Istanbul, also released as Istanbul, Keep Your Eyes Open, is an old-fashioned, shallow, unbelievable thriller. Frank Collins...
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Mr. Atkins
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1990
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Adaptation of Barbara Cartland's novel featuring a 17th century adventure romance between an aristocrat and an endangered...
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1989
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Pierce Brosnan stars as adventurer Phineas Fogg in this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic story, in which to win a wager he...
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1989
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1989
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1988
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1988
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Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is an inept international secret agent sent by the U.S. to the island of Ibiza in this...
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1987
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One of the few Greek filmmakers to work substantially in international productions, Nico Mastorakis has primarily been...
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Elias Appleby
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1987
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In this tongue-and-cheek comedy, the Devil and God get together and the horned one bets God that were Adam and Eve to get a...
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1984
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O'Malley (Tom Selleck) is a heavy-drinking, tough biplane pilot flying the skies of China for fun and profit when Eve...
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Bentik
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1983
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This 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic Alice in Wonderland features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as...
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1983
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Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder...
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1982
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The Great Muppet Caper is the second Muppet film and it is considerably more complex than its predecessor, The Muppet Movie,...
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1981
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This caper film stars Martin Sheen as Stephen Booker, an unemployed American architect in London who needs to jump-start his...
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1981
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1980
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Any comedy should be suspect when the lead character, in this case Benjamin Browning, is played both by an actor...
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Bernie
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1980
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This routine espionage drama is based on a novel by Graham Greene about a low-level British informant who is caught in a...
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Doctor Percival
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1979
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When millionaire Vincent Price dies, he leaves a riotous will which amounts to a scavenger hunt, the winner of which receives...
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1979
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Max (Robert Morley) is a wealthy, world-class conoisseur of fine food, who cannot stop himself from eating when the food is...
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Max
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1978
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1976
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1976
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The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen...
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Father Time
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1976
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1974
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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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Sir Arthur Arnold-Jones
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1971
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1970
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This biography of Oliver Cromwell recalls the political and religious struggles of 17th century England. Cromwell (Richard...
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Earl of Manchester
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1970
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This musical biography of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (Torval Maurstad) is based on the play of the same name. Living in...
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Berg
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1970
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A couple tries to hold their relationship together despite the twenty-three year gap in their ages in this romantic...
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1969
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Davey Haggart (John Hurt) wishes to follow his father's footsteps and become a highway robber. He also wishes to avoid his...
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Duke of Argyll
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1969
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A Scotland Yard inspector is called on to investigate a series of unsolved robberies in The Trygon Factor. Inspector...
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Hamlyn
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1969
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Detective Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called on to investigate the activities of his arch enemy Carl Peterson (James Villiers...
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1969
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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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Caesar Smith
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1968
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Vittorio De Sica directs the 1967 episodic sex comedy Sette Volte Donna (Woman Times Seven), consisting of seven short...
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1967
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Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women...
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Lord Swift
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1966
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Colonel Roberts
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1966
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Comical chaos erupts when milquetoast astronaut Peter Mattemore (Jerry Lewis) and his bride-of-convenience and fellow...
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Harold Quonset
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1966
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While his icy wife is away tending to a sick friend, Benedict Boniface (Alec Guinness) has an affair with Marcelle Cot...
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Henri Cotte
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1966
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In A Study in Terror the ever popular Sherlock Holmes and his companion Dr. Watson search for the Victorian serial killerJack...
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Mycroft Holmes
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1966
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Life at the Top is a belated sequel to Room at the Top, John Blaine's "angry young man" British novel that was made into a...
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1965
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The satire in Evelyn Waugh's darkly comic novel The Loved One was originally double-edged. The book was not only an attack on...
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1965
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Capt. Hastings
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1965
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The internationally produced historical epic Genghis Khan sometimes wavers uncertainly between spectacle and self-parody....
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1965
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Ken Annakin's large-canvas comedy Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines is set in 1910. In order to boost...
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Lord Rawnsley
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1965
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After years of enduring movie lampoons of his 1955 crime-caper classic Rififi, director Jules Dassin topped them all with his...
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Cedric Page
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1964
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A British charwoman and her colleagues strike it rich on the stock market when she discovers a wastebasket filled with...
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1964
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Dr.Jacobs
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1964
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This drama follows the nine hours that came before the assassination of Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi by a Hindu radical....
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P. K. Mussadi
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1963
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Set in the title manse, this chilling comedy chronicles the spooky exploits of a Yankee car salesman working in London who...
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Roderick Femm
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1963
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Hector Enderby
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1963
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Dirk Bogarde plays one of those "reluctant spies" so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author,...
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Col. Cunliffe
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1963
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In this generation gap movie of the early 1960s, Sandra Dee is Mollie Michaelson, a teenage rebel enamored with long-haired...
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Pope-Jones
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1963
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This was the last trip in the "road" comedies that Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, and a bevy of female stars that featured...
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The Leader
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1962
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Three losing crooks are featured as Stooge-like misfits (sans slapstick) in this conventional comedy by director...
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Arson Eddie
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1962
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In this biblical epic, the rise of the humble Joseph from hapless slave to prophet and advisor to the Pharoah is chronicled....
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1962
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Director Sidney J. Furie was betwixt and between his Canadian TV work and his theatrical-film prominence vis-a-vis...
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Montgomery
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1962
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Wonderful to Be Young! was released in Britain as The Young Ones. Given the later output of director Sidney J. Furie, one...
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Hamilton Black
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1961
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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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Oscar Wilde
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1960
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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then...
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Robert MacPherson
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1960
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Irving Rapper's film is a dramatization of the Old Testament tale of Joseph, who ascends from slavery to the position of...
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1960
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A man is forced to prove who he really is -- and discovers that it isn't as easy as one might think -- in this drama. Sir...
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Sir Wilfred
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1959
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The two romantic leads in this standard but well-acted political drama renew a famous pairing that began with The King and I...
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Hugh Deverill
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1959
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Robert Morley is cast as Mr. Laffler, a gourmet who is anxious to be admitted into a private dining club called Spirro's....
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1959
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A father discovers that being a good role model for your son isn't always easy -- especially when you're a criminal -- in...
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Judge Crichton
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1958
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This film adaptation of Bernard Shaw's 1903 comedy/drama stars Dirk Bogarde, which might have led some impressionable viewers...
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Sir Ralph Bloomfield-Bonington
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1958
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Kenneth More portrays a British gunsmith who travels to the American West. After winning a rigged poker game, More is...
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Uncle Lucius
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1958
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Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel...
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1956
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Dreuther
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1956
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Sir Walter Scott's medieval take on the "John Alden" story formed the basis of Quentin Durward. Robert Taylor dons armor in...
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Louis XI
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1955
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Horseracing provides the framework of this British drama. The story begins as a former champion jockey Sam Lilley is barred...
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Lord Logan
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1954
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As an actor, British film star Stewart Granger was very handsome, but this is all that is required of him in Beau Brummell....
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George III
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1954
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The Good Die Young is a psychological crime yarn, exploring the motivations of four participants in an armed robbery....
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1954
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W.S. Gilbert
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1953
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Humphrey Bogart stars as one of five disreputable adventurers who are trying to get uranium out of East Africa. Bogart's...
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Peterson
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1953
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This British comedy centers around the game of Cricket. It is set as the British team and their legendary cricket player Sam...
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Alexander Whitehead
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1953
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American opera and musical-comedy soprano Patrice Munsel plays the title role in this filmed biography of famed Australian...
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Oscar Hammerstein
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1953
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The world of provincial British theatre is given a gentle going over in Curtain Up. Short of funds, a small-town repertory...
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Harry
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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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Mr. Almayer
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1952
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After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the...
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Rev. Samuel Sayer
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1951
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Businessman Spencer Tracy is devoted beyond all reason to his son Edward. Tracy lies, cheats, steals, commits arson, and...
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Play Author, Screenwriter
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1949
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In 1948, "The Archers" -- the writing and directing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger -- had completed The Red...
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1949
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1947
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I Live in Grosvenor Square is better known by its American release title, A Yank in London. Anna Neagle, whose husband...
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Duke of Exmoor
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1945
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Having underestimated Hitler in the 1930s, British propaganda specialists spent the early war years insisting they were...
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1942
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Released worldwide by 20th Century Fox, Carol Reed's The Young Mr. Pitt is a static but sincere filmed biography of 19th...
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Charles James Fox
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1942
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Set near the beginning of WW II, this exciting war drama follows a courageous British factory foreman as he makes a...
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French mayor
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1942
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George Bernard Shaw's satiric comedy about wealth and poverty is brought to the screen with wonderful performances by...
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Andrew Undershaft
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1941
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You Will Remember is based on the life of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (born Thomas Barrett in 1864), here played...
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1941
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Filmed in England at Warner Bros.' Teddington Studios facilities, This Was Paris stars American actors (and current British...
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Van Der Stuyl
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1941
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A delightful film that begs to be rediscovered, Return to Yesterday was adapted from Goodness, How Sad, a play by...
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Play Author
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1940
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M.G.M.'s opulent costume drama Marie Antoinette marked a return to the screen after a two-year absence for reigning Queen of...
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Louis XVI
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1938
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