Ten years ago Oxford archaeology professor Robert Rylands suddenly and mysteriously left the college and the town to embark...
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1996
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Guy Leet
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1992
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1991
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The romantic melodrama tells the story of an American beauty who romantic journeys to England in obedience to her late...
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Fordingbridge
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1988
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1988
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Based on a novel by Catherine Heath, the four-part British miniseries Behaving Badly starred Judi Dench as Bridget, a...
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1988
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Helene Hanff's book 84 Charing Cross Road had previously been a TV program and a stage play before it was converted into this...
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George Martin
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1987
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Another Man Who Loved Women with a slightly different plot, this routine story opens with the funeral of a local...
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Theo
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1986
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1985
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The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters,...
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Grandpa
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1985
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1985
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Prof. Edgeworth (Azmael)
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1984
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Colin Baker -- green shoes, orange spats, striped trousers, and all -- steps into the role of the newly regenerated Doctor in...
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Prof. Edgeworth (Azmael)
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1984
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Prof. Edgeworth (Azmael)
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1984
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Prof. Edgeworth (Azmael)
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1984
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Premiering on American television on December 29, 1981, From a Far Country: Pope John Paul II was originally an...
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Sapieha
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1981
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The film traces the lifelong relationship between playwright Lillian Hellman and Julia, a wealthy girl who turns her back on...
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1977
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1976
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1974
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In this involving political thriller, a secret French paramilitary organization plans to assassinate French President Charles...
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1973
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Polish actress Ingrid Pitt became a cult figure for her portrayal of the notorious Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory in...
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Master Fabio
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1972
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This British film examines the choices individuals must make when confronted with a romantic relationship which is rewarding...
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Mr. Greville
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1971
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Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas...
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1971
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Rector
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1970
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Jean-Paul (Alain Delon) is an out-of-work writer having an affair with Marianne (Romy Schneider), a successful journalist. As...
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1969
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In this British farce, the British Home Secretary satisfies the men of London by sanctioning a government-run brothel. This...
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1969
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A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for...
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1969
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Also titled A Touch of Love, this British drama concerns a woman who decides to keep and raise a baby born out of wedlock....
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1969
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Detective Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called on to investigate the activities of his arch enemy Carl Peterson (James Villiers...
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1969
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An unmarried London couple tries to interject some life into their romantic pursuits in this uneven mystery. Theo...
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1968
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British agents drop like skeets in this convoluted espionage film. Jonas Wilde (Richard Johnson) is a successful British...
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1968
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Major James Wilson (Lloyd Bridges) must lead his troops across the English channel in the D-day invasion of Normandy. He...
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Sir Frederick Grafton
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1968
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The Torture Garden is an "omnibus" chiller, adapted from four short stories by Robert Bloch (Psycho). Each is introduced by...
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1967
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A lawmen who is sworn to bring a rebel to justice finds himself developing a great respect and admiration for his quarry in...
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1967
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1966
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A farmer turns to highway robbery because of the greed of the people around him. ~ Rovi...
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1966
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One of the most successful and influential British TV miniseries of the 1960s, Talking to a Stranger was a Rashomon-like...
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1966
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In this British sci-fi thriller, a spacecraft from Ganymede, the moon of Jupiter, lands in a small community, and the alien...
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Prof. Morley
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1966
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1966
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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1965
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In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is...
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1965
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Insp. Japp
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1965
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In this thriller (which represented something of a departure for Hammer Films, noted for their gothic period pieces), Joey...
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1965
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1965
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Downfall is yet another hour-long entry in the seemingly endless series of British-filmed Edgar Wallace mysteries....
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1964
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In this drama, William Holden plays Ferris, an American soldier who led troops in Malaya during World War II. After the end...
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1964
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While visiting England, an American tourist (Robert Webber) is involved in an auto accident and suffers from amnesia. Upon...
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Hemmings
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1964
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A woman must contend with her family's madness as she finds her own sanity in doubt in this thriller from British horror...
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John Kossett
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1963
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1963
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This melodramatic tale of a sexual assault on a married woman has a few implausible moments but is believably acted by...
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1963
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Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but...
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Surgeon Goss
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1962
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Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered...
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1961
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It's probably no surprise that Invasion Quartet has four leading actors; what might be surprising, especially to the unwary...
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Dr. Barker
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1961
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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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1961
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Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling...
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1960
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A typical light comedy based on a novel by Richard Gordon, The Captain's Table has director Jack Lee at its own helm, riding...
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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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1960
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Comdr. Horatio Bennet
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1960
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In this film, American Professor Dana Andrews investigates a devil-worshipping cult active in England. The cult has...
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Prof. Harrington
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1958
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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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The Mayor
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1957
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Ted Thornhill
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1957
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Based on Montague R. James' classic shiver tale Casting the Runes, Curse of the Demon (aka Night of the Demon) is an exercise...
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Prof. Harrington
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1957
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Van Johnson portrays a blind American writer living in London. Blessed with an acute hearing sense, Johnson overhears a...
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Inspector Grovening
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1956
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This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his...
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Easter
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1955
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Love, marriage and show business provide the basis of this lively comedy that centers on a husband and wife, who are chosen...
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Wilson
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1955
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The British animation firm of John Halas and Joy Batchelor perform yeoman service in adapting George Orwell's allegorical...
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1955
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Dorothy and Campbell Christie's witty courtroom comedy/drama Carrington V.C. was given a classy screen treatment by director...
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1954
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An H.E. Bates novel was the source for this psychological wartime drama set in Burma. Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two...
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Blore
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1954
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The iniquities of circumstantial evidence are explored in the compact crime drama Eight O'Clock Walk. Because he was the last...
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Horace Clifford
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1954
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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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1954
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Released in the U.S. as Terror on a Train, the British MGM production Time Bomb is brief, to the point, and so suspenseful it...
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Jim Warrilow
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1953
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Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation...
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1953
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The Malta Story stars Alec Guinness as WW II camera reconnaissance pilot Peter Ross. Crash-landing in Malta, Ross presents...
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1953
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The philosophies and practices of London policewomen provide the basis of this exciting and interesting docu-drama that...
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1953
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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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Fowler
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1951
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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 soldiers find themselves dishonorably discharged after they accidently allow a Nazi prisoner to escape....
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1949
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The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of...
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Col. de le Roche
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1949
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The British Don't Ever Leave Me stars "cute" Jimmy Hanley as a would-be criminal who is dragooned into a kidnapping plot....
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1949
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Henry Devere Stacpoole's lyrical novel The Blue Lagoon was rather chastely filmed in 1921. The 1949 remake is a tad more...
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1949
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Bill Martin
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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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British film star Googie Withers took a break from the steamy melodramas that had previously been her specialty in Once Upon...
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1949
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1949
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In this melodrama, a London girl falls happily in love with a Frenchman and immediately goes blind. Convinced her affliction...
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1949
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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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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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1948
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The blind goddess is justice, which may or may not be served in this British second feature. Eric Portman plays the private...
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1948
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Blanche Fury combined two elements that were surefire moneymakers in postwar Britain: a brooding, Gothic-novel storyline and...
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Major Frazer
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1948
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Cinematographer Ronald Neame made his directorial debut with the 1947 murder melodrama Take My Life. When a Covent Garden...
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1948
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In this drama, set after the war, a WW II flying ace and hero comes to the aid of a hooker who is being harassed by a...
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1948
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Based on the play by Peter Blackmore, Miranda was the first of two British comedies starring Glynis Johns as a mischievous...
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1948
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Easy Money is a satire of that most venerated of all middle-class British traditions, the football pool. The film is divided...
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1948
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Assembled for British theatrical consumption by Pathe Films, The Peaceful Years covers the era between WWI and WWII. The...
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commentator
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1948
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Low-hanging clouds and low-cut blouses dominate the brooding British melodrama Jassy. Margaret Lockwood is at her...
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1948
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Ann Markham (Margaret Lockwood) is an employee with the British Embassy in Rio de Janeiro. Though ostensibly businesslike and...
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Fosser
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1948
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East Indian actor Sabu is consistently better than his material in the sociological melodrama End of the River. The story...
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Defending Counsel
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1947
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Lensed in lavish Technicolor, The Man Within is a rousing tale of smugglers, betrayal and redemption. The story is told from...
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1947
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Clem Morgan (Trevor Howard), an embittered ex-RAF pilot, mistakenly believes the life of crime is for him in this...
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1947
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Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the...
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Lt. Col. Strickland
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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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1947
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Daybreak a dark, depressing melodrama, tells the story of Eddie (Eric Portman) an unemployed hangman who marries Frankie...
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1946
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