Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this...
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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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King Arthur
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1979
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The Harlequin Romance Publishing company produced this weeper about an English lass (Susan Penhaligon) who falls for a...
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1978
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Prof. Lindenbrock
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1977
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Filmed in Austria, this British-made musical retells the story of Cinderella as it is found in books of fairy tales. The...
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1976
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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1974
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Scrooge was designed as a follow-up to 1968's Oliver!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist. The...
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Ghost of Christmas Present
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1970
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Two German spies and a woman physician (Suzy Kendall) are taken by submarine to Scotland where they enter the country at...
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Col. Foreman
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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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1969
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Curry (Rod Taylor) is a veteran soldier-of-fortune hired by the president of the Congo for a three day mission. He and native...
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Dr. Wreid
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1968
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Adapted from a novel by Brian Marshall, the four-part British miniseries The White Rabbit was the story of WWII hero Wing...
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Wing Cmdr. Yeo-Thomas
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1967
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Chick Byrd
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1964
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1963
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The Longest Day is a mammoth, all-star re-creation of the D-Day invasion, personally orchestrated by Darryl F. Zanuck....
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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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Commander Badger
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1962
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More of a corny propaganda film for a British social engineering policy program of the 1960s than a serious attempt to tackle...
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Mr. Smith
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1962
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A young Susannah York had her first lead role in this drama about a teenage girl on the cusp of womanhood. When her mother...
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Eliot
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1961
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Kenneth More was beginning to segue into comedy roles when he took on the character of William in this standard sci-fi parody...
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William Blood
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1960
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The Bismarck was the fabled German battleship of World War II. This film traces the "life" of the Bismarck from its launching...
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Capt. Jonathan Shepard
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1960
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Richard Hannay
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1959
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Northwest Frontier was the original British title for Flame Over India. When the Moslems attack a British fortress in...
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Capt. Scott
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1959
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In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films....
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David Webb
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1958
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This meticulous re-creation of the sinking of the Titanic was adapted by Eric Ambler from the best-selling book by Walter...
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Herbert Lightoller
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1958
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Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is...
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Jonathan Tibbs
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1958
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Paradise Lagoon is the American release title of the British The Admirable Crichton. In this Technicolor adaptation of James...
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Bill Crichton
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1957
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One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who...
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Douglas Bader
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1956
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Freddie Page
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1955
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Framed in flashback form, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined...
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1955
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British actor Kenneth More's screen charisma helps smooth over the rough spots of Raising a Riot. More plays Tony, a young...
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Tony Kent
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1955
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Twelve-year old Frankie (Andrew Ray) feels guilty after his best friend falls to his death when they are playing in a...
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Ted
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1953
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Clark Gable's next-to-last MGM film was the Cold War melodrama Never Let Me Go. Filmed in England, the story finds American...
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1953
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Sadie (Joan Collins) is marooned on a desert island. Stranded along with Sadie are three men; no, not Gilligan, the Skipper...
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Pat Plunkett
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1953
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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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Ambrose Claverhouse
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1953
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The first of the popular British "Doctor" comedy series, Doctor in the House stars Dirk Bogarde as callow young medical...
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Richard Grimsdyke
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1953
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Brandy for the Parson is a wafer-thin comedy with plenty of maritime humor. James Donald and Jean Lodge play a young couple...
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Tony Rackham
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1952
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Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as...
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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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Don't be misled by the title, and by the presence of Glynis Johns in the cast. The "Venus" in Appointment with Venus is a...
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Lionel Fallaize
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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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1950
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The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war,...
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Willy Shepley
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1950
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Set in a quiet British village, Franchise Affair details the ramifications of a malicious lie. Schoolgirl Ketty Kane...
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1950
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Filmed on location in a British industrial town, Chance of a Lifetime is a trenchantly amusing satire of labor-management...
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1950
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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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1949
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Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass...
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1949
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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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1949
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A man recently gone AWOL from the Army (Derek Farr) is arrested in a store robbery that occurred while he was shopping. With...
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1949
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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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1948
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Produced, directed and scripted by Peter Ustinov (who did not star), Secret Flight was released in Great Britain in 1946, but...
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1946
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The inimitable Gracie Fields illuminates the screen in her sole 1935 vehicle Look Up and Laugh. The Lancashire-born...
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1935
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