Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered...
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1989
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Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery...
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1989
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1988
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Superpatriotic Briton Michael Caine learns from his son Nigel Havers, a Russian translator with Government Communications...
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1987
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1987
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Set during WWII, this Australian miniseries explores the effects of the conflict on the sleepy burg of St. Helens and its...
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1986
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Originally aired as a British mini-series, Shaka Zulu follows the rise of Shaka (Henry Cele) to the king of the Zulus during...
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1986
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1985
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1984
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Sir Anthony Phelps
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1984
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This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British...
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1984
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A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute's novel of the Japanese occupation of Malaya during World War II, was first filmed as a...
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1980
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The Last Giraffe was adapted by Sherman Yellin from the book Raising Daisy Rothschild by Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville. Put...
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1979
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In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a...
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1978
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1977
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In this pilot for a TV series. Robert Culp stars as a top criminologist and dabbler in the occult. Gig Young is a drunken...
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1977
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In this British actioner, the professional thieves find that they have become bored with smuggling cocaine. For a new...
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1976
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The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years 1910 to 1930, bringing the saga of the Bellamy household...
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Hudson
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1975
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The picturesque streets of Vancouver, British Columbia provide the setting for this thriller that is based on Ardies' novel...
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Det. Sgt. Brian Hardison
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1975
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The fourth season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place during the war years of 1914 through 1918, a...
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Hudson
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1974
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The third season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs sweeps past the Edwardian era to cover the pre-war years...
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Hudson
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1973
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Inasmuch as Season One of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs covered the years 1903 to 1909, logic dictates that...
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Hudson
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1972
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The first appearance of Bette Davis in a made-for-television film has an evil mastermind (Davis) plotting against a CIA agent...
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1971
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The first season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place from November 1903 through June 1909, an era...
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Hudson
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1971
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Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing...
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1971
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Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The...
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1970
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In this children's film, set in London, slum kids help an African prince keep away from evil kidnappers. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1969
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Perhaps the reason there are so many filmed versions of Hamlet is that in each decade every great Shakespeareian actor, and...
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Horatio
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1969
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Child actor Mark Lester proved that his sudden ascension to stardom in Oliver wasn't a fluke with Run Wild, Run Free. Lester...
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Mr. Ransome
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1969
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Gordon Lowther
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1969
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British agents drop like skeets in this convoluted espionage film. Jonas Wilde (Richard Johnson) is a successful British...
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1968
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Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery...
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1967
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During the 16th century, it was prophesied that "When Hugh succeeds Hugh, Ireland shall be free." Hugh was the Prince of...
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Capt. Leeds
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1966
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Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American...
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1966
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Steed and Emma are put on the case when the body of an agent -- four inches taller than he was in life -- is discovered....
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1965
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Michael Caine made his first appearance as novelist Len Deighton's bespectacled British-spy Harry Palmer in The Ipcress File....
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Jock Carswell
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1965
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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1965
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In this children's movie, four kids are inadvertently locked in a department store over a weekend. There they somehow catch...
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1964
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The Great Escape is based on the true story of a group of Allied prisoners of war who managed to escape from an allegedly...
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1963
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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1963
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This colorful remake of the 1935 version again concerns the crew and treatment of the HMS Bounty by a cold hearted sadistic...
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1962
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Disney's Greyfriars Bobby is a remake of A Challenge to Lassie; both are based on the same novel by Eleanor Atkinson, and...
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1961
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In this crime drama, a prominent doctor marries a wealthy young woman. Their happiness is marred when a French woman begins...
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1961
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When an ex-con changes his name and tries to make a new start, everything seems to conspire against him in his efforts....
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1960
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Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against...
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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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1960
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A little boy learns the dangers of chronic lying the hard way in this thriller. He is only eleven when he tells a story that...
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1960
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In this suspenseful drama a baker accidentally whips up a batch of bad bread and must somehow find it before people begin to...
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1959
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The scene is Burma during World War II. A small British brigade led by Stanley Baker comes upon a Burmese village controlled...
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Sgt. MacKenzie
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1959
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The Bridal Path is standard comedy fare about a young man, Ewan McEwan (Bill Travers) sent out from his island home to go...
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1959
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1959
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Award-winning director Joseph Losey guides this suspenseful mystery through its paces, beginning with an apparently guilty...
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Police Sergeant
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1959
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Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who...
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1958
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1958
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In this crime drama, three criminals break into a man's store so they can get into the bank next door. The trouble really...
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1958
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In this suspenseful, convoluted crime drama, the wife of a wrongly-condemned murderer begins looking for the real killer. ~...
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1957
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Let's Be Happy is an updated remake of Jeannie (1941), one of the most likable British comedies of the 1940s. The premise is...
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1957
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1957
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In this efficient British crime drama, Tom Yately (Stanley Baker) is an ex-con looking for honest work. He thinks he's found...
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1957
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The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit...
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1957
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The 51-minute length of Black Ice imposes a tense tautness that would not have been possible in a film of any longer...
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1957
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In this supenseful and provocative high-seas drama, the captain of a luxury liner is suddenly faced with life or death...
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1957
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Sailor Beware was originally released in England as Panic in the Parlour. The panic begins when a sailor named Albert...
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1956
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This biopic chronicles the true experiences of a British government representative who is sent with his wife to wild, exotic...
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1956
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1956
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Tired of the humdrum routine at a staid British woman's prison, brassy American chorine Angela Booth (Beverly Michaels) busts...
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1956
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A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard...
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TV Producer
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1955
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A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard...
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1955
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In this comedy, a shop assistant finds a briefcase containing a large sum of money. His daughter's creepy boyfriend steals...
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1955
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A string of jewel thefts lead to murder as investigated by a free-lance reporter and his wife. (AKA Delavine Affair) ~ Rovi...
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1954
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David Niven returns to his native England to star in the frothy comedy The Love Lottery. Niven plays a Hollywood movie star...
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1954
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The Delavine Affair is a jewel robbery orchestrated by a particularly vicious criminal gang. Reporter Peter Reynolds (his...
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1954
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In this suspenser, set upon the campus of a women's college, a strangler has come to call. Death ensues. The music...
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1953
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Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway...
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1953
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Most of this hectic British comedy takes place in an ancient Scottish castle. The British National Coal Board, following a...
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1952
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British film-favorite Anna Neagle, having previously played such great historical personages as Queen Victoria and Edith...
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1951
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The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered...
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1951
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Mac
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1950
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Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass...
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Jock Melville
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1949
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The all-purpose title Floodtide was trotted out once more for this 1949 British drama. Gordon Jackson plays a lowly shipyard...
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David Shields
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1949
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Released in the U.S. as Massacre Hill, the Australian Eureka Stockade was one of that country's biggest and most expensive...
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Tom Kennedy
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1949
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Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all...
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George Campbell
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1949
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Set in World War II times, this drama involves a highly trained bunch of British soldiers who must parachute into Nazi-held...
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John "Scotty" Duncan
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1948
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The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed...
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1947
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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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David Sutton
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1945
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The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is...
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John Jamieson
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1944
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The nine men are an English sergeant (Jack Lambert) and his eight charges, stranded in a crumbling fort in the Libyan desert...
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1943
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Millions Like Us is a fundamentally honest dramatization of the British "home front" during World War II. Patricia Roc plays...
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Fred Blake
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1943
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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Jock
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1942
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