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1984
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This made-for-TV musical adaptation of the oft-filmed Robert Louis Stevenson tale is a curious novelty -- not only because it...
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1973
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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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Sazonov
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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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1971
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This melodrama explores the relationship between tenants in a boarding house. Included are a street musician, an ex-school...
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1971
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues...
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Leo (old)
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1971
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Polonius
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1970
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Two 20 year old twins have a bizarre incestuous relationship. Julian (Martin Potter) and his sister Jacki (Judy Geeson) carry...
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James Harrington-Smith
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1970
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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1969
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This is a musical remake of the 1939 film. Arthur Chipping (Peter O'Toole) is the staid instructor at a posh school for boys...
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The Headmaster
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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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Made-for-television adaptation of Johanna Spyri's classic children's tale about an orphaned girl who goes to live with her...
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1968
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Originating in the first half of the 20th century, the satirical "Beachcomber" column was a regular feature of the British...
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1968
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Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director...
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Defense Counsel
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1967
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This lugubrious spy yarn finds Philip Scott (Stephen Boyd) posing as a toy manufacturer to hide his real purpose in life. He...
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Harris
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1967
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You've seen the Disney classic, now experience the tale of Alice in Wonderland as never before in this live-action adaptation...
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1966
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Sir Michael Redgrave narrates this documentary that looks at six of the palaces belonging to the British monarchy. The...
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1966
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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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Uncle
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1965
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Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a...
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William Butler Yeats
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1965
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The Hill was unfairly subjected to ridicule by the more obtuse "critics" of 1965 who harped on the fact that it starred...
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1965
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1963
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This version of Chekov's classic play was recorded at the 1963 Chichester Festival. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1963
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One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and...
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Governor
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1962
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In this comedy, the daughter of a British aristocrat is sent to Parisian finishing school where she falls in love with a...
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Sir Matthew Carr
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1961
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In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella The Turn of the Screw, 19th century...
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The Uncle
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1961
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In this British bedroom farce, Bill Ferguson (Richard Todd), a Scottish travel agent, has a major row with his fiancée Stella...
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1961
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Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going...
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Mr. Hyland
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1959
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Filmed on location, Shake Hands With the Devil is set in Ireland during the "troubles" of 1921. James Cagney plays a...
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General
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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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Percy Brand
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1958
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The Quiet American was the first major American-financed film to touch upon the powder-keg situation in Vietnam (still...
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Thomas Fowler
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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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Sir Arthur Benson Gray
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1958
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Alfred Ruggles
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1957
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Gen. Medworth
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1957
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Time Without Pity carried the name "Joseph Losey" on the credits -- the first time in three years that the blacklisted...
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David Graham
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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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Gen. O'Connor
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1956
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The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the "bouncing bombs" in World War II....
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Dr. Barnes N. Wallis
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1955
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Also known as Mr. Arkadin, this flawed late effort by director Orson Welles recalls the structure of Citizen Kane, centering...
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Burgomil Trebitsch
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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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Air Marshal John Hardie
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1955
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Col. Eisenstein
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1955
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The Green Scarf may be set in France, but its cast, crew, and overall tone is impeccably British. Michael Redgrave, hidden...
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Deliot
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1954
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The Sea Shall Not Have Them is our candidate for the most dramatic title of any British World War II film. Happily, the film...
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Air Commodore Waltby
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1954
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Jack Worthing
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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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Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his...
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Andrew Crocker-Harris
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1951
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Even star Joan Bennett and director Fritz Lang regarded The Secret Beyond the Door as the weakest of their collaborative...
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Mark Lamphere
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1948
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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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Richard Carlyon
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1947
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Orin Mannon
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1947
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When a young man from an economically depressed area of England (played by Michael Redgrave) decides that his calling is to...
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Hamer Radshaw
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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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Capt. Karel Hasek
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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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Col. Michael Wentworth
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1947
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Originally released in England as The Way to the Stars, Johnny in the Clouds is the story of how the Battle of Britain...
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Lt. David Archdale
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1945
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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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Maxwell Frere
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1945
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Robert Ardrey's theatrical semi-fantasy Thunder Rock was transformed in 1944 into one of the most successful British films of...
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David Charleston
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1942
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Having underestimated Hitler in the 1930s, British propaganda specialists spent the early war years insisting they were...
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1942
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Barbara Mullen stars as Jeannie, a spirited Scots girl who comes into an inheritance. She heads for her family castle after...
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Stanley Smith
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1941
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Carol Reed directed this adaptation of the H.G. Wells novel about a British shopkeeper who inherits money and tries to crash...
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Arthur Kipps
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1941
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Emeric Pressburger was one of the scenarists on the big-budget British seafaring saga Atlantic Ferry. The film is a...
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Charles MacIver
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1941
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Originally released in England by British Consolidated, Sons of the Sea was the last film to be distributed in America by...
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1939
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Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for German actress Elizabeth...
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Alan McKenzie
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1939
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Filmed in 1939 but not put into general release until 1942, Lady in Distress stars Michael Redgrave as an innocent bystander...
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Peter
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1939
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A. J. Cronin's novel was brought to the screen by director Carol Reed. The film is set in a northern England mining town (far...
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David Fenwick
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1939
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Originally conceived as a musical (called Asking for Trouble) to showcase the talents of leading lady Jessie Matthews,...
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Nicky Brooke
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1938
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Gilbert Redman
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1938
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Based on the novels of W. Somerset Maugham, The Secret Agent is the second in a trilogy of Alfred Hitchcock spy movies (along...
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1936
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