This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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In this British crime drama, a dying millionaire recluse wills his estate to the beneficiary who survives. A series of...
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1962
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Vivien Leigh plays Karen Stone, a middle-aged actress whose career is in a tailspin. To assuage her hurt feelings, Karen goes...
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1961
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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then...
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Old MacPherson
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1960
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The Motion Picture Production Code was still in effect (albeit weakly) when Sons and Lovers was filmed in 1960, so don't...
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1960
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The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to...
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1958
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In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his...
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1958
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The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back...
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1957
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Three Men in a Boat is the second film version of the comic novel by Jerome K. Jerome. The titular trio is played by popular...
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1957
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Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual...
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1956
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Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in...
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1955
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John Gregson stars as Chayley Broadbent, a young Yorkshire businessman leading a dull, perfunctory life. He inherits a...
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1955
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You gets what you pays for in An Alligator Named Daisy. Donald Sinden stars as a young songwriter who accidentally picks up...
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1955
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While ethnic humor was pretty much avoided by Hollywood in the politically touchy 1950s, Great Britain continued to turn out...
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1954
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Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character...
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1954
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Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by...
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1954
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Historically important as the first CinemaScope feature film, 20th Century-Fox's The Robe is fine dramatic entertainment in...
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1953
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Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway...
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1953
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1952
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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist...
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Sir John Kierlaw
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1951
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Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British...
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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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Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell...
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1951
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Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He...
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1950
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Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character....
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1949
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George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in...
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1949
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1948
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Radio personality Levis manages to stop a Buddhist art connoisseur from collecting a rare artifact in this comic thriller. ~...
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1948
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Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German...
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1948
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Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her...
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1948
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1947
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Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from...
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1947
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George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar...
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1946
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Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, this is the story of a baroness who believes she has found love with an officer but...
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1946
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Adapted from a novel by Osbert Sitwell, A Place of One's Own has a double-edged title: It refers to a physical place as well...
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1945
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Don't Take It to Heart is an amiable entry in the 1940s cycle of "ghost comedies". A British castle is rocked by a German...
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1944
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1944
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Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original...
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1943
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Will Hay, he of the pince-nez, outraged sniff, and overall demeanor of dignified incompetence, stars in (and codirects)...
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1943
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In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found...
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1938
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This breezy British action comedy stars Gordon Harker as Albert Rughouse, cockney conductor of a passenger bus running the...
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Professor
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1938
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1938
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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Mr. Maydig
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1936
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This greatest of all Frankenstein movies begins during a raging thunderstorm. Warm and cozy inside their palatial villa, Lord...
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Dr. Septimus Pretorius
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1935
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Mein Herz Ruft Dir is a tailor-made vehicle for Polish singing sensation Jan Kiepura. The star is cast as the lead tenor in a...
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Fevrier
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1934
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Based upon the play Murder Party by Roland Pertwee and John Hastings Turner, Night of the Party uses one of the murder...
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Chiddiatt
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1934
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In this British romance, a German duke falls passionately in love with the owner of a beautiful singing voice, even though...
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Chamberlain
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1933
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In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music...
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1933
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The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his...
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Laing
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1933
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It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among...
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1932
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Betty Balfour, who seemingly starred in every third movie made in London during 1930, heads the cast of The Vagabond Queen....
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Katoff
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1930
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1928
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A comic novel by Israel Zangwill resulted in 6 reels' worth of nonsense titled The Bachelor's Club. The hero is a henpecked...
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1921
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Fred Volpe is Charles Dickens' bumbling do-gooder come to life in The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick. While on a country outing...
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1921
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1918
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