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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Julie Andrews made a bid to change her squeaky clean image with this elaborately mounted World War I musical. Lili Smith...
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1970
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When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a...
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1970
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Davey Haggart (John Hurt) wishes to follow his father's footsteps and become a highway robber. He also wishes to avoid his...
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1969
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1969
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A Pope contends with the prospects of nuclear world destruction in this Cold-War saga of religious faith and international...
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1968
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Set in first century England, The Viking Queen is a loose retelling of the legend of Boadicea (also sometimes known as...
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Tiberion
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1967
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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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This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the...
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1966
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At a cancer research lab off the coast of Ireland, a group of scientists dies under mysterious circumstances. Before anyone...
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1966
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1965
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An American widower and his 18-year-old daughter live on a Caribbean houseboat. Romance and adventure ensue when they invite...
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1965
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The painstakingly accurate historical drama The War Lord is predicated on the old practice of le droit du seigneur. Norman...
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1965
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A high-class costume drama with a substantive historical basis, Becket is the true story of the friendship between King Henry...
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1964
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The first episode of the British action/espionage television series Secret Agent is featured on Secret Agent 1. In this...
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1964
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Greek mythology is done up brown by the special-effects expertise of Ray Harryhausen in Jason and the Argonauts. Jason...
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Zeus
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1963
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In this melodrama, set in German-occupied Italy during WW II, a Yankee spy is concealed in the attic of an underground...
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1963
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1962
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The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle....
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Headmaster
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1962
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Adapted from the classic play by John Millington Synge, The Playboy of the Western World opens with the arrival of a...
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1962
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In this drama, set after the end of WW II, a young man returns to his father's small Bavarian village and is dismayed to...
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1962
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Based on Mark Twain's classic tale, this lively 16th-century-set comedy drama chronicles the misadventures and the lessons...
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Father Andrew
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1962
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The Devil's Agent is Peter Van Eyck in this economical espionager. A Viennese wine merchant, Van Eyck becomes the unwilling...
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1962
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1961
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Father Carey (Nigel Patrick) is a priest who must decide whether or not an amnesia victim (Aldo Ray) is responsible for the...
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1961
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Disney produced this historical adventure of old Scotland, based on the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson....
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Mr. Shaun
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1960
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This uneven, wartime drama delves into the complexities of the political situation in Northern Ireland, compounded in World...
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1960
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Having portrayed Robin Hood on TV for five years, Richard Greene reprises the role in Hammer Films' Sword of Sherwood Forest....
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Friar Tuck
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1960
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The "nick" in this standard prison farce is a modernistic, forward-looking jail without bars. At its core of staff are...
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1960
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Set in Canada, this nasty little fable is about a respectable village elder (Patrick Allen) who is also a sexual deviate....
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Defense Counsel
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1960
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Albert Lieven plays German general Erwin Rommel in this British war drama set in Libya and Egypt. A spy working on behalf of...
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Radek
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1960
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1960
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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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1959
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Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned...
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1959
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This British comedy is set in 1945 Ireland and tells the story of a small town that plans to erect a monument to honor an...
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1959
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In this gently humorous farce, an unwed Irish mother who has six children by some of the town's finest fathers finds herself...
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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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Neil Isherwood
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1958
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Tarzan's Greatest Adventure stars Gordon Scott in his fourth screen appearance as Edgar Rice Burrough's lord of the jungle....
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Kruger
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1958
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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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Dr. Julian Karswell
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1958
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Four terrifying stories from The Veil television series are introduced by Boris Karloff with titles "Summer Heat," "Vision of...
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1958
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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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Dr. Julian Karswell
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1957
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Based on a best-selling Australian novel by D'Arcy Niland, The Shiralee stars Peter Finch as an Aussie "swagman," or poacher,...
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1957
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This filmed biography of Vincent Van Gogh was adapted by Norman Corwin from the best-selling novel by Irving Stone, which was...
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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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Rossana Podesta may not quite possess the face that would launch a thousand ships, but she is otherwise convincing in the...
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Menelaus
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1955
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Vom Himmel Gefallen is better known by its American title, Special Delivery. Joseph Cotten plays John Adams, a functionary at...
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1955
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Clark Gable's final effort for his longtime home studio MGM, Betrayed is an exciting espionage thriller set during World War...
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1954
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Hell Below Zero was one of several 1950s films made in Britain by Hollywood's Alan Ladd. The star plays Duncan Craig, who...
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1954
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MGM's first CinemaScope production was the lavishly appointed Knights of the Round Table. Without overlapping into any...
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1953
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The British Conflict of Wings was also released as Fuss over Feathers: Both titles are applicable, but only the second title...
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Harry Tilney
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1953
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Virtually every Lutheran in America has seen Martin Luther during a church-basement screening. Niall McGinniss plays the...
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Martin Luther
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1953
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The blarney is as thick as the characters' brogues in You Can't Beat the Irish. Jack Warner stars as lazy but enterprising...
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1952
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T.S. Eliot's readers-theatre verse piece Murder in the Cathedral was never truly designed to be a fully staged play, but try...
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1952
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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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Filmed on location in a British industrial town, Chance of a Lifetime is a trenchantly amusing satire of labor-management...
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Baxter
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1950
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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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Muller
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1949
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1949
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1948
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Based on the play by Joan Temple, No Room at the Inn takes place in the early stages of WW2, when the children of London were...
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1948
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's...
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1948
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In this comedy, a band of British birdwatchers fight to save a rare species of birds from destruction. The title bird is a...
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Jimmy Bancroft
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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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1947
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1944
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After several months' heavy war duty, the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger is enjoying a much-deserved leave, when...
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CPO Mike Corrigan
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1943
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That ubiquitous British character actor Frederick Leister essayed one of his largest and most rewarding screen roles in The...
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1943
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Undercover is a British-made WWII picture glorifying the efforts of a small group of Yugoslavian resistance fighters who...
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1943
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Also known as The Avengers, the British The Day Will Dawn is set in Norway at the outbreak of WW2. British foreign...
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1942
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Possibly inspired by the 1937 British melodrama They Drive By Night, East of Piccadilly is an austere shocker set in London....
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1941
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49th Parallel is a British wartime entreaty for Empire solidarity, concentrating on rousing the patriotic fervor of the...
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1941
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1941
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In this Irish romance, two farmers fall in love, but must part when their high falutin' landlord evicts them. The man then...
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1938
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In this British adventure, a shipwrecked fellow is saved by the captain of another ship. While aboard, the survivor falls in...
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1937
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A key film in the career of director Michael Powell, The Edge of the World was his first original idea to be realized...
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Andrew Gray
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1937
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Derek O`Neill
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1937
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A robbery committed by gambler Fitzgerald is claimed by his friend Banks while the two are stationed at an African outpost....
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1936
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Hollywood leading-man John Lodge later became governor of Connecticut. Before he turned to politics, however, Lodge found...
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Terence Elliott
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1936
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Blackmail is the basis of this crime drama based on a novel by Edgar Wallace. The trouble begins when the leader of a ring of...
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1936
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For 400 years, the Fosdyck family were the only fishermen in a tiny British coastal village. Now, the Fosdyck's predominance...
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1935
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