In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the...
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2007
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Best known for his Highlander series, Russell Mulcahy pays homage to the Hammer films of the 1960s with this all-star...
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1999
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The story of George Adamson, whose work helped inspire the book and subsequent film Born Free, is continued in the fact-based...
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1999
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From Anchor Bay Entertainment comes the feature-length, animated version of the children's classic, The Secret Garden. The...
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1994
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The Upper Hand was the British version of the long-running American sitcom Who's the Boss? Taking over the Tony Danza role...
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1990
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This drama, adapted from a best-seller by Barbara Taylor Bradford chronicles the convoluted love-lives of two rich women...
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1989
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Prof. Lasky
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1986
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Prof. Lasky
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1986
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1986
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Prof. Lasky
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1986
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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1985
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Five Emmy nominations went to the two-part TV drama The First Olympics: Athens 1896. The story begins in 1894, when Baron...
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1984
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A notorious, internationally known sex symbol (Phoebe Cates) attempts to track down her birth mother in this glitzy,...
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1984
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In this drama set in London during the 1920s, two amateur detectives try to find an important document before the enemy...
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1980
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Frank Willard's 1927 stage play The Cat and the Canary was filmed several times before this 1978 version saw the light of...
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Susan Sillsby
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1978
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In this drama, a British ex-con, incarcerated for conscientiously objecting to the war, is finally released. He immediately...
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1977
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Veterans and war-sympathizers get angry when a Canadian professor begins speaking out with his pacifist ideals shortly after...
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1977
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Christopher Lee stars in this weak occult melodrama as Father Michael Rayner, an excommunicated priest who decides to save...
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anna
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1976
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Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a...
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1973
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In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are...
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1971
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In this western, an outlaw anxiously awaits the arrival of his betrothed, who is under the false impression that her fiancé...
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1971
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Mrs. Fawcett
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1970
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In this grim wartime drama, two vengeful soldiers of fortune engage in a deadly competition to see who can kill the other...
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Mrs. Katherine Whiteley
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1970
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A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic...
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Mummy
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1969
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Amalaswintha
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1969
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Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third...
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1969
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In this western adventure, Shalako (Sean Connery) leads a hunting expedition in the wilds of New Mexico. There they run...
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Lady Julia Daggett
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1968
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A former World War II submarine captain and his friend turn to smuggling when a former crew member lays out a plan to...
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Julie
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1968
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This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome)....
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Amalaswintha
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1968
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A largely British cast appears in the 90-minute American TV drama Agent for the Plaintiff. Glenn Howard (Gene Barry), the...
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1968
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Mervyn LeRoy, one of the best-known directors of Hollywood's Golden Age, wrapped up his career behind the camera with this...
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Daphne Fields
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1966
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Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a...
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Norah Hauxley
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1965
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At the beginning of The Secret of My Success, dimwitted Arthur Tate (James Booth) is a local village bobby who always follows...
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Baroness von Lukenburg
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1965
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Steed suspects that something's amiss when one of his old friends, a wealthy businessman, is buried in an out-of-the-way...
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1964
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With Goldfinger, the James Bond series took a turn away from relatively straightforward spy thrillers and toward campy...
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Pussy Galore
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1964
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Assigned to investigate the disappearance of five fellow agents, Steed ends up being accused of their murders. Alas, the...
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1964
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How could anyone steal a huge albino elephant? To solve the mystery, Cathy poses as a hunter and pays a visit to Noah's Arc,...
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1964
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Honor Blackman made her final Avengers appearance as Cathy Gale in this episode, which was originally broadcast on March 21,...
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1964
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Cathy is informed that she is of royal blood -- and in fact is next in line for the British throne. Unfortunately, her only...
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1964
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First telecast on February 29, 1964, this episode was penned by Avengers stalwart Brian Clemens. Steed finds himself under...
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1964
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Nigel Stock guest stars as a Soviet pianist who has been implicated in an unsavory murder case. In order to save his...
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1964
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A horse stable turns out to be the headquarters of a highly sophisticated murder-for-hire service. Hoping to beard the crooks...
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1964
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The murder of a secret agent appears to be tied in with a seemingly normal suburban wine shop. Following the evidence trail,...
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1964
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When a country clergyman is found dead with a gun and a roll of microfilm in his possession, Steed poses as the man's...
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1964
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Unable to assassinate a British traitor, the government is forced to deal with the man in an upcoming round of arms...
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1964
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Producer-writer Brian Clemens was in top form with this episode, which originally aired on February 15, 1964. Cathy Gale adds...
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1964
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The reclusive millionaire whom Steed was assigned to escort to New York has been spirited away to a private nursing home --...
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1963
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Cathy dons an eye-patch when she goes undercover as part of a plan to expose an insidious black-market pharmaceutical ring....
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1963
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The "batman" referred to in the title was not of the Caped Crusader variety, but instead the former valet to John Steed. When...
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1963
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Someone has broken into an "impenetrable" underground spy headquarters and microfilmed a valuable document. The subsequent...
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1963
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Steed searches high and low for Mister Lo (Robert Lee), an infamous gold smuggler. His investigation leads to a group of...
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1963
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First telecast in England on December 28, 1963, this episode begins with a missile attack on England, which fortunately...
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1963
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Steed and Cathy investigate a rash of mysterious crop failures in Europe, Asia, and England. The trail of clues leads to the...
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1963
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In London for a medical checkup, Emir Abdulla Akaba (Henry Soskin) is murdered by a person or persons unknown. This proves...
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1963
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Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason...
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Hera
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1963
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Steed is assigned to transport a shipment of live corneas to Switzerland to be used in a delicate eye-graft operation. But...
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1963
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For reasons which remain unclear until the episode's midway point, Steed and Cathy enlist the aid of veteran criminal J. P....
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1963
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The third season of The Avengers arrived with the happy news that Cathy Gale would henceforth be John Steed's full-time...
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1963
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Invited to visit the country estate of a renowned historian, Cathy discovers that her host has vanished and that his highly...
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1963
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There's a rumor afoot that several top British agents have been replaced by doubles. Sent to investigate, Steed promptly...
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1963
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One-and-a-half seconds after his election, a muckraking politician is murdered. Hoping to get to the bottom of the mystery,...
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1963
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The "WHO" in A Matter of Who isn't a "who" but a "what". The word is an anagram for the World Health Organization, a curious...
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Sister Bryan
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1962
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Going undercover, Cathy Gale joins the board of directors of a highly suspicious munitions firm. It's all part of a master...
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1962
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Cathy poses as a journalist to find out why a circus clown (Robert Rietty) is trying to murder Steed. It turns out that the...
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1962
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The "gimmick" in this Avengers episode is a rare postage stamp. When a famed stamp collector is killed, Steed and Cathy head...
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1962
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Steed and Cathy are sent to Jamaica to investigate the murder of a British courier. Compounding the mystery is the fact that...
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1962
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In this interesting mystery, a police inspector learns that an artist's wife has been murdered and her identity assumed by...
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1962
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London's federation of diamond merchants is being plagued by a vicious gang of smugglers. Steed and Cathy pose as...
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1962
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An industrial spy is found murdered in an out-of-the-way pottery factory. Posing as an author, Cathy investigates the...
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1962
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Wounded during a robbery, a two-bit thief awakens in Steed's apartment. After intense interrogation, the thief lets slip that...
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1962
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The Avengers' second season came to a close with this episode, which originally aired on March 23, 1963. Written by...
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1962
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After lapsing into a comatose state, a rocket scientist suddenly disappears from view. Investigating the situation, Steed and...
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1962
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Honor Blackman made her first Avengers appearance as leather-clad "talented amateur" Cathy Gale in this episode, which...
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1962
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The title refers to an astronomical phenomenon that might bring about the end of the world. The only scientist who knows for...
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1962
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It's possible that a traitor stationed at a top-secret naval base is causing malfunctions every time an experimental tracking...
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1962
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The title of this episode refers to a huge futuristic computer named Plato. When the computer is sabotaged and one of its...
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1962
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Discovered lying on the side of a road, an auto crash victim turns out to have a fortune in diamonds hidden in his stomach....
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1962
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The title of this Avengers episode refers to a new liquid rocket fuel. Assigned to rendezvous with the man delivering the...
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1962
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Steed suspects that there's more than meets the eye when a scientist's lab is broken into but not robbed -- at least, not...
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1962
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Cathy falls in love with the widowed father of one of her oldest friends. Little does she know that her current amour, a...
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1962
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1958
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In this British comedy, set during WWII, a street laborer likes to harass the British soldiers and ends up drafted into...
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Lesley Cartland
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1958
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In this competent entertainment about a minor crook in trouble, Terry is the driver for a successful bank job. He is told by...
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1958
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This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter...
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Mrs. Lucas
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1958
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1958
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Honor Blackman, the future "Pussy Galore" of Goldfinger fame, guest stars as Katherine Holt, a blind woman married to a...
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1958
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1958
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1958
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In this crime drama, the trouble begins when Arabs kidnap a young wife and hold her hostage for a pair of rare books. Mayhem...
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1957
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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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Sarah Hayward
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1957
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In this British crime drama, a philanderer finds himself accused of murder after the man he used for his alibi is found...
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1956
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In this thriller, a secret formula purported to prevent metal fatigue during supersonic flight is stolen. Now, rival groups...
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1956
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A carnival freak show provides the setting for this murder mystery. The trouble begins when the "Starving Man" the world's...
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1955
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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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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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Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred...
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1954
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Hollywood actress Marsha Hunt, blacklisted during the "Red Scare" of the early 1950s, was able to find occasional work in...
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1954
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This crime drama contains two stories. In the first, a luckless fellow has even worse luck when he is suspected of murder...
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1954
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Though Green Grow the Rushes has the look and feel of an Ealing comedy, the film was actually produced through the auspices...
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Meg Cuffley
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1951
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So Long at the Fair is based on a true story -- or at least, a story that has been told and retold so often that it is now...
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Rhoda O'Donovan
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1950
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Diamond City is a British "western", set not in Australia as was often the case but in the wilds of South Africa....
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Mary Hart
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1949
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Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda...
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Joyce
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1949
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Susie Bates
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1949
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Julie Tallent
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1948
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When Homecoming was first released in 1948, some observers felt that Clark Gable's unusually sensitive performance was based...
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1948
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1948
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When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to...
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1947
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During its first season on Britain's ITV, The Avengers was by and large a "straight" espionage adventure series, with no...
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Cathy Gale
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By the time its third season rolled around, The Avengers was British television's most popular action-adventure series, and...
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Cathy Gale
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