Take a colorful trip through cinema history while discovering the incredible story of celebrated British cinematographer...
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2011
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British writer/actor Stephen Fry makes his feature-film debut with the witty, sophisticated comedy Bright Young Things,...
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2004
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One of the longest-running hits in the history of Broadway and the West End, Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats has been specially...
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Gus, the Theatrical Cat
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1998
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Comic actor Rowan Atkinson brought his bumbling character Mr. Bean from television to the big screen with this British...
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1997
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At least the 22nd time William Shakespeare's most famous tragedy has been brought to the screen, Kenneth Branagh's film...
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1996
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The Grotesque (aka Grave Indiscretion, aka Gentleman Don't Eat Poets) is a very black, very British comedy that puts an...
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1995
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Charles Dickens' 1844 novel Martin Chuzzlewit was given one of its few TV presentations in this six-part British adaptation,...
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1994
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A disturbed woman starts getting friendly advice from some of the great murderers of history in this black comedy from Great...
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1994
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Filmed in Eastern Europe, this direct-to-cable adaptation of Mary Shelley's iconographic monster tale features...
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DeLacey
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1993
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Producer
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1992
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A teen is shunned by her family after she gets pregnant by a mystery man, in this British made-for-television drama. Based on...
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1992
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Masterpiece Theatre's 1991 production of A Tale of Two Cities is a faithful adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic French...
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1991
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Made for British television, this is a black comedy/drama concerning the exploits of five elderly people whose friendship...
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1991
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This off-beat, slapstick comedy tells the story of a pair of aspiring filmmakers who attempt to make their magnum opus, a...
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Composer (Music Score)
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1990
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Director Derek Jarman takes the viewer for a walk around his own garden in rural England for this non-narrative film. Many of...
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1990
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Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered...
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1989
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Based on a novel by Jack Higgins, this WW-II thriller chronicles the daring rescue of a captured American officer who has...
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1989
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1989
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This documentary, narrated by Sir John Mills, looks back at the history of the British film industry, and features clips from...
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Narrator
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1988
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A year after appearing in the box-office sleeper Shanghai Surprise, pop superstar Madonna starred in the screwball comedy...
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1987
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In this animated film, based on the novel by Raymond Briggs, an older English couple must struggle to deal with their altered...
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Jim Bloggs
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1986
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1985
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Lewis Serrocold
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1985
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1984
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Dr. John H. Watson
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1984
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Although it is based on an intriguing premise -- Dale (Brooke Shields), disguised as a man, takes the place of her late...
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1983
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Eminent British actor John Mills went the sitcom route in the ITV network's Young at Heart. Mills was cast as Albert Collyer,...
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Albert Collyer
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1982
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi...
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1982
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Though boasting a British star and director, The Devil's Advocate was essentially a West German production; it was released...
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1980
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This film depicts the events prior to the devastating conflict that occurred in 1879 when British soldiers were held siege...
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Sir Henry Bartle Frere
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1979
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The Quatermass Conclusion is comprised of highlights from the 1979 British TV serial of the same name. Like the earlier...
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Professor Bernard Quatermass
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1979
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1978
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Scudder
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1978
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Dr. Steven Strange, the Marvel Comics magician/superhero created in 1963 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, made his long-awaited...
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Lindmer
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1978
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A former policeman investigates a series of murders by centering on an organization which re-creates medieval battles. ~...
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1976
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A simple man becomes bent on violent revenge in this thriller. John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) is an American who lives with...
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Mike McAllister
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1975
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Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of...
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Canning
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1974
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Taciturn Faye Dunaway insists upon drilling for oil in her small, unpromising patch of Oklahoma land. Drifter...
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Cleon Doyle
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1973
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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Gen. Herbert Kitchener
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1972
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In this melodrama, a runaway flees a bad home life and ends up working on an aging widower's farm. Time passes, and the man...
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1971
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The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to...
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Michael
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1970
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Also known as Return of the Boomerang, Adam's Woman is set in the rough-and-tumble Australia of the 1840s. Beau Bridges plays...
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Sir Phillip MacDonald
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1970
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This drama, based on Alexander Dumas' novel, chronicles the doomed love between Lord Horatio Nelson and the scandalous Lady...
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Lord Hamilton
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1969
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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Child actor Mark Lester proved that his sudden ascension to stardom in Oliver wasn't a fluke with Run Wild, Run Free. Lester...
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The Moorman
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1969
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Inspector Franz Bulon
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1968
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The title character (Rod Taylor) is a drifting gunslinger, who enters a Southwestern fort and immediately becomes embroiled...
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Col. Stuart Valois
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1967
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In this Ivan Tors action adventure (that later served as the basis for the television series Cowboy in Africa, John Mills...
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Wing Commander Howard Hayes
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1967
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This gently farcical British comedy stars Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett as Jenny and Arthur, a young couple who have just...
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Ezra Fitton
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1966
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Gypsy Girl was originally released in England as Sky West and Crooked. With this production, John Mills became a one-time...
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Director, Producer
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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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Masterman Finsbury
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1966
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Gen.Boyd
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1965
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James Clavell incorporated a few of his own experiences as a British POW in his novel King Rat. Bryan Forbes' film version...
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Col. Smedley-Taylor
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1965
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An American widower and his 18-year-old daughter live on a Caribbean houseboat. Romance and adventure ensue when they invite...
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Tommy Tyler
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1965
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This film adaptation of Edith Bagnold's play stars Deborah Kerr as Miss Madrigal, the secretive new governess of British...
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Maitland
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1964
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Lt. Col. Clifford Southey
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1962
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In this suspenseful WW II thriller, the hard-bitten commander of a British battleship stationed in Alexandria Harbor early...
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Capt. Morgan
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1962
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This unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A Night to Remember (1958) director...
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Father Keogh
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1961
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Versatile director Roy Baker tackles the question of racial bias in this dated but effective drama, a working-class version...
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Jacko Palmer
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1961
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Two excellent actors shine in powerful roles in this drama by Ronald Neame that pits one Scottish army colonel against...
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Lt. Col. Basil Barrow
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1960
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The first portion of this Walt Disney Presents episode is a behind-the-scenes preview of the upcoming Disney theatrical...
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1960
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None of the many cinemadaptations of Johan Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson are as relentlessly enjoyable as this 1960 Disney...
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Mr. Robinson
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1960
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Supt. Graham
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1959
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Poignant and pointed, as well as funny, this love story by director Leslie Norman has a simple message: act your age. Since...
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Barney
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1959
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The British Ice Cold in Alex was released in the US as Desert Attack. John Mills stars as Captain Anson, a grumbling...
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Capt. Anson
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1958
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One of the most significant moments in the history of British warfare (in both the best and worst sense) is given reverent...
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"Tubby" Binns
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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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Major Harvey
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1958
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Originally released in Britain as The Circle, The Vicious Circle was based on the BBC TV series The Brass Candlestick....
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1957
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Town On Trial! begins with the murder of a good-time girl in a small suburb of London. Scotland Yard inspector John Mills is...
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Supt. Mike Halloran
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1957
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Puncher Roberts
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1956
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It's Great to Be Young stars John Mills as Dingle an easygoing high school teacher. When autocratic new headmaster Frome...
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Mr. Dingle
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1956
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War and Peace is a commendable attempt to boil down Tolstoy's long, difficult novel into 208 minutes' screen time. In...
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1956
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Escapade has to be one of the most overused titles in movie history. This particular Escapade is a mild British comedy with...
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John Hampden
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1955
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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was...
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Albert Parkis
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1955
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During World War II, the impenetrable Colditz castle in Germany was selected as the site for a POW camp. The Germans reason...
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Pat Reid
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1955
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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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Cmdr. Frazer
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1955
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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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Willie Mossop
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1954
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John Mills followed his successful Gentle Gunman with the tensioned-filled meller The Long Memory. Convicted for a murder he...
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Davidson
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1953
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During the Irish "troubles", an IRA gunman (John Mills) wearies of the constant violence. He begins to preach a philosophy of...
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Terence Sullivan
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1952
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Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a...
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Tom Denning
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1951
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A foundering British submarine provides the basis for this gripping drama. The trouble begins when the sub strikes a mine....
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1951
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Morning Departure isn't about a commuter train but instead the story of an imperiled submarine. On a routine postwar...
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Commander Armstrong
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1950
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H. G. Wells' non-fantasy efforts have, with the exception of Kipps, proven traditionally difficult to transfer to film....
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Producer, Alfred Polly
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1949
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D.H. Lawrence's tragic fable The Rocking Horse Winner is faithfully transferred to the screen in this 1950 gem....
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Producer, Bassett
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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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Jim Ackland
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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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Capt. Robert Falcon Scott
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1948
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So Well Remembered was the first of a proposed series of Anglo-American co-productions underwritten by Hollywood's RKO Radio...
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George Boswell
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1947
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Immediately grabbing the audience's attention with a heart-stopping opening scene in a dark graveyard, acclaimed British...
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Pip
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1946
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This 1949 British film told a very plausible story about a triangle between a woman, her soldier husband, and her new lover....
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Jim Colter
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1945
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Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain...
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Peter Penrose
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1945
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With This Happy Breed, playwright Noel Coward hoped to glorify the British working class in the same manner that he'd...
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Billy Mitchell
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1944
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This ten-minute propaganda film was commissioned by the British Ministry of Information during World War II. The idealistic...
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1944
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After several months' heavy war duty, the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger is enjoying a much-deserved leave, when...
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Lt. Freddie Taylor
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1943
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Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which...
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Ordinary Seaman Shorty Blake
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1942
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Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th...
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William Wilberforce
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1942
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Having underestimated Hitler in the 1930s, British propaganda specialists spent the early war years insisting they were...
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Tom
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1942
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In this WW II actioner, two British Intelligence agents and a French agent follow their leader into Nazi-occupied France to...
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Special Effects
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1942
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In the wake of Abbott & Costello's Buck Privates, every studio in Hollywood began cranking out service comedies. Warner...
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1941
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In this WW II comedy, a professor teaching a correspondence school gets in hot water when he entangles himself with the...
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Bobby
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1941
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Cottage to Let is a taut British wartime spy thriller, laced with moments of genuinely hilarious comedy. The "maguffin" in...
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Lt. George Perrey
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1941
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Cartoonist Bruce Bairnsfeather's woebegone WW1 British soldier Old Bill was revived for WW2 in Old Bill and Son. When his son...
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Young Bill Busby
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1940
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In ancient Bagdad, Abu, a good-natured young thief (Sabu), befriends the deposed king Ahmad (John Justin) as both are...
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Special Effects
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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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Peter Colley as a young man
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1939
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Dave Connor (Robert Newton) is a fixer for the London mob, who goes against his boss Terrell (Charles Oliver) for a big...
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Jim Connor
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1937
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Raoul Walsh, best remembered for his rough-and-tumble action pictures, made this film on a rare loan-out to a British studio....
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Cpl. Bert Dawson
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1937
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A wealthy doctor's bratty son throws a temper tantrum when his father denies him a car. To get even, the spoiled sprout...
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1936
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This war movie is set on the high-seas during WWI. It chronicles the exploits of a brave English sailor who is captured by a...
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Albert Brown
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1935
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Charing Cross Road is a London thoroughfare where several theatrical boarding houses have set up shop. Each one of these...
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Tony
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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In this romance, a poor girl spends her spare time window shopping for pricey goods. On a lark, she goes into an auto...
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Robert Miller
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1935
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John Mills made his seventh screen appearance in this British "quota quickie". Mills plays a supposed orphan who is actually...
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Ronnie Blake
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1934
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One doesn't expect much from British programmers of the 1930s, so it comes as a relief that River Wolves has a great deal of...
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1934
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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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Lord Guildford Dudley
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1934
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1934
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The tumultuous relationship between a self-made man and his no-account son is chronicled in this drama. The father is proud...
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1934
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In this comedy, an upstanding judge marries a woman whom he believes is much younger than she really is. To keep the...
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1934
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In this comedy, a chimney sweep is swept into a political campaign and finds himself not only supporting the Labour Party,...
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1933
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In this musical, a middle-class cockney fishwife yearns to become a movie star. Her plans go swimmingly. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1933
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Very little plot, but some interesting scenes in this slight suspense offering. A man is falsely accused of murder. Luckily...
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1933
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When economy expert Kerr works to cut the costs of the fleet in Malta, his lovely daughter, Matthews, is courted by the crew...
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1932
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