This rollicking political satire stars Ian Carmichael as an impressionable British TV personality. His vanity is stroked by a...
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1959
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In this British comedy, a young man resorts to spying, extortion and just plain begging after he learns that he is to be...
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1957
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A bellboy gets sweet revenge upon the employers at the hotel where he once worked after he inherits a lot of money in this...
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1956
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Basil Dearden was co-producer and co-director of the British "slice of life" drama Out of the Clouds. Filmed in...
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1955
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Mr. Hare
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1954
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Derby Day is a typically British omnibus feature, delineating the fates of several different people during a single day at...
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1952
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Based on a play by Pepine de Felipe, Her Favorite Husband is a British comedy set in Italy. Housewife Jean Kent is bemused by...
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1950
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Barge worker Gordon Harker signs onto a suspicous-looking vessel as a crew member. Harker knows full well that the ship is...
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1950
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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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One of the few low-budget British programmers to enjoy a reasonably widespread American release, Facts of Love tells its tale...
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Mr. Robinson
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1945
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In this WW II espionage drama, German paratroopers drop into England to take over Buckley Hall and kidnap the lord within....
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1943
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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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Inspector Hornleigh
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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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Charlie Hopkins
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1941
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Joe Harris
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1940
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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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Inspector Hornleigh
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1939
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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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Inspector Hornleigh
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1939
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In this complicated comedy chronicles a caper involving jewel thieves and an unlucky parking lot jockey whom they mistake...
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1938
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Gordon Harker stars as a goonish London cabbie who finds himself up to his brimmed cap in espionage. Harker innocently...
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Alf Huggins
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1938
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Following a string of mysterious robberies, Scotland Yard assigns its best detective, Inspector Elk, to bring the crooks to...
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Inspector Elk
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1938
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This breezy British action comedy stars Gordon Harker as Albert Rughouse, cockney conductor of a passenger bus running the...
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Albert Rughouse
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1938
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British author W.W. Jacobs, whose love of the sea and seafarers permeated everything he wrote, was responsible for the story...
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1937
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Sgt. Elk
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1937
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While the Hollywood output of director William "One-Take" Beaudine was largely uninspired, he turned out several first-rate...
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1936
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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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1936
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The popularity of musical-comedy favorite Jack Hulbert sometimes obscured the fact that his brother Claude was a talented...
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Prosser
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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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The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an...
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Natty Bell
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1936
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Three talented screenwriters collaborated in adapting Evadne Price and Joan Roy Byford's play The Haunted Light to the screen...
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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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Constable Cheatle
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1935
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In this musical comedy, a Cockney flower girl is in love with a policeman whom she wants to marry. Unfortunately, her father...
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1935
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Admirals All was based on the British stage farce by Ian Hay and Stephen-King-Hall. Wynne Gibson takes over from the stage...
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Petty Officer Dingle
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1935
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Bill Shane
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1935
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Although this Laurel and Hardy short is quite funny, it's often neglected. The boys, playing chimney sweeps, don't appear...
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Nettle
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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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Ernie
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1934
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Director Dick Lester does an astute job of orchestrating several rock 'n roll and jazz performers in this musical drama...
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Sam Pritchard
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1934
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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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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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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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Tansey
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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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Hackney Man
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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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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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Hamilton Briggs
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1933
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In this comedy, the owners of a teahouse inherit a fortune from their uncle and head for London to live the highlife....
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Albert Tuttle
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1933
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In this British musical, a shop assistant attempts to impress a girl by telling her that he is actually the manager....
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Briggs
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1932
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In this mystery, a master of disguises commits a series of crimes. He is so good, that no one knows what he really looks...
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Samuel Hackett
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1932
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The Criminal at Large in this quota quickie murders his victims in the dark of night. There seems to be a pattern to the...
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Sgt. Toddy
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1932
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On the surface just another quota quickie, Condemned to Death turned out to be quite a gem for those lucky enough to see it...
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Sam Knudge
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1932
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The racetrack provides the setting for this melodrama that centers upon the owner of a racehorse who is jilted by a...
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1932
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In this crime drama, a gangster murders his own girlfriend and kidnaps a wealthy socialite. He takes her to his boat and...
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1931
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In this drama, a man gives up his own life to keep his philandering wife's lover from being killed in a mining accident. ~...
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1931
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In this sporting comedy, two gamblers are visiting the home of a staunch anti-gambler. The host is most self-righteous about...
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Bates
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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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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. Waller
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1931
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In this early talkie, Capt. Matt Denant (Gerald du Maurier) is a former war hero who intervenes when he sees a crooked...
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Convict
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1930
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This suspenseful crime drama is the first talkie to be based on a novel by Edgar Wallace (he also directed the film). It...
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1930
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In this espionage drama an international spy goes searching for secret papers hidden within an isolated inn. He is...
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1930
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In this romantic comedy, a poor but honest young woman finds an aristocrat's missing necklace. She returns it to the lady...
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1929
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This is the final episode in the three part Rat series. This time, the Rat decides to go straight to marry his beloved....
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1929
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American film star Carlyle Blackwell stars in the British melodrama The Wrecker. Based on a play by Arnold Didley and Bernard...
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1929
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A wealthy man pretends he is bankrupt to teach his wayward daughter a lesson. An early, silent Hitchcock film which is...
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The Father
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1928
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Churdles Ash, the handyman
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1928
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George
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1927
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