A 1978 novel by Irish author P.J. Kavanagh was the source for the swashbuckling British miniseries Scarf Jack. The story took...
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1981
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This 1976 Royal Shakespeare Company production of Macbeth was originally broadcast on Thames Television in 1978. The...
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1978
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1968
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In this mystery, a salesman unearths important evidence concerning the murder of a famous has-been actress. This evidence...
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1966
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Recovering from a broken leg at a private convalescent home, Steed soon learns that he is being stalked by a mysterious...
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1965
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In this thriller, a novelist is quite upset to discover himself awakening with a gun in his hand. He is more dismayed to...
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1959
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The "crowning touch" of the title is a fancy woman's hat. It has been specially set aside at a posh British headwear shoppe,...
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1959
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For pretty Jean Francis (Lisa Gastoni), the nightmare begins when she inadvertently witnesses a robbery-murder. Rapson...
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Rapson
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1958
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In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his...
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1958
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Lucian Currie (Griffith Jones) approaches Peter Brady with a bizarre proposition: Currie intends to murder his partner in a...
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1958
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Jeff Martin
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1958
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The always reliable Griffith Jones is afforded the leading role in the British Account Rendered. Jones plays a victim of...
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Robert Ainsworth
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1957
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After years of faithful supporting service, British comic actor Ronald Shiner was finally rewarded with a few leading roles...
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Guy Harding
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1957
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In this crime drama an insurance investigator takes a case from a pretty but troubled woman to save her from blackmail and...
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1954
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them is our candidate for the most dramatic title of any British World War II film. Happily, the film...
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1954
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In this drama, a cynical sculptor finds a fresh outlook on life after meeting a lovely ballerina. He is utterly enchanted...
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1954
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In this comedy, a braggart and his new bride head for a honeymoon in Italy. There they go to the small village the groom...
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1951
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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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Private Mercy Jackson
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1949
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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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Danny Martin
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1948
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Ann Markham (Margaret Lockwood) is an employee with the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Though ostensibly businesslike and...
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Charles Kent
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1948
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Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous...
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Paul Marten
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1948
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Clem Morgan (Trevor Howard), an embittered ex-RAF pilot, mistakenly believes the life of crime is for him in this...
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1947
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In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve...
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Sir Ralph Skelton
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1945
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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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Sandy Duncan
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1945
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1944
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Having underestimated Hitler in the 1930s, British propaganda specialists spent the early war years insisting they were...
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1942
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Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign...
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Police Inspector Gunter
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1942
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Father de Gruyte
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1942
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Emeric Pressburger was one of the scenarists on the big-budget British seafaring saga Atlantic Ferry. The film is a...
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David MacIver
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1941
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Filmed in England at Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios facilities, This Was Paris stars American actors (and current British...
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Bill Hamilton
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1941
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In this British thriller, a chemist finds himself framed for a murder. He leaves his lover and escapes to South Africa....
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James Martin
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1940
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In this gentle comedy, an aristocratic English fellow is not happy to be betrothed to a brewery heiress. One day he goes to...
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Lord Alban
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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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James Brodie
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1939
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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In this espionage drama, a Secret Service agent must discover who has been smuggling British arms into China. The prime...
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John Fenton
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1937
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1937
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It's a tossup as to which George Eliot novel has most often been adapted to the screen, though it appears that...
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1937
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British musical star Jessie Matthews tops the bill in this song-studded comedy. Elizabeth (Matthews) is a delivery girl for a...
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Robert Adams
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1935
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Margaret Kennedy, whose novel The Constant Nymph dealt with a musician's love for a pretty young gamin, penned a variation of...
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Caryl Sanger
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1935
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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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In this variation of Brewster's Millions, a fellow's sister will give him a million dollars if he can spend all his money in...
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1933
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