An uneven but entertaining blend of graphic horror and black comedy from John Landis, very much in the mode of the director's...
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1992
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Based on the characters created by popular fantasy author Capt. W. E. Johns, Biggles: Adventures in Time casts Neil Dickson...
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Col. Raymond
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1988
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1988
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The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork...
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Bookstore Owner
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1984
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Sherlock Holmes
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1984
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Professor Charles Copeland
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1984
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In this film, a collection of rare and unique animals, including human beings, becomes a captivating hobby for the former...
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1984
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In this uneven dramatization of a legendary sword-and-sorcery tale, the Green Knight (Sean Connery) is a magician who appears...
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1983
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Sebastian
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1982
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Kolderup
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1981
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Chris Sarandon does the "far, far, better thing" when he tackles the dual role of Syndey Carton and Charles Darnay in this...
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Dr. Manette
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1980
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A valiant prince battles an evil sorcerer to rescue his true love in this colorful fantasy, which features high adventure...
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1979
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In an attempt to sell his manuscript, a writer tries to persuade a prospective publisher that cats are ultimately evil by...
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1978
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The leader of a right-wing political party discovers that a young man named Willi (Bud Cort), an illiterate woodcarver, is...
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Heinrich Haussner
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1978
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George Lucas' mythological popcorn movie is a two-hour roller-coaster ride that has passed into movie legend. The story, for...
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Grand Moff Tarkin
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1977
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Toward the end of 1918, soldiers in the Austrian army were well aware that things were not going well. In this story, an...
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1977
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Brian Eno composed the score for this horror tale about a cult (led by Peter Cushing) which kidnaps Greek tourists for their...
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1977
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This horror film concerns a shipwrecked yachting party. Rose (Brooke Adams) and her fellow yacht-mates, including the captain...
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Scar
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1977
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Von Claus
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1976
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A former policeman investigates a series of murders by centering on an organization which re-creates medieval battles. ~...
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1976
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Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and...
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1976
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This is the second sci-fi adventure based on a novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first being 1975's...
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Dr. Abner Perry
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1976
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Peter Cushing stars as a police investigator whose search into a series of murders--committed during the full moon--leads him...
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Paul Catflangue
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1975
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England's Tigon studios produced fairly sophisticated period horror films in the 1970s, including this drawing-room...
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Dr. Lawrence
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1975
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When Macgregor (Peter Cushing) announces that he is no longer going to appear in horror films, but wants to work in romances,...
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Macgregor
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1974
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1974
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Baron Frankenstein
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1974
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Herbert
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1974
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Mr. Shatter (Stuart Whitman) is an international assassin, hired to bump off a top government official. He is compelled to...
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Paul Rattwood
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1974
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The multipart From Beyond the Grave features Peter Cushing as the owner of a sinister antique shop. Utilizing the various...
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Proprietor
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1973
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1973
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This creepy, atmospheric horror film from England's Amicus Productions dispenses with much of the tongue-in-cheek...
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Dr. Pope
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1973
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The final installment in Hammer Studios' Dracula series is also the least interesting of the lot. A fairly direct follow-up...
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Prof. Lorrimer Van Helsing
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1973
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In this strange but fun genre hodgepodge, Prof. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing) is up against seven rotting vampires clad in gold...
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Prof. Van Helsing
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1973
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Peter Cushing delivers one of his finest hand-wringing performances as Emmanuel Hildern, a Victorian man of science who...
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Emmanuel Hildern
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1972
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In this little horror film, a wealthy sportsman (Calvin Lockhart) invites a house full of guests to a big-game hunt that he's...
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1972
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Hammer Studios attempted to inject new blood into their Dracula series by setting their next installment in ultra-mod '70s...
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1972
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Michael Carmichael
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1972
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1972
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More widely seen in Britain as Nothing but the Night, this atmospheric chiller -- based on the novel Children of the Night by...
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1972
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This horror science-fiction thriller, a cult favorite, takes place in 1907. Professor Caxton (Christopher Lee), a...
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Dr. Wells
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1972
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The phenomenon of Tales from the Crypt seems to have no endings, only changes. This successful pun-filled style of presenting...
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Grimsdyke
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1972
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Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story,...
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Smith
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1972
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Utterson
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1971
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This entry in Hammer Films' long-running vampire series of the '60s and '70s is one of the most evocative and original. The...
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Gustav Weil
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1971
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This anthology picture about a bad-luck mansion is a thriller with four episodes--all framed by a police investigation. A...
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Philip
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1971
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Strange and terrible things are afoot and the police are helpless to stop them in this taut, complicated thriller. First a...
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Maj. Benedict Heinrich
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1970
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Rat-pack pals Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford reprise their roles of Charlie Salt and Chris Pepper, respectively, in this...
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1970
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This badly-dated but interesting variant on the vampire subgenre is loosely based on the Simon Raven novel Doctors Wear...
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Dr. Walter Goodrich
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1970
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This sexy horror story from Britain's Hammer Films finds Ingrid Pitt playing three roles, the most notable being a lesbian...
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Gen. Spielsdorf
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1970
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The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron...
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Baron Frankenstein
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1969
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A guilt-ridden plastic surgeon becomes murderously obsessed with restoring the beautiful face of his fashion-model fiancee in...
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Sir John Rowan
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1968
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Dr. Vernon Stone
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1967
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Set during the Victorian era, the film stars Peter Cushing as a Holmeslike detective on the trail of a serial killer. The...
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Inspector Quennell
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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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Canning
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1967
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The Avengers' sixth season opened with an exciting harkback to the classic third-season episode "The Cybernauts." The plot is...
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1967
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A murderous mummy is on the loose and it's got the Hammer Films stamp on it, but this tame terror flick never gets the...
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1967
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In this war drama, an Army intelligence officer stationed in Saigon labors to discover the identity of the double-agent in...
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1967
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A woman who works for American Intelligence headquarters in Saigon relates important military information to her husband, a...
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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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Dr. Brian Stanley
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1966
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This entertaining sequel to 1965's Dr. Who and the Daleks has been released under several titles: Invasion Earth 2150 AD,...
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Dr. Who
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1966
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Dr. Who was/is the longest-running entertainment series ever to run on the BBC, and for a variety of reasons, including its...
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Dr. Who
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1965
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Adapted from the Robert Bloch short story "The Skull of the Marquis de Sade," this inventive gothic chiller from Amicus stars...
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Prof. Christopher Maitland
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1965
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Sherlock Holmes
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1965
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Dr. Sandor Schreck
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1965
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Baron Frankenstein
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1965
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Hammer Films co-produced this lavishly mounted adventure, the fourth adaptation of the novel by H. Rider Haggard. In...
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Maj. Horace Holly
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1965
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Hardly the best of Hammer Studios' Frankenstein epics, The Evil of Frankenstein is too much the mixture as before to be truly...
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Baron Frankenstein
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1964
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A small German town falls prey to an unseen monster that turns its victims into lifeless statues in this mid-'60s outing from...
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Dr. Namaroff
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1964
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Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing), magistrate of an 18th century coastal village where a little smuggling has always gone on...
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1963
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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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A ruthless crook abducts the wife and child of a bank manager and then masquerades as an insurance company detective while...
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1962
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In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the swamps of a small seaside...
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Dr. Blyss
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1962
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The Risk is a mild melodrama concerning the political aspects of germ warfare. A group of British scientists led by...
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Prof. Sewell
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1961
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There is nothing like suspecting your husband of murder to add suspense to a marriage, at least that is the case in this...
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1961
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Although released in the United States as a 63-minute black-and-white film, this 93-minute British swashbuckler from the...
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1961
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Dr. Van Helsing
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1960
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Dr. Robert Knox
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1960
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Captain Gort (Bernard Lee) is an airline pilot who must answer to a Court of Inquiry after the crash of a Phoenix jet....
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Capt. Clive Judd
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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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Sheriff of Nottingham
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1960
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While on a dig in Egypt, British archaeologist John Banning (Peter Cushing) desecrates the tomb of Princess Ananka, awakening...
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John Banning
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1959
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Robert Stack stars in this sea-faring historical epic as John Paul Jones, the first great hero of the American Navy. While...
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1959
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In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's...
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Sherlock Holmes
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1959
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This Hammer Studios classic is far closer to the letter (and spirit) of the Bram Stoker novel than the Bela Lugosi version of...
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Dr. Van Helsing
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1958
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He may be calling himself "Dr. Stein," but the audience isn't fooled: that popular general practitioner (Peter Cushing) in...
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Dr. Victor Stein
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1958
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Violent Playground opens with a few West Side Story style shots of a Liverpool street gang, commandeered by a very...
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Priest
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1958
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Curse of Frankenstein was the "breakthrough" picture for the fabled Hammer Studios. Told in flashback, the story centers...
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Baron Victor Frankenstein
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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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Jeremy Clayton
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1957
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Dr. John Rollason
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1957
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Filmed in Germany (where it was released in 1954), Republic's Magic Fire is the life story of controversial 19th century...
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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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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was...
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Henry Miles
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1955
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Alan Ladd once more journeyed to England to make a film for Columbia's British counterpart (Warwick Studios), and the result...
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Sir Palamides
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1954
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Long before she was "discovered" by Hollywood, 19th century novelist Jane Austen was well represented on British television....
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Mr. Darcy
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1952
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Moulin Rouge is the story of 19th century French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, portrayed by José Ferrer. The film records...
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1952
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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 drama, which blends romance with suspense, Prince Kurt von Rotenberg (George Brent) is attempting to flee his native...
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1941
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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1940
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Jones
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1940
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Musical comedy favorite Elsie Janis, who gained renown in WW1 as "The Sweetheart of the AEF", returned to the screen after a...
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1940
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Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War almost invariably lost money at the box office, and The Howards of Virginia was...
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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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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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