In this clunky suspense film, straining to be Hitchcockian, Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic Henry Clarke, who finds...
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Richard Moreau
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1968
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Insurance investigator Richard Cutting (Patrick O'Neal) is summoned to look into the sinking of some ships owned by wealthy...
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Notary
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1968
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The Whisperers stars Dame Edith Evans as a lonely old woman whose imagination is getting the better of her sanity. She...
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Archie Ross
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1967
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The celebrated "election episode" of The Prisoner, "Free For All" was directed by series star Patrick McGoohan, and also...
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1967
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When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea...
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British Ambassador
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1966
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The Bedford Incident was an attempt by Columbia Pictures -- which had previously made Dr. Strangelove and released Fail-Safe...
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1965
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Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) forgoes working for a living in this seedy district of London. He hangs out in jazz clubs and...
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Richard Dyce
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1963
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In this drama, set after the end of WW II, a young man returns to his father's small Bavarian village and is dismayed to...
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1962
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Filmed in Germany by American director John Huston, Freud is a sincerely felt but overly simplistic biopic of the pioneering...
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Dr. Theodore Meynert
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1962
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There is nothing like suspecting your husband of murder to add suspense to a marriage, at least that is the case in this...
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Jeremy Clay
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1961
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While on a sea voyage with his family, the eminent Sir Richard Musgrave (Eric Portman) is unnerved by the presence of a...
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1960
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1957's The Good Companions was the second film version of the well-known J. B. Priestly play. The story revolves around the...
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Jess Oakroyd
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1957
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In this tragic melodrama, a lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her...
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Henry Acheson
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1956
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During World War II, the impenetrable Colditz castle in Germany was selected as the site for a POW camp. The Germans reason...
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Col. Richmond
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1955
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Miller
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1955
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In this British drama a veteran laborer rises above the turmoil of unionization to become the governor of Artista, an...
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George Harrison
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1952
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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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Cairo Road is a standard British "police precinct" drama with a twist; this precinct is located in Cairo, Egypt....
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Col. Youssef Bey
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1950
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The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of...
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Fernand Maubert
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1949
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The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric Portman plays the private...
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Sir John Dearing
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1948
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Based on a novel by Chris Massie, Corridor of Mirrors is a British attempt to match the poetry and lyricism of the French...
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Paul Mangin
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1948
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When a wealthy man discovers that his wife is having an affair, he murders her lover, committing the perfect crime. ~ Rovi...
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Lee Warren
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1947
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In this costume drama, a woman finds herself the prize in a battle between two jealous brothers. Eventually she marries the...
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Richard Howard
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1947
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An aboriginal man is torn between the modern world in which he lives and the ancient culture in which he was brought up in...
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District Commissioner Randall
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1946
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American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the...
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Capt. Ellis
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1946
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Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground....
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Victor Colebrooke
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1946
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Daybreak a dark, depressing melodrama, tells the story of Eddie (Eric Portman) an unemployed hangman who marries Frankie...
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Eddie
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1946
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Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of...
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Thomas Colpepper, J.P.
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1944
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In this espionage film, a Danish double-agent is assigned by the Nazis to sneak into to England and abscond with the secret...
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Arthur Lawrence
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1943
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Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays...
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Charlie Forbes
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1943
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After several months' heavy war duty, the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger is enjoying a much-deserved leave, when...
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James Hobson
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1943
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Erich Kohler (Eric Portman) is a decorated Luftwaffe pilot recruited for a daring propaganda mission in Belgium -- to drop...
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Erich Kohler
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1943
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Andre Delange
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1942
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This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and...
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Tom Earnshaw
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1941
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49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the...
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1941
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Shortly before his desultory political career, famed Polish concert pianist Jan Paderewski starred as himself in the British...
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Mario de la Costa
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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It was from this military musical that the US Marine Corps got it's signature anthem, "The Song of the Marines." The story...
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1937
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Giuliano de Medici
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1936
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke opens at a BBC radio studio, where a variety program is being broadcast. After the singing duo...
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1936
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A clergyman is deeply dismayed to discover that his parishioners are more interested in investigating his past than to...
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1936
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In this British comedy, set in the City of Light during 1904, a singer and regular at Maxim's finds herself entangled in the...
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1936
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The film opens on a theatrical stage where the principal players are introduced in a manner that suggests the audience...
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Carlos
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1935
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This epic costume drama is set in turn-of-the-century Turkey and chronicles the ruthless reign of a paranoid ruler who...
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1935
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"Old Roses," an elderly small town gardener with a love of the fragrant blossoms becomes friends with two young lovers. Such...
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1935
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Walter Hackett's popular stage farce Hyde Park Corner was smoothly transferred to the screen in 1935. Gordon Harker repeats...
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Edward Chester
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1935
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