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Mrs. Clennam
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1988
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Part of the British mystery series based on the books by Agatha Christie, Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel was first aired in...
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1986
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1985
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In this conventional drama, Victor is a graying older man (Denholm Elliott) who loses his apartment in a fire. The blaze was...
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Stella
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1985
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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1983
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The seven-hour TV miniseries Ellis Island was adapted from a novel by Fred Mustard Stewart. Per its title, the film is a...
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1983
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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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Lady Harriet
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1979
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This sudsy made-for-television melodrama is based on a Barbara Cartland novel and follows the romantic exploits of an...
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1979
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The concept behind the 1977 Hound of the Baskervilles involved having "underground" director Paul Morrissey bring an...
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Beryl Stapleton
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1978
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In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by...
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1978
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In this comedy, the WASPy parents of an adolescent son, who heretofore showed no interest at all in the opposite sex, are...
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1971
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A voluptuous outer space agent travels to another galaxy in search of a missing inventor in this science fiction send-up....
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The Great Tyrant [uncredited]
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1968
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Disney produced this distilled Hitchcockian suspense yarn, diluted for the consumption of children. Hayley Mills stars as...
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Aunt Frances Ferris
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1964
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Tony Richardson's adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies...
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Lady Bellaston
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1963
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Lady Fitzadam
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1962
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Filmed at least nine times over the last nine decades, Jules Verne's Mysterious Island received its most popular...
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Mary Fairchild
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1961
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This remake of Zoe Akins' Morning Glory stars Susan Strasberg as Eva Lovelace, the role that won Katharine Hepburn her first...
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Rita Vernon
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1957
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Lucky Jim is based on the same-named satirical novel by Kingsley Amis. The hero, Jim Dixon (Ian Carmichael), is a...
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1957
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1956
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In the 1750s, young orphan John Mohune (Jon Whiteley) arrives at the seaside Dorset village of Moonfleet seeking Jeremy Fox...
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Lady Ashwood
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1955
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Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character...
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Lady Warren
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1954
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Rene Clement's Monsieur Ripois was released in English-speaking countries as The Knave of Hearts and Lovers, Happy Lovers....
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Norah
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1954
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Sabina Pennant
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1954
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Gwendolyn Fairfax
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1952
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Alec Guinness has one of his finest comic roles in this Ealing satirical comedy about a much patronized amateur scientist...
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Daphne Birnley
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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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Wilhelmina Cameron
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1951
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo may seem like a puerile title, but it is a lot more graspable to non-French audiences than the original Garou...
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Susan
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1950
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George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in...
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Lady Caroline Lamb
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1949
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Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and...
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Sibella
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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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Peggy Macroon
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1949
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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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Jenny Carden
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1948
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This lush 18th century period romance, based on historical fact, was the first color film from Britain's famed Ealing...
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Sophie Dorothea
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1948
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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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Elizabeth
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1947
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The White Unicorn would be worth watching if only for that lyrical title. The film itself, however, isn't quite so whimsical,...
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Lottie Smith
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1947
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Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently...
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Gay Sultzman
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1946
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Derrick de Marnay stars as a Parisian sculptor who enters into a deadly menage a trois. The girl in the case (Joan Greenwood)...
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Christine Minetti
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1946
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In this drama, an average man of average income finds his life abruptly changed when the securities he purchased from a...
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Ruth Blake
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1945
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Whenever one sees a title like The Gentle Sex, one braces oneself for an ironic switcharound. The supposedly gentle girls of...
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Betty Miller
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1943
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In this old-joke-filled farce, a married couple has to put up with an obnoxious mother-in-law whose husband gets caught...
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1941
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Based on Monica Ewer's novel Ring O'Roses, the British musiccomedy He Found a Star is dominated by the thousand-watt...
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1941
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