The iniquities of circumstantial evidence are explored in the compact crime drama Eight O'Clock Walk. Because he was the last...
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1954
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Slim Callaghan, a fictional British private detective in the American "hard boiled" mode, was the central character in...
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1954
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In this bright British comedy, we meet Capt. Henry St. James (Alec Guinness) as he stands before a firing squad and then...
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1953
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In this comedy, a diamond merchant's secretary gets fired by her new boss for being too efficient. She ends up kidnapped by...
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1953
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Jack Hawkins plays a former British army officer who is surprised in his home one evening by a burglar. His surprise is...
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1953
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A tired-looking Tom Conway plays a private detective who is framed for murder. Eva Bartok, the head of a smuggling, has...
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1953
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In this crime drama, an avaricious, successful gambler is not content with fabulous wealth and aspires to become a member of...
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1952
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In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freaky accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an...
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1952
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In this comedy, a bookie wins a boutique and decides to modernize the joint by devising, new, more effective programs for...
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1951
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Star-in-the-making Laurence Harvey receives third billing in the British There is Another Sun. Set in the rarefied world of...
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1951
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Portrait of Clare is largely offered in flashback. The title character, played by Margaret Johnston, spends 10 years in...
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1950
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A man recently gone AWOL from the Army (Derek Farr) is arrested in a store robbery that occurred while he was shopping. With...
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1949
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In postwar London, Chicago-raised fashion reporter Linda Medbury, working for a British newspaper, runs across a crime story...
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1948
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In this British murder mystery, Scotland Yard investigates a puzzling killing of an Italian count. The Yard assigns a...
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1940
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In this comedy, two van drivers are tricked by a fellow who tells them that they are working with the law when in fact, they...
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1939
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Alfred Hitchcock directed this disappointing misfire, memorable solely for the fact is that it is the final film from...
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1939
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As with any film featuring the outrageously operatic antics of early horror star Tod Slaughter, this slow, stagebound...
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1939
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Call It a Day is a Warner Bros. attempt at British light comedy. Nothing much happens of any consequence in this story of a...
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1937
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Buck Jones both produced and starred in this offbeat Western also featuring silent screen icon Louise Brooks. Hoping to turn...
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1937
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Adapted from an 1863 melodrama, The Ticket of Leave Man stars Tod Slaughter as Tiger Dalton, a notorious criminal mastermind...
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1937
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In this comedy, a photographer is placed in charge of the village coffer. He takes the cash and hides it in an old dresser....
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1937
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In 1882, Mark Twain published a delightful fairy tale "for young people of all ages"; 45 years later, Warner Bros., inspired...
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1937
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Novelist Ursula Parrott's biggest best-seller was 1928's Ex-Wife; less successful was her subsequent book Brilliant Marriage,...
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1936
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In this musical comedy, a pacifistic song-and-dance man is compelled to don a military uniform for one of his acts. Before...
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1936
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Suzy is the film in which Cary Grant, overcome by the beauty and vivacity of Jean Harlow, sings her a love ballad! This...
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1936
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G.K. Chesterton's crime-solving cleric Father Brown was first brought to the screen in 1934, in the corpulent form of...
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1935
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1935
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The Holy Wars are given the usual overblown Cecil B. DeMille treatment in The Crusades. It all begins in the 12th-century AD,...
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1935
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This big-budget 1936 RKO Studios picture lost money, perhaps due to a cool box-office reception to the idea of leading lady...
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1935
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Shirley Grey plays The Girl Who Came Back in this Chesterfield Pictures "special". Grey is cast as Gilda, a former gun moll...
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1935
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1935
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It's "Never the twain shall meet" time again, this time in London's Limehouse district. George Raft stars as Harry Young, a...
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1934
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A few unique touches aside -- notably the opening costume-party scene, in which the revellers are dressed as insects -- Rip...
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1934
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1934
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1934
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Student Tour looks like an MGM musical two-reeler that was expanded to feature length as it went along. Charles Butterworth...
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1934
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MGM was seldom content to just film a mystery; the story had to be dressed up in some elaborate, unorthodox fashion. Mystery...
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1934
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Horror film icon James Whale directed this well-detailed thriller about a man questioning his wife's honesty after a friend...
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1933
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In this campy adventure, a man raised in the mysterious African jungles by a pride of lions is captured by circus people and...
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John C. Knolls
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1933
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R.C. Sherriff's forceful drama about men at war, a long running hit in London as well as New York, is brought to the screen...
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1930
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