John Mills followed his successful Gentle Gunman with the tensioned-filled meller The Long Memory. Convicted for a murder he...
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1953
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This romantic mystery involves a young lawyer whose old flame is accused of murdering his mistress. She takes his case and...
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1952
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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1952
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The British Something Money Can't Buy offers a few smaller-scale variations on themes previously explored in the 1946...
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1952
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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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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White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the...
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1951
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David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th...
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1950
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1950
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In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he...
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1950
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In this low-budget crime drama, a woman, paralyzed after an auto accident, learns that her husband has been fooling around...
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1950
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The presence of Peter Lorre assured a modicum of American business for the British meller Double Confession. It all begins...
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1950
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A confirmed bachelor and a reclusive movie star tangle in this lively French comedy. The trouble begins when the bachelor...
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1949
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1949
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver...
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1948
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Radio personality Levis manages to stop a Buddhist art connoisseur from collecting a rare artifact in this comic thriller. ~...
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1948
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Cinematographer Ronald Neame made his directorial debut with the 1947 murder melodrama Take My Life. When a Covent Garden...
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Inspector Archer
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1948
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1948
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1948
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At a World War II emergency hospital, a postman dues under anesthetic during a relatively minor operation. One of the nurses...
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1947
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Screen Story
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1947
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The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini....
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1947
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Possibly inspired by the 1937 British melodrama They Drive By Night, East of Piccadilly is an austere shocker set in London....
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Inspector
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1941
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1941
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Based on a stage play by M. J. Farrell and John Perry, Spring Meeting stars Enid-Stamp Taylor and Michael Wilding as Tiny and...
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1941
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An innocent country maiden living in the early 19th century is forcibly betrothed to a gambling louse after her father gets...
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Director
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1940
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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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In this musical drama set during the reign of Charles I, an Irish priest is assigned to educate the prince. The prince...
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1937
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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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In this drama, an officer is perjured by another and is sentenced to Devil's island. Meanwhile, the perjurer is flirting...
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Director
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1937
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In this musical, the village smithy and his son (who looks just like him because they are played by the same actor) have a...
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Director
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1937
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In this British comedy, a barrister badly botches his first case and begins to think he has chosen the wrong career. To...
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Director
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1936
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The old H. V. Esmond stage play Eliza Comes to Stay proved a perfect vehicle for British screen sweetheart Betty Balfour....
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1936
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This British programmer tells the dark, thrilling tale of a research scientist who resorts to murder to ensure continued...
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Director
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1936
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In this British Victorian comedy, a wealthy Englishman comes back from a journey to India to discover that instead of...
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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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Starring Seymour Hicks as the title character, Scrooge is a faithful adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens' novel...
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1935
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1935
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In this romantic comedy, an aged wine maker ignores his sons' disapproval and marries a much younger woman. The angered sons...
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1935
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In this mystery, an adaptation of an Agatha Christie tale, the unflappable Poirot looks into the death of a wealthy nobleman....
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1934
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The tumultuous relationship between a self-made man and his no-account son is chronicled in this drama. The father is proud...
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1934
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This British Edgar Wallace derivation was originally released as The Man Who Changed His Name. That ripe old barnstormer...
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1934
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Imitation Masons make a mess when their ruses are discovered in this British comedy. For many years, Amos Bloodgood has told...
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1934
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Anne One Hundred was adapted from Sewell Collins' stage play, which in turn was taken from Rescuing Anne, a novel by...
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1933
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In this romantic drama a struggling composer tries to protect his wife from the lecherous Lord Quilhampton. The nobleman is...
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1933
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After 2 aristocrats become engaged, they fall in love with people in a lower class in this romantic comedy. ~ Rovi...
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Director
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1933
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Based on a play by George A. Birmingham, General John Regan is a remake of the 1921 film of the same name. Henry Edwards, who...
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Director, Dr. O'Grady
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1933
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1933
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A classy woman has an affair with a rake after she learns that she has a terminal disease in this British melodrama. When...
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1933
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In this war drama, a British naval lieutenant performs heroically during a raid upon a Chinese fort, but then gives all the...
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Director, Lt. Dicky Lascelles
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1932
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Musical comedy star Gene Gerard breezes his inimitable way through the 1932 British programmer Brother Alfred. Thrown over by...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1932
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The Barton Mystery was adapted from a play by Walter Hackett, previously filmed as a silent in 1920. Carried over from the...
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Director
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1932
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In this drama, a physician falls in love with a woman who unfortunately ends up marrying another man. The doctor is enraged...
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Director, Producer
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1931
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A run-down house on a dark and stormy night provides the setting for this drama. It is in this apparently abandoned home...
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Director, Producer
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1931
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Neilson-Terry is called in to investigate the poisoning of a wealthy woman at her French home. The number one suspect is her...
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Producer
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1930
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A mystery develops when some jewels are stolen from a wealthy widow and she is murdered, with the blame wrongly falling on a...
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Producer
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1930
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In this drama a British naval officer searches an isolated tropical island for his friend who mysteriously disappeared there...
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Producer
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1930
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Financially embarrassed, twittish Lord Richard Sandridge (Richard Cooper) is forced to put his Mayfair house up for rent. The...
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Producer
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1930
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1929
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1929
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Henry Goldfrey
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1928
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The Fake was based on a surprisingly grim Frederick Lonsdale play. The title character could be just about anyone in this...
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Geoffrey Sands
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1927
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Lt Dicky Lascelles
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1927
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1926
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Most contemporary critics agreed that the 1926 remake of the 1919 "stiff upper lip" drama Flag Lieutenant was a decided...
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Lt. Dicky Loscelles
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1926
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1925
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A novel by Douglas Walshe was the source of the British meller Girl of London. Genevieve Townsend plays Lil, the much abused...
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1925
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1924
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Written and directed by Henry Edwards and starring Mrs. Edwards, Chrissie White, this silent British melodrama about the wife...
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1923
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British writer-director Henry Edwards wrote himself a juicy part in this silent melodrama produced in England by Hepworth....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1920
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Canadian-born British film personality Henry Edwards both directed and starred in Aylwin. Set in Wales, the film concerns...
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Director
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1920
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A typically melodramatic British silent film, Possession starred the husband-and-wife team of Henry Edwards (who also...
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1919
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Writer-director Henry Edwards does "triple duty" as star of The Hanging Judge. Edwards plays Dick Veasey, the son of stern,...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1918
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"Doorsteps" is the nickname bestowed upon boarding house slavey Florence Turner. Treated like dirt by most of the boarders,...
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Director
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1916
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The twain is bound to meet in any British film titled East is East. Henry Edwards plays a low-born fishmonger who falls into...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1916
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1915
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Famous for his rendition of the sentimental ballad My Old Dutch, British music-hall artiste Albert Chevalier was both star...
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1915
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American film star Florence Turner is Alone in London in this 4-reel British mystery. Turner goes against the grain of her...
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1915
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This first film version of Allen Raine's semi-satirical novel The Welsh Singer was filmed in England with an Anglo-American...
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1915
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