In this spy adventure taken from the TV series The Saint, suave Simon Templar must stop a Sicilian Mafioso from succeeding...
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1968
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In this episode of the cult-favorite TV series The Prisoner, Number 6 (Patrick McGoohan) appears to be developing an artistic...
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1967
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Originally released in Great Britain as The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, this film is not a wartime epic but a cozy domestic...
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1965
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1965
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Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer...
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1964
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In this crime drama, a rivalry within a publishing house turns deadly when theft and blackmail get involved. ~ Sandra...
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1964
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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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1963
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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1963
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Based on a whimsical novel by Paul Gallico, Disney's Three Lives of Thomasina is an imaginative tale of a resourceful cat....
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1963
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Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) is known to his blue-collar British mates as Billy Liar because of his vivid imagination. This...
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Duxbury
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1963
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1963
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This colorful slapstick comedy concerns an honest locksmith who gets talked into a safecracking scheme by a couple of...
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Feathers
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1963
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The most carefully laid plans of mice and crooks.... A gang of criminals plots the robbery of a bookmaking joint....
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1963
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1962
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In this biblical epic, the rise of the humble Joseph from hapless slave to prophet and advisor to the Pharoah is chronicled....
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1962
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Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...
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1962
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1962
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This Ernie Kovacs cult comedy was the last film directed by Mario Zampi and follows the exploits of Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) who...
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1961
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1961
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This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious...
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1961
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MGM's all-star 1960 filmization of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn surgically removes the sociological subtext of Mark...
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1960
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This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a...
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1960
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Irving Rapper's film is a dramatization of the Old Testament tale of Joseph, who ascends from slavery to the position of...
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1960
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Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson....
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1960
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Director Philip Leacock, praised for his handling of child actors, does another excellent job with the two young stars in...
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1960
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This enjoyably twisted British thriller was shot back-to-back with the equally warped Haunted Strangler and is one of the...
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1959
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Romance, treachery, intrigue and spiritual awakenings abound in the Biblical film adaptation of Solomon and Sheba. Trouble...
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1959
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to...
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1959
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1958
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A poor Irishman goes to Africa to help a friend harvest his tobacco, but upon arrival, he learns that his friend was eaten...
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Father Verity
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1958
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Six-Five Special is an expansion on the popular BBC TV variety series of the same name. Not unlike America Bandstand, the...
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1958
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Based on a novel by Hammond Innes, the British Campbell's Kingdom is set in the Canadian Rockies. Dirk Bogarde plays Bruce...
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1957
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What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the...
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1957
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After an extensive talent search, producer-director Otto Preminger selected a 17-year-old unknown from Iowa, Jean Seberg, to...
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1957
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In this supenseful and provocative high-seas drama, the captain of a luxury liner is suddenly faced with life or death...
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1957
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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In this desert adventure, a bandit chieftain roams the northwest deserts of India. Wherever he goes, he leaves a trail of...
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The Mullah
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1956
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The Rev. Brittingham-Brett
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1956
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Footsteps in the Fog is a cat-and-mouse Victorian melodrama in the grand tradition. Jean Simmons plays scheming servant girl...
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Inspector Peters
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1955
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The Deadly Game was originally released in England as Third Party Risk. Lloyd Bridges stars as an ex-GI living in Spain....
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1955
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King's Rhapsody was the second screen teaming of beloved British star Anna Neagle and Hollywood's "bad boy" Errol Flynn....
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King Paul
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1955
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Rock Hudson stars as Michael Martin, a naive and impetuous young would-be rebel in 1815 Ireland, who turns to robbery in his...
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Callahan
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1955
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78-year-old British leading actor Finlay Currie appears in this unexpected latter-day vehicle. He plays a retired factory...
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Old "Mick-Mack"
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1954
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During his brief tenure as a "graylisted" actor (thanks to his activities in the "radical" Actors Lab), Lloyd Bridges made a...
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1954
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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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Abe Sparta
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1954
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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1954
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Treasure of the Golden Condor is a Technicolor remake of 1942's Son of Fury; both films were based on the same novel by...
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MacDougal
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1953
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The rousing adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott was adapted for this swashbuckler. Richard Todd stars as Robert Roy...
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Hamish MacPherson
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1953
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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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1952
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Col. Randolph
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1952
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Besotted by alcohol, Australian cattle-station owner Michael McGuire (Finlay Currie) is led to believe that crooked gambler...
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Michael McGuire
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1952
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Prof. Kafer
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1952
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Originally advertised as "Colossal Quo Vadis," this opulent MGM production is far and away the most elaborate of the many...
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1951
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People Will Talk was less a movie than a conduit for the genteel liberalism of screenwriter/director Joseph M. Mankiewicz....
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Shunderson
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1951
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1950
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Denied steady work in the U.S. because of his alleged left-wing political beliefs, Edward G. Robinson was obliged to seek out...
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Sir Thomas MacTavish
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1950
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The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best...
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1950
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The mudlark is Andrew Ray, an illiterate London street urchin of the mid-19th century. Having seen a picture of Queen...
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John Brown, Queen's Ghillie
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1950
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Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars,...
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1950
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Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all...
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1949
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In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the...
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Dr. Hammond
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1949
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H. G. Wells' non-fantasy efforts have, with the exception of Kipps, proven traditionally difficult to transfer to film....
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Uncle Jim
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1949
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Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in...
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1948
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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1948
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The "progressive" new British teaching methods of 1948 are sharply contrasted with the tried-and-true methods of the past in...
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1948
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Hector Macrae
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1948
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The British Woman to Woman was the third film version of the war-horse stage play by Michael Morton. Hollywood's...
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1946
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Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British...
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Abel Magwitch
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1946
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Produced, directed and scripted by Peter Ustinov (who did not star), Secret Flight was released in Great Britain in 1946, but...
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1946
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Based on the novel by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Trojan Brothers offers the unlikely screen team of music hall funster...
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1946
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1946
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Sleeping Car to Trieste is a remake of one of the best railroad melodramas of the 1930s, Rome Express. The film's "maguffin"...
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1945
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While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the...
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1945
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In this WWII drama, James Mason plays naval commander Richard Heritage, who is distracted from his duties by a beautiful...
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1945
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The crown jewels are at stake in this crime comedy featuring the efforts of London bobby Gray against American gangster...
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1945
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Undercover is a British-made WWII picture glorifying the efforts of a small group of Yugoslavian resistance fighters who...
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1943
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In this WW II espionage drama, German paratroopers drop into England to take over Buckley Hall and kidnap the lord within....
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1943
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The Shipbuilders is a rare film of true merit from prolific British "quota quickie" director John Baxter. Clive Brook heads...
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1943
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In this comedy, a prop man working at the nearly bankrupt Theatre Royal organizes a musical benefit featuring the talented...
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1943
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The Bells Go Down is a dramatization of London firefighting efforts during the 1940 Blitz. In structure, the film is very...
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Dist. Officer MacFarlane
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1943
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Robert Ardrey's theatrical semi-fantasy Thunder Rock was transformed in 1944 into one of the most successful British films of...
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Capt. Joshua
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1942
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Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign...
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1942
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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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An American producer takes his daughter and heads for England to see a variety of London shows in this musical. ~ Sandra...
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1938
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This film tells the story of Tracy's struggle to become a famous singer. ~ Rovi...
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1938
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In this British murder mystery, a novelist finds the killer of a librarian. He also finds the family treasure. ~ Sandra...
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1938
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A key film in the career of director Michael Powell, The Edge of the World was his first original idea to be realized...
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James Gray
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1937
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1937
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The popular Ivor Novello musical play Glamorous Night was given a conservative film treatment in 1937--minus much of the...
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1937
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In this comedy, a mild-mannered shipping clerk and his wife get into deep trouble after they are mistaken for jewel thieves...
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Uncle Mart
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1937
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In this romantic drama, a renowned stage singer leaves the theater to become a gypsy after his voice weakens. The break down...
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Manager
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1937
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A young woman, desiring to be wealthy, attempts to smuggle French jewels into America. When her boat docks, she is...
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1937
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1936
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The Improper Duchess is never as naughty as its title, or else it wouldn't have made it to the screen in 1936. Yvonne Arnaud...
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1936
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1935
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To save her country from revolutionaries, a princess decides to accept the marriage proposal of a neighboring king she has...
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1935
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Its title inspired by Albert Chevalier's world-famous music-hall ballad, My Old Dutch is a treacly tale of mother love....
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1934
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The Cinderella story is turned upside down in this musical. This time, the story focuses upon an impoverished young man...
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1934
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Hollywood movie-making is satirized in this comedy. The trouble begins when an American filmmaker decides to us a British...
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Dave
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1934
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The plotline of the Audrey and Waveney Carlton play Gay Love was so well known in 1934 that Variety considered a synopsis "a...
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1934
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1934
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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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1933
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In this British comedy, a ghost hunter believing he accidentally shot his boss, stuffs the body into a steamer trunk and...
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1933
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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1933
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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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1932
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Based on a stage play by Edgar Wallace, The Old Man is nowhere near as benign as its title. The eponymous character is a...
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1932
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