Unlike the barren and forbidding moors elsewhere in England, Return of the Native's Egdon Heath attires itself in vibrant...
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1994
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1988
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Author Tom Sharpe's outrageous best-seller about the power struggle that emerges when the dean of a Cambridge University dies...
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1987
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Tom Schiller, best known for the short subjects he wrote and directed for Saturday Night Live's early seasons, made his...
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1984
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Though we never see him, Edwin is the pivotal character in this British comedy. Alec Guinness stars as a retired British...
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Thomas Marjoriebanks
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1984
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The trial of a Jew accused of killing a Nazi is held many years after the event. ~ Rovi...
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1980
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This engaging health-and-nutrition project was assembled by the South Carolina Department of Education. Jason Conrad is a...
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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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Single Gent/Henry Trent
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1975
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1974
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In this historical drama based on actual events, Sweden's Queen Christina (Liv Ullmann) decides in 1654 to give up her throne...
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1974
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Max
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1973
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A sensitive Englishman experiences an intense sexual identity crisis after realizing he is a man trapped in a woman's body....
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Mr. Waites
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1972
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In this Cold War espionage-thriller, adapted from the novel of John Le Carre, two veteran British intelligence operatives,...
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Haldane
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1969
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American actor Rod Steiger adopts a British accent to keep apace with his co-stars in Three into Two Won't Go. Steiger plays...
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Jack
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1969
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Nicol Williamson stars as a Liverpool/Irish layabout who inherits a business from his father. Even in his executive togs,...
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1969
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British director Peter Hall's 1968 filmization of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, starring the...
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1968
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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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1968
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Tom Bell stars in this tight little British thriller as a mercurial cat burglar. So long as things are going his way, Bell is...
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Supt. Taylor
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1966
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TV commentator Stephen Boyd doesn't believe the official verdict of suicide in the death of a famed London psychiatrist. Boyd...
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1964
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Stolen Hours is the overlong, overglamorized 1963 remake of the 1939 Bette Davis vehicle Dark Victory. Susan Hayward plays a...
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Dr. Eric McKenzie
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1963
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Religion and medical ethics clash in this provocative drama that tells the story of a man prosecuted by the system because he...
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Hart Jacobs
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1962
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Also titled The Wild and the Willing, this is a British production about a rebellious young man of the early 1960s. Harry...
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Prof. Chown
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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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1962
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Governor
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1962
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1962
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Guy Green's social drama stars Stuart Whitman as the title character, a man whose unhealthy childhood has left him bewildered...
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1961
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A British officer is slated to parachute into Normandy. What he doesn't know is that he is being set up by British...
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Maj. Spence
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1961
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Graham Greene wrote this witty comedy inspired by Cold War paranoia. Jim Wormald (Alec Guiness) is an Englishman selling...
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1960
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Peter Finch portrays the titular flamboyant Irish poet/playwright in The Trials of Oscar Wilde. The storyline, lifted to a...
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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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1958
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In this thriller, a crime reporter's photograph contains the key evidence needed to solve a murder. It is a picture of a...
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Screenwriter
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1956
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In Svengali, the 1955 adaptation of George DuMaurier's classic novel Trilby, Donald Wolfit achieves the near-impossible: he...
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Taffy
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1955
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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1954
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Owen
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1954
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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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1938
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