"Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small...
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1952
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Cairo Road is a standard British "police precinct" drama with a twist; this precinct is located in Cairo, Egypt....
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1950
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In the tradition of Derby Day and The Extra Day came another multiplotted British comedy/drama, The Crowded Day. A huge and...
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1954
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1948
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1960
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In this violent, grim thriller, a baby-sitter's routine job turns out to be anything but when she and her young charge are...
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1971
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1969
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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed,...
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1954
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1951
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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1962
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Military Intelligence officer Major Grau (Omar Sharif) investigates the brutal murder of a Warsaw prostitute in this mystery...
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1967
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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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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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1948
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The British omnibus thriller, Three Cases of Murder includes two supernatural tales and a straight whodunit. The first...
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1955
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Tomorrow at Ten stars Robert Shaw as a desperate criminal who kidnaps a small boy. He locks his victim in a room with a time...
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1964
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The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best...
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1950
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In this adventure, a variation of the classic Dumas story, a band of 19th-century treasure seekers put together a map and go...
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1961
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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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1949
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The plot of the thoroughly captivating British comedy Genevieve can be summed up in a sentence: Two young couples participate...
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Alan McKim
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1953
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The British Conflict of Wings was also released as Fuss over Feathers: Both titles are applicable, but only the second title...
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Bill Morris
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1953
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Callendar
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1962
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A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding...
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Capt. Ebbs
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1960
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Widely regarded as one of the best and most intelligent British war dramas of the 1950s, The Battle of River Plate is the...
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Capt. F.S. Bell, "Exeter"
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1956
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Sea of Sand was distributed in the US in a shortened version, Desert Patrol. John Gregson plays Captain Williams, a martinet...
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Capt. Williams
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1958
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John Gregson stars as Chayley Broadbent, a young Yorkshire businessman leading a dull, perfunctory life. He inherits a...
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Chayley Broadbent
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1955
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Sean Connery plays one of his early roughneck types in the British gangster picture Frightened City. The story takes place in...
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Detective Inspector Sayers
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1961
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Director Philip Leacock, praised for his handling of child actors, does another excellent job with the two young stars in...
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Father Timothy
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1960
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The first Ealing Studios comedy shot in color, Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British village serviced by a...
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Gordon
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1953
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Rooney (John Gregson) is a handsome but unambitious Irish sanitation worker. Rooney's landladies would love to see him...
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James Ignatius Rooney
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1958
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Five passengers on a seaplane find that a crash has stranded them on an island used for nuclear testing in this disaster...
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John Bennett
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1960
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The Brave Don't Cry aspires to the "feel" of a documentary, right down to the deliberate absence of background music. A mine...
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John Cameron
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1952
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Ex-Army Intelligence officer Kirby (John Gregson) experiences intense paranoia after retiring from the military to become an...
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Kirby
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1976
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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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Lt. Alec Duffy
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1955
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The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner...
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Malcolm [The Composer]
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1949
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Had the women-behind-bars drama The Weak and the Wicked been made in Hollywood, the cast would probably have included the...
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Michael
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1954
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London's colorful but rundown Soho district is the setting for this thinnish romantic comedy. John Gregson plays a Soho...
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Michael Morgan
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1957
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Jacqueline, played by Jacqueline Ryan, is the daughter of a Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil, played by John Gregson. The...
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Mike McNeil
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1956
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In this romantic adventure set in Italy around 1815, a courageous soldier endeavors to find a hidden treasure on the island...
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Renato
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1961
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British private detective Richard Todd is sent to Venice, there to locate and a reward a wartime partisan. Once he arrives,...
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Renzo Occello
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1952
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Although there may be a few minor gaps here and there in the storyline, Faces in the Dark is a suspenseful drama by director...
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Richard Hammond
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1960
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True as a Turtle isn't nearly as funny as its title, but it tries hard to please. Most of the action takes place aboard a...
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Tony Hudson
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1957
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Time is of the essence in this comedy when an American cabaret singer learns that she is in line for a large inheritance....
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Tony Rapallo
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1956
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