Based on the BBC television series, this sci-fi film follows the investigation of a scientist (George Sanders) when he is...
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The Admiral
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1972
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Written by Harold Livingston, "The Merchant" guest-stars George Sanders in one of his final acting roles, as illegal arms...
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1971
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An annoying devil-worshipping British biker gang calling themselves "The Living Dead" decide to take their moniker to heart...
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Shadwell
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1971
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This mystery, adapted from an Agatha Christie story, tells the tale of an ambitious British chauffeur who marries his...
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1971
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When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a...
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1970
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"Everybody needs candy of one kind or another," George Sanders says in The Candy Man. Sanders, playing a character named...
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1969
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Produced by Britain's Trigor Pictures, Thin Air stars Patrick Allen as Bob Megan, an investigator called in to solve a...
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1969
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In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This...
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Sir Francis Leybourne
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1969
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Su-Muru Disciple
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1968
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The final animated feature produced under the supervision of Walt Disney is a lively neo-swing musical, loosely based upon...
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Shere Khan the Tiger
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1967
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LAPD detective Sgt. Tom Valens (David Janssen) is a ten-year veteran of the force who has had more than his share of hard...
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1967
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Pop singers Sonny and Cher are featured in this fluffy film that chronicles the popular duo's ideas for the film in which...
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Mordicus
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1967
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Set in the wilds of South Africa, this Italian adventure chronicles the travails of three fugitive killers who search the...
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1967
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In this espionage drama, a secret agent is slated to rendezvous with a German scientist in Cairo. There the agent gets...
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Professor Schlieben
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1966
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This spy saga differs from the usual Bond-styled fare that was popular at the time. There are plenty of gadgets but the hero...
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Gibbs
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1966
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In this adventure, two crooks plan to abscond with the rare, priceless Golden Head of Saint Laszlo. Their plans are thwarted...
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Basil Palmer
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1965
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1965
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Kim Novak's decolletage, rather than the lady herself, is the true star of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. This...
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Banker
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1965
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1965
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Admiral Nelson's only living relative, his sister Edith (Susan Flannery), is kidnapped and held for ransom by enemy agents....
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1965
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An Italian count is willing to do almost anything to win the hand of a beautiful woman in this drama. The trouble begins...
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Raymond T. Fontaine
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1964
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A murder has been committed at the palatial Parisian residence of Benjamin Ballon (George Sanders). All the evidence points...
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Benjamin Ballon
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1964
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Following the same storyline as the more successful Asphalt Jungle but set in Cairo, this crime caper about a jewel heist is...
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Maj. Pickering
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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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The Guv'nor
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1963
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A British officer must save the Barbary apes on Gibralter at all costs in this WW II farce. He does this, because it is...
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1962
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Thomas Ayerton
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1962
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Italian director Mario Bava took a brief hiatus from horror films to make this fairly interesting Viking-themed adventure....
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1961
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Upper-crust intrigue, murder, and passions are mixed together in this routine, slow-paced murder mystery by Jean Delannoy. A...
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J.K.
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1961
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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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Mr. Bing
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1961
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Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal...
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Sir Charles Broward
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1961
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Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone are Cliff and Laurie Henderson, a married couple on a vacation with their young daughter...
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Capt. Robert Adams
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1960
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Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet....
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Sir Arnold Hobbes
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1960
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Landru
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1960
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In this British comedy, a formerly rakish submarine captain is transferred to a desk job. His reputation as a hero and...
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Sir Charles Holland
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1960
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Something is seriously amiss in the tiny British village of Midwich. At 11 a.m. one morning, every village resident suddenly...
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Gordon Zellaby
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1960
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That Kind of Woman stars Sophia Loren as an Italian girl, Kay, who enjoys a brief wartime romance with American paratrooper...
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The Man
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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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Adonijah
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1959
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In this drama set just after the end of WW II, an American officer falls in love with a German woman. Their blissful affair...
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1958
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In this mystery, a movie producer gets bored with his wife and begins an affair with a fiery actress. In the end, he jilts...
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Carliss
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1958
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Stuyvesant Nicholl
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1958
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In this comedy, an awkward TV repairman finds himself falling for an actress who doesn't even know he exists and instead...
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1958
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A remake of The Painted Veil (which was itself based upon a novel by W. Somerset Maugham), The Seventh Sin stars Eleanor...
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Tim Waddington
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1957
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For its first broadcast of the 1956-57 season, the monthly CBS variety anthology Ford-Star Jubilee offered a full-color...
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1956
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A contemptuous and self-serving immigrant, Clementi Sabourin (George Sanders) pulls himself up by his bootstraps by...
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Clementi Sabourin
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1956
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This emotional drama concerns a WWII medic who marries a German woman but leaves her in a jealous rage, taking their baby...
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Victor
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1956
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For reasons unknown, the change-of-pace Bob Hope vehicle That Certain Feeling is out of favor with many Hope buffs. Bob plays...
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Larry Larkin
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1956
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When media mogul Amos Kyne (Robert Warwick) dies, his business, which includes a major newspaper, a television station, and a...
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Mark Loving
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1956
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The infamous Benedict Arnold affair is the basis of the lively MGM costumer The Scarlet Coat. Arnold is played with suitably...
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Dr. Jonathan Odell
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1955
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Portrait for Murder was the October 19, 1955 entry of the TV anthology series The 20th Century Fox Hour. Robert Stack plays a...
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1955
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Director Robert Z. Leonard brought his 31-year association with MGM to a rousing close with The King's Thief. Set in England...
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Charles II
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1955
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A TV telethon is the "gimmick" in Allied Artists' The Big Tipoff. Richard Conte plays two-bit newspaper columnist Johnny...
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1955
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Esther Williams' long association with MGM came to an abrupt end with Jupiter's Darling, which even she will admit was her...
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Fabius Maximus
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1955
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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Lord Ashwood
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1955
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Roberto Rossellini directs this drama starring his then-wife Ingrid Bergman as Katherine Joyce, a wealthy British woman who...
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Alexander Joyce
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1954
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Roundly panned when it was first released, this CinemaScope film version of Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman can now be...
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Richard III
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1954
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The witness of the title is Barbara Stanwyck, who insists she's seen a man strangling a girl in the apartment across the...
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Albert Richter
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1954
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1953
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Cosmo Constantine
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1953
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Nick Strang
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1952
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The Bowery Boys go to college in Hold That Line. Things haven't changed much since the Marx Bros. went to college in...
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1952
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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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Sir Brian Bois-de-Guilbert
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1952
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Money, romance, betrayal, double-dealing -- who knew making dresses could be so interesting? Harriet Boyd (Susan Hayward) is...
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J.F. Noble
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1951
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From the opening credits onward, bombastic comedian Jerry Colonna dominates the proceedings in Kentucky Jubilee. Colonna...
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1951
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Felix Guignol
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1951
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Based on the story The Wisdom of Eve by Mary Orr, All About Eve is an elegantly bitchy backstage story revolving around...
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Addison De Witt
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1950
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A French-American cooperative film about drug smuggling on the French Riviera. ~ Rovi...
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1950
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Mike
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1949
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The Saran of Gaza
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1949
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In this revised adaptation of Oscar Wilde's famous comedy of manners, Lady Windermere's Fan, the middle-aged but still...
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Lord Darlington
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1949
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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Robert Fleming
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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Charles II
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1947
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Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by...
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Miles Fairley
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1947
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Writer/director Albert Lewin, ever on the lookout for esoteric story material that would accommodate his fascination with...
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Georges Duroy/Bel Ami
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1947
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B-movie auteur Edgar G. Ulmer managed to direct a few A-pictures during his long career; he was personally selected by...
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John Evered
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1946
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A Scandal in Paris is a liberal adaptation of the life story of Eugène François Vidocq, who was French prefect of police...
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Francois Eugene Vidocq
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1946
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Lord Henry Wotton
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1945
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Set in turn-of-the century London, this period thriller stars Laird Cregar as George Harvey Bone, a composer who suffers from...
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Dr. Allan Middleton
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1945
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Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie...
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Harry Quincey
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1945
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The Lodger was the third film version of Mrs. Marie Belloc-Lowndes' classic "Jack the Ripper" novel, and in many eyes it was...
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John Warwick
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1944
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Exiled from his own country during WW2, French filmmaker Leonide Moguy worked briefly in Hollywood, where he directed the...
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Gordon
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1944
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Summer Storm is a remarkably effective Hollywood filmization of Anton Chekhov's The Shooting Party. Linda Darnell stars as...
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Fedor Michailovitch Petroff
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1944
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Written by Dudley Nichols and directed by French expatriate director Jean Renoir, This Land is Mine is one of those...
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George Lambert
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1943
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This wartime melodrama stars George Sanders as Keith Wilson, a disillusioned Britisher who becomes a "Lord Haw Haw"type at a...
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Keith Wilson
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1943
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Charles Strickland
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1943
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In this provocative WW II drama, an American agent sneaks into a Nazi spy ring to learn the identities of certain...
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Carl Steelman
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1943
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This French Underground melodrama stars George Sanders as a seemingly apolitical Parisian doctor who is actually a resistance...
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Dr. Andre Marbel
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1943
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Perhaps unintentionally, the 1942 Technicolor swashbuckler The Black Swan is a bondage fetishist's dream, with hero and...
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Capt. Billy Leech
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1942
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When George Sanders announced that he was leaving the "Falcon" series, RKO Radio came up with the perfect replacement:...
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Gay Lawrence
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1942
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No one will ever know what possessed MGM's reigning screen queen Norma Shearer to select the tired old stage farce Her...
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Tony Barling
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1942
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A public library at night is the setting for this fast-moving crime caper. George Sanders is a gentleman crook specializing...
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Fleg
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1942
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Sir Arthur Blake
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1942
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The plot of the RKO Radio programmer The Falcon Takes Over will be instantly recognizable to anyone who has seen the 1944...
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Gay Lawrence
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1942
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Tales of Manhattan is a sumptuous multipart film centered around a formal tailcoat. The coat is specially designed for stage...
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1942
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This second entry in RKO Radio's "Falcon" series begins with Gay Lawrence (George Sanders), aka the Falcon, promising to give...
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Gay Lawrence
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1941
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Ward Andrews
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1941
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A hunter finds himself in a world of danger when he decides to stalk Adolf Hitler in this taut WWII thriller. Capt. Thorndike...
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Maj. Quive-Smith
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1941
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When the film rights to its "Saint" series proved too expensive to renew, RKO Radio came up with a lookalike property in the...
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Gay Lawrence
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1941
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George Sanders makes his final appearance as crook-turned-detective Simon Templar, a.k.a. "The Saint," in The Saint in Palm...
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Simon Templar
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1941
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Maj. Coombes
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1941
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Though set in 1865, The Son of Monte Cristo is a thinly disguised indictment against 20th century dictatorships. Louis...
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Gurko Lanen
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1941
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Jack Favell
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1940
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Previously filmed in 1933, Noel Coward's sentimental operetta Bitter Sweet was transformed by MGM seven years later into a...
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Baron Von Tranisch
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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Jeffrey Pyncheon
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1940
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Fourteen scriptwriters spent five years toiling over a movie adaptation of war correspondent Vincent Sheehan's...
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Scott Folliott
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1940
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Angry natives or a beautiful widow -- which poses the greater threat? Keith Brandon (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is an...
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Forrester
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1940
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Simon Templar
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1940
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Responding to star George Sanders' complaint that his role of "modern Robin Hood" Simon Templar was becoming a bore, RKO...
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Simon Templar
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1940
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1940
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In an unusual move for a mere program picture, RKO Radio filmed A Saint in London on location in England, using a largely...
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Simon Templar
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1939
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This comedy is based on George M. Cohan's popular play and centers on an American businessman and his family who journey to...
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1939
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Films set during America's colonial era seldom did well at the box office, and Allegheny Uprising was no exception....
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Capt. Swanson
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1939
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Bold for its time (just prior to World War II), Confessions of a Nazi Spy is an expose of a genuine Nazi espionage ring...
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Schlager
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1939
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1939
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The Outsider was a remake of the 1931 British film of the same name; both films were based on a popular play by Dorothy...
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Anton Ragatzy
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1939
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Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of...
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Eric Norvel
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1939
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The Saint Strikes Back was the second in the series of films featuring Simon Templay, better known as The Saint, and the...
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Simon Templar, the Saint
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1939
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Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of...
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Capt. Heinrichs
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1939
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In this adventure, set in Shanghai, a gunrunner gets entangled with a conspiracy to deliver customs certificates....
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Del Forbes
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1938
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This saga spans the globe as the three young heroes search for the man who killed their much-admired, beloved father, a...
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Wyatt Leigh
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1938
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1937
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Lefty
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1937
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In this romantic comedy, a married couple, tired of constantly bickering, separate. The woman heads to France where she...
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Rene Blanchard
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1937
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Set during World War I, Lancer Spy stars a young George Sanders as Michael Bruce, an officer in the British Navy who bears an...
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Lt. Michael Bruce
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1937
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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Dishonor Bright draws upon the talents of two master farceurs from Britain's Aldwych Theatre, Tom Walls (star-director) and...
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1936
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1936
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1936
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In this mystery, a dance-hall girl smuggles herself aboard an English cargo ship and ends up embroiled in a Caribbean...
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1936
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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1936
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H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future...
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1936
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