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1967
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In this lively British parody of James Bond movies, a dashing secret agent goes to extremes to save the British Parliament...
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1966
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Steed and Tara investigate when the directors of Project Cupid, a top-secret construction project, are being systematically...
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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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1964
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The British town of Warlock is scandalized by Hazell's cottage-turned-tearoom with the local inspector found in a...
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1964
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In this thriller, a trucker offers a hitchhiking girl a lift and ends up careening out of control when he is later accused...
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1956
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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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Inspector Hancock
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1956
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Norman Wisdom made his third film appearance in the slapstick musical Man of the Moment. This time, Norman is a clerk in the...
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1955
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A lady photographer clicks a few revealing pix at the home of a wealthy woman. When the home's occupant commits suicide, the...
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1954
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A prim and pious old woman suddenly has her hands full when her devilishly free-spirited uncle dies and bequeaths her his...
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1954
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The Anglo-American melodrama The Big Frame was released in Britain as Count the Hours. Mark Stevens stars as a Texas-born...
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Foster
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1953
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Inspector Thornton
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1953
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Set WW II-era Britain, this romantic venture begins when a working-class woman and a RAF officer fall in love. The affair...
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1952
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In this comedy, five fighters from the Royal Air Force end up staying in a family home during WW II. Their bitter landlady...
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1951
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Once again comedian Arthur Lucan dons an old woman's togs to become the tart-tongued Irish washerwoman. This time Mother...
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1951
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In this comedy, a bookie wins a boutique and decides to modernize the joint by devising, new, more effective programs for...
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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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Miss Laramie Pilgrim (Yolande Donlan) is an American factory girl. Anxious to see what life is like outside her own backyard,...
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Mayor
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1950
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In search of great story to further his career, a journalist sets himself up to be suspected of killing his sister, but he...
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1950
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The tantalizingly titled Mystery at the Burlesque was originally released in England as Murder at the Windmill. It must be...
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Detective Inspector
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1950
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In this comedy, a street artist has successfully conned his wife and family into believing that he is a well-to-do...
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1950
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1949
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Originally filmed in 1934 (see entry 84314), R.C. Sheriff's venerable stage comedy Badger's Green was given another screen...
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1949
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A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered...
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1949
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In this drama, a medicine seller falls for an ice cream vendor. Unfortunately, his wife won't grant him a divorce. In order...
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1949
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An amiable poltergeist causes problems in a family's home by taking over the body of the youngest daughter in this comedy....
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1948
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Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off...
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1948
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The popular "William" novels of British author Richmal Crompton were brought to the screen several times in 1930s and 1940s....
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Mr. Brown
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1948
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Originally released in 1945 as Shop at Sly Corner, Code of Scotland Yard is an effective British imitation of the Hollywood...
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1947
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Director Anthony Asquith's first postwar effort, While the Sun Shines was based on a play by frequent Asquith collaborator...
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1947
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Hollywood films were linking up dance halls with criminal activities long before the British-made Dancing with Crime, which...
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1947
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William, the obstreperous Welsh schoolboy created by children's novelist Richmal Compton, appeared in several film...
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Mr. Brown
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1947
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The problem of "enemy" war brides was eloquently addressed in the British drama Frieda. In her English-language film debut,...
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1947
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Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently...
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1946
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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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Capt. Goodhusband
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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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1945
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The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper,...
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1945
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Considered the greatest horror anthology film, the classic British chiller Dead of Night features five stories of...
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1945
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Australian-born comic actor Vic Oliver was usually at his best on-screen when teamed with an unusually talented leading lady....
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1945
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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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Commanding Officer
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1940
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Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby...
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Mendez
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1940
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, the boisterous Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to...
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1939
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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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1939
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In this comedy, the funniest comic in England is dared by "Scotland's Bluebelle," a popular male impersonator to try his...
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1939
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This Man is News is a British imitation of Hollywood's Thin Man pictures. The "Nick and Nora" herein are Barry K. Barnes as...
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1939
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What a combination! Break the News boasted the talents of English stage star Jack Buchanan, French entertainer...
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1939
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Most of British regional comedian George Formby's vehicles were released in the US through Columbia Pictures; somehow Trouble...
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1939
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This Man in Paris was the followup to the successful British comedy-mystery This Man is News. Barry K. Barnes and Valerie...
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1939
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An Irish fellow is determined to become a singing radio star. Unfortunately, fate seems to be determined to thwart him at...
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1939
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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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Toothy, ukelele-plucking British comedian dominates the proceedings in I See Ice. The nonsensical story concerns the...
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Galloway
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1938
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Beloved British comedian Will Hay plays Benjamin Twist, a disgraced school master who goes to an agency to apply for a job...
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1938
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A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class...
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1938
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In this British crime drama an argument over a new anaesthetic results in the murder of a hospital doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1938
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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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The enigmatic Charles Frank, who wrote and directed several fascinating British productions before seemingly falling off the...
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1937
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In this comedy, a young man is treated badly by his stepfather. Fortunately, a klutzy, but good-hearted policeman intervenes...
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1937
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In this musical, a young fellow aspires to a career as a radio star. Along the way, the falls in love with a scientist's...
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1937
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This drama chronicles the love affair between a composer and the concert singer who jilts him for the love of a count. In...
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1937
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Romance in Flanders is the American title of the British Lost on the Western Front. Set during WWI, the first part of the...
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Rodd Berry
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1937
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In this crime drama, an actress must give up her lover, the son of a prominent banker, because she has a scandalous past....
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1937
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In this musical drama set during the reign of Charles I, an Irish priest is assigned to educate the prince. The prince...
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Sir Richard Melross
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1937
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Befitting its title, Death on the Set takes place in a British film studio (thereby saving on set-construction costs!)....
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Inspector Burford
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1936
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After several years in India, Sir Guy De Vere (Jack Buchanan) returns to England where he has inherited his ancestral castle....
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Brian Ballymote
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1936
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A robbery committed by gambler Fitzgerald is claimed by his friend Banks while the two are stationed at an African outpost....
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1936
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Lynn has just received his inheritance--a stable of racehorses. The only problem is that his aunt, a staunch opponent to...
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1936
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The Man in the Mirror is Edward Everett Horton, making one of his periodic professional visits to England. Horton plays...
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1936
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A Scotland Yard Inpsector sets off to prove that prominent director is really an American gangster in disguise. ~ Sandra...
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1936
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Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance). Making a...
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1936
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In this comedy, a divorced couple marry other people but must pretend they are still married to curry favor with a wealthy...
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1935
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A house party becomes deadly as several murders are committed following the passing of a famous actress. Detective Austin...
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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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1935
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1935
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Charing Cross Road is a London thoroughfare where several theatrical boarding houses have set up shop. Each one of these...
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1935
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Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel...
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Belle's Husband
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1935
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1935
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Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald once complained that the sum total of her dialogue during her ingenue days was a petulant "But,...
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1935
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1934
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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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Three adventurous young men find themselves duped by a double dealer in this thriller. The story begins after the young lads...
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, a widow listens to the advice of a widowed friend and stages a bogus burglary to win back the...
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1934
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In this crime thriller, a renowned German crime scientist becomes the victim of a con and loses his life savings. To get his...
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1934
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1934
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Farm worker Ernie Lotinga confronts a greedy entrepreneur who wants the farm leading to his election as a magistrate and...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy, two rival reporters vie for the scoop on the whereabouts of a missing heiress. They find her in Switzerland....
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1933
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Dapper song-and-dance man Jack Buchanan was both star and director of That's a Good Girl. Hoping to replenish his bank...
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1933
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An inventive amateur detective devises a listening device that allows him to eavesdrop on criminals. The trouble begins when...
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Delbury
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1933
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1933
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In this comedy of errors, set during a dark and stormy night, the trouble begins when a married woman suddenly appears at...
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1933
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The title lass in this Eclipse production is a goatherd-ess, in love with a strapping mountain youth. During his daily...
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1932
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This early Hitchcock effort is a parody of the thriller genre about a transient (Leon M. Lion) who accidentally discovers the...
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1932
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1932
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Coming in at an economical 44 minutes (and costing an economical 3700 pounds), Star Reporter was one of several...
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1932
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Told that he has only a year to live, Lester Matthews takes a last vacation to Egypt. Here, Matthews and his fellow tourists...
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Capt. Archer
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1932
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1932
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1932
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An auto accident injuring aristocrat de Marney forces his wife, former actress Doria March, to get a job in a show...
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1931
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In this drama, a physician falls in love with a woman who unfortunately ends up marrying another man. The doctor is enraged...
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1931
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In this complex romantic drama set in the Middle East, a German baroness goes there for a visit and ends up falling in love...
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1931
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In this comedy, a timid clerk musters up his courage to help his ward thwart the blackmailing scheme of his former lover. ~...
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1931
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In this British comedy, the fumble fingered Josser finds himself thrown off the police force for his constant bungling, but...
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1931
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The notorious Dreyfus case that sent tremors throughout France in the late 1800s is the subject of this early British sound...
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1931
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1931
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In this comedy, a wife vows to make her husband jealous and gets a golden opportunity when a few others come over to play...
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Arthur Tolhurst
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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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1931
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That notorious criminal "Flash Jack" is at large in London, striking terror in the hearts of everyone (though just why is...
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1930
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