Bo Svenson plays a bonded courier whose girlfriend Meredith Baxter is kidnapped while the two of them are out on a date. The...
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1975
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The darkly comic and sometimes quite gory Theatre of Blood is a vehicle tailor-made for its star Vincent Price, brilliantly...
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1973
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Zany British comedian Frankie Howerd, who'd previously laid waste to Ancient Rome in Up Pompeii, does same with World War II...
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1972
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Kenner (Jim Brown) arrives in India to seek revenge on the people who killed his business associate. An Indian lad Saji...
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1969
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Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill....
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Henry Hardcastle
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1968
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Created by Alan Melville, the British sitcom The Whitehall Worrier was introduced as "The Mallard Imaginaire," the July 5,...
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Rt. Hon Mervyn Pugh
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1967
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This musical comedy pokes fun at the music industry as it tells of the romantic travails of two popular singers thrust...
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Stan
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1967
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This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the...
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Hatton-Jones
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1966
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No TV or movie producer has yet to resist the temptation of turning Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Through the...
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The Red King
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1966
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The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson...
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Sir Hubert Charles
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1966
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In this adventure, two crooks plan to abscond with the rare, priceless Golden Head of Saint Laszlo. Their plans are thwarted...
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Braithwaite
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1965
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1964
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1964
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1964
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Terrence Rattigan, the playwright who brought us the multicharactered, multistoried Separate Tables, again offers us an...
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1963
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An engrossing suspenser with dashes of comedy, League of Gentlemen is about a daring group of highly trained army men, turned...
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1960
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Long, long, after her days of filmic glory in the 1930s and 1940s, skating star Sonja Henie made her last movie appearance in...
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1958
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Though Merry Andrew is more subdued than earlier Danny Kaye efforts, it's still a lot of fun. Kaye is cast as Andrew Larabee,...
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Dudley Larabee
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1958
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The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to...
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Sir William Beeder
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1958
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1956
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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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1952
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Roderigo
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1952
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1952
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Mistaken identity and underhanded dealings set the stage for this adventure story based on Anthony Hope's classic novel....
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1952
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Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, this remake of the 1934 original finds a wealthy widow (Lana Turner) returning to her...
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1952
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Allegedly based on a Rudyard Kipling novel, this draws most of its inspiration from the 1939 film made of Kipling's narrative...
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1951
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The Desert Fox is a superb filmed biography of German general Erwin Rommel, concentrating on the period between his retreat...
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1951
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In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel...
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Sir Andrew Ffoulkes
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1950
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One of the more palatable of Hollywood's anti-communist tracts of the late 1940s-early 1950s was MGM's The Red Danube....
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1949
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Shakespeare's tragic tale of the rise and fall of ambitious 12th-century Scottish warrior MacBeth has proven irresistible to...
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1948
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On a trip from France to Allied-occupied Berlin, a group of travelers -- a mysterious and very secretive European woman...
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Sterling
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1948
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The third talkie version of Dumas' The Three Musketeers, this splashy MGM adaptation is also the first version in...
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1948
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Like its TV-sitcom counterpart of the 1960s, the original film version of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir was based on the novel by...
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Coombe
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1947
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Douglas Fairbanks Jr. is the title character, a young king exiled by evil conspirators. Forced to live far from his homeland,...
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Pinner
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1947
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Lucille Ball is an American taxi-dancer living in London whose roommate has disappeared. The missing girl had left to answer...
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1947
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They said it couldn't be done, but they did it: Kathleen Winsor's "notorious", bestselling bodice-ripper Forever Amber...
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Sir Thomas Dudley
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1947
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Also known as Stairway to Heaven, A Matter of Life and Death is the remarkable British fantasy film that became the surprise...
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1946
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1946
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The 80-star cast of Forever and a Day would certainly not have been feasible had not most of the actors and production people...
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1943
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Scripted by Irwin Shaw from a story by C. S. Forester (of "Captain Horatio Hornblower" fame), Commandos Strike at Dawn is a...
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Robert Bowen
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1942
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In the RKO programmer You Can't Fool Your Wife, Lucille Ball gets mixed up in a storyline that would have been right at home...
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Battincourt
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1940
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A dedicated nurse in a British hospital takes a nervous rookie under her wing. When the new nurse messes up and causes a...
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Dr. Caley
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1940
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Bad Lands is a remake of John Ford's The Lost Patrol, with the locale changed from the Mesopotamian to the Arizona desert....
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1939
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A remake of Paul Leni's The Last Warning (1929), this "Crime Club" series entry once again presents the spectacle of an actor...
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1939
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Though Rudyard Kipling's poem Gunga Din makes a swell recital piece, it cannot be said to have much of a plot. It's simply a...
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1939
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Japanese detective Mr. Moto finds himself hip-deep in international espionage in this adventure tale. In Port Said, a pair of...
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1939
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Many of the "preparedness" films of the years just prior to World War II sidestepped censorship by depicting past outrages of...
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1939
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In this romantic comedy a millionaire must somehow dissuade his daughter from marrying a money-grubbing social-climber. In...
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1938
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"Discovered" for American films by Cecil B. DeMille, popular Hungarian actress Franceska Gaal made the last of her three...
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1938
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A Yank at Oxford was filmed in England at MGM's "sister studio", Elstree. Robert Taylor plays Lee Sheridan, an arrogant young...
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1938
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The 1937 Thirteenth Chair was the third film version of the 1919 stage melodrama by Bayard Veiller. Dame Mae Whitty dominates...
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1937
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In this romantic adventure, a wealthy Arab sheik has a reputation for breeding some of the fastest horses in the world....
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1937
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In this Australian western, a rancher's daughter goes out on a long-distance lark unaware that her father is facing...
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Reginald Mannister
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1937
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In this British drama, based on a popular play, a wealthy young Jew goes to a weekend house party and finds himself...
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1934
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