon Van Halder
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1953
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Set in 1943, Appointment in London stars Dirk Bogarde as Wing Commander Tim Mason. It is Mason's hope to complete 90 bombing...
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Wing-Commander Tim Mason
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1953
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The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical...
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Simon Sparrow
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1953
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Actress Yolande Donlon and her producer-director husband Val Guest were the prime movers of the 1952 comedy Penny Princess....
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Tony Craig
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1953
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Chris Lloyd
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1952
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During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of...
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Matt Sullivan
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1952
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In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is...
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Bill Fox
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1951
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Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a...
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Stephen Mundy
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1951
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The alternate title to the British The Woman in Question is Five Angles on Murder. That pretty much sums up the tenor of this...
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Bob Baker
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1950
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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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George Hathaway
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1950
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Brown is the color of the uniforms worn by the residents of a British borstal (boy's reformatory). Jack Warner plays the...
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1949
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Charles Prohack
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1949
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The Blue Lamp was an immensely popular British crime film (and the winner of the BFA Award), concentrating on interrelated...
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Tom Riley
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1949
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George Bland
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1948
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In this costume melodrama, a virginal maid is impregnated by the footman in the household where they work. He offers to...
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William Latch
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1948
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Hollywood films were linking up dance halls with criminal activities long before the British-made Dancing with Crime, which...
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1947
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Once a Jolly Swagman is the story of Bill Fox (Dirk Bogarde), a factory worker who dreams of fame and fortune as motorbike...
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Bill Fox
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1947
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