The action in A Big Hand for the Little Lady centers around a high-stake poker game. The participants include some of the...
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1966
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The title of the 60-minute British programmer Ambush in Leopard Street tells the whole story. Retired thief James Kenney...
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1960
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In this thriller, a novelist is quite upset to discover himself awakening with a gun in his hand. He is more dismayed to...
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1959
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In this crime drama, an impoverished but enamored bank clerk joins his brother's gang of bank robbers so he can afford to...
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1959
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None of the characters in this grim little British drama are particularly likable. It is especially true of the protagonist,...
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1957
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The British Seven Thunders was released in the US as Beasts of Marseilles. Set in 1943, the film stars Stephen Boyd and...
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1957
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The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The...
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1957
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His career as a western star having recently come to an end in the US, Wayne Morris is the star of the British The...
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1956
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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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1955
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Judging by the number of times it has shown up on TV, Above Us the Waves may be American viewers' favorite British war film....
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1955
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In this comedy, two rabid football fans begin an unstoppable train of events when they physically harass a referee. ~ Sandra...
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1955
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This film offers a trio suspenseful dramas. In the first, an unhappy wife refuses to mourn the death of her husband, a miner...
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1954
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them is our candidate for the most dramatic title of any British World War II film. Happily, the film...
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1954
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The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery....
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1954
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This drama chronicles the nasty exploits of a young London punk and his thuggish gang as they mug passersby and seduce...
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1953
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The British Cosh Boy was unsubtly but appropriately retitled The Slasher in the U.S. James Kenney plays Roy Walsh, one of the...
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Roy Walsh
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1953
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During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of...
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1952
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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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Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of...
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1952
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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Kenneth Friese-Greene
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1951
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1951
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A British boy living in France with his aristocratic parents rallies some of the family's former servants and a baker's...
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1949
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Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative...
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1948
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In this children's movie a shy young swimmer becomes a successful circus clown. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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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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Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th...
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1942
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