In this farce, four people go to extremes to inherit the giant fortune of a wealthy practical joker. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1970
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Sir Lancelot Spratt
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1970
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British babes are plentiful in this light British sci-fi film most likely shot in warmer climes, because the girls sure...
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1969
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A Scotland Yard inspector is called on to investigate a series of unsolved robberies in The Trygon Factor. Inspector...
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1969
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Released in Europe as Histoires Extraordinaires and Tre Passi Nel Delirio, this is a portmanteau picture, comprised of three...
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Countess' Advisor [Metzengerstein]
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1968
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One of the stars of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film's composer and lyricist, Richard...
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1968
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This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera...
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Prince Of Wales
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1968
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This drama centers upon a female thief and her robber band as they try to hide out from the cops on a deserted island. Their...
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1967
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Too old to be a gamine yet not old enough for matronhood, Brigitte Bardot is the ideally cast leading lady of...
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McClintock
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1967
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In this frilly-costumed comedy, Baron Halbach (Martin Held) and his daughter Dodo (Senta Berger) move freely among the...
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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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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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1965
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This war-drama centers more on the effects of battle on civilians than it does on the bravery of the fighters as it tells...
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1965
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In this drama, the devilish Chinese villain has concocted a deadly gas. He tries it out in a small English town and is...
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1965
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You Must be Joking? draws its laughs from an Army endurance test. Over a 48-hour period, five officers in the British...
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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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1964
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This routine wartime drama is set at sea and involves a British convoy trying to elude a group of German U-Boats. After one...
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1963
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This crime drama is set in 1910, and tells the tale of a doctor accused of murdering his wife. He swore that he didn't do...
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1963
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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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Charles Chingford
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1963
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After several years' absence, Dirk Bogarde returns to the popular British "Doctor" film series in Doctor in Distress. Where...
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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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1963
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In this drama, two young attorneys working for their uncle, find themselves facing off in court. One of the is defending a...
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1963
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1962
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1962
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Director Ladislao Vajda has another success on his hands with this crime thriller about a beleaguered lightship (a ship that...
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Captain Freytag
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1962
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This drama by director Anthony Asquith, a noted lynchpin in British cinematic history, may wear too many hats to be...
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Hugo Bryant
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1962
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Acenthorpe
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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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1961
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Director Gerald Thomas and most of the cast and crew that worked in his "Carry On...." series of comedies are all back again...
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1961
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer...
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1961
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A humorous, sometimes absurd and sometimes just light-hearted comedy, this story sets up the premise of a couple's search for...
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1960
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This is the fourth in a series of "doctor" films that began in 1953 with Doctor in the House. Unlike its predecessors, the...
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1960
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Albert Lieven plays German general Erwin Rommel in this British war drama set in Libya and Egypt. A spy working on behalf of...
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Captain Robertson D.S.O.
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1960
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Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John...
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1960
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1958
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The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he,...
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1958
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The superb cinematography of Aldo Tonti adds immeasureably to the enjoyment of Souvenir D'Italie. The story revolves around...
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1957
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Based on a novel by Hammond Innes, the British Campbell's Kingdom is set in the Canadian Rockies. Dirk Bogarde plays Bruce...
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James MacDonald
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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 third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back...
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Sir Lancelot Spratt
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1957
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Filmmaker Albert Lewin's fascination with erotic exotica reaches a pinnacle in The Living Idol. James Robertson Justice plays...
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Dr. Alfred Stones
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1957
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1957
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Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John...
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1956
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Lensed in England, The Iron Petticoat has been out of circulation for so long that it's difficult to determine whether it is...
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Col. Sklarnoff
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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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Capt. Hogg
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1955
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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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Sir James
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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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"Nobody knew how a Pharaoh talked!" That's how producer/director Howard Hawks explained some of the sillier dialogue...
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Vashtar
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1955
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Basil Dearden was co-producer and co-director of the British "slice of life" drama Out of the Clouds. Filmed in...
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1955
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This fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason's adventure yarn The Four Feathers relies heavily on stock footage from the more...
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Gen. Burroughs
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1955
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The rousing adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott was adapted for this swashbuckler. Richard Todd stars as Robert Roy...
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1953
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1953
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1953
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The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical...
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1953
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In this whimsical fantasy, a mild-mannered writer of wild adventure novels for young girls finds himself presented with an...
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1952
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Not up to the classic 1935 presentation, this is still an excellent adaptation of Victor Hugo's epic novel. The familiar...
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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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Little John
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1952
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Jean Peters is at her feisty best in Anne of the Indies. Harboring a grudge against all men (and not without reason), Anne...
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1951
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Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a...
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1951
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Quist
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1951
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Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing featured roles in British films as likeably cocky Americans, heads the cast...
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1951
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David and Bathsheba is a respectable, slightly stodgy cinematic adaptation of the Old Testament story. King David...
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Abishai
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1951
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The lady of the title is author Dorinda Hatch (Joan Caulfield), who writes a scathing best-seller in which she trashes all...
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1951
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Denied steady work in the U.S. because of his alleged left-wing political beliefs, Edward G. Robinson was obliged to seek out...
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1950
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This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows...
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1950
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Guy Rolfe is top-billed in the British Prelude to Fame, but the critics' attention was directed at young newcomer...
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1950
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Partly conceived as a follow-up to Prince of Foxes, 20th Century-Fox's The Black Rose, reunites the earlier film's two stars,...
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1950
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Peter Ustinov co-produced, wrote and co-directed the quietly effective Private Angelo. Set during
WW II, the film stars...
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Feste
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1949
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British novelist Erik Linklater was well-represented in 1949, with adaptations of two of his best novels hitting the screen...
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Prof. Benbow
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1949
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Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass...
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Mr. Peters
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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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1949
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Originally released in Great Britain as Whisky Galore!, Tight Little Island is a comedy predicated on the notion that all...
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Dr. MacLaren
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1949
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Set in World War II times, this drama involves a highly trained bunch of British soldiers who must parachute into Nazi-held...
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Ackerman
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1948
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John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the...
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P.O. Tall Evans
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1948
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1948
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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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In this war drama, an aspiring pilot who didn't make the grade, joins the air-sea rescue service instead. He is on a...
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1944
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A pair of furloughed British sailors and a Wren go for a visit to Stonehenge, get caught in a violent storm and end up in...
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1944
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1944
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