Roger Moore took a brief vacation from playing James Bond in this witty adventure drama. Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (Moore), who...
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Book Author, Screenwriter
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1980
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David Niven is an English tutor for the son of the Japanese ambassador to a Southeast Asian country. The two are used as...
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Screenwriter
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1975
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After a series of violent, sexy blaxploitation films like Coffy and Foxy Brown, Pam Grier returned in this more sedate...
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Editor
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1975
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Screenwriter
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1970
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This slapstick comedy concerns the annual auto race in Monte Carlo and boasts an international cast of all-star thespians....
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Screen Story, Screenwriter
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1969
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In this spaghetti western, based on the Marvin H. Albert novel The Bounty Killer, a bounty hunter swears he will bring in a...
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Screenwriter
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1968
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Ideals and reality clash in this humorous tale of the heist that could have been. As scheming career cat burglar Harry Dean...
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Screenwriter
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1966
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Doctor in Clover is the next-to-last entry in the British "Doctor" comedy film series. After losing his government job,...
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Screenwriter
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1966
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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In this lively British satire, a plucky milkman who works for an independent family-run dairy fights to keep a large trust...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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This claustrophobic WW II war drama chronicles the five months which six soldiers and one woman spent trapped within a deep...
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Screenwriter
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1965
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In this lively British comedy, a newlywed couple's quaint country cottage becomes a nightmare of repairs as they try to fix...
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Screenwriter
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1964
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The star of this slapstick comedy is not a person but an antique Bentley sports car, the source of several misadventures....
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Screenwriter
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1963
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This comedy features a 12-step Program for habitual hoods. The recovering criminal takes a job as a department store Santa,...
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Screenwriter
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1963
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Screenwriter
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1963
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One's enjoyment of On the Beat rests solely upon one's tolerance of British comedian Norman Wisdom, who can be described as a...
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Screenwriter
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1962
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In this crime drama, an ex-con goes looking for his late cellmate's hidden loot. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1962
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Very Important Person is an amusing British comedy set in a German POW camp during World War II. Sir Ernest Pease (James...
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Screenwriter
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1961
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Essentially a one-joke comedy hanging on the thinnest of plots, this routine series of slapstick situations is directed by...
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Screenwriter
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1961
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The weak story in The Bulldog Breed is an excuse to tie together a long series of funny episodes, slapstick incidents, and...
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Screenwriter
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1960
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With top stars Clark Gable as the American Michael Hamilton and Sophia Loren as the very Italian Lucia Curcio, this comedy by...
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Short Story Author
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1960
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Don't Panic Chaps! is one of the least distinguished films in a run of 1950s British comedies set during World War II. This...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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In this comedy, a common chemist lives up to his lineage (he's a direct descendant of Dr. Jekyll), and creates a concoction...
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Screenwriter
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1959
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This combination of documentary and docudrama (based on a true incident) is essentially a charming travelogue for Monaco,...
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Commentary
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1959
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Combining music, comedy, and pathos, this tale of a gullible singer and the people around him is simple but effective....
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Screenwriter
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1959
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Screenwriter
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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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Screenwriter
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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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Short Story Author
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1957
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True as a Turtle isn't nearly as funny as its title, but it tries hard to please. Most of the action takes place aboard a...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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In this British comedy, a luckless London window washer loses his job and ends up working in an enormous country estate that...
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Screenwriter
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1957
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Ribald music hall comedian Frankie Howerd stars in the British laughspinner Jumping for Joy. Set in the rarefied world of dog...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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You gets what you pays for in An Alligator Named Daisy. Donald Sinden stars as a young songwriter who accidentally picks up...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his...
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Screenwriter
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1955
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David Niven plays the new squire in a small Irish community. As snooty and restrictive as the old squire was warmhearted and...
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Screenwriter
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1954
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Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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The world of provincial British theatre is given a gentle going over in Curtain Up. Short of funds, a small-town repertory...
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Screenwriter
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1952
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Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell...
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Screenwriter
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1951
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Like such later American programmers as Rock Around the Clock, the British Trouble in the Air is essentially an excuse to...
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Screenwriter, Short Story Author
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1948
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American leading lady Marian Marsh plays the title character in the British Girl Thief. Actually, the biggest thing young...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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Beloved British comedian Will Hay plays Benjamin Twist, a disgraced school master who goes to an agency to apply for a job...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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A Somerset Maugham novel was the source of the British The Tenth Man. John Lodge plays George Winter, a self-made businessman...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this Paris-set comedy, a clerk gets a chance of a lifetime when he is unable to deposit his firm's receipts before the...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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Screenwriter
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1936
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In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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Screenwriter
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1936
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This musical features the BBC bandleader trying to deal with his musicians in the recording studio. Meanwhile, outside the...
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Screenwriter
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1935
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The Cinderella story is turned upside down in this musical. This time, the story focuses upon an impoverished young man...
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Screenwriter
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1934
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