Anthony Hopkins essayed the title role in the four-part British miniseries A Married Man. During his annual holiday,...
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Eustace Lough
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1983
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Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited was offered to television viewers in this 11-part adaptation that originally...
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1981
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An old-fashioned drama about old-fashioned values in an old-fashioned town called Shillingbury, this conventional film may...
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1980
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Peter Sellers gets to play both hero and bad guy at the same time in this comedy variation on Sax Rohmer's infamous stories...
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1980
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We prefer the original release title of Disney's A Spaceman in King Arthur's Court: Unidentified Flying Oddball. In this new...
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Sir Gawain
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1979
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Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is...
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1978
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1978
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An innocent country farmer experiences a number of improbable misadventures that culminate in a battle against the titular...
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Chamberlain
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1977
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British sexploitation expert Derek Ford takes the helm for this raunchy comedy that is sure to quicken the pulse of men who...
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1977
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In this adaptation of Dickens' classic, Scrooge and company are animated. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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John Le Mesurier
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1977
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In this comedy, two soldiers stationed in Singapore set off in pursuit of the fairer sex instead of carrying out their...
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Col. Bromley-Pickering
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1977
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Ignoring the old adage "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," producer Carlo Ponti mounted a TV remake of the 1945 British...
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1975
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Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes, the...
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1975
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Narrator
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1975
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Comedian, actor, and author Barry Humphries wrote and co-stars in this sequel to the surprise international hit...
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1974
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The British "Confessions" film series was reminiscent of the "Carry On" series, albeit far, far dirtier. Many fans consider...
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1974
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File It Under Fear takes place in an outwardly normal rural British community. The tranquility is shattered by a series of...
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1973
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Val Guest, veteran director of many interesting British films covering a multitude of subjects, joined the nudie-cutie...
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1973
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1972
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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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This British made-for-television drama tells the story of an English spy living abroad. John Le Mesurier stars as Adrian...
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Adrian Harris
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1971
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1970
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Vincente Minnelli directed, and Alan Jay Lerner adapted the stage musical he had written with Burton Lane, for this this...
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1970
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The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career...
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1969
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand...
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1969
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A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for...
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1969
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Col. Woodstock
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1968
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Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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1967
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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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A fine cast distinguishes this unusual supernatural thriller. When London-based vintner Phillippe de Montfaucon (David Niven)...
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1967
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Retired after years of international espionage, Agent 007 is lured back into action to battle the evil spy organization...
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1967
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1966
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Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a sandwich-board advertising man who gets a tour of London and sees some of the city's...
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1966
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Steed infiltrates a school for butlers in order to unmask a traitor. While he is being drilled in the finer points of silent...
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1966
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Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys....
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1966
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This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot...
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1966
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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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In this lively British satire, a plucky milkman who works for an independent family-run dairy fights to keep a large trust...
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1965
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In this blend of action-adventure and spy satire, the British government has been negotiating with the Middle Eastern nation...
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1965
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Freddie and the Dreamers--remember them?--star in the British musical quickie Cuckoo Patrol. Apparently hoping to cash in on...
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1965
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Dr. Love (David Niven) is a suave British secret agent sent to Lebanon to investigate the murder of his colleague Parkington...
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Col. Douglas MacGillivray
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1965
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This sci-fi fantasy film was supposedly inspired by a line from an Edgar Allen Poe poem. It is also the last film made by...
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Rev. Jonathan Ives
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1965
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Pat Boone plays Stephen Cole, a young Irish man who believes himself to be worthy of a promotion from his employer. Believing...
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1964
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Steed suspects that something's amiss when one of his old friends, a wealthy businessman, is buried in an out-of-the-way...
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1964
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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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1964
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Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author,...
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1963
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1963
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A rather innocent and naive tale of romance, The Main Attraction features clean-cut Pat Boone trying to drop his good-boy...
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1963
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1963
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Charles the Sandman
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1963
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In this drama of romantic intrigue and infidelity, Sam and Christine Bonner (Arthur Hill and Jane Fonda) are a married couple...
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1963
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When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket....
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1963
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1962
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When a traveling salesman arrives to hawk his wares in an economically depressed Italian village, the last thing he expects...
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Don Calogero
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1962
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This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this...
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1962
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An innocent architect stands accused of killing a professional gambler in this crime drama. Now only his lawyer can save...
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1962
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In this British comedy drama, a dotty old widow finally finds a new love and happiness until her unruly sons bust out of...
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1962
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This comedy features a commissionaire who hates shaving and establishes a strike at a razor manufacturing company to get his...
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1962
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1962
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Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...
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1962
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This Ernie Kovacs cult comedy was the last film directed by Mario Zampi and follows the exploits of Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) who...
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1961
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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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Jigsaw was based on Hilary Waugh's play Sleep Long My Love. The scene is Brighton: A woman's body is found in an isolated...
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Mr. Simpson
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1961
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Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running...
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1961
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Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal...
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1961
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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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1961
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1961
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1961
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It's probably no surprise that Invasion Quartet has four leading actors; what might be surprising, especially to the unwary...
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Colonel
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1961
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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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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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This crime caper based on a legendary robbery stars Aldo Ray as Norgate, the ringleader of the thieves out to steal a bundle...
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1960
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In the British farce School for Scoundrels, Ian Carmichael plays a naïve young loser, Henry Palfrey, who is anxious to get...
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1960
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Released in the US in 1963, the British Let's Get Married was actually filmed three years earlier. Anthony Newley plays a...
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1960
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This shockingly violent yet engaging crime drama is about a bitter battle for survival in the lingering poverty of post-World...
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1960
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The weak story in The Bulldog Breed is an excuse to tie together a long series of funny episodes, slapstick incidents, and...
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1960
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Adapted from the book Lake of Darkness, the story concerns an innocent young man who tries his hand at gambling. After...
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1960
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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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1960
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Combining music, comedy, and pathos, this tale of a gullible singer and the people around him is simple but effective....
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1959
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This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as...
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1959
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A musical and comedic bit of fluff without any other pretensions, The Lady Is a Square plays off the popularity of...
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1959
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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1959
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In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's...
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1959
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Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going...
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1959
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to...
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1959
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Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a...
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1959
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One of the covert operations at the beginning of World War II is enacted in this fast-paced docudrama about a...
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1959
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Suspenseful, interesting, and macabre, this period piece by Robert S. Baker overcomes a weakness in characterization by sheer...
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Dr. Tranter
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1959
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Lana Turner stars as Sara Scott, an American war correspondent whose whirlwind romance with a young British journalist...
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1958
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An insurance investigator looks into the suspicious fire that destroyed a prominent nightclub and ends up destroying a crime...
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1958
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When the English Civil War is winding down but the Roundheads and Royalists are still at odds with each other, it is decided...
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1958
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The Man Who Wouldn't Talk was coproduced by husband-and-wife Herbert Wilcox and Anna Neagle, with Ms. Neagle filling the role...
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1958
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An uneven but at times hilarious slapstick comedy, Too Many Crooks features an inept gang of four would-be criminals who...
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1958
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1958
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1958
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A palatable combination of horror and science fiction, Blood of the Vampire takes place in 19th century Transylvania-and...
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1958
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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1958
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If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor...
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1958
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Director John Ford traveled to England to film this adaptation of the novel by J.J. Maraca, which details a typical day in...
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1958
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1957's The Good Companions was the second film version of the well-known J. B. Priestly play. The story revolves around the...
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1957
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In this drama, the commanding officer of a British Royal Air Force flight training school must deal with an ornery,...
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1957
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This British drama chronicles the exploits of a brutal Liverpudlian gang leader/would-be rock star who finds himself...
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1957
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The British Brothers in Law is a characteristically enjoyable Boulting-brother farce, again extracting humor out of the...
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1957
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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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1956
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
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1956
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1956
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1956
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In this police drama, a cop finds his recently killed partner replaced by an Alsatian police dog. While he adjusts, the one...
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1955
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In this complex thriller, a womanizing chemist is accused of murder after his mistress is found poisoned to death. No one...
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1955
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In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always...
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1955
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A fair stab at yet another World War II comedy, this film by Michael Relph features the humorous antics of an ENSA troupe...
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1954
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Peter Reynolds stars as the son of a respectable British family, who despite his position and privilege chooses to pursue a...
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1954
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Dangerous Cargo is yet another hour-long British crime potboiler. Jack Watling stars as a security guard who is strongarmed...
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1954
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In this sci-fi film, a Venusian emissary and an earth woman become friends. The alien tells her that he has come to warn her...
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1954
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Known to many as the father of the independent West Coast cinema, James Broughton's career spanned 40 years, beginning in...
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1953
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Suspense and romance meet in this film. A nightclub is the scene of a murder. The club's hostess and her American boyfriend...
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1953
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In this horror movie an Irish char woman must stop an insane inventor who is planning to take over the world with a...
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1952
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Paul Gallico adapted his own short story Never Take No For an Answer in collaboration with his wife Pauline. Filmed on...
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1952
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1952
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Zena Marshall endures a Dark Interval in this funereal British melodrama. Marshall plays the new bride of handsome and...
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1950
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Music-hall comedian Arthur Lucan first brought his "drag" character Old Mother Riley to the screen in 1937. Lucan went on to...
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1949
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In this crime drama, a milque-toast bank clerk succumbs to the unending demands of his bullying girl friend for expensive...
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1949
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Langford
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1948
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