This excellent biographical documentary looks at the life and work of director William Wyler. The film is dominated by clips...
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1986
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Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes is a reverent retelling of the Edgar Rice Burroughs original, with a...
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Sixth Earl of Greystoke
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1984
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Having written the music and screenplay for this film, Paul McCartney also plays himself in the leading role. When the sole...
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1984
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Uncle Willie
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1983
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Originally a nine-hour British miniseries, this film on the last four decades in the life of Richard Wagner may have taken...
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Pfordten
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1983
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From its humble beginnings as a four-character short story, Agatha Christie's Witness for the Prosecution matriculated into a...
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Sir Wilfred Robarts
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1982
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A young boy joins a group of renegade dwarves on an unpredictable journey through time in this humorous fantasy. Monty Python...
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1981
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This provocative drama is based on a play by David Storey and chronicles the last days of a formerly powerful politician who...
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1981
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A special-effects laden medieval fantasy adventure, Dragonslayer centers on the attempts of a young sorcerer's apprentice to...
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Ulrich
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1981
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David Hemmings plays Charlie Muffin, a working-class British secret agent who suffers fools and aristocrats not at all well,...
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1979
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Unique in the annals of animated films, Watership Down is a serious, even grim tale that many will find relentless and...
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1978
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Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a...
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1977
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The made-for-television The Man in the Iron Mask was, at the very least, the twelfth film version of Alexandre Dumas' novel...
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1977
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Himself
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1976
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In the year 2018 violence has been outlawed and corporations have replaced government as the ruling party following the...
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1975
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Screenwriter Robert Bolt's directorial debut is a lushly romantic saga concerning the 1812 love affair between the wife of...
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1974
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Henrik Ibsen's oft-filmed play A Doll's House was adapted for the screen in this Anglo-Canadian production. Claire Bloom...
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Dr. Rank
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1973
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Per its title, Jack Smight's Frankenstein: The True Story, strives for greater faithfulness to Mary Shelley's novel than...
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1973
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Taped in London and originally telecast by the BBC, this ABC Afternoon Special combines comedy, drama, and song to introduce...
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1973
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One man's dreams of success take him on a Byzantine journey through the various stations of the British class system in this...
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Monty,Sir James Burgess
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1973
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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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Crypt Keeper
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1972
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A star-studded cast highlights this musical adaptation of the classic fantasy tales of Lewis Carroll. One day young Alice...
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Caterpillar
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1972
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In this English film, a group of orphans visiting the home of a wealthy, retired singer (Shelley Winters) discover that the...
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Mr. Benton
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1971
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Television veteran Fielder Cook brings a TV-like intimacy to his direction of Eagle in a Cage. This underrated film stars...
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1971
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This colorful documentary covers the history of the Basilica in the Cathedral of St. Peters in Vatican City. Ralph...
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Guide
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1970
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This lackluster 1970 version of Charles Dickens' classic novel, David Copperfield (made as a film twice before) turns...
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1970
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Sir David
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1969
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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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LeClerc
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1969
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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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Sir Edward Grey
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1969
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A disgruntled British secret service officer and an aspiring author turn to crime when they are again passed over for...
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Henshaw
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1969
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The specter of atomic warfare raises its head once again in this bizarre 1969 black comedy, directed by Richard Lester and...
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Lord Fortnum
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1969
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This televised adaptation of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, originally screened on Britain's ITV in 1969, stars Alec...
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1969
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After declaring a holy war to rid the Sudan of Anglo-Egyptian rule in the 1880s, the fanatical Sudanese leader Muhammad Ahmad...
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Mr. Gladstone
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1966
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The legendary Shakespearean character Sir John Falstaff, the notoriously drunken, obese, and yet charming companion of the...
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1966
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Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys....
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Joseph Finsbury
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1966
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the...
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1965
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In this British melodrama based on a French novel by Catherine Arley, Sean Connery plays Anthony Richmond, a money-hungry...
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Charles Richmond
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1964
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1963
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Playwright Eugene O'Neill sold Random House the text of his intensely autobiographical 1941 play on the proviso that the play...
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James Tyrone, Sr.
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1962
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A colorful action film about the Battle Of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. in which the Spartans defend themselves for a Persian...
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Themistocles of Athens
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1962
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Produced and directed by Otto Preminger, Exodus is a 212-minute screen adaptation of the best-selling novel by Leon Uris. The...
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Gen. Sutherland
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1960
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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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Robert Morley is ideally cast as the legendary playwright, poet, and wit Oscar Wilde in this biographical look at the...
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Sir Edward Carson
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1960
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Margaret Leighton stars as a novelist who draws inspiration for her characters from the people around her. While working on a...
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Roger Wynter/Sir Clement
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1957
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The first of two films based on characters created by novelist Moore Raymond, this tells of a mischievous Australian boy...
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Rev. Lambeth
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1956
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Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham
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1955
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Faithfully adapted from a popular holiday play by Wynyard Browne, this moving British drama centers on a recently widowed,...
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Rev. Martin Gregory
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1954
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Breaking the Sound Barrier juxtaposes the history of jet aviation with an intensely personal fictional story....
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John Richfield
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1952
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British stage and film star Ralph Richardson stepped behind the cameras for the first and last time to direct Murder on...
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Director, David Preston
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1952
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Partially filmed on location in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Outcast of the Islands is a reasonably faithful adaptation of...
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Capt. Lingard
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1952
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Henry James based his 1881 novella Washington Square on a real-life incident, wherein a young actor of his acquaintance...
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Dr. Austin Sloper
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1949
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Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from...
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Baines
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1948
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Alexei Karenin
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1948
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Produced, directed and scripted by Peter Ustinov (who did not star), Secret Flight was released in Great Britain in 1946, but...
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Prof. Heatherville
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1946
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1944
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In this war drama, set during WWII, an engineer in a Dutch shipyard assists the Nazis with the construction of two new kinds...
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Associate Producer, Jaap van Leyden
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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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Frank Lockwood
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1942
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The semidocumentary war film The Lion Has Wings states its case in broad strokes, juxtaposing images of rampaging...
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Wing Cmdr. Richardson
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1940
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This British spy thriller concerns the theft of valuable aircraft secrets by enemy agents. Laurence Olivier plays a firebrand...
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Charles Hammond
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1939
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This was the first sound production of A.E.W. Mason's classic adventure novel, which was brought to the screen three times in...
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Capt. John Durrance
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1939
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In this British thriller, a barber must steal to fund his wife's addiction to spending money. She uses the cash he took to...
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Will Kobling
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1939
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Filmed in lavish Technicolor and given Tiffany production values by producer Alexander Korda, the British comedy Divorce of...
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Lord Mere
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1938
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Set in England in the early 1900s, South Riding is a political and personal drama about a nearly bankrupt estate owner who...
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Robert Carne
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1938
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Robert Donat stars as Dr. Andrew Manson in this adaptation of A.J. Cronin's best-selling novel. Manson devotes himself to...
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Dr.Denny
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1938
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In this satire of British-American relations, Edward G. Robinson stars as Dan Armstrong, a hard-sell American saleman whose...
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Henry Graham Manningdale
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1937
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H. G. Wells was both the author of the original source -- an essay, rather than an actual novel, concerning mankind's future...
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Rudolph
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1936
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Amazing Quest was the original British release title of the 1937 comedy Romance and Riches (aka Riches and Romance). Making a...
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1936
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As a result of a discussion between a trio of gods over the true worthiness of Earth, a retiring British shop assistant is...
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Col. Winstanley
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1936
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William Ammidon
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1935
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British musical comedy star Jack Hulbert plays an amateur sleuth who takes over for the "real" Bulldog Drummond...
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Morelle
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1935
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In this drama, a prominent playwright and thespian prides himself on his ability to take any woman and turn them into...
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Paul Lebrun
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1934
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Based on the character created by "Sapper" (Herman Cyril McNeile), Return of Bulldog Drummond was a British production...
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Hugh Drummond
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1934
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Definitely no relation to the horror-film series of the same name, the British Friday the 13th is a variation of the "Bridge...
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1933
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The Ghoul was Boris Karloff's first British horror film. Karloff is cast as Egyptologist Professor Morant, who on his...
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1933
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