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1968
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In the fourth episode of the five-part story "The Dominators," the denizens of the peaceful planet Dulkis debate over whether...
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1968
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In the second episode of the five-part story "The Dominators," the warmongering title characters have landed on the...
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1968
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Damn the Defiant! is an 18th-century seafaring drama from director Lewis Gilbert. Alec Guinness plays the stern but...
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1962
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This was the last film for British director Wendy Toye whose special interests were always comedies and fantasies. In this...
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1962
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Baby boomers who may not remember the plot particulars of Walt Disney's Darby O'Gill and the Little People nonetheless retain...
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1959
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Promoted as an in-depth study of the art of mountain climbing, this episode of Walt Disney Presents is actually an extended...
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1959
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Filmed on location in Switzerland, Walt Disney's Third Man on the Mountain was based on Banner in the Sky, a book by James...
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1959
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For some reason, this Hammer Studios war melodrama was singled out for constant ridicule by the Monty Python troupe. The...
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Cyril Beatie
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1958
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"Invisible Man" Peter Brady is disheartened by the news that eminent British scientist Professor Owens (Walter Fitzgerald) is...
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1958
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Inspired in part by David Lean'sThe Sound Barrier, Decision Against Time stars Jack Hawkins as a bold but cautious test...
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Conway
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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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Sir John Dell
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1957
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The literalism of writer-director Richard Brooks serves him well in this meticulously faithful adaptation of the Robert Ruark...
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1957
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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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Lease of Life was the next-to-last film in the relatively short cinema career of actor Robert Donat. Written for the screen...
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The Dean
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1954
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In this newsroom drama, a workaholic editor refuses to take a vacation with his wife. Instead he remains in his office and...
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1954
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Henry Vining
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1953
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Project M7 is the American title for the British The Net. Based on a novel by John Pudney, the film is set in an aviation...
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1953
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Set in 1943, Appointment in London stars Dirk Bogarde as Wing Commander Tim Mason. It is Mason's hope to complete 90 bombing...
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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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This comedy is essentially a prototype of Disney's 1961 film Parent Trap and tells the tale of twin girls, separated after...
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1953
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Sadie (Joan Collins) is marooned on a desert island. Stranded along with Sadie are three men; no, not Gilligan, the Skipper...
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1953
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John Hayter is Samuel Pickwick is this delightful filmization of Dickens' seriocomic novel. Mr. Pickwick is chairman of the...
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1952
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Three generations of a Scottish clan are chronicled in this melodramatic saga. The film starts with the death of a sickly...
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1951
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1951
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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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Squire Trelawney
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1950
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In this drama a power-mad psycho woman vents her frustration by being cruel and abusive to her family. Because she...
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Arthur Russell
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1949
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Based on the infamous Archer-Shee case of 1912, The Winslow Boy features Neil North as the 14-year-old title character....
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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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Businessman Spencer Tracy is devoted beyond all reason to his son Edward. Tracy lies, cheats, steals, commits arson, and...
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1949
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Blanche Fury combined two elements that were surefire moneymakers in postwar Britain: a brooding, Gothic-novel storyline and...
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Simon Fury
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1948
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Adapted from the Graham Greene story The Basement Room, director Carol Reed's The Fallen Idol is told almost completely from...
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1948
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1947
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American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the...
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John Tyndale
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1946
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In this drama, a farmer marries an uptown chorus girl and tries to help her settle down to the simplicity of farm living by...
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Morley
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1945
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The San Demetrio is a British Merchant Marine vessel, traversing the Atlantic shipping channels in early 1940. The ship is...
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Chief Engineer Charles Pollard
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1944
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Erich Kohler (Eric Portman) is a decorated Luftwaffe pilot recruited for a daring propaganda mission in Belgium -- to drop...
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Inspector Milne
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1943
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Few morale-boosting wartime films have retained their power and entertainment value as emphatically as Noël Coward's In Which...
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1942
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The pageantlike This England was designed by the Anglo-American film corporation to boost the morale of the war-besieged...
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1941
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In this crime drama, a private eye is engaged to infiltrate the smugglers that murdered a nightclub owner. ~ Sandra Brennan,...
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1932
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