A woman learns to love life when she finds out she won't be around long in this comedy. Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) lives in...
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2006
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This seven-part British miniseries was based on J.B. Priestley's autobiographical novel, originally published in 1965....
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1987
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1980
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This sophisticated black comedy sex romp is based on the novel by Iris Murdoch, which she also turned into a stage play (with...
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1971
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Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who...
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1963
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An adaptation of John B. Priestley's play, ~Time and the Conways~, this standard drama focuses on the Thorwald family...
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1962
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1958
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1957's The Good Companions was the second film version of the well-known J. B. Priestly play. The story revolves around the...
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1957
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The comfortable complacency of the British Birling family is upset when Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) comes calling. An...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1954
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Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1950
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This drama was faithfully adapted from a popular play and features many of the original actors. It is the story of how a...
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1944
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Adapted from the stage hit by J. B. Priestly, When We Are Married is a barbed satire of smug British conservatism. Set in...
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1943
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This fascinating, fact-based docudrama chronicles the patriotic efforts of the London Philharmonic to overcome numerous...
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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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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1942
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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1942
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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1939
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Though director Carol Reed seldom included Laburnham Grove on his resumé, he allowed that it was quite successful, and a cut...
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1936
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The inimitable Gracie Fields illuminates the screen in her sole 1935 vehicle Look Up and Laugh. The Lancashire-born...
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1935
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Adapted from a typically tricky J. B. Priestley stage play, Dangerous Corner is a cautionary fable about the damage caused by...
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1935
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In this British comedy, a plucky Lancashire millworker is out of a job when her mill is forced to close for the summer. She...
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1934
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Based on a novel by J. B. Priestley, this British musical-comedy follows an unlikely trio as they try to revive the fortunes...
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1933
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It's a wildly varied group that takes shelter from a raging English storm in the forbidding mansion of the Femm family. Among...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1932
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