Produced for Britain's Thames television in 1979, Hollywood is a 13-part overview of the silent film era, lovingly assembled...
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1988
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Filmed in Tunisia on a budget of 30 million dollars, the five-part, 12-hour miniseries A.D. was the final installment in a...
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1985
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Set during World War II, The Assisi Underground deals with the efforts made by a handful of hardy European souls to rescue...
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Bishop Nicolini
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1984
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1984
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This British Merchant-Ivory look-alike was adapted from a novel by Isabel Colgate. In the summer before World War I, British...
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Sir Randolph Nettleby
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1984
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In a bland and puzzling portrayal of emotional gridlock, two men meet while looking for a woman they had both loved a few...
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1983
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This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at...
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1983
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In this children's feature, Big Bird, Grover, and the rest of the Sesame Street residents travel to the big city on a trip...
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1983
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Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even...
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Dr. Fischer
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1983
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The classic adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott, which covers the same ground as the various Robin Hood legends, becomes this...
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Isaac of York
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1982
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In Sidney Lumet's powerful courtroom drama The Verdict, Paul Newman stars as Frank Galvin, an alcoholic Boston lawyer who...
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Ed Concannon
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1982
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Building is Howard's passion, and he is so absorbed in his plans to build an elaborate resort in the Blue Mountains of...
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George Engels
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1982
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Peter Ustinov makes his second appearance as Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this adaptation of the popular...
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Odell Gardener
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1981
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This documentary is part of a 13 video series collection that looks at the history of Hollywood. Hollywood 3 is a...
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1980
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This documentary is part of a 13 video series collection that looks at the history of Hollywood. It is a step back in time...
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1980
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Hollywood's silent screen era is captured in this 13 volume series as narrated by James Mason. Volume 7 compares and...
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1980
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Hollywood's silent screen era is captured in this 13 volume series as narrated by James Mason. Volume 12 plays tribute to the...
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1980
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Silent films were once thought of as a technological wonder, but advances in film science soon followed with "talkies."...
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1980
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Brought to video by broadcast giant HBO, this tenth entry from the Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film...
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1980
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Roger Moore took a brief vacation from playing James Bond in this witty adventure drama. Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (Moore), who...
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Adm. Brinsden
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1980
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This series segment looks at how William Cody was portrayed in The Life of Buffalo Bill, in 1913 and at the enduring...
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1980
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Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Vol. 1 -- The Pioneers is this first installment in the documentary...
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1980
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Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, Vol. 8 -- Comedy, A Serious Business is this eighth installment in the...
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1980
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Hollywood's silent screen era is captured in this 13 volume series as narrated by James Mason. Volume 5 discloses the...
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1980
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This nostalgic video uses five short films to look back at Hollywood's efforts to bolster both overseas G.I.s and the folks...
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1980
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Hollywood's silent screen era is captured in this 13 volume series as narrated by James Mason. Volume 6 profiles Swanson and...
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1980
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In this episode of Hollywood: A Celebration of the American Silent Film, viewers are introduced to the critical role played...
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1980
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Sir Alec Nichols
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1979
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Lionel Jeffries directed Water Babies, a children's fantasy based on the story by Charles Kingsley that incorporates...
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Grimes
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1979
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Director J. Lee Thompson directed this World War II adventure drama from a script by author Bruce Nicolaysen who adapted the...
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Prof. John Bergson
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1979
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Novelist David Soul returns to his hometown of Salem, finding that things have changed a bit. More than a bit, in fact: the...
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Richard Straker
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1979
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The murders by the infamous British criminal, Jack the Ripper, catch the attention of Sherlock Holmes (Christopher Plummer),...
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Dr. John H. Watson
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1979
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This film of Ira Levin's novel The Boys from Brazil wastes no time in establishing the fact that several seemingly unrelated...
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Eduard Seibert
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1978
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Opting for light entertainment after the critical satire of Shampoo (1975), producer-director-writer-star Warren Beatty...
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Mr. Jordan
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1978
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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Joseph of Arimathea
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1977
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1977
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Col. Brandt
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1976
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In this violent police drama, a determined officer single-handedly takes on gangsters to get his bloody revenge. ~ Sandra...
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1976
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Often described as "Ship of Fools with a conscience," Voyage of the Damned is based on a true story. In 1939, the Nazis...
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1976
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Rare indeed is the feature-length documentary that captures the migratory lifestyle of nomadic peoples and remains gripping...
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1976
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The Italian Man with a Flower in His Mouth bears no relation to the Luigi Pirandello one-act play of the same title. Also...
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1975
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1975
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After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that...
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1975
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Ernst Furben
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1975
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Richard Fleischer directed this lurid historical drama based on the novel by Kyle Onstott. The story begins on a run-down...
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Maxwell
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1975
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Cyril Sahib
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1975
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Set in the City of Light, this crime melodrama chronicles the attempts of a US drug agent to stop a major drug-lord. Though...
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1974
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Abel Magwitch
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1974
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Based on the novel by Gerald A. Browne, 11 Harrowhouse is a 1974 heist spoof with an all-star cast. The story concerns...
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Watts
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1974
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This suspense drama features an all-star cast, including Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn, James Mason, Ian...
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Philip
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1973
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John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate...
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Sir George Wheeler
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1973
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Per its title, Jack Smight's Frankenstein: The True Story, strives for greater faithfulness to Mary Shelley's novel than...
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Dr. Polidori
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1973
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Jerome Malley
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1972
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A Mexican revolutionary offers four marauding outlaws a million bucks to destroy an arsenal owned by the Mexican army. The...
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Montero
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1972
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In this Hong Kong-set spoof of Asian spy movies, a CIA agent is assigned to return a purloined set of plans for a...
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1971
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Kill is an English-language, French-made crime thriller/melodrama with elements of satire. In this film, Alan (James Mason)...
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Alan
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1971
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1970
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A Lancashire lass refuses to eat the meal her mother has prepared for her. Her thick-eared father (James Mason) insists that...
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Rafe Crompton
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1970
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James Mason is Bradley Morahan, an Australian artist far away from home and trying to prod his muse in the bowels of New York...
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Producer, Bradley Morahan
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1969
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This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera...
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Emperor Franz Josef
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1968
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This is one of several film versions of the classic play by Anton Chekhov. The depressing tale of unrequited love begins when...
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Trigorin
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1968
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In this caper comedy, Duffy (James Coburn) is a shaggy bohemian living in Tangiers who is approached for a less-than-legal...
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Charles Calvert
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1968
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1967
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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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John Sawyer
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1967
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Charles Dobbs
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1967
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1966
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Based on a novel by Jack D. Hunter, The Blue Max is a World War I aviation drama, told from the German point of view....
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Count von Klugermann
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1966
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Georgy Girl is a bittersweet comedy drama about Georgy (Lynn Redgrave), a slightly overweight, working-class virgin in her...
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James Leamington
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1966
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French novelist Henri-Francois Rey adapted his novel Les Pianos Mecaniques with director Juan Antonio Bardem for this...
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Pascal Regnier
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1965
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Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer...
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Gentleman Brown
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1965
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The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody....
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Kam Ling
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1965
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Though Fall of the Roman Empire is now infamous as the epic which destroyed the cinematic "empire" of producer...
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Timonides
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1964
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Anne Bancroft stars as a restless, twice-married British woman with six children, whose third husband is a fledgling...
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Bob Conway
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1964
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Capt. Brett Almsley
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1962
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Essentially a chase film from beginning to end, this standard adventure yarn by director Ronald Neame is set in "Zahrain," a...
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1962
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"How did they make a movie out of Lolita?" teased the print ads of this Stanley Kubrick production. The answer: by adding...
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Humbert Humbert
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1962
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In this WW II drama, a captain attempts to navigate his Italian submarine through enemy waters. He is stalked by a British...
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1962
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Publisher Victor Hartman (Arnold Moss) receives a series of tape recordings, ostensibly of the latest mystery novel written...
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1962
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Hero's Island is not as esoteric as director Leslie Steven's Incubus (which was filmed in Esperanto!), but there's still...
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Producer, Jacob Webber/Blackbeard
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1962
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In this British comedy, a formerly rakish submarine captain is transferred to a desk job. His reputation as a hero and...
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Cmdr. Max Easton
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1960
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Paul Delville
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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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Sir Edward Carson
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1960
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While having lunch at the Plaza Hotel in New York, advertising executive Roger O. Thornhill (Cary Grant) has the bad luck to...
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Phillip Vandamm
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1959
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There was neither a heroine nor a villain in Jules Verne's 1864 novel Journey to the Center of the Earth, but scenarist...
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Prof. Oliver Lindenbrook
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1959
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In this sea-going suspense drama, Edwin Rumill (James Mason) is the former first mate of an ocean liner who leaps at the...
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Capt. Edwin Rumill
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1958
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On a perfectly ordinary day, the management of an airline receives a note demanding a half-million dollars from someone who...
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Jim Molner
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1958
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Political intrigue and romantic gamesmanship send an already torrid Caribbean community to the boiling point in this drama....
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Maxwell Fleury
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1957
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The Guardian Angel
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1956
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Based on an article in the New Yorker, Nicholas Ray's Bigger Than Life stars James Mason (who also produced the film) as...
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Producer, Ed Avery
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1956
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The 1954 musical remake of A Star is Born could have been titled A Star is Reborn, in that it represented the triumphal...
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Norman Maine
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1954
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Hal Foster's Sunday-comics saga of a young Viking prince in the service of King Arthur is brought to the screen in...
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Sir Brack
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1954
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Director
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1954
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This 1954 Disney version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea represented the studio's costliest and most elaborate...
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Captain Nemo
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1954
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Rommel
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1953
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1953
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Framed for robbery, 18th century medical student Alan Ladd is sentenced to a New South Wales penal colony. En route to the...
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Capt. Paul Gilbert
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1953
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The fine line between love and violence is explored in this three-chapter anthology featuring James Mason and his wife...
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Producer, Screenwriter
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1953
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This anthology film tells three stories of love involving the passengers of an ocean liner at sea. In the first, "The Jealous...
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Charles Coudray
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1953
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Brutus
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1953
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Young Britisher Susanne Mallinson (Claire Bloom) is visiting the occupied city of postwar Berlin, as the guest of her...
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Ivo Kern
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1953
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Based on a true story, 5 Fingers stars James Mason as a man known to his superiors only as Cicero. Ostensibly the valet of...
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Diello, aka "Cicero"
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1952
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In this off-beat, tuneful psychological thriller, an ailing pregnant woman is in the hospital when she inadvertently...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Del Palma
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1952
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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Rupert of Hentzau
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1952
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Captain
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1952
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Many cineastes consider Pandora and the Flying Dutchman as the masterpiece of filmmaker Albert Lewin, while others write the...
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Hendrick van der Zee
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1951
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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Erwin Rommel
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1951
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One Way Street stars James Mason in a variation of his Odd Man Out role. Mason plays Doc Matson, a gangland physician who has...
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1950
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It doesn't take a nuclear scientist to figure out that Smith Ohrig, the character played by Robert Ryan in Caught, is a...
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Larry Quinada
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1949
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Director Mervyn Leroy lends a burnished MGM gloss to this sordid tale of infidelity among rich New York East Siders....
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Brandon Bourne
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1949
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MGM circumvented the censorship that would otherwise have prevented a film version of Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary by...
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Gustave Flaubert
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1949
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A blend of melodrama and film noir, The Reckless Moment stars Joan Bennett as Lucia Harper, a suburban housewife whose...
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Martin Donnelly
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1949
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Carol Reed's taut character study (disguised as a suspense melodrama) was adapted from the novel by F.L. Green and stars...
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Johnny O'Queen
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1947
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Producer, Michael Joyce
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1947
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Ann Todd stars as an amnesiac mental patient, Francesca Cunningham, who hopes that psychiatrist Dr. Larsen (Herbert Lom) will...
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Nicholas
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1945
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In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve...
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Capt. Jerry Jackson
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1945
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Adapted from a novel by Osbert Sitwell, A Place of One's Own has a double-edged title: It refers to a physical place as well...
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Mr. Smedhurst
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1945
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Based on a novel by Dorothy Whipple, the British They Were Sisters is not so far removed from the standard Hollywood plot of...
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Geoffrey
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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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Cmdr. Richard Heritage
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1945
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In this period drama from England, Fanny Hopwood (Phyllis Calvert), upon graduating from finishing school, returns to her...
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Lord Manderstoke
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1944
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This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an...
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Alan Thurston
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1944
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Based on the Eric Ambler novel entitled "Epitaph for a Spy," this is the story of a medical student on the Riviera during the...
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Peter Vadassy
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1944
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The British Alibi is based on the warhorse story by Marcel Archard, previously filmed in France in 1931. Raymond Lovell steps...
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Andre Laurent
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1943
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A set of flashbacks to 19th century London provide the action in this British wartime film, in which a wealthy girl...
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Marquis of Rohan
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1943
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The Bells Go Down is a dramatization of London firefighting efforts during the 1940 Blitz. In structure, the film is very...
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Ted Robbins
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1943
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Robert Ardrey's theatrical semi-fantasy Thunder Rock was transformed in 1944 into one of the most successful British films of...
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Streeter
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1942
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In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to...
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Raoul de Carnot
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1942
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Terror House is the prosaic American title for the taut British chiller The Night Has Eyes. James Mason plays Stephen...
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Stephen Deremid
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1942
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Originally released in England in 1941 as This Man is Dangerous, The Patient Vanishes was distributed in the US in 1947 to...
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Mick Cardby
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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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Dr. Renwick
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1941
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James Mason stars in this nerve-wracking British suspenser. Mason plays a henpecked farmer, driven over the edge by his...
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Producer, Screenwriter, Mark Warrow
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1939
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The United States Air Force dropping bombs on decent, taxpaying ranchers is perhaps not your standard B-Western theme but...
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1939
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The French revolutionary Robespierre vows to get revenge on the Scarlet Pimpernel who has been helping the aristocracy escape...
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Jean Tallien
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1937
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It's a tossup as to which George Eliot novel has most often been adapted to the screen, though it appears that...
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Tom Tulliver
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1937
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The war between England and Spain in the late 16th century serves as backdrop for the fictional machinations of Fire Over...
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1937
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With a plot that twists like a plumber's snake, this is more a story of family secrets than anything else, in which the...
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Captain Heverell
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1937
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A young woman, desiring to be wealthy, attempts to smuggle French jewels into America. When her boat docks, she is...
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1937
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A British town, desperate to save its dying mineral spring water business, launches a bizarre conspiracy to attract badly...
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1936
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In this actioner, two guards lose their jobs after they start a fight with a lascivious Arab prince who tries to seduce one...
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Larry
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1936
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In this drama, a man is tried for participating in a fraud and ends up sentenced to serve a dozen years in prison. His does...
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1936
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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 drama, a suspicious blind scientist neglects to tell his cheating wife that a fluke during a recent experiment has...
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1936
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In this drama, a cub reporter from the Daily Gazette attempts to catch a bank robber. He is assisted by a woman who wants to...
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1935
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