Back in the early 1950s, cartoonist/satirist Ronald Searle dreamed up the "Belles of St. Trinians," a gaggle of sweet-faced,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1980
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In this comedy, two men pursue four very valuable women who have tattooed the location of stolen bonds upon their rumps. The...
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Executive Producer
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1972
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Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1966
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In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1965
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Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy...
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Screenwriter
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1964
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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1961
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The Bridal Path is standard comedy fare about a young man, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers) sent out from his island home to go...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1959
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This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a...
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Producer
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1959
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The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life...
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Producer
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1957
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Oliver Branwell (Jack Hawkins) is an honest, decent man, dedicated to his job as an insurance claims assessor -- until he...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1957
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Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1956
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Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present...
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Play Author, Producer, Screenwriter
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1956
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Also known as Geordie, the British comedy Wee Geordie was immensely popular worldwide. A slight of frame and puny...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1955
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Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway...
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Producer
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1955
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Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1953
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Producer
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1953
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This low-key Launder-Gilliat production was inspired by a play by James Bridie. Alastair Sim carries the ball as Captain...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1953
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Despite its lighthearted title, Lady Godiva Rides Again is a fairly potent indictment of the darker side of beauty contests....
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1951
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A battle of the sexes begins to rage in an isolated private school in this charming British comedy. Just outside of London...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1950
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Producer
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1949
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Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1949
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Producer
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1948
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At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses...
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Producer
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1947
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Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the...
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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1947
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I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1946
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Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1945
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The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1944
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In this propagandistic WW II drama, an innocent merchant vessel is targeted by Nazi bombers. The boat is nearly sunk after...
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Screenwriter
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1944
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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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Screenwriter
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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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Director, Screenwriter
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1943
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Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill....
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Screenwriter
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1940
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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In this mystery, the last entry in the Inspector Hornleigh series, Inspector Harker and his assistant take a two-week...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer)....
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The British Emil was yet another adaptation of Erich Kastner's frequently-filmed children's novel Emil and the Detectives....
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Screenwriter
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1938
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The Loves of Mme. DuBarry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this British comedy, William Porter (Will Hay) is an accident-prone railroad employee whose sister and brother-in-law...
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Screen Story
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1937
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A gasoline substitute in tablet form is produced by a deranged scientist and advocated by a fairground barker. ~ Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Max Miller, seller of horse racing information, begins a new job as a trainer for a new horse stable owner. His good fortune...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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A convicted killer escapes and seeks revenge on the jurors who put him in prison. He kills two of them and the rest end up...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Gunrunners who even kill their enemies through the use of train wrecks are being trailed by Yankee detective Lowe and...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this comedy, a philandering playboy tires of the fast lane and decides to marry his current girl friend. At the...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this comedy, a pickle magnate becomes an amnesiac following a train crash. He subsequently opens a beauty salon and ends...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Screenwriter
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1935
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Dapper, diminutive Monty Banks was a major comedy star in silent pictures, but his pronounced Italian accent proved a...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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The Black Mask is a gentleman crook who robs from the rich to give to the deserving. A crusading newspaperman is sympathetic...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this musical-comedy, a good-hearted composer sees a beautiful woman at a traffic light and is inspired to write a song....
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Too expensive for a "quota quickie" but not quite costly enough to qualify as an "A" picture, Happy is a shapeless but...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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In this comedy, an upstanding judge marries a woman whom he believes is much younger than she really is. To keep the...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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Fuller goes against butcher Marriott for a position on the local council in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this mystery a man who will do anything for his lover tries to get back his power of attorney so that he can manage his...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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While the opera "Faust" plays in the background, Lupino, in the audience, attempts to meet the girl of his dreams, Burne,...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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This musical chronicles the escapades of two Spanish couples. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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Set during WW I, this comedy chronicles the heroism of a bungling British soldier who saves the day in spite of himself. ~...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Screenwriter
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1932
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Two prolific British character actors contributed to the production end of The Woman Between; its script was adapted from...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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In this British drama, a new public school encounters trouble when the new sports instructor arrives and begins using his...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Everyone remembers David Lean's near-perfect 1954 film version of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice -- but can the...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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The time is WWI. British guerilla fighter Col. Duncan Grant (Brian Aherne) makes his way behind enemy lines to foil the...
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Screenwriter
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1931
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Screenwriter
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1930
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A literal adaptation of the popular stage play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, specialists both in maritime comedies,...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Innocent Binnie (Elissa Landi) happens to be the spitting image of Lia Monta (also Elissa Landi), a less-than-innocent famous...
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Screenwriter
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1930
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Screenwriter
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1930
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In this drama set in the English countryside, a town squire causes quite a ruckus when he decides to buck tradition and...
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Screenwriter
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1929
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