Three sailors on shore leave engage in a series of comedic sexual pursuits in Lock Up Your Daughters!. Jim Dale, Ian Bannen,...
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1969
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Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) forgoes working for a living in this seedy district of London. He hangs out in jazz clubs and...
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Mrs. Beckett
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1963
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The star of this slapstick comedy is not a person but an antique Bentley sports car, the source of several misadventures....
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Mrs. Staggers
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1963
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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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In this children's film, an enterprising gang of kids create a homemade zoo because they cannot have pets in their...
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1962
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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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Rosie
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1959
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Max Bygraves, a popular British comedian who once in a while entertained thoughts of a dramatic career, is costarred with...
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Mrs. Farrer
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1958
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The British Seven Thunders was released in the US as Beasts of Marseilles. Set in 1943, the film stars Stephen Boyd and...
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Mme. Abou
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1957
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Jill Day plays Mary in this frolicksome British comedy. While on vacation in Switzerland, Mary finds herself the object of...
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Nannie Cartwright
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1956
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Ian Carmichael plays the "white sheep" in a family of successful thieves. Everyone in the clan has made a healthy career out...
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Mrs. Frith
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1956
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In this comedy, the lives of two families get turned topsy-turvy when their respective young sons win a large football pool....
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1956
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Miss Gilly
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1956
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In this corny British comedy, a Cockney family inherits a rundown Devon farm. Not everyone is pleased by the prospect of...
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1955
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Dirk Bogarde digressed from his usual lightweight image to portray a smarmy murderer in Cast a Dark Shadow. He kills his...
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Emmie
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1955
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Anna Neagle is so overpoweringly good in Lilacs in the Spring (aka Let's Make Up!) that a times it's easy to forget that her...
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Kate
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1954
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Three disparate male travellers quietly amuse themselves by fantasizing about the same beautiful blonde in this interesting,...
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Isobel
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1953
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Based on a novel by John Brophy, Turn the Key Softly takes place within a single day. The film follows the exploits of three...
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Mrs. Quilliam
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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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Rachael Wardle
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1952
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Lillian Lord
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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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Widely considered to be the definitive of the many film versions of Charles Dickens' classic novel is this 1951 British...
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Mrs. Dilber
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1951
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The presence of Peter Lorre assured a modicum of American business for the British meller Double Confession. It all begins...
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1950
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Emma Foreman
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1950
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Mrs. McCabe
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1950
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The Huggets Abroad is the last and most contrived of Britain's "Huggetts" film series. The titular family members, first...
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1949
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Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character....
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Violet
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1949
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Landfall takes place during the early portions of WWII. RAF pilot Rick (Michael Denison) is transferred to another squadron...
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1949
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A popular British stage play by William Douglas Home was the basis for this out-of-the-ordinary prison picture....
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Mrs.Brown
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1949
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This multistoried drama purports to detail the events occurring in a single 24-hour period on Bond Street, a "typical"...
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1948
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In this comedy, the Huggett family patriarch decides to run for public office. His entire platform is built upon a promise...
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1948
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The fictional Hugget Family makes the first of three film appearances in this domestic comedy from Great Britain. ~ Sandra...
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Ethel Huggett
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1948
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver...
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1948
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Originally released in 1945 as Shop at Sly Corner, Code of Scotland Yard is an effective British imitation of the Hollywood...
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1947
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In this British crime drama, an honest railroad signalman finds himself sorely tempted when he witnesses a murder and later...
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1947
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Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for...
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1947
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Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground....
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1946
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I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre....
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1946
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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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The inspiration for this British seriocomedy was Victor Skutezky's stage play She Met Him One Sunday. "She" is Moya Malone...
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1944
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The title character in Meet Sexton Blake was created in 1893 as a way of cashing in on the immense popularity of Sherlock...
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1944
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Released in the US as The Randolph Family, Dear Octopus was based on the internationally popular play by Dodie Smith. The...
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1943
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A bashful artist finds all kinds of trouble in this comedy. A handyman by profession, the shy fellow loves to paint, but can...
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1942
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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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1942
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In the late 1930s-early 1940s, diminutive British music-hall and radio comedian Arthur Askey enjoyed a popularity...
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1941
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In this thriller, a group of stranded passengers are terrified by the weird tales of a stationmaster who tells them of the...
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1941
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Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins....
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Auntie
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1941
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Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash...
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1941
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George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by...
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1941
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In this British drawing room comedy, a wealthy socialite falls in love with the a young woman from the lower class. Her...
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1940
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Filmed in England, Flying Squad was the final effort of veteran silent-film director Herbert (Peter Pan) Brenon. The script...
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1940
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Also known as Girl in the Case, this early Carol Reed effort tended to be dismissed or ignored by its director in later...
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1940
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In this British murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigates a puzzling killing of an Italian count. The Yard assigns a...
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1940
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Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill....
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Mrs. Lightbody
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1940
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In this comedy, an inmate relishes the peace and solitude of prison life as it affords him a welcome escape from his nagging...
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1939
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A Girl Must Live is the philosophy of gold-digging chorus girls Gloria Lind (Renee Houston) and Clytie Devine (Lilli Palmer)....
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1939
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The British I Killed the Count was based on the tricky stage puzzler by Alec Coppel. Cockney comedian Syd Walker plays it...
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1939
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The Outsider was a remake of the 1931 British film of the same name; both films were based on a popular play by Dorothy...
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1939
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1930s British radio show hits with its music acts are the focus of a rivalry between manufacturers who would like to sponsor...
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1939
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In this comedy, a man becomes the owner of a race horse, at least he thought it was a race horse. As he watches the beast...
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1938
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Beloved British comedian Will Hay plays Benjamin Twist, a disgraced school master who goes to an agency to apply for a job...
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1938
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Ace the Wonder Dog, RKO's Rin Tin Tin-wannabe, plays Picardy Max, a mongrel dog adopted by Dan Preston (James Ellison) when...
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1938
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A minor effort from a major director, Bank Holiday is little more than a series of anecdotes involving middle-class...
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1938
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1937
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In this comedy, a mild-mannered shipping clerk and his wife get into deep trouble after they are mistaken for jewel thieves...
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1937
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1937
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A Somerset Maugham novel was the source of the British The Tenth Man. John Lodge plays George Winter, a self-made businessman...
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1937
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In this sentimental drama, a nightclub singer finds herself in charge of her late sister's children. To support them...
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1936
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This tragedy is a remake of D.W. Griffith's classic silent film. The story is based on "The Chink and the Child," a story by...
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1936
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In this mystery, a novelist whose latest book details the 'perfect murder,' finds himself accused of murdering the husband...
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1935
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Matheson Lang stars as a brilliant British barrister, about to retire due to ill health. He reluctantly agrees to take on the...
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1934
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In this mystery, a sculptor is convicted of murder after the body of his guardian is discovered. The artist's fiancee...
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1934
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The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his...
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1933
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In this romance, two people who have never met will inherit a million dollars if they marry each other. Neither is thrilled...
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1933
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Everyone remembers David Lean's near-perfect 1954 film version of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice -- but can the...
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1931
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