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1935
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In this drama, an officer is perjured by another and is sentenced to Devil's island. Meanwhile, the perjurer is flirting...
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1937
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The Crazy Gang, a pre-Monty Python group of British "nut" comedians, were popular on stage and screen from 1935 through 1962....
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1939
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1940
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In this musical an American's daughter owns an escort agency. Even though WW II rages and men are hungry for females, the...
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1943
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In this British wartime comedy, a Mayor will do anything to save the Olympic Theater from further damage by the war. He...
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1943
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In this WW II espionage drama, German paratroopers drop into England to take over Buckley Hall and kidnap the lord within....
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1943
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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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Lucy Beckett
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1944
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Dolly Bellwood
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1944
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In this propagandistic WW II drama, an innocent merchant vessel is targeted by Nazi bombers. The boat is nearly sunk after...
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1944
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Four pilots are forced to bail out, and they end up stuck upon a remote tropical island filled with beautiful women. This...
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1944
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The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of...
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1944
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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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1945
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Sleeping Car to Trieste is a remake of one of the best railroad melodramas of the 1930s, Rome Express. The film's "maguffin"...
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Valya
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1945
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This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover....
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1945
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Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed...
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Jill Duncan
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1945
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A classic in gothic-romantic excess, Madonna of Seven Moons was one of the most successful British films of its genre. Though...
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1945
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In this British melodrama, an indigent writer suffers from amnesia, forgets that he is in love with an aristocratic lady,...
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1946
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Of the many films (English and American) bearing the title Carnival, only one was based on the Compton MacKenzie novel of the...
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1946
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Set in the early 20th century, The Loves of Joanna Godden stars Googie Withers in the title role. The heir to a prosperous...
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Ellen Godden
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1947
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Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from...
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Lucy
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1947
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The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini....
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Bianchi
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1947
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Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off...
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Gwen Rawlings
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1948
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This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical"...
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1948
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The Gay Lady is better known by its British title, Trottie True. Jean Kent stars as Trottie, a turn-of-the-century British...
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Trottie True
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1949
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The alternate title to the British The Woman in Question is Five Angles on Murder. That pretty much sums up the tenor of this...
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Astra
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1950
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Based on a play by Pepine de Felipe, Her Favorite Husband is a British comedy set in Italy. Housewife Jean Kent is bemused by...
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Dorothy
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1950
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Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his...
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Millie Crocker-Harris
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1951
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The Reluctant Widow in this muted British comedy is young 19th-century governess Elinor, played by Jean Kent. Inadvertently...
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Miss Rochdale
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1951
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The Anglo-American melodrama The Big Frame was released in Britain as Count the Hours. Mark Stevens stars as a Texas-born...
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Louise Parker
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1953
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In this suspense film, a woman journeys home to Great Britain to attend the funeral of her parents, who according to the...
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Florence Haddon
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1956
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The title of the Anglo-American The Prince and the Showgirl could well have alluded to the genuine stations in life of stars...
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1957
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Mrs. Lombard
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1957
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There's a bit of Oedipus Rex in The Haunted Strangler, though it's not readily apparent at first. Boris Karloff plays...
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Cora Seth
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1958
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Beyond This Place is a tame murder mystery based on a novel by A. J. Cronin. Van Johnson is cast as an American citizen whose...
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Louise Burt
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1959
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Please Turn Over is an updated British variation on a theme put forth by the old Hollywood film Theodora Goes Wild. A bored...
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Janet Halliday
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1960
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Mme. Guillin
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1960
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Sir Francis Drake went on to defeat every Spanish vessel due to his vow taken after his capture by the Spanish and...
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1962
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In this adventure, Sir Francis Drake and his crew must rescue English sailors who are being held hostage by the Spanish. ~...
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1962
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A French nobleman who disappeared is searched for by Sir Francis Drake sent by the Queen. ~ Rovi...
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1962
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1976
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