In this melodramatic adventure set after the British evacuated Singapore in 1942, a ship is torpedoed and only four people...
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1957
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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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1956
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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1956
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1955
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A vicious murderer suffers amnesia and his psychiatrist finds his brain waves indicative of violent tendencies. After he...
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1955
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A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's...
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1954
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Grand National Night began life as a stage play, which was promptly adapted as a popular British radio serial. The film...
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1953
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Julius de Koster, Sr.
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1953
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John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the...
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1952
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Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the...
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1952
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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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1951
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I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a...
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1951
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1950
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Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars,...
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1950
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A supernatural tale based on a short story by Russian poet Alexander Pushkin, this is the portrayal of a poor Captain in the...
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1949
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British film star Googie Withers took a break from the steamy melodramas that had previously been her specialty in Once Upon...
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1949
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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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1948
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James Hadley Chase's 1939 bestseller reached the screen for the first time -- which a lot of critics of the book would have...
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1948
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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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1946
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The Caryl Brahams-S. J. Simon novel The Elephant is White is the basis for the British Give us the Moon. Comic actor Vic...
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1944
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Tomorrow we Live is the more upbeat American title of the British war drama At Dawn we Die. When his village is overtaken by...
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1943
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Will Hay, he of the pince-nez, outraged sniff, and overall demeanor of dignified incompetence, stars in (and codirects)...
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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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1942
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A bashful artist finds all kinds of trouble in this comedy. A handyman by profession, the shy fellow loves to paint, but can...
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1942
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In this supernatural drama, a college student finds himself fixated upon thoughts of his late lover. Unable to forget her,...
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1941
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Penn of Pennsylvania was the original British title of the economical biopic The Courageous Mr. Penn. Clifford Evans stars as...
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1941
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In this mystery, a detective trying to crack a forgery ring gets one of its members to go to prison to help him. When he...
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1941
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In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to...
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1941
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Although London Town is usually listed as the film debut of British music-hall favorite Sid Field, he actually made his...
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1940
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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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In this lively British WW II comedy, the Nazis kidnap a hapless farmhand after they mistakenly identify him as one of their...
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1939
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Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night...
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1939
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In this drama, a journalist assists a young woman seeking revenge upon the newspaper baron who ruined her father. ~ Sandra...
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1939
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British Writer/director Anthony Kimmins was willing to expand his range from drawing room comedy to the "low" humors of the...
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1939
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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This British comedy pokes fun at Chicago gangsters as it chronicles the rivalry between to gangs battling it out aboard an...
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1938
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When the Russians find and destroy the hidden artillery, the 13 man Austrian gun crew is suspected of harboring a traitor in...
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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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1938
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When a woman gets money from her guardian, Lupino, to finance her newspaper she accused him of embezzling. Luckily for all...
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1938
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Crimefighting Englishman Reeder is assisted by a young man in his efforts to expose a counterfeiting gang. ~ Rovi...
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1938
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In this comedy, an American chorine travels to France with a low-budget revue and nearly ends up stranded there....
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1937
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April Blossoms is based loosely on incidents in the life of composer Franz Schubert, here portrayed by legendary tenor...
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1937
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Two's Company was based on Sydney Horler's stage comedy Romeo and Julia. The film's storyline is developed in parallel...
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Toombs
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1936
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This tragedy is a remake of D.W. Griffith's classic silent film. The story is based on "The Chink and the Child," a story by...
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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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1936
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Will Hay plays Benjamin Stubbins, an unsuccessful and incompetent English lawyer with a tendency to tip the bottle and an...
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1936
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This British programmer tells the dark, thrilling tale of a research scientist who resorts to murder to ensure continued...
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1936
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Sir Francis Drake (Lang), first English circumnavigator of the globe, is featured in this exciting adventure with his amazing...
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1935
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Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens' The Old...
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Sampson Brass
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1935
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British musical comedy star Jack Hulbert plays an amateur sleuth who takes over for the "real" Bulldog Drummond...
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Denny
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1935
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Walter Hackett's popular stage farce Hyde Park Corner was smoothly transferred to the screen in 1935. Gordon Harker repeats...
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Sir Arthur Gannett
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1935
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In this comedy, an artists paints his clothed model as if she had been dressed in very revealing garb. Later his servant...
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1935
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In this musical, set in the mythical country of Ruritania, a princess finds herself exiled by revolutionaries before she can...
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1935
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In this romantic costume drama, a man in the service of a king finds that falling in love with the queen can carry a high...
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1935
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In this British comedy, the owner of a country pub finds her wedding night ruined when a man comes up and offers her husband...
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1935
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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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The Iron Duke is one of the best of the George Arliss biopics -- and one of the few that can claim near-total accuracy (with...
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1934
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This historical drama recounts the events that led up to the rule of Russia's 18th-century Catherine the Great. Arriving from...
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1934
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1934
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A church mouse may be quiet, but not in this zippy British comedy from Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios. Hollywood's...
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1934
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1934
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A bungling band of bandits steal a new drug that alters the personalities of those who take it in this comedy. The trouble...
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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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Back before there was "no-fault divorce" couples wanting to split up had to provide hard evidence of spousal wrong-doing...
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Florey
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1934
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High Finance, Ida Lupino's second film (and one of director George King's many low-budget quickies), is "a drama of a man...
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1933
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Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII....
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1933
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The exploits of 18th-century British highwayman Dick Turpin have been immortalized in scores of poems, ballads, novels, plays...
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Governor
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1933
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Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge...
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1933
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In this comedy, a popular head porter at the Paris Ritz finds trouble when he falls in love with a wealthy widow who stays...
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1933
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In this musical, a middle-class cockney fishwife yearns to become a movie star. Her plans go swimmingly. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1933
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In this mystery a village squire holds a dinner party and during the festivities ends up dead. His wife is the prime...
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1933
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White Face was one of the last cinematic endeavors of the prolific novelist Edgar Wallace, who died several months before the...
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1933
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Set during an ugly divorce proceeding, a faithless second wife is found guilty of adultery (with a wealthy nobleman whom she...
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1932
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In this musical romance, the chairman of a financially foundering bank is forced into a relationship with a supposed...
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Dr. Schilling
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1932
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1932
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1932
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A general's son, Buchanan, calls off his engagement to countess Bland when he falls in love with flower girl Neagle who...
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Max's Orderly
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1932
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In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the...
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1932
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This romantic war drama takes its title from the 18th century Henry Carey song about a plucky but poor girl waiting for her...
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Jim Sears
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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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A spiteful, young noblewoman, married to a prominent lord attempts to ruin the life of the highly-principled chauffeur who...
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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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During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the...
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Bibikoff, the Czar's Adjutant
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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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Pvt. McTavish
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1931
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1930
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A mother attempts to give her troubled daughter some sage advice in order to save her marriage in this domestic drama that...
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1930
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William
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1930
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In this British mystery, a diplomat's wife, thinking she is protecting her lover, takes the rap for her husband's murder. It...
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1929
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Basically a silent picture for most of its 92-minute running time, Kitty switches to sound during its last 2 1/2 reels....
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1929
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Dunnybrigg
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1928
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1928
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1927
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This silent British comedy features at least seven vaudeville acts and was adapted from a popular stage musical that tells...
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1927
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1926
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This British-made production was based on the "celebrated" (circa 1906) stage play by Freeman Wills, which was based on the...
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1926
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While Lillian Gish achieved stardom with her dramatic emoting, her sister Dorothy made a name for herself as a saucy...
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1926
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This was the first time William Balfe's popular romantic opera was filmed. Although other operas made successful transitions...
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1922
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1922
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1921
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