A high-class costume drama with a substantive historical basis, Becket is the true story of the friendship between King Henry...
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1964
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Tuppy Morgan
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1962
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Based on James Barlow's novel The Burden of Proof, this is a thoughtful drama revolving around the relationship between a...
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Ferguson
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1962
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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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Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an...
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1958
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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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Higgins
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1955
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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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James Hayter plays the chairman of a British football club. Hayter's fondness for gambling results in his involvement with...
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1953
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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1952
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Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson...
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1952
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Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production...
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Mr. Edwards [Red Peppers]
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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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Based on the play by Joan Temple, No Room at the Inn takes place in the early stages of WW2, when the children of London were...
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1948
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In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a...
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1948
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Though its title suggests that Gaiety George is yet another vehicle for British comedian George Formby, the film is in fact a...
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1946
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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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Mechanic Formby bests a neighboring rival at a Home Guard exercise and when others obtain an army weapon, Formby converts a...
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1943
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Future action-film expert Basil Dearden cut his directorial teeth on The Goose Steps Out, a wartime espionage comedy. The...
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1942
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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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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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1941
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This stirring wartime morale-booster stars John Clements in a virtual reprise of his "redeemed hero" role in...
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1941
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Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins....
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1941
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1941
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This wartime drama is set during WW II and centers on 6 survivors of a torpedo attack adrift in a lifeboat. One of them is a...
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1941
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The pageantlike This England was designed by the Anglo-American film corporation to boost the morale of the war-besieged...
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1941
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Released in America as Haunted Honeymoon, this droll British comedy-mystery stars Hollywood's Robert Montgomery as Dorothy L....
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1940
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A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by...
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1940
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The 1940 British production of Gaslight was the first of two cinematic adaptations of Patrick Hamilton's play. Oozing faux...
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Rough
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1940
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The irrepressible Jessie Matthews heads the cast of the buoyant musical Sailing Along. Matthews plays Kay Martin, a popular...
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1938
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In this musical comedy, a wealthy couple is duped out of their money. They decide to capture the crook themselves by...
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Willis
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1937
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When foreclosure is threatened on Gina Malo's home, she gets help from Sandy Powell, who donates his football pool winnings...
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1937
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1937
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The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an...
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John Barty
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1936
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Comic actor Sydney Howard stars as obsequious department-store floorwalker Oswald Bertwhistle. Our hero's life is...
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1936
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In this British comedy, a millionaire deals with his wild son by cutting him off the family dole. To regain his father's...
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1936
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1936
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1935
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In this drama, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. As she is already betrothed to a count, neither of them have a...
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Bertholdi
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1935
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1935
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Blacksmith Howard turns to a career of soccer in this comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1935
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In this British comedy of manners, an industrialist finally retires from the mill he created from scratch and leaves it to...
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1935
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In this comedy, a brassworker tries to keep a gang of thieves from stealing a valuable necklace. The robbers then try...
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1935
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Harry Swan
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1935
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In this British comedy, a plucky Lancashire millworker is out of a job when her mill is forced to close for the summer. She...
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1934
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When jewel thieves plot to take some stolen gems from a young man's house they need an inside man and blackmail the boy's...
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1934
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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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1933
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1933
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In this comedy, an unemployed young woman gets a job managing a duchess' estate after the previous manager nearly destroyed...
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1933
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In this British comedy, a wealthy Yorkshire industrialist is saved from scandal by his nephew. The trouble begins when the...
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1933
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In this film, an inn is filled to capacity and a couple must spend the night together in a room. The problem is that both of...
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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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In this romance, a jilted soccer player decides to heal his broken heart by going on a vacation to France. There he and a...
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1933
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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 melodrama, a woman bears a child out of wedlock during WW I. She gives the child up to a rich old woman. Twenty...
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1932
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The perfect crime is presented in this British crime drama. The crime is perpetrated by an unemployed ex-cop who swipes a...
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1932
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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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Will Mossup
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1931
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While Mary Newland works to establish a relationship, her guardian Malcolm Keen makes sure that the relationship does not...
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1931
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