The "underground" of the title refers not to crime but to the half-hidden world of two-bit hustlers, "artistic" poseurs,...
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1980
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The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the...
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1979
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Forty years after shooting his breakthrough film The Edge of the World on the remote island of Foula in the Shetlands,...
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1978
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The seething, seamy underworld of the Melbourne drug scene provides the backdrop for this fast-paced improvisational drama...
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John
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1976
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For fans of the British television series Dad's Army, this film is a bonanza. Including the entire cast from the television...
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1971
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Long thought dead, the victim of a horrible accident, Dr. Anton Phibes (Vincent Price) still lives, surrounded by art-deco...
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1971
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While visiting an antique shop, Tara is waylaid and chloroformed. Upon awakening, she finds that she has gone back in time to...
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1969
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When a builder writes a serious drama, the world views it as a comedy and it turns into a huge success. ~ Rovi...
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1967
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This chilling monster film metaphorically examines the horrors brought home by British colonialism. Harry and Valerie...
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1966
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While searching for a missing agent, Steed and Emma board a fast-moving train. Little do they know that the conductor harbors...
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1965
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A British charwoman and her colleagues strike it rich on the stock market when she discovers a wastebasket filled with...
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1964
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The third season of The Avengers arrived with the happy news that Cathy Gale would henceforth be John Steed's full-time...
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1963
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In this epic medieval adventure, King Arthur is in his second decade of ruling Camelot when he becomes gravely ill and must...
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Merlin
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1963
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Discovered lying on the side of a road, an auto crash victim turns out to have a fortune in diamonds hidden in his stomach....
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1962
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In this British bedroom farce, Bill Ferguson (Richard Todd), a Scottish travel agent, has a major row with his fiancée Stella...
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1961
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Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson....
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Uncle Ebenezer Balfour
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1960
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1960
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Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who...
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1958
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In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films....
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1958
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In this mystery, an ace reporter is assigned to investigate the murder of a politician whose body was found stashed in a...
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Mac North, Editor
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1958
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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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1957
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The small but resourceful Scots island of Todday, introduced in the 1949 Ealing comedy Whisky Galore!, made a return visit...
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1957
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Robert Wagner stars as insensitive Southern landowner who gets a much-overdue dose of humility and democracy when he's...
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1956
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1955
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This anthology is comprised of three stories. In the first a naive American tycoon boards the famous Orient Express and...
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1954
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A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's...
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1954
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In this low-budget British science fiction tale (which, not surprisingly, has gained a cult following), Nyah...
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1954
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Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...
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1954
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1953
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James Hayter plays the chairman of a British football club. Hayter's fondness for gambling results in his involvement with...
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1953
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In this crime drama an American is assigned to guard a US art exhibit in London to protect one of da Vinci's most priceless...
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Henry Mason
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1953
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This British crime drama is set in a supposedly haunted London theater and centers upon a producer who rents the building...
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1952
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As directed by Stuart Heisler (The Glass Key) and produced by David E. Rose, this slick and glossy, Technicolor-drenched...
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Grimshaw
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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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1951
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The Anglo-American musicomedy Happy Go Lovely is set in Edinburgh, Scotland, during a major film festival. The gathered...
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1951
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The producers of Quartet and Trio concluded their cycle with this omnibus film, which features three stories based, as in the...
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1951
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Four relatives find themselves going to unusual lengths to inherit a fortune in this British comedy. Henry Russell...
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1951
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1950
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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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David Lean's Madeleine was inspired by a true story that rocked the English legal system to its foundations in the mid-19th...
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1950
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Crime novelist Robert Southley (Hugh Sinclair) has a fondness for basing his books on his own experiences. This means that...
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Inspector MacDougall
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1950
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The all-purpose title Floodtide was trotted out once more for this 1949 British drama. Gordon Jackson plays a lowly shipyard...
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Joe Drummond
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1949
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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1948
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In one of his rare visits to his home turf, British actor David Niven essayed the title role in Bonnie Prince Charlie. The...
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Blind Jamie
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1948
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Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her...
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1948
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1948
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An evil guardian plots the murder of his young heiress niece in this Victorian melodrama, also known as Uncle Silas. ~ Jason...
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1947
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1947
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American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the...
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1946
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Produced, directed and scripted by Peter Ustinov (who did not star), Secret Flight was released in Great Britain in 1946, but...
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Dr. McVitie
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1946
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George Bernard Shaw adapted his own play for the screen in this blithe film version of the romance between Caesar...
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1946
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Though its title suggests that Gaiety George is yet another vehicle for British comedian George Formby, the film is in fact a...
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1946
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Future Dr. Who star William Hartnell heads the cast of the 1949 sociopolitical melodrama The Agitator. Set in a British...
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Tom Tetley
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1945
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While awaiting access to England's Technicolor cameras for their upcoming super-production Stairway to Heaven, the...
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1945
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1944
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A proud but aging WW I war-horse is deeply offended when his offer to lead during WW II is rejected by the government that...
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McNab
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1944
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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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1944
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In this melodrama, a pilot gets amnesia after a plane crash. A good friend helps him to remember by discussing the troop...
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1944
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The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44...
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1944
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1943
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Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original...
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1943
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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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1943
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1943
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This stirring wartime morale-booster stars John Clements in a virtual reprise of his "redeemed hero" role in...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley takes on a spy ring while...
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1941
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Dangerous Moonlight was the original British title for the wartime drama Suicide Squadron. Anton Walbrook plays a famed...
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1941
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When the bagpipes play, death will follow in this spooky comedy set in a dank and creepy Scottish castle during WW II. It...
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1941
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Clive Brook heads the cast of this low-key British war film. Brook plays the skipper of a tiny English cruiser, performing...
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1940
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In this WW II comedy, three British sailors get roaring drunk in a South American port, accidentally mistake a German...
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1940
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In this wartime comedy, set after the beginning of WW II, a British entertainer is drafted and immediately finds himself at...
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1940
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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1939
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This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in...
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1939
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In this British murder mystery, a novelist finds the killer of a librarian. He also finds the family treasure. ~ Sandra...
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1938
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In this taut drama, a wealthy financier is tried for the murder of his brother-in-law after the damning corpse is found...
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1938
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A Royal Divorce is the misleading title bestowed upon this dramatization of certain events in the lives of Napoleon and...
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1938
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A key film in the career of director Michael Powell, The Edge of the World was his first original idea to be realized...
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Peter Manson
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1937
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1937
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In this drama, a black American corporal gets court-martialed for a murder and receives a death sentence. Unfortunately, he...
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1937
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1937
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In this WW I drama, an English soldier falls in love with an innkeeper's daughter. She is engaged to a German-born fellow...
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1937
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Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour...
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1937
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1936
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Winding up his Hollywood film career in 1935, venerable British stage star George Arliss returned to his homeland for his...
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1936
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Previously filmed in 1929 as S.O.S. (also the title of the Walter Ellis play that is its basis), Her Last Affaire switches...
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1935
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This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number...
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1935
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This lush historical drama chronicles the brief reign of the late Henry VIII's successor, Lady Jane Grey. After only nine...
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1934
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Alfred Hitchcock's second talkie was a surprisingly static adaptation of the Sean O'Casey stage drama Juno and the Paycock....
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1930
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