George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by...
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1941
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Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby...
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1940
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The Band Waggon was the BBC radio series that catapulted diminutive comic Arthur Askey to stardom as "Big-Hearted Arthur"....
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1940
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Like Rick's Café Americain, the Café Colette is a rendezvous for virtually every spy in Europe. Greta Nissen stars as Russian...
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1937
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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1937
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1937
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Based upon The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle, The Man Behind the Mask was the last film Michael Powell made...
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1936
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Attractive scientist Dr. Clare Wyatt (Anna Lee) fondly declines the proposal of journalist Dick Haslewood (John Loder), who...
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Clayton
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1936
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This tragedy is a remake of D.W. Griffith's classic silent film. The story is based on "The Chink and the Child," a story by...
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1936
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Claude Rains is a phony psychic who makes a good living fleecing the suckers with his wild prognostications. But after Rains...
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1935
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Martha Eggerth heads the cast of Casta Diva, but the central character is famed Italian composer Vincenzo Bellini, here...
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Judge Fumaroli
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1935
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Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel...
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Bob Cratchit
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1935
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In this romance, a down-on-his-luck fellow saves a pretty woman from drowning herself, gives her shelter, and falls in love....
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1935
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Three talented screenwriters collaborated in adapting Evadne Price and Joan Roy Byford's play The Haunted Light to the screen...
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David Owen
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1935
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The corpse of a hated man is discovered in this mystery. The police inspector and investigating doctor found their work...
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1934
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This story of espionage in World War I is based on a true story. Marthe McKenna (Madeleine Carroll) is a nurse from Belgium...
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Cnockhaell
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1934
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One of the best of Michael Powell's low-budget "quota quickies" -- essentially British B-movies made on ultra-low budgets...
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Macleod
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1934
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The venerable Warwick Deeping story Sorrell and Son was dusted off again for this 1934 screen incarnation. Repeating his role...
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1934
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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1934
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1934
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F. P. 1 refers to "Floating Platform 1," a huge landing platform and refueling station being built in the middle of the...
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Photographer
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1933
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Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge...
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, two aspiring actors fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents. The two begin...
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1933
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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Poole
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1933
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This musical tells the love story of a manicurist and a night waiter who discover that they are sharing the same apartment....
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, an impoverished gambler falls in love with a coquette playing hard-to-get. The fellow's luck...
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Manager
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1932
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1932
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This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient (Leon M. Lion) who accidentally discovers the...
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Brant
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1932
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Told that he has only a year to live, Lester Matthews takes a last vacation to Egypt. Here, Matthews and his fellow tourists...
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1932
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A self-righteous, racist Alsatian village mayor kills a Jew in this gripping German remake of a 1926 film. A long time later...
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1931
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In this comedy, a wife vows to make her husband jealous and gets a golden opportunity when a few others come over to play...
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1931
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In this British drama, a superstitious group of people, stranded in a lonely, isolated train station are frightened by the...
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Saul Hodgkin
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1931
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A spiteful, young noblewoman, married to a prominent lord attempts to ruin the life of the highly-principled chauffeur who...
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1931
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In this teary drama, a married couple remember their lives together. Heart-wrenching flashbacks ensue. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1931
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In this melodrama, a dance hall girl marries a lighthouse captain. She soon learns she hates the lonely, isolated life and...
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Parsons
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1931
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1930
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The Butler
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1930
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Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie was a surprisingly static adaptation of the Sean O'Casey stage drama Juno and the Paycock....
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1930
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1930
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In emulation of such "all-talking, all-singing, all-star" Hollywood extravaganzas as The Show of Shows and...
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1930
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1930
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1930
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In this drama, a female reporter gets blackmailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Winton Penner
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1930
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In this WW I drama, an Austrian officer is injured and left behind while his troops attempt to leave an occupied town. The...
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Mendel
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1930
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Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film utilized the new sound technology in a rather creative way off-camera. Hitchcock's lead...
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Tracy
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1929
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1929
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Pointer
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1929
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Andy
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1927
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1918
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British stage luminary Ben Webster plays the lead in Gay Lord Quex. Based on a play by Arthur Wing Pinero, the film finds...
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1917
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Despite its somewhat kinky title, the British Altar Chains is a rather sedate domestic drama. Dawson Milward plays a military...
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1916
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