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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1991
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In this episode of the popular British detective drama, Morse visits a micro brewery and solves the murder of one of its...
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1990
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In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his...
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1990
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Alan Ayckbourn's riotously funny play about a small-time acting troupe in the sticks is brought to the screen by director...
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1989
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Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land,...
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1989
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1986
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The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably...
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1983
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Older Bernard
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1980
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Lionel Jeffries directed Water Babies, a children's fantasy based on the story by Charles Kingsley that incorporates...
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Director
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1979
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The beloved novel by Anthony Hope is shown here in its sixth film adaptation. In this story, Peter Sellers is Rudolf IV, the...
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Gen. Sapt
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1979
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This children's fantasy is about the "Wombles," borrowed from a British TV series, who are furry creatures (actors in suits),...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1977
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Novelist George MacDonald Fraser penned the script for this swashbuckling, picaresque adventure tale. The story is based on...
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1975
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What Changed Charley Farthing stars Doug McClure as a wayfaring sailor stopping over in Havana. In the tradition of...
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Houlihan
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1974
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When actor Lionel Jeffries turned to directing in the 1970s, he exhibited a preference for whimsy, as witness...
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Director
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1973
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The title character is a ghost, doomed to roam his mansion until an age-old mystery is solved. A widow Dorothy Alison and...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1972
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In this English film, a group of orphans visiting the home of a wealthy, retired singer (Shelley Winters) discover that the...
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1971
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Ziggy (Mark Lester) is the young boy who witnesses the murder of a visiting black official by the police. Much like the boy...
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Colonel
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1970
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British character actor Lionel Jeffries both directed The Railway Children and adapted its screenplay from the novel by E....
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Director, Screenwriter
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1970
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A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic...
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1969
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Child Bride was the original release title for the British Charles Bronson vehicle Lola (which in some areas bore a third...
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1969
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One of the stars of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film's composer and lyricist, Richard...
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Grandpa Potts
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1968
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A domineering mother and her sheltered son fly face first into love, murder, and the meaning of family in this black comedy...
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1967
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King Pellinore
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1967
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Produced in the wake of the all-star "comedy spectacular" Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Fantastic Flying...
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Sir Charles Dillworthy
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1967
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This uneven black comedy went into production as My Last Duchess. It then went through three title changes, representing, in...
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Parker
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1966
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When the Soviet Prime Minister accepts a beautiful English bulldog as a gift from the British government, he has no idea...
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Stanley Farquhar
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1966
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At the beginning of The Secret of My Success, dimwitted Arthur Tate (James Booth) is a local village bobby who always follows...
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Inspector Hobart
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1965
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You Must be Joking? draws its laughs from an Army endurance test. Over a 48-hour period, five officers in the British...
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Sgt.-Maj. McGregor
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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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Cark
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1965
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The last of Margaret Rutherford's "Miss Marple" films, Murder Ahoy is the only one of the series not based on an...
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Capt. Sidney de Courcy Rhumstone
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1964
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First Men in the Moon is an H.G. Welles cinemadaptation from director Nathan Juran. When scientists in the year 1964 are...
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Prof. Joseph Cavor
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1964
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When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket....
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Inspector Parker
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1963
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Its the Cavaliers vs. the Copperheads in this costume drama set during the 17th-century British Civil War. Our sympathies are...
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Col. Judd
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1963
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In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind...
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1963
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It's Bob Hope as phony explorer Matt Merriwether, who promotes himself as an expert on the dark continent, basing his...
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Dr. Ezra Mungo
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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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Terry-Thomas stars in this British comedy as J. Barker-Rynde, a detective assigned to look into some dirty dealings at a...
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Inspector Hook
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1962
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This uneven farce by director Richard Quine has its hilarious and witty moments as American diplomat William Gridley...
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Inspector Oliphant
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1962
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A British officer must save the Barbary apes on Gibralter at all costs in this WW II farce. He does this, because it is...
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1962
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In this western-style film, set in South Africa, circa the late 1900s, a local police sergeant finds himself pursued by the...
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Luke Billings
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1962
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Fanny was adapted from the Broadway musical of the same name, which in turn was based on the final chapter of Marcel Pagnol's...
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1961
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Please Turn Over is an updated British variation on a theme put forth by the old Hollywood film Theodora Goes Wild. A bored...
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1960
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1960
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Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a...
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Marquis of Queensberry
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1960
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Gordon Scott's fifth and last appearance as Tarzan came in this 1960 installment of the long-running movie series featuring...
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Ames
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1960
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This is a crime-comedy-musical romance by director Ken Hughes that has an identity problem. Bert (Anthony Newley) is an...
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Sgt. Thompson
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1960
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This zany film marks the screen debut of Britain's popular comedy troupe, The Crazy Gang. The story begins as the gang are...
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1960
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Released in the US in 1963, the British Let's Get Married was actually filmed three years earlier. Anthony Newley plays a...
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1960
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The otherwise routine story and themes of this comedy are greatly balanced by talents of Anthony Newley as Jeep Jackson, a...
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Bertie
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1959
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1959
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Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned...
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1959
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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1958
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Distinguished British actress Vanessa Redgrave makes her feature film debut in this hospital-set drama that chronicles the...
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1958
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The celebrated stage farce 3DThe Middle Watch3D was the basis of the maritime comedy 3DGirls at Sea3D. While briefly in...
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1958
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This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role...
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Steady Barker
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1958
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He may be calling himself "Dr. Stein," but the audience isn't fooled: that popular general practitioner (Peter Cushing) in...
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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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1958
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Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an...
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1958
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The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he,...
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1958
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Maggie Smith makes her film debut in this outing as an aristocrat whose sheltered existence is shattered by the arrival of...
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1958
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Inspired in part by David Lean'sThe Sound Barrier, Decision Against Time stars Jack Hawkins as a bold but cautious test...
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1957
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The third of the droll British "Doctor" series, Doctor at Large once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young Dr. Simon Sparrow. Back...
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1957
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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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In this British mystery, set backstage at a theater, a beautiful actress is starring in a successful playwright's newest...
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1957
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In this British comedy, a luckless London window washer loses his job and ends up working in an enormous country estate that...
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1957
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In this thriller, a newspaper columnist is killed and another reporter looks into it. He is shocked when his investigation...
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1957
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In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest...
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1957
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Ribald music hall comedian Frankie Howerd stars in the British laughspinner Jumping for Joy. Set in the rarefied world of dog...
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1956
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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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1956
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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1956
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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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Joe Mangan
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1956
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In this thriller a woman witnesses a robbery, runs away from the scene and is rundown by a bus. The two thieves, realizing...
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1956
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Ava Gardner was never more alluring than as the half-caste heroine of Bhowani Junction. Set during India's battle for...
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1956
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1956
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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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Harry Tyler
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1955
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In this comedy, a shop assistant finds a briefcase containing a large sum of money. His daughter's creepy boyfriend steals...
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1955
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A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard...
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1955
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In this comedy, a clever chemist develops a pill that cures smokers of nicotine addiction. Realizing the marketing...
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1955
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The British The Black Rider was inevitably listed as a "mystery" or "drama" in TV Guide back in the 1950s and 1960s. Don't...
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1954
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1952
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