In this comedy, a remake of the 1936 comedy, two sanitation workers get an unexpected bonus when they encounter a rare book...
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Screen Story
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1956
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Frank Randle tones down the impurities of his music hall routines in the British service comedy It's a Grand Life. Randle...
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Screenwriter
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1953
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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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Screenwriter
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1950
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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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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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This musical comedy, centers around the romance between a delightful orphan and the son of a colonel and his snooty wife....
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1945
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Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of...
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1944
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A proud but aging WW I war-horse is deeply offended when his offer to lead during WW II is rejected by the government that...
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1944
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Once again comedian Arthur Lucan dons an old woman's togs to become the tart-tongued Irish washerwoman. This time Mother...
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1943
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1943
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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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Screenwriter
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1942
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The tumultuous life of 18th-century composer Handel is chronicled in this dramatic biography. The story begins when the...
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1942
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Cockney cafe workers Elsie and Doris Waters keep everyone on their toes while they stop the black market activities of grocer...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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In this crime drama, a hotelier provides a gang of street urchins jobs at his hotel. The proprietor wants to use his lovely...
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Screenwriter
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1942
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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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There's no one named Bob in the British comedy Bob's Your Uncle; the title is a bit of cockney slang, which we won't attempt...
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1941
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When the Waters sisters and their charges are accused of stealing Esmond's gems, they work to uncover the real thieves. ~...
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Screenwriter
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1941
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A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by...
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1940
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In this lively spy caper, the male half of a married song-and-dance duo moonlights as a government spy. The trouble begins...
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1940
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Plumber/coronet player Lupino and retired major Maltby bumble through the organization of a show for the soldiers in this...
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1940
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1939
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So since when have crimes been committed in a house with all the lights on? This chop-licking British melodrama stars the...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, the boisterous Mother Riley plays a nurse who was forced to...
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1939
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In this British comedy, set in London during the 1840s, an acting troupe aspires to high-society, but despite their best...
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Randolph Macaulay
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1939
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As cleaner-salesman/electioneer Miller learns of the actions of evil Maltby in running the orphanage, he turns his loyalties...
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1938
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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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1938
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In this comedy, a dart-playing clerk catches a jewel thief. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1938
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1938
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In this farce, a loosely moraled chorine gets involved with a married man and the fiancé of the man's daughter. The real...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this comedy, an impoverished bumbler becomes a waiter at a fancy party and finds himself mistaken for one of the wealthy...
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1938
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Owd Bob is a remake of the silent film of the same name, which in turn was based on a story by Alfred Olivant. Dominating the...
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1938
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In this comedy, a poor fellow is only able to survive because his landlady is willing to overlook his lack of payment. His...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Top British radio stores perform in this musical revue. The many acts are hosted by the popular team of Clamphan & Dwyer and...
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1937
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In this melodrama, an old fashioned bad guy is determined to have an innocent young maiden for himself. To do so, he frames...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this comedy, a photographer is placed in charge of the village coffer. He takes the cash and hides it in an old dresser....
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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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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this comedy, a hotel clerk is framed for a jewel theft by the real culprits and is forced to grab his wife and flee to...
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1937
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In this comedy, a mild-mannered shipping clerk and his wife get into deep trouble after they are mistaken for jewel thieves...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Adapted from an 1863 melodrama, The Ticket of Leave Man stars Tod Slaughter as Tiger Dalton, a notorious criminal mastermind...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this British comedy, a Yankee con artist hides out in England. Trouble ensues when he follows a pretty girl into a office...
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1937
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1937
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In this comedy, a mild-mannered bank clerk can't help but wonder why things happen to him. One night, his wife goes to visit...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Star Jack Buchanan shared directorial credit with cinematographer Lee Garmes for the breezy British musical comedy The Sky's...
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Lord Beckley
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1937
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True love wins over drudgery and the problems of a large family as "fairy godfather" Rees assists his niece to win her man....
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this comedy, a young man must give up smokin' and drinkin' if he is to get his large inheritance. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this crime drama, an honest clerk finds himself in a difficult situation when he refuses to help a corrupt financier...
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1937
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As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as...
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1937
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Remember the 3 Stooges Movie Maniacs, in which Curly, Larry and Moe are accidentally put in charge of a movie studio?...
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1937
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In this musical comedy, a wealthy couple is duped out of their money. They decide to capture the crook themselves by...
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1937
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A transatlantic race is featured in this exciting drama. One of the captains involved almost loses after he saves an actress...
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1937
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Song of the Road is the U.S. title for the British Auld Lang Syne, originally released in 1938. The star is legendary Scots...
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1937
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A broken string of pearls provides the basis for this comedy. The pearls are lost by a woman who had borrowed the necklace...
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1937
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1936
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In this drama, a shyster betrays his law partner by embezzling company money to buy gold shares. He then kills his...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1936
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In this comedy of mistaken identity, an over-eager press agent "helps" the career of an aspiring actress by having her...
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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1936
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Comic actor Sydney Howard stars as obsequious department-store floorwalker Oswald Bertwhistle. Our hero's life is...
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1936
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A stellar Hollywood cast gives an extra boost to the atmospheric British feature Everything is Thunder. The story involves a...
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1936
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In this drama, set in an office, two veterans are hired after the war by the father of a friend who was killed in battle....
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1936
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This musical comedy is a confusion of identities as opera singer Alpar, in love with a woman, stars in a show financially...
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1936
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Jack Hulbert is Jack Warrender in Jack of All Trades. A spoof of Big Business, 1930s style, the film begins as Jack ends a...
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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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1936
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this melodrama, an attorney falls in love with a girl and decides to represent her fiance who turns out to be the...
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1936
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Calling the Tune uses its skeletal plot to celebrate the British record industry, circa 1936. Adele Dixon plays the daughter...
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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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A bone-chiller that still manages to inject humor, this movie was based on an actual event and even spawned Stephen...
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1936
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The Crimes of Stephen Hawke opens at a BBC radio studio, where a variety program is being broadcast. After the singing duo...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Screenwriter
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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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In this British comedy of manners, an industrialist finally retires from the mill he created from scratch and leaves it to...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1935
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Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald once complained that the sum total of her dialogue during her ingenue days was a petulant "But,...
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Screen Story
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1935
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In this racy comedy, a harem girl desiring to escape her life, stows away on the boat of a wealthy archaeologist as it sails...
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1935
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In this charming comedy, the driver of a hansom cab, reluctant to modernize, finds himself hating newfangled motorized taxi...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this drama, a megalomaniac actress dies and her loyal fans begin grieving. If only they knew that she'd faked the whole...
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1935
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In this comedy, a young man becomes an amateur detective when his fiancee's father, a stuffy old admiral (who naturally...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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After spending time working as dialogue director on a number of films, Carol Reed made his directorial debut as co-director...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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In this musical comedy, a young man visiting the ultra-modern estate of his aunt falls in love with the old-fashioned,...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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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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Ship's cooks Fuller and Gordon accidentally get involved in the Foreign Legion where their adventures lead them to rescue 2...
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1934
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Farm worker Ernie Lotinga confronts a greedy entrepreneur who wants the farm leading to his election as a magistrate and...
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1934
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Freedom of the Seas is sometimes listed as French stage director Marcel Varnel's first film; it's actually his first British...
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1934
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Best known today as the wife of famed caricaturist Al Hirschfield, actress Dolly Haas enjoyed a long and fruitful career in...
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1934
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Cummins
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1934
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In this comedy, an upstanding judge marries a woman whom he believes is much younger than she really is. To keep the...
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1934
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In this comedy, a chimney sweep is swept into a political campaign and finds himself not only supporting the Labour Party,...
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1933
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In this espionage drama, an American in Europe gives the wrong address to a taxi driver and ends up mistaken for a spy in...
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Herr Doktor
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1933
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In this drama a shy music teacher attempts to become more outgoing by taking a "How to Succeed" course. Later his...
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Play Author
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1933
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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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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this mystery a man who will do anything for his lover tries to get back his power of attorney so that he can manage his...
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Play Author
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1933
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