The fifth and final season of Upstairs, Downstairs covers the years 1910 to 1930, bringing the saga of the Bellamy household...
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1975
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The fourth season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place during the war years of 1914 through 1918, a...
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1974
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Emmanuel Holroyd
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1974
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In this taut British horror movie, a lesbian entertains visitors at her lovely English country manor. Unfortunately,...
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1974
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The third season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs sweeps past the Edwardian era to cover the pre-war years...
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1973
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Inasmuch as Season One of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs covered the years 1903 to 1909, logic dictates that...
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1972
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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1972
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The first season of the British drama series Upstairs, Downstairs takes place from November 1903 through June 1909, an era...
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1971
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This satirical fantasy is based upon an Elmer Rice play from 1923. A hard-working office employee is rewarded for his years...
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1969
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While still starring in Bonanza, Lorne Greene took a sabbatical from the Ponderosa to headline this made for TV espionage...
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1969
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In this psychological drama, the daughter of a British barrister is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Her bereaved father...
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1968
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This comedy finds a veteran crook turning to modern computer technology to steal money from various companies. Even before he...
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1968
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Cartoonist Ronald Searle's delightfully diabolical private-school girls are back in action in...
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1966
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This staid British thriller stars John Turner as 18th-century nobleman Sir John Fordyce, whose blissful honeymoon holiday is...
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1965
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England's famed comedy brothers John Boulting and Roy Boulting created this caper about a trio of crooks plotting to retrieve...
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1965
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In this lively British comedy, a newlywed couple's quaint country cottage becomes a nightmare of repairs as they try to fix...
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1964
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In this British comedy, a new nurse comes to replace her predecessor, the town pump, in an English country town. Soon, she...
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1964
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In this youthful drama, based on a true story, a group of boarding school girls who have lost their virginity begin to...
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1964
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This comedy features a 12-step Program for habitual hoods. The recovering criminal takes a job as a department store Santa,...
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1963
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1962
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One's enjoyment of On the Beat rests solely upon one's tolerance of British comedian Norman Wisdom, who can be described as a...
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Sir Ronald Ackroyd
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1962
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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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Sir George Gatling
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1961
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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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1961
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Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John...
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Rev. Edwin Peake
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1960
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Terry-Thomas plays the military-officer head of an amiable gang of amateur British thieves. He is recruited for this task by...
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1960
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In this British comedy set in Saudi Arabia, a gentle British travel-agency clerk decides that it would be a smashing idea to...
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Bossom
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1960
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British comic actor Jimmy Edwards demonstrates his versatility in Bottoms Up by playing a character named Jimmy Edwards....
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Garrick Jones
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1960
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This romp through the comedic world of spy-chase stories starts with Dick Lanchester (David Tomlinson), a less-than-brilliant...
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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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A troubled teen discovers that reform isn't always easy in this drama. The lad is on probation for robbery when he falls in...
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1959
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This is an uneven though occasionally hilarious comedy about a remote British colony and diplomatic blunders. Terry-Thomas as...
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1959
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Set in the 1950s in Britain, this award-winning social comedy by director and co-writer John Boulting features...
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1959
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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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1959
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Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire...
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1959
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In his all too brief life, director Henry Cornelius became the principal standard-bearer of genteel whimsy in British films....
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1958
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Town On Trial! begins with the murder of a good-time girl in a small suburb of London. Scotland Yard inspector John Mills is...
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1957
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The British Brothers in Law is a characteristically enjoyable Boulting-brother farce, again extracting humor out of the...
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1957
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Though his Hollywood career had petered out, Tom Conway continued to star in British films throughout the 1950s. In Last Man...
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1956
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Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present...
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Sir Gregory Upshoot
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1956
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In this detective drama, a biographer researches the death of a heroic pilot who died during a failed test and ends up in...
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1955
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The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the "bouncing bombs" in World War II....
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Official from Ministry of Aircraft
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1955
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Also known as Geordie, the British comedy Wee Geordie was immensely popular worldwide. A slight of frame and puny...
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1955
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Rex Harrison is The Constant Husband in this delightful British comedy. It all begins when amnesia victim Charles Hathaway...
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1955
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1955
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This second entry in the British "Doctor" series once more stars Dirk Bogarde as young medico Simon Sparrow. Securing his...
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1955
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A prim and pious old woman suddenly has her hands full when her devilishly free-spirited uncle dies and bequeaths her his...
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1954
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A "Hobson's Choice," as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's...
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1954
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In this comedy, the routines of two British army barracks are disrupted when they are invaded by a Hollywood film unit while...
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1954
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Though Meet Mr. Lucifer reads rather better than it plays, the film is still good for a few healthy laughs. Stanley Holloway...
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1953
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In this domestic drama, a lonely widower decides that it is finally time to remarry. Although his family is opposed to it,...
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1953
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The Last Page was the original British title for the 1952 murder meller Man Bait. Hollywood's George Brent plays a married...
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Clive
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1952
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A small Scottish island has never paid its mandatory road tax. This brings forth an investigating committee of Parliament...
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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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1951
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1951
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I'll Never Forget You is an updated remake of 1933's Berkeley Square; both films used John L. Balderston's stage play as a...
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1951
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1950
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Passport to Pimlico is one of the most charmingly whimsical Ealing Studios comedies of the late 1940s-early 1950s. As a...
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Mr. Wix
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1949
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In this comedy, after being discharged from the British army, an idealistic officer and war hero attempts to test his theory...
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Williams
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1948
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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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Edward Marshall
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1948
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The "progressive" new British teaching methods of 1948 are sharply contrasted with the tried-and-true methods of the past in...
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Moy-Thompson
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1948
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Taking advantage of Paramount's "frozen funds" in Britain, producer Hal Wallis was able to film much of So Evil My Love in...
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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. Laxton-Jones
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1946
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I See a Dark Stranger manages to be both an absorbing espionage yarn and a slyly amusing send-up of the entire genre....
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Miller
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1946
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This drama was faithfully adapted from a popular play and features many of the original actors. It is the story of how a...
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Malcolm Stritton
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1944
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The Immortal Battalion has a bit of a convoluted history. It started life as a training film, The New Lot, which ran 44...
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Davenport
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1944
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Adapted from the stage hit by J. B. Priestly, When We Are Married is a barbed satire of smug British conservatism. Set in...
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Albert Parker
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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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When the bagpipes play, death will follow in this spooky comedy set in a dank and creepy Scottish castle during WW II. It...
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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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1941
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In this WW II propaganda film, a German doctor, highly praised by his Nazi employers, finds it increasingly difficult to...
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Rabenau
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1941
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In this thriller, a group of stranded passengers are terrified by the weird tales of a stationmaster who tells them of the...
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1941
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The "Scarlet Pimpernel" legend is updated to WW2 in the breathless actioner Pimpernel Smith. Leslie Howard (who also...
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1941
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Based on the Evadne Price-Ken Attiwell stage play, Once a Crook stars Gordon Harker as ex-safecracker Charlie Hopkins....
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1941
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Rex Harrison astonished his fans by donning a Nazi uniform in the British suspenser Night Train (originally titled Night...
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1940
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1937
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Filmed in Paris and along the French Riviera, Dinner at the Ritz afforded David Niven the chance to play his first starring...
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1937
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1936
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The oft-filmed life of Viennese composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is again cinematized in this elaborate but ponderous British...
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1936
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This comedy features radio-artist and music hall comedian Powell who plays a tough Yorkshireman who aspires to be a comedian....
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1935
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In this mystery, a sculptor is convicted of murder after the body of his guardian is discovered. The artist's fiancee...
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1934
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