The 11th feature-length episode of the British detective series Midsomer Murders, "Blue Herrings" finds Detective Chief...
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Aunt Alice Bly
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2000
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Having previously headlined a series of short TV skits and monologues, British comedienne-composer Victoria Wood graduated to...
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1989
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Across the Lake details the final two months in the life of British "speed king" Donald Campbell, here played by the...
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1988
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As indicated by the title, The Woman He Loved is the story of the romance between Britain's King Edward VII (Anthony Andrews)...
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Queen Mary
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1988
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Based on what some consider to be Elizabeth Bowen's best novel, The Death of the Heart focuses on one of her primary themes,...
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1986
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Erica Dainton
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1970
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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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In a disturbing movie about psychosis, Hayley Mills plays Susan Harper, a young student who tries to help a rich, emotionally...
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Enid Durnley
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1968
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Originally released in Great Britain as The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, this film is not a wartime epic but a cozy domestic...
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Margot
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1965
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Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the...
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Constance Wilde
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1960
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Margaret Munson
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1958
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The Young and the Guilty was part of the "misunderstood youth" British film cycle of the 1950s. Young Eddie (Andrew Ray) and...
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Mrs. Connor
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1958
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In this comedy, two spinsters find their holiday in a rented cabin interrupted when a police detective appears looking for...
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1958
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1956
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In this tragic melodrama, a lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her...
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Evelyn Acheson
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1956
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1953
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Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation...
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Lydia Heathley
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1953
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Released in Britain as Crash of Silence, Mandy is a straightforward story about a handicapped child's efforts to adapt to a...
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Christine
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1952
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Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a...
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Kay Denning
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1951
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Al Goddard, (Alan Ladd) special investigator for the U.S. post office, is assigned to collar two criminals who've murdered a...
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Sister Augustine
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1951
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The title is a reference to the mental state of leading lady Phyllis Calvert. Ms. Calvert plays an amnesiac, a victim of the...
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Yvonne Winter
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1950
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The Golden Madonna is a peppy romantic adventure, utilizing its tight budget to the utmost. British actress Phyllis Calvert...
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Patricia Chandler
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1949
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This disaster movie is based on the true story of ways in which a diverse group of plane passengers managed to survive after...
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Mary Johnstone
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1948
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After supervising several of the best "psychological" horror films ever made, producer Val Lewton shifted his base of...
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1948
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Jackie Farnish
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1947
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The dazzlingly handsome Stewart Granger is at least physically well cast as the charismatic 18th century violinist Paganini....
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Jeanne
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1947
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Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl...
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Kate Fernald
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1947
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An aboriginal man is torn between the modern world in which he lives and the ancient culture in which he was brought up in...
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Dr. Caroline Munro
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1946
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A classic in gothic-romantic excess, Madonna of Seven Moons was one of the most successful British films of its genre. Though...
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Maddalena Lambardi/Rosanna
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1945
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Based on a novel by Dorothy Whipple, the British They Were Sisters is not so far removed from the standard Hollywood plot of...
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Lucy
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1945
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In this period drama from England, Fanny Hopwood (Phyllis Calvert), upon graduating from finishing school, returns to her...
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Fanny Hopwood
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1944
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The "2000 Women" of the film's title are the female inmates in a WW II German concentration camp in France. Though many of...
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Freda Thompson
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1944
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A set of flashbacks to 19th century London provide the action in this British wartime film, in which a wealthy girl...
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Clarissa Rohan
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1943
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Julie Lanvin
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1942
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Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th...
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Eleanor Eden
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1942
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Scottish stage, radio and film favorite Will Fyffe heads the cast of Neutral Port. The star is cast as crusty Captain...
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Helen Carter
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1941
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One of the few "Inspector Hornleigh" films to gain a wide US distribution, Mail Train stars Gordon Harker as Hornleigh and...
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Mrs. Wilkinson
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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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Ann Pornick as a woman
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1941
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Let George Do It is one of the best and most successful of the George Formby vehicles. The toothy, guitar-strumming Formby...
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Mary
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1940
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Based on a play by Barre Lyndon, They Came by Night stars beloved Scottish actor Will Fyffe as jeweler James Fothergill....
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Sally
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1940
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This film is an adaptation of the Brandon Thomas stage perennial Charley's Aunt, starring bespectacled British radio comedian...
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1939
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1935
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