An episode of the television series, where Buck leads a squad of pilots, including a friend of Wilma's father, into a fight...
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1979
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The title character in this British sitcom was Jacquie Villiers (Moira Lister) who, after the death of her husband in a freak...
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1967
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There's a bit of Oedipus Rex in The Haunted Strangler, though it's not readily apparent at first. Boris Karloff plays...
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Barbara Rankin
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1958
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A vicious murderer suffers amnesia and his psychiatrist finds his brain waves indicative of violent tendencies. After he...
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1955
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In this newsroom drama, a workaholic editor refuses to take a vacation with his wife. Instead he remains in his office and...
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Susan Grant
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1954
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This comedy is essentially a prototype of Disney's 1961 film Parent Trap and tells the tale of twin girls, separated after...
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1953
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This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain...
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Angela Prout
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1953
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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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Louise Scobie
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1953
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Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as...
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1951
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The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast...
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Lady Sybil
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1949
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In this crime drama, three ancient, weird sisters begin planning to kill their half-brother in order to scare up the cash...
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1948
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In this British comedy, set in Tangleton, a small English village, a handyman finds himself in trouble when he inadvertently...
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1944
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Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film...
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Peggy
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1942
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The tumultuous life of 18th-century composer Handel is chronicled in this dramatic biography. The story begins when the...
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Mrs. Cibber
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1942
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Queenie
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1940
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1939
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In this courtroom drama, a remake of a 1931 film, a woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in...
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1939
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In this suspense movie, a secretary marries her rich old boss. He suddenly dies and she finds herself the prime suspect in...
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Victoria Ainswell
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1938
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Based on a story by Jules Verne and featuring battle footage from a French film version of the tale, this epic...
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Nadia
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1937
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This drama chronicles the love affair between a composer and the concert singer who jilts him for the love of a count. In...
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Joan Elton
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1937
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Nancy Marlowe
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1937
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Greta Garbo enjoyed one of her greatest triumphs in this glossy adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' oft-filmed romantic tragedy....
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Nichette
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1936
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Based on a novel by Netta Syrett, A Woman Rebels is the story of Pamela Thistlewaite (Katharine Hepburn), whose mission in...
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Flora Thistlewaite
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1936
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Nettie Vollar
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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1935
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Irena Borotyn
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1935
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It is a tale known well, filmed many times over the years, but never better than this early black and white version from the...
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Lucie Manette
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1935
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Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by...
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Venice
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1934
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In an unusual move, MGM released its film version of Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-Prize winning play Men in White while the...
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Barbara
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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Jane Frensham
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1934
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Helen
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1933
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A shopkeeper suffers after he is laid off during the Depression in this drama adapted from the English play Service. He had...
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Caroline Service
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1933
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Often mistaken for a screen adaptation of the popular radio series, the British The Shadow was actually based on a play by...
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Sonya Bryant
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1933
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Ace of Aces was based on Bird of Prey by John Monk Saunders, an acknowledged master of aviation epics. Richard Dix stars as...
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Nancy Adams
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1933
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A boozy newspaper reporter is booted out of his job for drinking too much. A few fateful twists later, he becomes partners...
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Peggy Wilson
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1933
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In this romance, the love lives of several London dress shop employees are chronicled. Much of the story centers upon the...
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1932
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Adapted from the Ernest Vajda novel The Head Waiter, Service for Ladies stars Leslie Howard as Max Tracey, premiere waiter of...
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Sylvia Robertson
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1932
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Romo
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1932
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In this drama, set during the Depression, Charlie Stubbs tries to escape slum life by becoming a criminal. That doesn't work...
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1932
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In this actioner, a half-Arab member of the Foreign Legion, previously court-martialed for insubordination, cannot earn his...
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1932
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In Belloc-Lowndes' original novel The Lodger, the reclusive young man suspected of being Jack the Ripper turns out to be...
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Daisy Bunting
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1932
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In this drama a Chinese mandarin admits that he stole a secret treaty. He does this to protect the true thief who is his...
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1932
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In this drama, two half-sisters begin fighting after they fall for the same man. The fight is resolved when one of the girls...
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Vera Mannering
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1931
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The Boat From Shanghai may be an unprepossessing title, but at least it's better than the film's original cognomen,...
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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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No relation to the 1929 American crime melodrama of the same name, the British Alibi is based on Agatha Christie's The Murder...
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1931
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Barbara Amory
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1931
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