The lively but somehow slightly distasteful The Americanization of Emily stars James Garner as a WWII naval officer who...
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Mrs. Barham
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1964
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In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their...
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1964
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Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who...
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Agatha Femm
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1963
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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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Sgt. Ruby Gates
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1961
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Aunt Florence
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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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Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy....
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Sgt. Gates
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1956
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Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by...
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Duchess of Cromarty
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1954
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Nigel Patrick plays a suave but dead-serious British narcotics agent in this sporadically exciting crime melodrama. Patrick...
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1954
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The plot of the thoroughly captivating British comedy Genevieve can be summed up in a sentence: Two young couples participate...
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1953
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Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by...
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PW Ruby Gates
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1953
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John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the...
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Mrs. Leo Hunter
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1952
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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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Basil Radford is cast superbly to type as The Galloping Major. The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill...
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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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A battle of the sexes begins to rage in an isolated private school in this charming British comedy. Just outside of London...
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Miss Gossage
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1950
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Stage Fright toys with our notions of the dividing line between reality and artifice by being set in the London theatre...
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1950
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British novelist Erik Linklater was well-represented in 1949, with adaptations of two of his best novels hitting the screen...
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1949
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In this comedy, two brothers, both of them Welsh coal-miners, win a contest and get to go on a day trip to London. Upon...
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1949
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Director Anthony Asquith's first postwar effort, While the Sun Shines was based on a play by frequent Asquith collaborator...
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1947
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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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