One critic has noted that The Prodigal was aptly titled, inasmuch as it was all too prodigal with the funds of the...
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1955
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Phil Karlson, well-regarded by film buffs for his tough, no-nonsense crime dramas, directed this adventure story shot...
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Barzland
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1955
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During a 1980 interview, writer-director Douglas Heyes mentioned that he preferred to forget his first big-screen writing...
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Pierre Duvois
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1954
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Thomas Berrien
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1953
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In the year 1783, as the British surrender to the colonists, Dr. Carlos Morales (Fernando Lamas) is one of many new Americans...
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Dr. Bristol
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1953
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Andrew MacAllister
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1952
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The story of Jesus Christ is recounted from Pontius Pilate's beleaguered perspective in this Easter installment of the...
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1952
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1952
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Fat Fred
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1951
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1951
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Bob Hope is up to his famous nose in danger in this espionage comedy. Second-rate burlesque comic Peanuts White (Hope) is...
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Karl Brubaker
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1951
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Phil Nosseross
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1950
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Francisco de Bobadilla
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1949
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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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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Pierre Cauchon
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1948
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver...
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Mr. Bumble
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1948
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Cinematographer Ronald Neame made his directorial debut with the 1947 murder melodrama Take My Life. When a Covent Garden...
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Prosecuting Counsel
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1948
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This disaster movie is based on the true story of ways in which a diverse group of plane passengers managed to survive after...
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Anton Perami
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1948
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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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Braddock
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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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Pothinus
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1946
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The French Revolution provides the setting for the British musical. The story centers on the notorious rebel Robespierre who...
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Sir William Tremayne
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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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Jaggers
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1946
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A pair of furloughed British sailors and a Wren go for a visit to Stonehenge, get caught in a violent storm and end up in...
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1944
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In this comedy, a young playboy and a petty thief both simultaneously attempt to impersonate an non-existent butler. ~...
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1943
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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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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Wettau
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1942
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In this British espionage comedy, an opportunistic South American woman will do anything to get her hands on a copy of the...
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1942
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The "Scarlet Pimpernel" legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also...
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Gen. von Graum
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1941
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Laurence Olivier plays a young Londoner implicated in a brutal murder. According to the rules of British law, he is permitted...
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Mander
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1940
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The eponymous Four Just Men of this film are British World War I comrades, who reunite in peacetime to bring disaster to...
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Leon Poiccard
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1939
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In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to...
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1939
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Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews,...
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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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1938
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In this crime drama, a police inspector pursues a Lord's secretary suspected of stealing his gold bullion. She is the prime...
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1938
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1938
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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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Attorney General
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1938
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1937
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This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at...
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1937
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While W.C. Fields poked fun at the asinine notion of a high-speed airplane with an open observation deck in...
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1937
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1937
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Filmed in Paris and along the French Riviera, Dinner at the Ritz afforded David Niven the chance to play his first starring...
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Brogard
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1937
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In this remake of the 1931 film, an informer is plagued by the three ex-cons he was responsible for sending to prison. They...
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Theodore Disher
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1936
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In this comedy, a helpful friend offers to care for the apartment of a honeymooning couple. As soon as they leave, he brings...
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1936
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Hollywood star Richard Barthelmess, who's about as French as a hot dog with mustard, plays the title character in the British...
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Chief of Police Toulon
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches...
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Sir Julian Weyre
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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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Charles Dickens' unfinished novel, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, has been a source of speculation and controversy ever since...
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, a man marries his Russian lover and discovers that she has a large extended family. He is utterly...
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1935
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1935
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Based on the character created by "Sapper" (Herman Cyril McNeile), Return of Bulldog Drummond was a British production...
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Carl Peterson
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1934
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The timeworn British stage musical Chu Chin Chow had already been made into a silent picture when this talkie version made...
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1934
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Previously filmed in 1919 and 1927, Max Marcin's stage success Cheating Cheaters made its talking-picture bow courtesy of...
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1934
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Twelve years before David Lean's definitive filmization of Dickens' Great Expectations, Hollywood had a go at the novel, with...
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1934
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In this mystery, a sculptor is convicted of murder after the body of his guardian is discovered. The artist's fiancee...
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1934
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Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish...
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1934
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1933
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In this drama, a radical doctor hatches a plot to takeover the Spanish government. He is thwarted by a blind man and a young...
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1933
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1933
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F. P. 1 refers to "Floating Platform 1," a huge landing platform and refueling station being built in the middle of the...
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1933
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The Fire Raisers (British slang for arsonists) was inspired by the true story of Leopold Harris, an insurance assessor...
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1933
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1933
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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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Saturnine Arthur Wontner makes his second screen appearance as Conan Doyle's master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in The Missing...
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Baron von Guntermann
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1932
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In this crime drama, a gambler runs up a huge debt and happily pays it back. The owner of the gambling house learns that the...
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1932
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