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1981
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An old-fashioned drama about old-fashioned values in an old-fashioned town called Shillingbury, this conventional film may...
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Reggie
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1980
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Jackie Collins screenplay falters in this so-so melodrama about a soccer player and his road to fame and fortune. Rod Turner...
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Sam Turner
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1979
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The British "Confessions" film series was reminiscent of the "Carry On" series, albeit far, far dirtier. Many fans consider...
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1974
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10 Rillington Place is the true story of British mass murderer John Reginald Christie, played with chilling "normality" by...
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1971
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1971
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Filmed on location in the Philippines Robert Aldrich's Too Late the Hero is set in the last months of World War II....
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1970
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A spaceman -- with a raygun -- for hire takes on a crooked land baron in this drama that moves Western themes into outer...
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1969
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1968
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This film is taken from the popular British television series. Alf Garnett (Warren Mitchell) is a middle-aged bigot who loves...
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1968
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An experiment gone wrong gives new meaning to the saying "you can't get there from here" in this sci-fi drama. Professor...
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1967
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1967
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At a cancer research lab off the coast of Ireland, a group of scientists dies under mysterious circumstances. Before anyone...
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Constable Harris
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1966
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1964
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In this thriller, an insurance detective looks into a car crash and discovers that it is part of a scam. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1964
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1963
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In this British children's movie, a circus owner gives his children's pet pony to pay for the rental of the farmer's field....
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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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1961
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1961
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In this romantic adventure set in Italy around 1815, a courageous soldier endeavors to find a hidden treasure on the island...
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Albert
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1961
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A short ghost story, this film is better than it looks at first glance. When Jean, the patient wife of novelist David,...
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1960
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In this British comedy, an amiable demolitions expert finds himself entangled with a band of criminals masquerading as...
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1960
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Adapted from the book Lake of Darkness, the story concerns an innocent young man who tries his hand at gambling. After...
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1960
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This zany film marks the screen debut of Britain's popular comedy troupe, The Crazy Gang. The story begins as the gang are...
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1960
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When an ex-con changes his name and tries to make a new start, everything seems to conspire against him in his efforts....
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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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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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In the 17th century, the arrogant, cruel Hugo Baskerville (David Oxley) brutalizes a servant and prepares to turn the man's...
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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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1959
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An abused boy stands accused of killing his drunken father in this British drama. Fortunately two compassionate neighbors...
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1959
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Up the Creek is a mirthsome remake of the classic Will Hay comedy Oh, Mr. Porter (1937). Whereas the Hay film concerned an...
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1958
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1958
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The moral dilemma of a reluctant American spy is chronicled in this psychological drama. He becomes an agent after he,...
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1958
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If official documentation didn't exist, we'd never believe a fantastic yarn like I Was Monty's Double. Actor...
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1958
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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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1958
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This hastily assembled sequel to the popular British service farce Up the Creek finds David Tomlinson returning in the role...
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1958
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1958
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1957
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The grass is always greener.... In this British comedy, two drunken comrades find out the truth of that saying when they...
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1957
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In this slapstick British comedy, a proud man from a family of seamen is so prone to seasickness that even the slightest...
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1957
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The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life...
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1957
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The Yangtse Incident is the saga of the Amethyst, a British vessel left stranded in China during the Communist takeover. The...
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1957
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What if the Dauphin of France managed to escape the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution? That's the premise of the...
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1957
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In this comedy, the lives of two families get turned topsy-turvy when their respective young sons win a large football pool....
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1956
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Faith Domergue is the sweet-faced villainess in the murky British melodrama Spin a Dark Web. Domergue plays Bella Francesi,...
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1956
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One of the many inspirational true stories told about WWII, this is the story of Douglas Bader, an undauntable character who...
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1956
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Jack Hawkins is starred as a gruff, intensely dedicated Scotland Yard superintendent. Working as much by instinct as through...
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Police Constable
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1956
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1956
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In this British crime drama, an escaped killer heads for the French coast to find a mysterious treasure reportedly buried in...
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1956
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In this British parody of an American western, an Englishman travels to Canada to run the ranch he recently inherited from...
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1956
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In this thriller, a man discovers that the bank notes he has just received actually belong to someone else--a man who is...
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1956
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Jacqueline, played by Jacqueline Ryan, is the daughter of a Belfast shipyard worker Mike McNeil, played by John Gregson. The...
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1956
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In this corny British comedy, a Cockney family inherits a rundown Devon farm. Not everyone is pleased by the prospect of...
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1955
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In this thriller, a murderous writer kills his blackmailer and his ex-lover and then tries to convince his fiancee to help...
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1955
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A carnival freak show provides the setting for this murder mystery. The trouble begins when the "Starving Man" the world's...
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1955
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This fourth film version of A.E.W. Mason's adventure yarn The Four Feathers relies heavily on stock footage from the more...
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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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A rocket crash-lands in England after a flight of more than 57 hours into deep space. The design of Professor Bernard...
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1955
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In this romantic comedy, a womanizing uncle tells the story of his good-hearted but fickle niece, whose tendency to always...
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1955
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1955
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In this sentimental comedy, Carol Reed tries for a bit of neo-realist whimsy that takes place in the London slums of...
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1955
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British actor Kenneth More's screen charisma helps smooth over the rough spots of Raising a Riot. More plays Tony, a young...
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1955
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A Richard Armstrong novel was the source for the British sea melodrama Passage Home. Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard...
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1955
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1955
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A newspaper journalist and his irritating assistant team up with the cops to solve a perplexing murder in this comical...
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1954
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In this drama, an ex-safecracker is released from prison and after working as a cabby and then resisting the temptations of...
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1954
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78-year-old British leading actor Finlay Currie appears in this unexpected latter-day vehicle. He plays a retired factory...
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1954
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Lantern-jawed British comedian Frankie Howerd, best known to American TV fans as the star of the raucous historical satire...
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1954
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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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1954
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Real-life husband and wife John McCallum and Googie Withers top the cast of Devil on Horseback. A racetrack drama, the film...
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1954
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Alec Guinness stars as Father Brown, full-time priest and part-time sleuth, in this comic mystery based on the character...
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1954
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Filmed in England, They Who Dare is undeservedly the least-known of director Lewis Milestone's sound films. Set in the...
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1954
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Anna Neagle is so overpoweringly good in Lilacs in the Spring (aka Let's Make Up!) that a times it's easy to forget that her...
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1954
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Released in the U.S. as Terror on a Train, the British MGM production Time Bomb is brief, to the point, and so suspenseful it...
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1953
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In this seagoing military drama set in World War II, Lt. Comdr. Ericson (Jack Hawkins) is made captain of a British corvette,...
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1953
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In this suspenser, set upon the campus of a women's college, a strangler has come to call. Death ensues. The music...
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1953
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1953
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The Steel Key is a little-known British melodrama with some potent talent involved, including actors Terence Morgan and...
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1953
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1953
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1952
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1952
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Derby Day is a typically British omnibus feature, delineating the fates of several different people during a single day at...
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1952
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1952
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In this drama, a man journeys to the posh British estate of a friend for a weekend soiree. There he learns that the real...
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1952
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"Angels One Five" is the cognomen bestowed upon a group of WW II British fighter pilots. The squadron leader is Tiger Small...
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1952
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In this melodrama, a Welsh storekeeper secretly dreams of becoming a songwriter. His dream comes true when he wins a contest...
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1952
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1952
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Basil Radford is cast superbly to type as The Galloping Major. The story concerns the efforts by retired Major Arthur Hill...
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1951
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Long before it concentrated on its series of Edgar Wallace mysteries, the British Merton Park studios cut its teeth on taut...
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1951
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High Treason is a British espionage thriller filmed in the style of such American "docudramas" as The House on 92nd Street....
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1951
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Cheer the Brave is a minor British domestic comedy, good for a few laughs during its scant 62 minutes. Elsie Randolph plays...
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1951
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Bonar Colleano, who spent the war years playing featured roles in British films as likeably cocky Americans, heads the cast...
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1951
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The Dark Man is a killer who opens the film by committing double murder. This is witnessed by young aspiring actress Molly...
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1951
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This comedy is most notable for marking the feature film debut of enormously popular comedic actor Peter Sellers. The story...
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1951
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Barge worker Gordon Harker signs onto a suspicous-looking vessel as a crew member. Harker knows full well that the ship is...
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1950
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The Clouded Yellow stars Trevor Howard as David Sommers, a former member of the British Secret Service. After the war,...
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1950
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1950
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This gentle Ealing Studios comedy features young William Fox as a mischievous English lad. A goodly portion of the film shows...
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1950
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Filmed on location in a British industrial town, Chance of a Lifetime is a trenchantly amusing satire of labor-management...
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1950
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The Walt Disney production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic novel Treasure Island is one of the company's best...
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1950
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Originally filmed in 1934 (see entry 84314), R.C. Sheriff's venerable stage comedy Badger's Green was given another screen...
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1949
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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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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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The Gay Lady is better known by its British title, Trottie True. Jean Kent stars as Trottie, a turn-of-the-century British...
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1949
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Saints and Sinners is set in a remote Irish village where "appearances" take precedence over everything else. Having served...
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1949
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British novelist Erik Linklater was well-represented in 1949, with adaptations of two of his best novels hitting the screen...
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1949
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The all-purpose title Floodtide was trotted out once more for this 1949 British drama. Gordon Jackson plays a lowly shipyard...
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1949
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Stop Press Girl is admittedly a one-joke film, though that joke is a good one. Sally Ann Howes plays a winsome British lass...
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1949
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In this melodrama, a London girl falls happily in love with a Frenchman and immediately goes blind. Convinced her affliction...
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1949
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Like such later American programmers as Rock Around the Clock, the British Trouble in the Air is essentially an excuse to...
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1948
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Portrait from Life is an over-orchestrated "guilty pleasure" from the glory days of British romance pictures. A German...
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1948
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In this crime drama, a man learns that he has six months left to live, and before he dies he decides to get revenge against...
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1948
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Future Hammer horror director Terence Fisher filmed this lackluster wartime romance. Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck...
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1948
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Mother Bouthall urges her youngest daughter to leave home after realizing that by working to keep her children at home with...
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1948
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Long before he became the Disney Studios' favorite stuffy Brit, David Tomlinson enjoyed top billing in the 1948 comedy Love...
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1948
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John Mills stars as Commander Scott, the leader of the ill-fated and famed 1911 expedition to be the first to discover the...
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1948
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The Captive Heart is set in a German POW camp for British soldiers. Michael Redgrave plays a Czech patriot, who has assumed...
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1947
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