In this comedy drama, a taxi driver finds an abandoned greyhound puppy and takes it home to his daughter who raises it and...
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1947
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Based on the novel by Pamela Hansford Johnson, Trojan Brothers offers the unlikely screen team of music hall funster...
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1946
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Adapted from a novel by Osbert Sitwell, A Place of One's Own has a double-edged title: It refers to a physical place as well...
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1945
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In this musical comedy, two idealistic bit players decide to rewrite a movie script in order to make it suit their values....
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1945
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A factory secretary is disclosed as being a thief by discharged Army soldiers. ~ Rovi...
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1944
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The Shipbuilders is a rare film of true merit from prolific British "quota quickie" director John Baxter. Clive Brook heads...
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1943
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Let the People Sing is an offshoot of J. B. Priestly's earlier show business-based fable The Good Companions. In Companions,...
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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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1942
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In this drama, an Irish singer heads for the US to make it big. He leaves his wife and child in Britain. In the States he...
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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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Barbara Mullen stars as Jeannie, a spirited Scots girl who comes into an inheritance. She heads for her family castle after...
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1941
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Never mind that first name; Bunny Doyle is the male protagonist of the British Facing the Music. Doyle plays a clumsy...
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1941
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In this comedy of mistaken identity, an amiable fellow decides to help out his singing South American look-a-like who must...
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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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The Two For Danger in this British comedy-mystery are lawyer Tony Grigson (Barry K. Barnes) and art museum curator Diana...
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1940
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In this family comedy, the life of a suburban clan is disrupted when they learn that two old friends are coming to call. The...
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1940
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Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfeather's woebegone WW1 British soldier Old Bill was revived for WW2 in Old Bill and Son. When his son...
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1940
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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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Milkbar Monty
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1940
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In this British murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigates a puzzling killing of an Italian count. The Yard assigns a...
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1940
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In this three-hanky crime drama, a junkman offers a little sage advice for a young woman who has fallen in love with a...
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1939
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There Ain't No Justice turned out to be the "breakthrough" picture for youthful British actor Jimmy Hanley. The star plays a...
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1939
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Most of British regional comedian George Formby's vehicles were released in the US through Columbia Pictures; somehow Trouble...
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1939
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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1939
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When a factory worker is sent off to deliver a message, he inadvertently gets enrolled in the navy. His bumblings take him...
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1939
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There's no folly like a Blind Folly, as scripters H.F. Maltby and John Hunter strive to prove in this British comedy....
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1939
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In this comedy a young woman weasels out of a vacation with her parents and away from the young man they want her to date by...
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1938
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A con man with fake land development plans provides the impetus for the uniting of business rivals, owners of a cement works...
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1938
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British musical comedy star Gracie Fields made a bid for stardom in the U. S. with this lighthearted story. Music hall...
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1938
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After befriending talented dancer and pickpocket Libby (Vivien Leigh), street performer Charles (Charles Saggers) strikes up...
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1938
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This musical features many popular ballads from the 1880s as it tells the tale of a cabaret singer and her boozy husband who...
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1938
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Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who...
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1938
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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1938
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In this comedy, a scrawny barber must compete with a muscle bound thug for the love of a manicurist. Naturally the...
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1937
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Directed by Ian Dalrymple, this comedy of manners is based on a German play, and is one of the lesser known pieces of Vivien...
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1937
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In this comedy, a street artist has successfully conned his wife and family into believing that he is a well-to-do...
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1937
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This film takes a look at British decorum and civilities when a highly conscientious army officer is accused of cheating at...
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1937
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In this comedy, a young man learns that he is supposed to inherit some valuable jewels and enlists the aid of his shyster...
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1936
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Alf Green
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1936
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In this romantic comedy, an American movie star marries a steamer captain so she can obtain British citizenship. As soon as...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a wandering troupe of English actors wend their way toward Spain. En route they toy with the father...
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1936
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In this comedy, two Cockney sanitation workers get an unexpected bonus when they encounter a rare book that was accidentally...
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1936
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In this mystery, the origins of an antique chest are investigated. It is discovered that it is a fake, made by a furniture...
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1936
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This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number...
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1935
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Archie Pitt not only starred in the British Barnacle Bill, but also wrote the story upon which the screenplay was based....
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1935
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The Crouching Beast was based on Clubfoot, an espionage novel by Valentine Williams. Set in 1915 Constantinople, the story is...
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1935
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This musical features the BBC bandleader trying to deal with his musicians in the recording studio. Meanwhile, outside the...
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1935
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The chaos in this comedy culminates in compromise when two chorines and their neer-do-well boyfriends attempt blackmail...
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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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Lilian Harvey, the toast of two continents, is her usual radiant self in Invitation to the Waltz. Harvey plays Jenny Peachey...
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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In this comedy, two vagabonds living alongside the River Thames are mistaken for genteel gentlemen and end up attending a...
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1934
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when...
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1934
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Too expensive for a "quota quickie" but not quite costly enough to qualify as an "A" picture, Happy is a shapeless but...
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1934
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1934
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In this comedy of errors, set during a dark and stormy night, the trouble begins when a married woman suddenly appears at...
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1933
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Haughty Hollywood movie star Dorothy Kay (Constance Cummings) doesn't know it, but she has an exact double, impoverished...
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Otis Dove
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1933
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In this comedy, a junior business partner must take a Scottish buyer out on the town. During dinner, the two get...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted,...
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1933
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In this crime comedy, based on a popular British play, a young man poses as a poet to protect his auntie's jewels from...
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1933
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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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In this farce, an excited miner begins making grandiose plans after he believes that he has won a large football pool. His...
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1932
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1932
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The title lass in this Eclipse production is a goatherd-ess, in love with a strapping mountain youth. During his daily...
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1932
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While at a duke's party, disguised Ruritanian king Gerrard and chancellor McNaughton are accused of jewel thievery, but find...
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1932
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1930
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Innocent Binnie (Elissa Landi) happens to be the spitting image of Lia Monta (also Elissa Landi), a less-than-innocent famous...
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H.K. Zinkuyell
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1930
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