Sometimes a family title, among the nobility of England, goes to the "collateral" heirs -- people not in the direct line of...
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Play Author
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1991
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In this conventional drama, Victor is a graying older man (Denholm Elliott) who loses his apartment in a fire. The blaze was...
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1985
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1985
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Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder...
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1982
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Play Author
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1978
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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Jack Foil
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1970
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A fine cast distinguishes this unusual supernatural thriller. When London-based vintner Phillippe de Montfaucon (David Niven)...
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1967
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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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Play Author
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1964
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Considered ultra-mature film fare in 1962, The L-Shaped Room stars Leslie Caron as a unmarried, pregnant French girl....
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1962
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Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going...
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Sir Wilfred Falcett
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1959
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Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose...
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Enoch Oswald
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1959
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The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also...
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Emile Zola
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1958
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Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted...
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Play Author
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1957
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Sir William Collyer
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1955
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Produced by MGM's British facilities, the Technicolor Ivanhoe starred Robert Taylor in the title role. Returning to England...
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Wamba (Ivanhoe's squire)
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1952
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Mercedes McCambridge plays a singing waitress named Cash-and-Carry Connie in The Scarf. This alone should be enough to keep...
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David Dunbar
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1951
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Bette Davis co-stars with her then-new husband Gary Merrill in the British melodrama Another Man's Poison. Adapted from...
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"Dr." Henderson
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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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That Letter to Three Husbands was an uninspired gender-switch reworking of 1949's Letter to Three Wives was less obvious when...
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1950
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Inspired by the 1949 hit A Letter to Three Wives, this takes the other side of the coin with a deceased playboy leaving...
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1950
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A movie based on a true story, this is the story of a man who was exiled as a thief from his village but later returns for...
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Director, Screenwriter, Rob
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1949
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Assembled for British theatrical consumption by Pathe Films, The Peaceful Years covers the era between WWI and WWII. The...
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narrator
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1948
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Play Author
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1945
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Play Author
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1942
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In this drama, a has-been stage thespian finds that his alcoholism is ruining his life. When his daughter, a cripple,...
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Play Author
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1942
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You Will Remember is based on the life of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (born Thomas Barrett in 1864), here played...
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Bob Slater
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1941
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George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by...
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Snobby Price
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1941
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Paramount Pictures' British division was responsible for this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel Hatter's Castle....
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Dennis
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1941
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The pageantlike This England was designed by the Anglo-American film corporation to boost the morale of the war-besieged...
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Screenwriter, Appleyard
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1941
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Also known as Girl in the Case, this early Carol Reed effort tended to be dismissed or ignored by its director in later...
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Tracy
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1940
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A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film is set in a northern England mining town (far...
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Joe Gowlan
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1939
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In this crime drama, a boys' school matron is brutally murdered after she wins the French lottery. The story tells how it...
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Screenwriter, Dr. Headlam
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1939
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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Harry the Peddler
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1939
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In this farce, a loving husband spending his first night apart from his wife in seven years goes out with a friend to get...
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Charles Seaton
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1938
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1938
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Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to...
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Screenwriter, Owen
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1938
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Play Author
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1937
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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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Screenwriter, Chen
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1936
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Christian VII
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1935
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In this opera-oriented musical, a young tenor in Venice meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get...
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Theodore
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1935
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Originally released in 1932, Men of Tomorrow represented the film debut of Robert Donat. The story follows a young,...
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1935
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In this romantic melodrama a young composer falls for a pretty woman who is unfortunately, betrothed to a rich man. ~ Sandra...
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1935
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In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high...
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Charles VII
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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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Screenwriter
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1935
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Evensong is based on the teary novel by Beverly Nichols, which had previously spawned a lachrymose (and enormously...
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George Murray
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1934
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The first film version of The Man Who Knew too Much proved to be the international "breakthrough" film for British director...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Director Dick Lester does an astute job of orchestrating several rock 'n roll and jazz performers in this musical drama...
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1934
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The old Ben W. Levy war-horse play Evergreen proved to be an excellent film vehicle from British music-comedy star...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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The Iron Duke is one of the best of the George Arliss biopics -- and one of the few that can claim near-total accuracy (with...
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1934
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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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Screenwriter, Blake
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1933
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In this romance, a typist is the secret mistress of a wealthy man. After three years of illicit romance, he suddenly dumps...
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1932
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The Criminal at Large in this quota quickie murders his victims in the dark of night. There seems to be a pattern to the...
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Lord Lebanon
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1932
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