In this improbable romantic drama set in Gay Nineties London, a member of Parliament jeopardizes his career when he falls in...
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1947
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The Columbia mystery melodrama The Walls Came Tumbling Down is regarded in many circles as star Lee Bowman's finest...
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1946
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The Technicolor swashbuckler Bandit of Sherwood Forest stars Cornel Wilde as Robert of Nottingham, son of the legendary Robin...
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1946
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Weekend at the Waldorf is an unabashed remake of MGM's 1932 Oscar-winner Grand Hotel: in fact, at several points in the...
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1945
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1945
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It's every man for himself when Charles Laughton bites into the role of infamous 17th century pirate captain William Kidd....
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1945
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John Loder plays a prominent London actor, lately starring in a play about a maniacal strangler. When the theatre is bombed...
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Allison
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1945
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Though running a mere 15 minutes, Watchtower Over Tomorrow boasts some very impressive credits. Written by Ben Hecht, this...
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1945
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1945
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In this episode of the "Crime Doctor" series, Dr. Orday, the sleuthing shrink, cares for a patient who suffers from...
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Frederick Malone
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1945
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In this crime programer, Arsene Lupin (Charles Korvin) is an expert jewel thief from France who, while aboard a train,...
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1944
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Four Jills in a Jeep is the (mostly) true story of a four-girl USO team, entertaining American troops overseas. Kay Francis,...
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1944
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1944
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The White Cliffs of Dover is one of those overlong MGM wartime films that everyone seems to have seen a part of, but no one...
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1944
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One-time movie crooner Dick Powell literally turned his career around in the 1944 film noir Murder My Sweet. Powell stars as...
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1944
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Giles Conover
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1944
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Though it is not based on any Conan Doyle story, The Scarlet Claw is regarded by Baker Street aficionados as the best of...
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1944
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With Dorothy Arzner in the director's chair, it's no wonder that First Comes Courage has a more feminist slant than most WWII...
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1943
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Billy Wilder's Five Graves to Cairo is the third take on Lajos Biro's theatrical tale of romance and espionage, Hotel...
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1943
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1943
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1943
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Jean-Pierre Aumont (billed simply as Pierre Aumont) makes his American film debut in Assignment in Brittany. Set during WW2,...
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1943
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20th Century-Fox's 1943 filmization of Richard Tregaskis' best-selling book Guadalcanal Diary does full justice to the...
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1943
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He looks like Dracula, talks like Dracula and dresses like Dracula; but since the movie rights to Dracula were controlled by...
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Sir Frederick Fleet
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1943
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John Garfield was borrowed from Warner Bros. by RKO Radio for the tense espionage melodrama The Fallen Sparrow. Garfield is...
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1943
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In this wartime espionage drama, Nazis open up a covert operation in the US. Outwardly it is a high-class dress shop, but...
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Paul Panois
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1943
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Unable to convince their isolationist New York editor (Charles Dingle) that America must be alerted to the threat of...
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1942
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James Cagney made his first Technicolor appearance in the morale-boosting aviation flick Captains of the Clouds. Cagney plays...
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1942
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This final "Tarzan" entry from the MGM assembly line is arguably one the least effective of the series, though it certainly...
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1942
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Ernst Lubitsch directs the 1942 political satire classic To Be or Not to Be, which marked the final screen appearance of...
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1942
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As Academy Award-winning films go, Mrs. Miniver has not weathered the years all that well. This prettified, idealized view of...
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1942
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This wartime weeper could just as well have been titled Stardom for Margaret, inasmuch as it solidified the popularity of...
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1942
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The innovative direction of Robert Siodmak lifts the inexpensive imitation-Hitchcock Fly By Night well above the ordinary....
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1942
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Eric Knight's wartime novel This Above All was given the Tiffany treatment in the this 20th Century Fox big-budgeter....
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1942
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When MGM made a program western, it generally looked more expensive than an entire years' sagebrusher output at Monogram or...
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1942
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In this mystery, a married pair of sleuths enjoy solving the cases that stump the cops. The husband uses his popular radio...
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1942
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Lucky Jordan (Alan Ladd) is a tough but good-natured New York racketeer who tries to finagle his way out of Army service....
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1942
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A fun though abortive bid to pair crime-solving duo Lew Ayres and Laraine Day for a series of thrillers, this murder mystery...
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Dr. Kurt Immelman
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1942
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In this WW II propaganda piece a wealthy American society matron refuses to sacrifice her material comforts to aid the war...
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1942
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When MGM decided to move up-and-coming star Laraine Day out of the "Dr. Kildare" series, the studio did so in a startlingly...
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1941
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1941
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They Met in Bombay is a typical MGM star vehicle, in which the leading players are called upon to carry a pencil-thin...
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1941
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Shadows on the Stairs is a slimmed-down adaptation of Frank Vosper's stage play Murder on the 2nd Floor. There's dirty work...
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Armitage
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1941
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The schizophrenic screenplay of The Earl of Chicago is rendered even more bizarre by the uneven performance by Robert...
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1940
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This fine adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic tale about a cursed family opens with a title card that reveals how the...
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1940
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Telecast dozens of times on cable television back in the 1980s, Columbia's Babies for Sale was another stepping-stone on...
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Dr. Rankin
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1940
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1940
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Set during the war of 1812, Hal Roach's Captain Caution is an unusual swashbuckler in that the "hero" is actually the...
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1940
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In her third film for innovative director Gregory LaCava, Ginger Rogers briefly turns her back on her established screen...
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Homer Adams
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1940
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South of Suez is where diamond-mine foreman John Gamble (George Brent) plies his trade. When his boss is murdered, Gamble is...
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1940
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1940's Laddie was the third cinemadaptation of the heartwarming story by Gene Stratton-Porter (the second version, filmed in...
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1940
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Basil Rathbone's real-life son, John Rodion, has his head chopped off early on in this historical melodrama often mistakenly...
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1939
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1939
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Man in the Iron Mask is independent producer Edward Small's 1939 edition of the much-filmed Dumas classic. The title...
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1939
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Allan Dwan's comedic musical adaptation of the classic Dumas story sticks close to the original tale, yet it augments it with...
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1939
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Veteran character star Charles B. Middleton ("Ming the Merciless") escapes from a penitentiary after 15 years of imprisonment...
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Granville (prisoner)
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1939
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Twentieth Century-Fox borrowed Spencer Tracy, from MGM for the sprawling (yet economically produced) historical drama Stanley...
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1939
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1939
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Wealthy socialite Melsa Manton (Barbara Stanwyck) is taking her pooches for a walk in the dead of the night when she stumbles...
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1938
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Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure tale of a young 18th century boy betrayed by his wicked uncle didn't need a romantic...
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1938
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This is an epic Darryl F. Zanuck production that plays fast and loose with historical facts regarding early 19th century...
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1938
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1937
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The hyped-up 1930s radio feud between bandleader Ben Bernie and columnist Walter Winchell is all but forgotten today, but...
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1937
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Sentenced to prison for a crime they did not commit, a desperate pair of young lovers attempts to capture the culprits...
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Sparkler
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1937
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Lloyds of London traces the rise to prominence of the venerable British insurance company, as seen through the eyes of...
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1936
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The real-life Flying Medical Association of Australia was the inspiration for the box-office hit The Flying Doctor....
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Director, Producer
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1936
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Rival competition and a father's disapproval cause little interference with the romance of race car designer Robert Douglas...
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1935
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1935
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In this racy comedy, a harem girl desiring to escape her life, stows away on the boat of a wealthy archaeologist as it sails...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1935
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In this British drama, based on a popular play, a wealthy young Jew goes to a weekend house party and finds himself...
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Capt. Ronald Dancy, DSO
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1934
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The Battle is the English-language version of the French La Bataille; both versions starred Charles Boyer in one of his...
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Feize
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1934
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Even while back in his native England, Miles Mander couldn't completely escape underhanded roles. In Case for the Crown,...
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1934
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In this romance, a working-class musician falls in love with a beautiful socialite. He is so smitten that he abandons his...
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Director
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1934
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Attorney Stuart joins the gang responsible for his brother's death during a holdup in order to seek revenge. ~ Rovi...
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1934
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Charles Laughton became an international star by chewing both mutton and scenes in his Oscar-winning turn as King Henry VIII....
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1933
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The French/British Don Quixote is a faithful rendition of the Cervantes novel, with a poignant ending added by director...
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1933
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In this drama, a bored clerk in a small-town bank embezzles some cash and goes looking for action in London. When a shady...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, a popular German performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister innocent of murder....
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1933
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1933
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In Belloc-Lowndes' original novel The Lodger, the reclusive young man suspected of being Jack the Ripper turns out to be...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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In this melodrama, a woman bears a child out of wedlock during WW I. She gives the child up to a rich old woman. Twenty...
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1932
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Corinne Griffith, the stunningly attractive "orchid lady" of the silent screen, originally intended to retire when talkies...
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Ambatriadi
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1932
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Saturnine Arthur Wontner makes his second screen appearance as Conan Doyle's master sleuth Sherlock Holmes in The Missing...
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1932
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Two prolific British character actors contributed to the production end of The Woman Between; its script was adapted from...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1931
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Director
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1931
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In this drama, a female reporter gets blackmailed. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Raymond Carteret
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1930
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In this espionage drama an international spy goes searching for secret papers hidden within an isolated inn. He is...
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1930
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Gordon Druce
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1930
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1929
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Doctor's Women was one of the English-language titles of the 1928 Swedish production Parisiskor. Intoxicated by the seductive...
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1929
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Making a rare foray outside his native Scandinavia, director Gustav Molander headed to England to film Parisiennes, the...
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Armand de Marny
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1928
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British filmmaker Maurice Elvey spent most of the late 1920s collaborating with directors brought in from the London stage....
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1928
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Director, Screenwriter
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1928
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After several collaborative efforts, Alfred Hitchcock made his solo directorial debut in the German-British co-production...
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1927
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The Fake was based on a surprisingly grim Frederick Lonsdale play. The title character could be just about anyone in this...
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Honorable Gerald Pillick
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1927
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1924
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The British melodrama Half a Truth was based on Rita, a novel by Leslie Howard Gordon. Margaret Hope stars as Virginia, the...
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1922
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1922
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