This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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Ivan Hall directs the martial arts action film Kill and Kill Again. Martial arts champion Steve Chase is hired to save the...
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1981
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An international swindler intends to destroy Steed (Patrick MacNee) by framing him as a turncoat and a murderer. Somehow or...
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Elderly Man
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1977
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British sleaze artist Pete Walker applies his characteristic sleazy, ultra-violent touch to this audacious, Catholic-bashing...
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1975
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National Health, or Nurse Norton's Affair is an antic filmization of Peter Nichols' play, originally staged by Britain's...
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1973
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Three elderly spinsters become amateur detectives when someone poisons their beloved cat in this strange drama. The three...
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1966
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Originally (and appropriately) telecast in England on December 25, 1965, this episode was written by Tony Williamson. Plagued...
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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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They All Died Laughing plays for satire what any other film might have played for suspense. Leo McKern plays a college...
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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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1963
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Adapted from the novel by John Wyndham, this intelligent British monster movie begins with a meteor shower so intensely...
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Mr. Coker
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1963
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An epic and unusual anti-war drama about WWII, writer-director Carl Foreman's heavily ironic saga is loosely based on the...
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1963
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British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of...
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1963
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1963
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Sam Roscoe
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1961
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This penultimate film by director Michael Curtiz, perhaps best known for his 1942 Casablanca, is a verbose, routine religious...
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1961
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Zany British comedian Tony Hancock was briefly a major draw in the 1960s, with several popular TV series, sellout personal...
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1961
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Director Fred Zinnemann was riding a crest in the '50s with movies like High Noon, From Here to Eternity, Oklahoma, and his...
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1960
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Peter Finch plays Johnnie Byrne, a British member of parliament. When Johnnie loses out on an important cabinet post, he's...
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1960
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This shockingly violent yet engaging crime drama is about a bitter battle for survival in the lingering poverty of post-World...
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1960
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Yul Brynner and Kay Kendall star as Victor and Dolly Fabian in this successful cinematic version of the stage comedy by...
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Mr. Wilbur, Jr.
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1960
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This film version of George Bernard Shaw's satirical take on the American Revolution had a troubled production history (with...
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1959
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A cynical wounded war hero becomes the athletic director at a boys' camp. The lively children brighten his days and make him...
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1959
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Greek actress Melina Mercouri made her English-language film debut in The Gypsy and the Gentleman. Mercouri plays tempestuous...
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1958
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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 melodrama, a surgeon overcomes his humble beginnings to become a renowned physician. His success is threatened when...
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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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Filmed in England, The Counterfeit Plan was distributed in the US by Warner Bros. Zachary Scott is right in his element as...
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Louis
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1957
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A prosaic filmization of George Orwell's cautionary novel, 1984 is set in a futuristic totalitarian society where...
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Jones
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1956
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A noted expatriate filmmaker's hard work to reestablish himself in Britain is nearly undone when a woman who claims to be...
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1956
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Previous film versions of Moby Dick insisted upon including such imbecilities as romantic subplots and happy endings. John...
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1956
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In this comedy-thriller, a woman returns to the country to see her godmother only to learn that the old woman has...
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1956
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The British-filmed The Blue Peter was released in the US under the title Navy Heroes. This was an oblique reference to the...
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1955
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Generally forgotten today, Romeo and Juliet is a satisfactory, if perfunctory, adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal tragedy....
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Friar Laurence
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1954
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1953
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Handel's "Messiah" becomes a bone-of-contention in a tiny Welsh community in this comedy. The trouble begins when the...
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1953
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The Oracle stars Robert Beatty as a weary British reporter sent on assignment to Ireland. While in a remote village, Beatty...
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Tom Mitchum
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1952
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A novel by Audrey Erskine Lindop was the source for the grim British drama Tall Headlines. The son of a middle-class family...
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Uncle Ted
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1952
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This lightweight British satire on Freudianism stars Cecil Parker as a prominent doctor and Anne Crawford as his psychiatrist...
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Alfred Parsons
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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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Bob Cratchit
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1951
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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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Diamond City is a British "western", set not in Australia as was often the case but in the wilds of South Africa....
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1949
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Businessman Spencer Tracy is devoted beyond all reason to his son Edward. Tracy lies, cheats, steals, commits arson, and...
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Harry Simpkin
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1949
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A persistent case of hiccups causes all sorts of problems for a pretty young socialite in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1949
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1948
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Nazi war criminal Bruckner (Mervyn Johns) manages to escape capture at the end of WW II. Bruckner sets up shop in England,...
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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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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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1947
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The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed...
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Private Evans
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1947
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In this drama, an average man of average income finds his life abruptly changed when the securities he purchased from a...
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1945
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The title is whimsical, but the storyline isn't. Googie Withers plays the frustrated wife of a 1880s Brighton tavern keeper,...
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Mr. Edward Sutton
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1945
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Considered the greatest horror anthology film, the classic British chiller Dead of Night features five stories of...
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Walter Craig
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1945
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The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is...
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Greaser John Boyle
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1944
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Rhys
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1944
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In this drama, an amnesiac gardener, who lost his memory after he was buried alive during WW I, works for a wealthy man...
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1944
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Will Hay, he of the pince-nez, outraged sniff, and overall demeanor of dignified incompetence, stars in (and codirects)...
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Grimshaw
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1943
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The Bells Go Down is a dramatization of London firefighting efforts during the 1940 Blitz. In structure, the film is very...
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Sam
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1943
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Released in the US as Forty-Eight Hours, Went the Day Well? is a solidly constructed wartime melodrama. Actually, the film...
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1942
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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1942
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The phrase "Loose Lips Sink Ships" takes on a new and special meaning in the cautionary British war drama Next of Kin. In...
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1942
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In this melodrama, a wealthy businessman, is at long last reunited with his estranged son, an oily-tongued salesman who has...
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1940
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Wickers
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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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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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1939
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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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In this musical, the village smithy and his son (who looks just like him because they are played by the same actor) have a...
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1937
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Dishonor Bright draws upon the talents of two master farceurs from Britain's Aldwych Theatre, Tom Walls (star-director) and...
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1936
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In this British comedy, a barrister badly botches his first case and begins to think he has chosen the wrong career. To...
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1936
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Eminent British stage star George Arliss is a most elegant tramp in The Guv'nor. Though shabby and indigent, Arliss seems to...
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1935
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Tom Walls is both star and director of the airy comedy-melodrama Lady in Danger. Marooned in the revolution-torn kingdom of...
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1934
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