A trilogy of short stories based on true Scotland Yard cases entitled "The Lady's Companion," "The Telephone" and "The...
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1951
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This unsparing, brutal look at the British criminal underbelly stars Richard Attenborough as Pinkie Brown, a pock-marked gang...
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1947
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1947
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Holiday Camp was a British comedy that served the same purpose as Hollywood's The Egg and I--to act as the launching pad for...
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1947
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A novel by Francis Brett Young and its theatrical adaptation by John Perry were the sources for the even-keeled melodrama A...
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1947
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Set in early 19th-century Ireland, this fact-based drama chronicles the peasant uprising of peasants who finally tire of the...
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1947
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London Town was painstakingly planned as a huge box-office smash--even unto hiring several Hollywood leading lights to work...
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1946
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In this musical comedy, two idealistic bit players decide to rewrite a movie script in order to make it suit their values....
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Screen Story
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1945
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This domestic melodrama chronicles three generations of a family of music-hall owners. The place was founded by two stage...
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1945
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British stage star Jessie Matthews, who lit up the silver screen in England during the '30s, returned to the screen for her...
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Charles Lacey
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1944
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No relation to the 1970 box-office blockbuster of the same name, the 1944 British film Love Story was originally released in...
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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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Alec Harvey
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1944
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Screenwriter
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1944
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After several months' heavy war duty, the crew of the British submarine Sea Tiger is enjoying a much-deserved leave, when...
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CPO Coxswain Dicky Dabbs
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1943
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1943
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Toothy, ukelele-plucking British music hall favorite George Formby is at it again in Bell-Bottom George. From the title,...
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1943
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Beneath the gay billows of the big-top seethes a veritable stewpot of illicit romance, false friends, rivalry and murder in...
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Screenwriter
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1943
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Released in America as Haunted Honeymoon, this droll British comedy-mystery stars Hollywood's Robert Montgomery as Dorothy L....
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1940
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A London jeweler who fences stolen goods so that he too might become wealthy and therefore respectable, learns the value of...
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1940
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In this wartime comedy, a garage owner, and his pal, a ventriloquist enlist and head for France where they are soon captured...
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Screenwriter
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1940
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In this melodrama, a performing crack-shot and a blues singer fall in love. When he abandons her, his brother, the target in...
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1939
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Director Roy William Neill, best known for his work on Universal's Sherlock Holmes series of the 1940s, occasionally made...
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Screenwriter
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1939
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Long after the company went out of business in the US, Grand National Pictures thrived in England, turning out such...
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1939
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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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1939
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In this comedy, a battleship captain has a large party to celebrate their next voyage and is dismayed to find that two...
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1939
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In this British comedy, a wealthy young man desperately wants to impress his girl friend's powerful father and so convinces...
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1938
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In this comedy, a meek, mild-mannered movie lover travels to Boulogne and ends up entangled in a great adventure that begins...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this British crime drama an argument over a new anaesthetic results in the murder of a hospital doctor. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1938
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In this British farce, a soldier invents a tank supercharger that he is most eager to try. When the Germans hear about the...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this crime drama, a clever detective and his trusty assistant look into the case of a woman accused of stealing. The...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this British comedy, two street performers find themselves involved with a woman arrested for being a jewel thief. To...
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Screenwriter
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1938
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In this comedy, a wealthy heir is shamed by his fiancee at a fancy party and ends up taking off to the bad side of town....
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1937
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This comedy chronicles a long night in which a young couple staying in an isolated cottage find that all their clothing has...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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A gasoline substitute in tablet form is produced by a deranged scientist and advocated by a fairground barker. ~ Rovi...
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Director, Screenwriter
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1937
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In this comedy, a plucky woman visiting the south of France attempts to catch herself a movie star. To help her, she cons a...
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Director
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1937
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In this comedy, a private detective earns his license via a correspondence course and then sets off to pursue a ring of...
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Screenwriter
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1937
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In this comedy, a philandering playboy tires of the fast lane and decides to marry his current girl friend. At the...
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1936
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The port of Southampton provides the locale for a series of escapades of British sailors on a 6 hour leave. ~ Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1936
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A robbery committed by gambler Fitzgerald is claimed by his friend Banks while the two are stationed at an African outpost....
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1936
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Having a great deal in common with the plots of later film noir classics, Crown Vs. Stevens was one of five films that...
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1936
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Hay Petrie ingests the scenery as the demonic, hunchbacked Mr. Quilp in this 1935 British adaptation of Dickens' The Old...
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1935
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Will Hay heads a cast of nearly 40 popular British variety artists in Radio Parade of 1935. The magnificent supercilious Mr....
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Screen Story
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1935
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1935
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His Hollywood career a thing of the past, director Herbert Brenon returned to his native England in 1934, where he continued...
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1935
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In this musical, set in the mythical country of Ruritania, a princess finds herself exiled by revolutionaries before she can...
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1935
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1935
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Little more than a glorified "quota quickie," On the Air showcases the talents of 14 popular radio and music-hall acts. The...
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Reggie
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1934
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In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when...
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1934
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1933
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In this comedy, three Englishmen have many zany adventures while floating down the Thames in a boat. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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Screenwriter
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1933
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In this romantic comedy, a shop clerk meets an artist and falls in love with him. She poses as a movie star to get him to...
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1933
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In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted,...
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1933
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In this comedy, a quiet bank clerk inherits a fortune, quits his job, and tries to become a major theatrical producer. He...
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1933
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In this musical romance, father and daughter con-artists prepare to go their separate ways when she learns that daddy tried...
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Screenwriter
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1932
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During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the...
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1931
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In this drama, a restaurant owner moonlights as a blackmailer to beef up his earnings. The trouble begins when he is found...
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1931
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A literal adaptation of the popular stage play by Ian Hay and Stephen King-Hall, specialists both in maritime comedies,...
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1930
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