In this sci-fi murder mystery, a scientist uses himself as a subject in an experiment with cryogenic suspended animation and...
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1964
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Cornel Wilde co-produces, directs, and stars with his wife Jean Wallace in this uneven version of fabled King Arthur and the...
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King Leodogran
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1963
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An innocent young woman is falsely accused of robbery and sent to a hellish reform school in this socially conscious prison...
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1961
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In this crime drama, an amiable widow must use her savings to raise her son. One day she happens upon some stolen money...
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1959
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Julian Caesar, the board chairman of a large company deals with jealousy and treachery among his underlings as he fights to...
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1959
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After a former dance band leader is wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death. Desperate to prove his innocence,...
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1957
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Originally titled Quatermass II, Enemy from Space was the sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment (US title: The Creeping...
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Inspector Lomax
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1957
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When John Preston (Christopher Lee) comes out of nowhere to settle in Deanbridge, he rises quickly in the town's small circle...
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1956
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This crime drama is made up of two different tales of murder gone awry. In the first episode, an angry man plans a...
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1955
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Richard Attenborough stars as a former crew member of a British gunboat, which was distinguished by a heroic wartime record....
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1955
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Hollywood's Danziger brothers dashed off the British The Count of Twelve in approximately two weeks. With only 51 minutes'...
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1955
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Slim Callaghan, a fictional British private detective in the American "hard boiled" mode, was the central character in...
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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 crime drama, police and crooks alike vie for possession of a wallet containing valuable microfilm which was tossed...
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1952
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In this drama, bank robbers are exiled to an island off the English coast. They are caught in raging seas and would have...
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1951
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Sherlock Holmes
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1951
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Although Arthur Conan Doyle's master detective Sherlock Holmes had been an occasional visitor to BBC television since the...
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1951
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Vernon Sewell, a mercurial filmmaker who preferred to lens his pictures on chunks of his own property, was the director of...
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1951
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The Magic Box was the English film industry's contribution to the 1951 Festival of Britain. Its all-star cast generously...
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1951
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Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing featured roles in British films as likeably cocky Americans, heads the cast...
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1951
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In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel...
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1950
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A bored cabaret chanteuse decides to descend into the world of crime for some much needed excitement in this outing. Along...
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1950
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A British boy living in France with his aristocratic parents rallies some of the family's former servants and a baker's...
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1949
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1948
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The exciting world of racing provides the backdrop for this adventure that is unusual because it is told from a race horse's...
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1948
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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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1948
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1947
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The Yellow Canary was one of several wartime collaborations between British producer-director Herbert Wilcox and Hollywood's...
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1944
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In this war drama, set during WWII, an engineer in a Dutch shipyard assists the Nazis with the construction of two new kinds...
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1943
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In this drama, an Irish singer heads for the US to make it big. He leaves his wife and child in Britain. In the States he...
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1942
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Tower of Terror is set in a lonely lighthouse on a tiny German-controlled island. Demented lighthouse keeper Kristan (Wilfred...
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The German Naval Commander
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1942
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Bob Randall (Richard Greene) is a reporter who gets to witness first-hand the British retreat from Dunkirk in May of 1940. He...
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1942
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This subtle, unadorned British war drama was the second collaboration between "The Archers," Michael Powell and...
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1941
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In this socially conscious drama, an eccentric, wealthy young man impersonates a hobo in order to save a flophouse that is...
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1941
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In this entry in the long-running British comedy series, boisterous Irish washerwoman Mother Riley is a circus ringmaster...
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1941
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The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is...
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1940
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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1940
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips, based on James Hilton's novel, is a melodrama about a shy British teacher named Mr. Chipping...
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1939
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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1939
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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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In this mystery a Scotland Yard investigator and a police doctor unite to find "The Ringer" a mysterious killer and master of...
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1939
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Theatre folks used to call pieces like Bad Boy "ten-twent-thirt melodrama", referring to the cost of the seats (ten cents,...
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1938
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In this crime drama, a chorine flees to Birmingham after she is falsely accused of a murder. Thinking she has finally found...
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1937
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As early as 1937's Young and Innocent, Alfred Hitchcock was beginning to repeat himself, but audiences didn't mind so long as...
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1937
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1937
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In this Australian comedy, a rancher discovers that his ancestors were royalty. He takes his family to Britain to meet his...
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Peter Ashton
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1937
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In this war drama, set during WW I in France, a wife and her husband, an army lieutenant attempt to stay together. To do so,...
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1937
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The reliable Ken G. Hall, who for all intents and purposes was the entire Australian film industry in the 1930s, served as...
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1936
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The Australian film industry was all but destroyed by the influx of Hollywood product in the 1920s, but a few worthwhile...
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1934
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1932
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Troubleshooting Warner Bros. director William McGann was dispatched to Warner's British-cousin Teddington Studios to helm...
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1932
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In this mystery, a master of disguises commits a series of crimes. He is so good, that no one knows what he really looks...
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1932
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1932
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Oliver Sandys' novel Mops was the inspiration for the easy-to-take British musical Born Lucky. Rene Ray stars as a servant...
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1932
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This otherwise undistinguished "quota quickie" represents the directorial debut of famed British filmmaker Michael Powell...
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Harry Fielding
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1931
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1931
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In this mystery, an inventor is robbed and loses a valuable necklace and the highly-classified plans for a new aircraft. He...
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1931
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Charles Hornblower
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1931
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In this WW I drama, an Austrian officer is injured and left behind while his troops attempt to leave an occupied town. The...
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Lt. Stanistaus von Zaminsky
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1930
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Innocent Binnie (Elissa Landi) happens to be the spitting image of Lia Monta (also Elissa Landi), a less-than-innocent famous...
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Jeffrey
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1930
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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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1930
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Lt. Boris
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1930
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Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film utilized the new sound technology in a rather creative way off-camera. Hitchcock's lead...
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Frank Webber
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1929
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1929
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In this war drama, a soldier takes the rap for his revolutionary brother's crime. Just before he is to die, the brother...
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1929
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Screenwriter
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1928
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Horace Annesley Vachell's novel Quinney's was adapted for the screen by John Longden, who also played the titular role....
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Screenwriter, Joseph Quinney
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1927
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This silent British comedy features at least seven vaudeville acts and was adapted from a popular stage musical that tells...
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Jack Meadows
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1927
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