The fine line between knowledge and insight becomes a battleground in this episode of the classic British television series...
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1967
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The sagacious Oriental Interpol agent leaves his Hawaiian home to crack a case in London involving the evil Dargo, an...
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1965
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In this confused parody, a lovely South Seas island girl travels to England following her father's death and becomes the...
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1964
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Children all over the city have eaten what they believed was candy. It is then discovered that it is actually a slow-acting,...
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1964
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When a couple tries to protect a lamp from criminals, they almost kill a councillor in this British comedy. ~ Rovi...
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1962
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In this marital comedy, a married mother and daughter team up to teach their husbands to pay more attention to them. Their...
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1962
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In this spooky thriller, a young couple is harassed by a vengeful mental patient who has recently been released from the...
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1962
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In this comedy, the daughter of a British aristocrat is sent to Parisian finishing school where she falls in love with a...
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1961
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1960
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Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a...
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1960
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1960
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With dialogue ranging from flat to offensive and acting in the same range, this low-brow erotic crime drama by director...
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1959
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In this mystery, a girls school gym teacher is almost lynched after he is accused of murder. Fortunately, the art teacher,...
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1959
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A troubled teen discovers that reform isn't always easy in this drama. The lad is on probation for robbery when he falls in...
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1959
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In this crime drama, a young man must prove himself innocent of murder to clear his name and marry the daughter of a...
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1959
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Dr. Marshall
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1959
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In this drama, an English doctor returns from the US with his fiancee and finds himself forced to choose between the young...
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1958
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In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery,...
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1957
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In this comedy, a clever chemist develops a pill that cures smokers of nicotine addiction. Realizing the marketing...
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1955
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In this police drama, a cop finds his recently killed partner replaced by an Alsatian police dog. While he adjusts, the one...
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1955
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This film consists of two episodes from the "Inspector Stryker" series of mysteries. In the first, Stryker enlists the help...
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1954
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In this courtroom drama a doctor's plan's to marry are thwarted by blackmail. He is expected to take the fall for the murder...
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1954
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Land of Fury is an austere "western" set in New Zealand during the 1820s. The epic-proportioned storyline involves a group of...
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1954
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Robert Ayres plays a moody author with a suicide complex. Ayres' melancholia plays right into the hands of a gang of thieves....
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1954
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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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1953
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A dead man offers an escape for prison fugitive, Jones, who discovers the look-alike body and exchanges identities only to...
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1953
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1953
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A tired-looking Tom Conway plays a private detective who is framed for murder. Eva Bartok, the head of a smuggling, has...
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1953
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In this mystery, a woman desiring to locate her missing employer engages the services of "The Toff," a suave amateur...
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1952
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In this detective story, based on a novel by John Creasey, a smooth-talking detective helps a young woman solve her uncle's...
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1952
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In this action-filled crime drama, a young woman goes out to bring the criminals who robbed and murdered her father, a...
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1952
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This crime drama follows the struggles of a reporter who finds himself accused of murder after he makes a bet and breaks...
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1951
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In this murder mystery, a woman pretends to be her murdered sister's ghost in an effort to catch the killer. She is assisted...
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1950
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The alternate title to the British The Woman in Question is Five Angles on Murder. That pretty much sums up the tenor of this...
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1950
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In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects...
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1949
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In this crime drama, a milque-toast bank clerk succumbs to the unending demands of his bullying girl friend for expensive...
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1949
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Ralph
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1948
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Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the...
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Times Correspondent
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1947
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In this comedy, a band of British birdwatchers fight to save a rare species of birds from destruction. The title bird is a...
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1947
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Tavern owner Formby works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in love with...
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1946
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Leo Martin (William Hartnell) is a low-level member of a smash-and-grab gang run by shady dance-club owner Loman (Raymond...
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1945
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In this thriller, an aspiring actor from London lets a room in a hotel filled with theatrical personalities. No sooner does...
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1945
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In this WWII drama, James Mason plays naval commander Richard Heritage, who is distracted from his duties by a beautiful...
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1945
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In this drama, an average man of average income finds his life abruptly changed when the securities he purchased from a...
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1945
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The Yellow Canary was one of several wartime collaborations between British producer-director Herbert Wilcox and Hollywood's...
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1944
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In this British comedy, set in Tangleton, a small English village, a handyman finds himself in trouble when he inadvertently...
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1944
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In this comedy, a young playboy and a petty thief both simultaneously attempt to impersonate an non-existent butler. ~...
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1943
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The British music-hall comedy team of Ethel (Ethel Revnell) and Gracie (Gracie West) were busy starring in the popular BBC...
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1943
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In this espionage film, a Danish double-agent is assigned by the Nazis to sneak into to England and abscond with the secret...
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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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Despite its fervently flag-waving title, the British Salute John Citizen is a simple, low-pressure study of the wartime "home...
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1942
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Set during WW II, this drama follows the travails of a cargo ship captain as he launches a desperate search of his vessel...
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1942
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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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1942
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1941
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Wings and the Woman was a reverent (read: dull) British biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy,...
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1941
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Paramount Pictures' British division was responsible for this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's novel Hatter's Castle....
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1941
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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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Released in England as Gentleman of Venture, It Happened to One Man was produced in England with "frozen funds" accumulated...
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1941
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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In this crime drama, a peace-loving surgeon must operate upon the man who invented a catastrophic new weapon. The trouble...
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1940
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In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her...
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1940
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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In this comedy, two van drivers are tricked by a fellow who tells them that they are working with the law when in fact, they...
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1939
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In this thriller, a playwright overhears a gang of men plotting a kidnapping and enlists the assistance of a detective to...
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1939
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1939
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In this crime drama, a renowned eye surgeon goes mad and murders the lover of his wife. He is later given a life-sentence to...
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1939
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Dead Men are Dangerous stars Robert Newton as a shabby, unsuccessful writer. Newton is of the opinion that he might improve...
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1939
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In this British comedy, two street performers find themselves involved with a woman arrested for being a jewel thief. To...
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1938
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1938
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This 1938 remake of the 1930 British farce Almost a Honeymoon makes a few slight alterations in the text. Originally, a...
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1938
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1938
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In this British murder mystery, a novelist finds the killer of a librarian. He also finds the family treasure. ~ Sandra...
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1938
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Look-alike reporter and thief coincidentally take the same transatlantic liner and the reporter is blamed for some...
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1938
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A loving mother sacrifices all for her son in this drama. She is an artist's model who finds herself financially drained by...
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1938
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Directed by Raoul Walsh, When Thief Meets Thief chronicles the story of two ex-partners in crime who have fallen in love with...
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1937
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In this melodrama, a woman marries a rich aristocrat to insure that her blind sister will be properly cared for....
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1937
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Sherlock Holmes and Watson travel to the home of their old friend Baskerville who wants Holmes to figure out who stole his...
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Dr. Watson
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1937
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In this romance, the owner of a garage buys Brownie, a racehorse from Miss Peggy Landstone and subsequently hires her as the...
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1937
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In this drama, a Secret Service agent must prevent a notorious international crook for taking an important treaty....
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1936
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In this crime drama, a warehouse worker falsely accused of stealing and the murder of a cop, must prove his innocence while...
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1936
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A clergyman is deeply dismayed to discover that his parishioners are more interested in investigating his past than to...
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1936
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The fourth of Arthur Wonter's quintet of Sherlock Holmes films, Triumph of Sherlock Holmes was a fairly faithful adaptation...
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Dr. John H. Watson
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1935
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In this murder mystery, three prominent, wealthy businessmen are killed just before their big meeting. To find their...
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1935
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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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In this lively detective drama, Sexton Blake, private eye, must find out who stole the bonds of a prominent financier. ~...
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1935
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In this crime drama, two gangs of criminals compete to find a cache of purloined jewels. Both gangs really want them and use...
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1934
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In this drama, a radical doctor hatches a plot to takeover the Spanish government. He is thwarted by a blind man and a young...
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1933
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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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Saturnine Arthur Wontner makes his second screen appearance as Conan Doyle's master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in The Missing...
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Dr. Watson
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1932
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Dr. Watson
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1931
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Sherlock Holmes' Fatal Hour marked the first of five appearances by Arthur Wontner in the role of Holmes. Based on two Conan...
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Dr. John H. Watson
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1931
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Joseph Surface
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1930
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Clama delivers a stillborn baby whom she contends was the product of a seduction by a dead explorer who subsequently...
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1929
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The Ware Case was adapted from the stage play by George Pleydell Bancroft, first filmed in 1917. When a voracious reader of...
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1928
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Second to None was one of the few Canadian films of the 1920s to gain recognition below the border in the "States." The story...
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Commander Brian Douglas
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1926
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