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1978
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This is not the same kind of film as the 1962 production, Tom Jones. In fact, it is a "nudie musical", as evidenced by the...
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1976
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Not Tonight Darling runs the gamut from soft-core silliness to turgid melodrama. Luan Peters plays a beautiful suburbanite,...
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1972
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Roger Corman's New World Pictures took a stab at the tale of the nefarious real-life graverobbers -- and filled it with the...
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1971
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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After a plowboy accidentally unearths the skeletal remains of a demonic creature, a cult of teenage devil-worshippers emerges...
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1970
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This musical biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Torval Maurstad) is based on the play of the same name. Living in...
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1970
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The Firechasers, a British film, was given what was assumed to be an added boxoffice boost by having an American star,...
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1970
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In this children's movie, a young boy is tempted to follow in his imprisoned father's footsteps until he joins a motorbike...
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1970
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Robin Hood (Barrie Ingham) again robs from the rich to give to the poor. The evil Sheriff of Nottingham (John Arnatt) is...
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1968
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1968
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Cop-Out is a distressingly "mod" remake of the 1941 French film Strangers in the House. Taking over the role originally...
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1967
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While searching for a missing agent, Steed and Emma board a fast-moving train. Little do they know that the conductor harbors...
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Ticket Collector
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1965
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Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...
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1962
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Also known as Fog of the Killer, Out of the Fog is a characteristically efficient thriller from British workhorse...
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1962
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A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding...
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1960
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1959
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The Boy and the Bridge is a very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate...
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Tugboat Skipper
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1959
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1958
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If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor...
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1958
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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1958
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Prejudice is a main theme in this crime drama that follows the case of a West Indian man accused of a murder because of his...
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1957
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In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives...
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1957
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In this supenseful and provocative high-seas drama, the captain of a luxury liner is suddenly faced with life or death...
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1957
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Bert Fielding
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1956
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Adapted from a novel by Bernard Victor Dyer, Port Afrique offers an unusual screen romantic team in the form of two-fisted...
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Nino
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1956
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Ian Carmichael plays the "white sheep" in a family of successful thieves. Everyone in the clan has made a healthy career out...
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Mr. Frith
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1956
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In this comedy, an ad man attempts to promote his brother-in-law's new cleaning machine. He is backed by a member of the...
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1956
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In this crazy British comedy, a Cockney corporal dreams of getting promoted so that he can finally receive his inheritance....
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1955
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"Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue...
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1955
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1955
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Arthur Watkyn's droll theatrical piece For Better, For Worse was expertly adapted for the big screen in 1954. Popular young...
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1954
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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1954
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Always a Bride stars Terence Morgan as an officer of the British Treasury who tells himself he's a honest man. Then he falls...
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Dutton
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1953
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James Hayter plays the chairman of a British football club. Hayter's fondness for gambling results in his involvement with...
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1953
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Though not readily apparent by its title, The Four-Sided Triangle belongs in the realm of science fiction/fantasy....
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Dr. Harvey
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1953
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Fred Collins
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1953
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Dr. Smith
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1952
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John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the...
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Samuel Pickwick
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1952
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Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson...
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Prof. Prudence
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1952
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Better known as The Story of Robin Hood, this colorful costume adventure was the second made-in-Britain production for...
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Friar Tuck
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1952
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Heir Patric Doonan struggles with his disinherited family members in order to collect his grandfather's fortune and is...
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1952
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1951
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Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly...
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1951
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1951
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All the various Bulldog Drummond movie series had run their courses by 1951; nonetheless, MGM decided to revive the property...
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1951
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A foundering British submarine provides the basis for this gripping drama. The trouble begins when the sub strikes a mine....
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1951
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In this actioner, a young British factory worker living in the 1930s chucks his job in favor of motorcycle racing. He is...
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1951
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1950
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1950
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The title is a reference to the mental state of leading lady Phyllis Calvert. Ms. Calvert plays an amnesiac, a victim of the...
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1950
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Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar...
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1950
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Albert Foreman
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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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1949
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Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a...
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1949
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1949
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Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more...
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Dr. Murdoch
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1949
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The British Don't Ever Leave Me stars "cute" Jimmy Hanley as a would-be criminal who is dragooned into a kidnapping plot....
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1949
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1949
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In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the...
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1949
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The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of...
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1949
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Roland Pertwee and his son Michael Pertwee penned the stage play The Paragon, and then Michael adapted the play for film....
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1949
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A confirmed bachelor and a reclusive movie star tangle in this lively French comedy. The trouble begins when the bachelor...
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1949
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Future Hammer horror director Terence Fisher filmed this lackluster wartime romance. Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck...
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1948
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Based on the play by Joan Temple, No Room at the Inn takes place in the early stages of WW2, when the children of London were...
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1948
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Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from...
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1948
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Adapted by Eric Ambler from his own novel, The October Man centers around Jim Ackland (played by John Mills), who has been...
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1948
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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1948
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East Indian actor Sabu is consistently better than his material in the sociological melodrama End of the River. The story...
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1947
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1947
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Once a Jolly Swagman is the story of Bill Fox (Dirk Bogarde), a factory worker who dreams of fame and fortune as motorbike...
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1947
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In this costume drama, a woman finds herself the prize in a battle between two jealous brothers. Eventually she marries the...
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1947
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Written and directed by Peter Ustinov, Vice Versa is a one-joke fantasy comedy which manages to hold up almost to the very...
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1947
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The French Revolution provides the setting for the British musical. The story centers on the notorious rebel Robespierre who...
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1946
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Though it pales in comparison to the Royal Shakespeare Company's epic staging of the original novel in the early 1980s, this...
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1946
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In this British comedy, three sailors accidentally get on a Nazi ship. Mayhem ensues when they commandeer it for the Royal...
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1940
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In this WW II comedy, three British sailors get roaring drunk in a South American port, accidentally mistake a German...
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1940
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Originally released in England in 1938 as Murder in Soho, this moody melodrama was advertised in America as "The rapid-fire...
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Nick Green
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1940
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British Writer/director Anthony Kimmins was willing to expand his range from drawing room comedy to the "low" humors of the...
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1939
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In this drama, set in 1842 England, an independent young woman living with a minister and his wife defies them and goes...
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1938
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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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Chuck
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1937
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Future Connecticut governor John Lodge stars in the British crime drama Sensation. Lodge plays a hotshot reporter who...
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1936
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