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Scholar
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1968
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After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad...
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1966
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A rousing chorus of Noël Coward's "Stately Homes of England" is heard as the opening titles of The Grass Is Greener fade into...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1961
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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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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed,...
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Richard Wyndham
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1954
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This comedy is essentially a prototype of Disney's 1961 film Parent Trap and tells the tale of twin girls, separated after...
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1953
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Jack Hawkins plays a former British army officer who is surprised in his home one evening by a burglar. His surprise is...
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Tim Ross
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1953
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In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless...
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Sir Richard Aldingham
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1953
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Also known as Glory at Sea, a World War II British commander and his crew wage a fierce sea battle against the Germans in...
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1952
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A heated rivalry between two newspapers provides the basis for this mystery. The trouble begins when a corpse is discovered...
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1949
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Arnold Dickson
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1949
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Fans of British film star Anna Neagle had a field day with her bravura Technicolor vehicle Elizabeth of Ladymead--though not...
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John, 1946
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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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Nicholas Talbot
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1948
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The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric Portman plays the private...
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Lord Brasted
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1948
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A man's youthful indiscretions come back to haunt him in this droll drawing room comedy. Sir Robert Chiltern (Hugh Williams)...
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Sir Robert Chiltern
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1947
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Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently...
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Tony
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1946
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Two sisters stick by each other through thick and thin in this drama. The elder sister has a rather sexually checkered past....
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Dr. Michael Thomas
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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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Colin Metcalfs
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1942
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In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to...
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Peter Garnett
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1942
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This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and...
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Frank Shelley
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1941
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This stirring wartime morale-booster stars John Clements in a virtual reprise of his "redeemed hero" role in...
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1941
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This lightweight but elaborately produced musical melodrama was originally released in Great Britain as Premiere. While...
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Rene Nissen
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1940
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In this crime drama, a boys' school matron is brutally murdered after she wins the French lottery. The story tells how it...
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Detective Inspector Martin
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1939
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In this eerie British thriller, a Scotland Yard detective looks into the mysterious drownings of five blind people. A...
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Inspector Holt
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1939
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1939
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Inspector Hornleigh was the first of three lively British crime films inspired by the popular BBC radio serial "Monday Night...
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1939
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1939
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In this British crime drama an argument over a new anaesthetic results in the murder of a hospital doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1938
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A brief encounter forms the basis of this romantic drama. It all begins when Helen Bernardi meets Jim Wyndham in a London...
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Jim Wyndham
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1938
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A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class...
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Geoffrey
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1938
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In this comedy, a wealthy heir is shamed by his fiancee at a fancy party and ends up taking off to the bad side of town....
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1937
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In this lightweight drama, a gypsy girl is betrothed to a circus lion tamer. Unfortunately, he leaves Hungary to marry...
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Brazil
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1937
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African-American actor/singer Paul Robeson had to travel to England in the 1930s to seek out dignified film roles. In Big...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1937
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In this romantic drama, a May-December relationship goes awry when the bride finds herself in love with her aged groom's...
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Jim Wyndham
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1937
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In this British thriller, a mild-mannered bank clerk has a sort of breakdown, gets tired of seeing other people always get...
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1937
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In this WW I drama, an English soldier falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter. She is engaged to a German-born fellow...
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1937
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1936
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The Amateur Gentleman takes place in England during the Regency era. The hero is Barnaby Barty (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.), an...
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Ronald
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1936
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Based upon The Chase of the Golden Plate by Jacques Futrelle, The Man Behind the Mask was the last film Michael Powell made...
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1936
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A romantic triangle during WW I provides the basis of this drama. The trouble begins when a young wife gets involved with a...
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Tony Norton
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1935
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In this drama, a naval hero finds himself framed by his CO's son for the theft of classified documents. He not only proves...
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1935
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Brian Kerry
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1935
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David Copperfield was MGM's major Christmas release for its 1934-1935 season and also the first of producer...
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1935
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Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches...
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Alan Heriot
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1935
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In this drama, two brothers fall in love with the same woman. As she is already betrothed to a count, neither of them have a...
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Paul Ferrier
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1935
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The Man
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1935
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Outcast Lady is a heavily censored version of Michael Arlen's once-notorious novel The Green Hat, previously filmed by...
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Gerald March
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1934
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The venerable Warwick Deeping story Sorrell and Son was dusted off again for this 1934 screen incarnation. Repeating his role...
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Kit Sorrell as an Adult
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1934
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Tony
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1934
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Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various...
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Tony
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1933
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1933
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, two aspiring actors fall in love and marry against the wishes of their parents. The two begin...
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1933
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White Face was one of the last cinematic endeavors of the prolific novelist Edgar Wallace, who died several months before the...
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1933
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In this actioner, a half-Arab member of the Foreign Legion, previously court-martialed for insubordination, cannot earn his...
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1932
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In this drama, set during the Depression, Charlie Stubbs tries to escape slum life by becoming a criminal. That doesn't work...
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1932
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In this drama, a restaurant owner moonlights as a blackmailer to beef up his earnings. The trouble begins when he is found...
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Philip Borell, Artist
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1931
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In this drama, a French judge, a womanizer when he is not upon the bench, is out on a date when he witnesses a murder. One...
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Gaston Gerrard
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1931
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Charlie Wykeham
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1930
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