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King
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1992
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Godfrey Colston
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1992
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1991
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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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1990
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The satirical Kingsley Amis novel The Green Man served as the basis for this three-part BBC2 miniseries. Albert Finney headed...
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1990
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Dark Obsession is a slow, English-made, psychological thriller dealing with erotic obsession, guilt and betrayal. Sir Hugo...
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Lord Crewne
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1990
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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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1988
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Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is an inept international secret agent sent by the U.S. to the island of Ibiza in this...
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Jason Lock
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1987
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1987
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1987
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Completed in 1985, Rankin/Bass' feature-length cartoon version of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows had its network...
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1987
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In this remake of Hitchock's suspense film, a new bride (Jane Curtin) fears that her groom is a ruthless killer and that she...
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1987
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1986
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Lady Jane Grey, the 16-year-old girl who for nine days in the 16th century was Queen of England, is here portrayed by...
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Dr. Feckenham
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1986
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1986
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Set in the 1830s, this historical drama stars Robin Soans as George Loveless, a Methodist minister whose flock is a group of...
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1986
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Also released under the title Young Sherlock Holmes and the Pyramid of Fear, this film follows the adventures of young John...
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1985
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1985
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In this made-for-TV spoof, Robin Hood (George Segal) and his merry men must attempt to gather together the necessary ransom...
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1984
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1984
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King Lear
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1983
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For many aficionados of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows, the definitive film version was seen in Disney's omnibus...
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1983
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This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at...
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1983
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The classic adventure novel by Sir Walter Scott, which covers the same ground as the various Robin Hood legends, becomes this...
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Cedric
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1982
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Clive Donner directs Oliver Twist, the 1982 made-for-TV version of the classic Dickens novel. Richard Charles plays Oliver...
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1982
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi...
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1982
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Michael Palin wrote and stars in this comedy as The Reverend Charles Fortescue, an unassuming missionary called back to...
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Slatterthwaite
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1982
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Based on the epic novel by James Clavell, Shogun originated as an epic five-part television miniseries, filmed on location in...
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1980
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1980
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The story of Paul Gaugin (1848-1903), the Parisian stockbroker who left his job, his wife and his five children for the life...
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1980
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Back in the early 1950s, cartoonist/satirist Ronald Searle dreamed up the "Belles of St. Trinians," a gaggle of sweet-faced,...
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1980
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Prospero
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1979
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1979
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In The Medusa Touch Brunel (Lino Ventura), a French detective on temporary assignment with Scotland Yard, investigates a...
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1978
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Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and...
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1978
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In this adaptation of Dickens' classic, Scrooge and company are animated. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Ebenezer Scrooge
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1977
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Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel....
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Parson Adams
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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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The musical Mr. Quilp was based on one of Dickens' grimmest works, The Old Curiosity Shop, which has as its highlight the...
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Grandfather/Edward Trent
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1975
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1975
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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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With ornate imagery reminiscent of paintings from the story's 18th century period, Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of William...
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1975
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During the Prohibition era, Walker (Burt Reynolds) and Kibby (Gene Hackman) run a liquor smuggling operation in Mexico; they...
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1975
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1974
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The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly...
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1973
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John Huston directed this cold war spy thriller (from a script by Walter Hill) concerning a British agent trying infiltrate...
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1973
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F. Minty
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1973
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The Pied Piper eschews the romanticism of Robert Browning's poem and returns to the grim Grimm Brothers source. Pop singer...
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Melius, Alchemist
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1972
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In this supernatural thriller, Norah Benson (Shirley MacLaine) is a wealthy woman living in Manhattan who keeps a close and...
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Justin Lorenz
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1972
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Hammer Films apply their characteristic Gothic touch to this offbeat psychological thriller about a bombastic 19th-century...
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1972
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A star-studded cast highlights this musical adaptation of the classic fantasy tales of Lewis Carroll. One day young Alice...
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1972
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Actor Frankie Howerd reprises his role from the British TV series Up Pompeii, in the tradition of the hugely popular...
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1971
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In this comedy, the WASPy parents of an adolescent son, who heretofore showed no interest at all in the opposite sex, are...
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1971
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This well-animated version of Dickens' classic Christmas story stays quite faithful to its source as it chronicles the...
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Jacob Marley
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1971
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In this farce, four people go to extremes to inherit the giant fortune of a wealthy practical joker. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1970
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Anne of the Thousand Days is the belated film adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's 1948 stage play. The story concentrates on the...
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1969
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The specter of atomic warfare raises its head once again in this bizarre 1969 black comedy, directed by Richard Lester and...
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1969
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Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill....
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1968
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An expensive but enormously profitable war picture, Where Eagles Dare centers upon a daring rescue and even more daring...
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Vice Adm. Rolland
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1968
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Franco Zeffirelli's adaptation of William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew is a zesty version of the classic comedy,...
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Baptista
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1967
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Among the first of the late 60s anti-war films that reflected growing concern over the Vietnam War, How I Won the War takes a...
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1967
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The imprisoning aspects of Success are humorously analyzed in this British-made film. Oliver Reed plays a wealthy advertising...
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Headmaster
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1967
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Two brothers looking to avoid becoming pawns of the establishment come up with a better way of making a living -- through...
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1967
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1966
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Adapted for television by Robert Hartung from the play by Barrie Stavus, Lamp at Midnight deals with the 16th-century...
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1966
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Cast a Giant Shadow is a big-budget, glossy action/adventure story set at the time that Israel became a nation. American...
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1966
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After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad...
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1966
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1965
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The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody....
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1965
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This Disney drama, originally broadcast as a three-part TV episode, tells the story of a vicar's double life. Outwardly, he...
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1964
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In this drama, from director Anthony Asquith, the lives and stories of three different people are linked together by their...
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1964
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In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic...
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1963
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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1963
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When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo...
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1961
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Breaking with their usual videotape tradition, the producers of NBC television's Hallmark Hall of Fame decided to commit its...
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Banquo
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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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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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Dr. Davidson
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1960
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This routine crime drama with a dash of romance begins with a tense opening, a jewel theft is carried out almost without a...
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Inspector Farrell
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1960
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1959
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The eponymous Spaniard--actually a Britisher of Spanish heritage--is Basil Dignam, falsely convicted of murder. As he is led...
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1958
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If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor...
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"Rusty," the Governor of Gibraltar
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1958
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The still-controversial L'Affair Dreyfuss of the late 19th century is the focal point of I Accuse! Jose Ferrer (who also...
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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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Adm. Hewitt
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1958
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Peter Finch plays Dr. Alec Windom, a British medico working in the remote Far Eastern island village of Selim. Feeling a...
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Patterson
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1957
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A story of family interaction, this is an adaptation of an A.J. Cronin novel, with Dirk Bogarde in the title role. More a...
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Harrington Brande
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1957
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Adapted from the book of the same name by Ewen Montagu and based on fact, The Man Who Never Was stars Clifton Webb as...
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1956
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This biopic chronicles the true experiences of a British government representative who is sent with his wife to wild, exotic...
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1956
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1956
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The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde...
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1956
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Shylock
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1955
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1955
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The Night My Number Came Up was based on an actual incident in the life of Britain's Sir Victor Goddard. Michael Redgrave...
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1955
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Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway...
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1955
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This fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason's adventure yarn The Four Feathers relies heavily on stock footage from the more...
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1955
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1954
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While off on a drunken toot, three British naval officers attach an old baby carriage and a pawnbroker's sign to the stern of...
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1954
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Nigel Patrick plays a suave but dead-serious British narcotics agent in this sporadically exciting crime melodrama. Patrick...
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1954
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1953
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Heart of the Matter is a faithful if somewhat austere adaptation of the same-named novel by Graham Greene. Set in Sierra...
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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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Grand National Night began life as a stage play, which was promptly adapted as a popular British radio serial. The film...
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Inspector Ayling
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1953
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Street Corner was a marginally realistic study of British policewomen. The film takes its female cast through a typical day...
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1953
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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1952
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1952
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Better known as The Story of Robin Hood, this colorful costume adventure was the second made-in-Britain production for...
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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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Jacob Marley
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1951
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1951
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Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly...
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1951
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1950
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The Vicar
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1950
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Rawlings
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1950
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The British Train of Events explores the consequences of a railroad accident from four different viewpoints. Jack Warner...
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1949
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Professional gambler Lucky (Dermot Walsh) is having trouble living up to his name. That's before Lucky meets Joan...
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1949
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Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a...
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1949
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The Small Voice is a tense British character study utilizing an old plot device with a modicum of freshness. American actor...
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1948
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Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German...
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1948
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The oft-used title Night Beat was applied to the 1948 British melodrama. After serving as commandoes in WW2, Felix (Maxwell...
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1948
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Good Time Girl, directed by David MacDonald and based on a story by Arthur La Bern (It Always Rains On Sunday) starts off...
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1948
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1947
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Adapted from a play by Daphne Du Maurier, The Years Between stars Valerie Hobson as war widow Diana. Determined to carry on...
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1947
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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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Feminists beware! This blatantly sexist comedy may definitely raise a few hackles as it tells the story of a recently...
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1946
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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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