London, 1912: Sam Saunders (Charles Davis), wastrel son of kindly pawnbroker Joe Saunders (Edmund Gwenn), thinks nothing of...
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1957
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The Spanish/Italian Rocket From Calabuch is significant only as the last film of beloved character actor Edmund Gwenn. The...
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Prof. George Hamilton
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1956
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The trouble with Harry is that he's dead. The scene is a autumnal Vermont village, where a pre-Leave It to Beaver...
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Capt. Albert Wiles
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1955
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The narrator of Herman Hoffman's film is a bull terrier named Wildfire, who rises from life in the slums to status as a...
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Jeremiah Nolan
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1955
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Edmund Purdom plays Prince Karl, but Mario Lanza sings the bold tunes coming out of Purdom's mouth, in this MGM remake of the...
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Prof. Juttner
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1954
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A little girl is found wandering in the desert, in a state of complete shock. When she finally revives, she can scream out...
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Dr. Harold Medford
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1954
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1953
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Robert Jordan is a television star. Robert Jordan likes things orderly, on time and properly executed. In his world children...
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Dr. Stone
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1953
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The title character is Edmond O'Brien, a lonely travelling salesman who ends up married to two women, Eve (Joan...
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Mr. Jordan
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1953
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Something for the Birds is a toothless satire of Washington, filmed during the McCarthy era. For lack of a political target...
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Johnnie Adams
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1952
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Bonzo Goes to College is the one that Ronald Reagan isn't in. The focus, of course, is on brainy chimpanzee Bonzo, who...
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Pop Drew
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1952
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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Bishop
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1952
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Young Sally Moyne (Ann Blyth) seldom makes a move in life without first consulting Saint Anne, patron saint of all young...
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Grandpa
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1952
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Peking Express was the second remake of Josef vonSternberg's Shanghai Express. In the original film, a group of railroad...
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Father Joseph Murray
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1951
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Best known to posterity as the third wife of Cary Grant, Betsy Drake enjoyed a substantial film career during the postwar...
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Cyrus Baxter
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1950
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A Woman of Distinction serves as a tailor-made vehicle for Rosalind Russell. The star is cast as Susan Middlecott, a highly...
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Mark Middlecott
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1950
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Based on a true story, Mister 880 is the whimsical tale of an elderly gentleman (Edmund Gwenn) who dabbles in counterfeiting....
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Skipper Miller
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1950
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Mr. Henry Hammond
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1950
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When the continual bickering of a married couple threatens to tear them apart, an angel is sent to help them get back...
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Arthur
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1950
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A "new" Lassie (once again, a male collie in drag) starred in A Challenge to Lassie, MGM's fourth entry in their series based...
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John Traill
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1949
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MGM's Lassie series was declining in popularity by 1948, so the studio decided to release its latest adventure of the famous...
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Dr. William MacLure
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1948
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Jason (William Holden) is a World War II veteran going to college on the GI Bill in the hope of bettering himself. He has...
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Professor Henry Barnes
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1948
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The 161-minute costume drama Green Dolphin Street is set in 1840, on an island off the coast of Newfoundland, (or at least,...
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Octavius Patourel
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1947
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Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute...
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Kris Kringle
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1947
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The longest-running non-musical play in Broadway history, Life With Father was faithfully filmed by Warner Bros. in 1947....
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Rev. Dr. Lloyd
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1947
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Often mistakenly identified as a sequel to My Friend Flicka, Thunder in the Valley actually has more in common with the...
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Adam McAdam
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1947
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A change of pace for both director Vincente Minnelli and star Katharine Hepburn, this taut drama features the latter as Ann...
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Prof. Dink Hamilton
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1946
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Athelny
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1946
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Radio legend and 3-D pioneer Arch Oboler brings his story, Alter Ego, to the screen in a low-budget yarn that benefits from a...
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Dr. Bergson
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1945
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Dr. Pecke
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1945
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In this a briefcase containing four wills is found next to the unconscious body of a man. He lies beside a plane crash. Each...
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Albert Richard Kingby
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1945
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Based on the novel by A.J. Cronin, The Keys of the Kingdom was the first big-budget effort of movie-newcomer Gregory Peck....
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Rev. Hamish MacNabb
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1944
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In this remake of Outward Bound, which updated the story to include topical refences to the war still raging in Europe, Henry...
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Scrubby
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1944
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Female dogs tend to shed while in heat; this is why all the collies who've played doggy heroine Lassie in the movies have...
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Rowlie
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1943
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The old George M. Cohan theatrical chestnut The Meanest Man in the World was retailored for the screen to accommodate the...
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Frederick P. Leggitt
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1943
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MGM's A Yank at Eton follows the same basic formula as the 1938 Robert Taylor starrer A Yank at Oxford, with a wartime angle...
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Justin
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1942
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At the close of World War I, shell-shocked amnesia victim Ronald Colman is sequestered in a London sanitarium; with no...
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1942
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Jack Benny brings his own distinctive touch to Brandon Thomas' venerable (and oft-filmed) stage farce Charley's Aunt....
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Stephen Spettigue
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1941
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In this remake of the 1930 film of the same name, a bank robber suffers a war wound and undergoes plastic surgery. Upon his...
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Inspector Cork
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1941
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Something of a distaff Mr. Chips, schoolteacher Ella Bishop (Martha Scott) devotes her life to her work, ageing 50 years...
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President Corcoran
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1941
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The Devil and Miss Jones is a social comedy with left-wing undertones. John P. Merrick (Charles Coburn), the world's richest...
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Hooper
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1941
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One Night in Lisbon is one of several pre-1942 films which used the screwball-comedy form to comment upon the raging war in...
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1941
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Fiercely independent authoress June Cameron (Loretta Young) has no time for men in her life. Chauvinistic medical college...
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Dr. Lionel Sterling
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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1940
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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Mumsey
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1940
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Long before 19th-century novelist Jane Austen became a hot property in Hollywood, MGM produced this opulent and entertaining...
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Mr. Bennet
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1940
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In this British wartime propaganda film, a Nazi spy creeps into England and is taken in by a kindly family who have no idea...
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Tom Brown
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1939
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1939
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Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who...
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Alfred Huggins
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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The Dean
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1938
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1938
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The true story of one of Ireland's leading political figures of the late 19th Century inspired this biographical drama....
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Campbell
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1937
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Bucolic Elmer Lamb (Stuart Erwin), who only wants to raise dairy cattle, is a mathematical prodigy; he's even a whiz at...
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Jeffrey Crane
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1936
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Though director Carol Reed seldom included Laburnham Grove on his resumé, he allowed that it was quite successful, and a cut...
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Mr. Radfern
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1936
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In one of his most successful portrayals of a "living dead" man, Boris Karloff plays John Ellman, an ex-convict who is framed...
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Dr. Evan Beaumont
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1936
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The overlong but absorbing MGM "B" melodrama Mad Holiday stars Edmund Lowe as vacationing movie idol Philip Trent. Tired of...
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Williams
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1936
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When David O. Selznick produced the film version of the 1000-plus page novel Gone with the Wind, he declared he could not...
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John Bonnyfeather
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1936
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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Henry Scarlett
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1935
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Jeremy Ammidon
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1935
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1934
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In this crime thriller, a renowned German crime scientist becomes the victim of a con and loses his life savings. To get his...
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Dr. Herman Krauss
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1934
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In this drama a rich banker loses his fortune in the stock market. His secretary's lover finds out that the banker has been...
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Trotter
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1934
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In this drama, a young man defends himself after he is attacked by a mugger. He shoots the thief, and believes that he has...
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1934
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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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Burgomaster
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1934
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The "Admiral" of the title is played by Edmund Gwenn, as twinkly and lovable as he was thirteen years later in Miracle on...
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1933
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Edmund Gwenn makes his American film debut in this lighthearted adaptation of Frederick Jackson's stage play The Bishop...
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Bishop James of Broadminster
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1933
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Polish opera star Jan Kiepura makes a rare film appearance in the British Be Mine Tonight. Kiepura plays an opera star who...
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Mayor Pategy
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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 drama, a married pair of lighthouse keepers take in a foster daughter whose father, unbeknownst to her, is serving a...
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1933
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Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes...
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Jess Oakroyd
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1933
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In this lighthearted drama, a dreamy clerk wakes up and discovers that he has won a small fortune in a contest. He then goes...
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1933
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Robert Donat stars as a businessman struggling to keep his company afloat in this British comedy also known as Cash. ~ Jason...
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Edmund Gilbert
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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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Norman Wakefield
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1933
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Anxious to finish off his contract with British International Pictures, Alfred Hitchcock agreed to direct Waltzes from...
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Johann Strauss the Elder
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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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Sir Henry Blossom
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1932
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In this British musical, a shop assistant attempts to impress a girl by telling her that he is actually the manager....
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Philpotts
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1932
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In this melodrama, a woman bears a child out of wedlock during WW I. She gives the child up to a rich old woman. Twenty...
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1932
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Ship's steward Howes unhappily inherits an earldom and a fortune and his friend Dempster convinces Howes to revert back to...
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1932
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On the surface just another quota quickie, Condemned to Death turned out to be quite a gem for those lucky enough to see it...
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Banting
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1932
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Stanley Houghton's enduring 1912 stage play Hindle Wakes had already been twice adapted for the screen when this first talkie...
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Chris Hawthorne
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1931
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Mr. Hornblower
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1931
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1931
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1927
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1916
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