Part One of this four-hour TV movie adaptation of Peter Evans' biography suggested that Greek shipping magnate Aristotle...
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1988
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Originally made for British television, Dunroamin' Rising is graced with a topnotch veteran cast and a solid premise. The...
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1988
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1985
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1984
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Based on a Sherlock Holmes story, the Sign of Four is about an ex-convict out to wreak vengeance on an army major...
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Maj. John Sholto
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1983
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Back in the early 1950s, cartoonist/satirist Ronald Searle dreamed up the "Belles of St. Trinians," a gaggle of sweet-faced,...
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1980
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This British Christmas special starring the old time radio and movie character Worzel Gummidge finds the lovable,...
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1980
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This made-for-British-television adaptation of one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories features Christopher Plummer as the...
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1977
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Norfolk
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1977
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Peter Sellers stays busy in this comedy playing Hitler, Prince Kyoto, and four others in this tale of an anti-Nazi French...
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1975
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Comic actor Gene Wilder made his debut as a writer and director in this period comedy in which he plays Sigerson Holmes, the...
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1975
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This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his...
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1972
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Though not as widely known as Hammer's popular Dracula and Frankenstein series, this is one of the studio's more stylish and...
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1971
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A great deal of director Al Viola's version of this film was pruned away for its general release. The missing portions are...
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1971
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An embittered spinster rains vengeance upon her wealthy family after a beautiful niece steals her handsome protégé in this...
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1971
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Anthropologist Dr. Brockton (Joan Crawford) believes she has discovered the missing link in this flat science fiction drama....
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1970
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1970
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The television host of a popular cooking show, Robert Danvers (Peter Sellers) has a real penchant for women. After one...
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1970
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The Colleague
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1970
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1969
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Herbie Hassler (Telly Savalas) and Marty Miller (Warren Oates) are American gangsters who plan to rob an opulent aristocratic...
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1969
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The key image of this film occurs early on, as a hideous monster removes its face, only to reveal itself as Baron...
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Inspector Frisch
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1969
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Gen. Jowett
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1969
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Oh! What a Lovely War is an every-man-for-himself adaptation of Charles Chilton's 1963 play, as staged in London by...
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1969
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In a disturbing movie about psychosis, Hayley Mills plays Susan Harper, a young student who tries to help a rich, emotionally...
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1968
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1966
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Years before the story proper in The Wrong Box gets under way, a "tontine" is drawn up on behalf several young British boys....
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1966
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Steed infiltrates a school for butlers in order to unmask a traitor. While he is being drilled in the finer points of silent...
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1966
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Christopher Lee dons the evil Count's cloak once again after an 8-year hiatus for this first "authentic" sequel to Hammer...
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1966
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This gently farcical British comedy stars Hayley Mills and Hywel Bennett as Jenny and Arthur, a young couple who have just...
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1966
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Dr. Hertz
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1965
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In this British wartime comedy, a group of captured con-artists must choose between jail terms or military service....
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1965
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England's famed comedy brothers John Boulting and Roy Boulting created this caper about a trio of crooks plotting to retrieve...
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1965
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Bernard Lee plays an irresponsible British warrant officer who loses his post in Warsaw. Lee is reassigned to a navy...
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Cmdr. Winters
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1964
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This obscure little science fiction/horror film (a British-American co-production) stars Willard Parker as a heroic astronaut...
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1964
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Holmes and Watson are again after Moriarty but this time Scotland Yard for some reason does not even suspect that he's the...
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1963
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Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of...
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1963
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1962
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This Gothic melodrama from Hammer Studios is in color, but the plot is basically the same as the two previous efforts....
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Lattimer
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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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One in the series of St. Trinian's off-beat, irreverent comedies that began in 1953 and continued strong through the '60s,...
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Butters
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1961
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It's probably no surprise that Invasion Quartet has four leading actors; what might be surprising, especially to the unwary...
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1961
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Any movie with a title like Petticoat Pirates would be hard to dislike--and equally hard to believe. Anticipating the...
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1961
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Flush on the heels of their success with the comedy I'm All Right Jack, the twin Boulting brothers (Roy, director and John...
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1960
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1960
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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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Colonel Bellingham
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1959
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Don't Panic Chaps! is one of the least distinguished films in a run of 1950s British comedies set during World War II. This...
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Brown
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1959
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In comfortable dotage, baronet Humphery Tavistock (Laurence Harvey) recalls a lifetime of romantic entanglements to his...
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1958
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In this comedy, two spinsters find their holiday in a rented cabin interrupted when a police detective appears looking for...
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1958
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1958
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Margaret Leighton stars as a novelist who draws inspiration for her characters from the people around her. While working on a...
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1957
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In this comedy, a pair of newlywed workers at an ad agency find themselves unable to honeymoon when she is suddenly assigned...
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1957
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The Birthday Present is a bitter half-hour anecdote stretched to 100 minutes. Tony Britton plays a British toy salesman who...
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1957
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The Boulting Brothers enjoyed one of their biggest box-office successes of the 1950s with the wry service comedy Private's...
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1956
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1956
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Writer/artist Roland Searle's diabolical "belles" of St. Trinian's Girls School return in this raucous British comedy....
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1956
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Already a popular TV comedian in 1956, Benny Hill heads the cast of the zany comedy-mystery Who Done It? Eschewing his usual...
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1956
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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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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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Based on a novel by Dorothy Whipple, the British They Were Sisters is not so far removed from the standard Hollywood plot of...
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1945
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In this British costume musical, Carol Raye plays Empress Maria, a young woman of noble blood who has fallen in love with...
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1945
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A proud but aging WW I war-horse is deeply offended when his offer to lead during WW II is rejected by the government that...
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1944
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Released in England as Gentleman of Venture, It Happened to One Man was produced in England with "frozen funds" accumulated...
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1941
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In this suspense film, a tormented young man plots his revenge against his abuser. He decides that he will murder the fellow...
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Frazier
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1940
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In this British WW II era espionage film a Nazi spy purloins a secret cartridge in Paris and must make it back to Germany....
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Max Von Reimer
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1940
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1939
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Charles Robert Dumas' short story "Lone Wolves" was the source for the pre-WWII British espionager Secret Journey. The...
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Max Von Raugwitz
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1939
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In this politically oriented sci-fi film, a star's collision with the moon causes a British village to be shot into space....
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1935
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