Though she always played coy about the fact in interviews, Nora Ephron's novel Heartburn is a thinly disguised "à clef"...
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1986
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This documentary video looks at the life of actress Ingrid Bergman. Clips from her movies, home life and interviews are all...
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1985
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Fanny Hill (Lisa Raines) is a buxom country maiden who arrives in the big city and quickly begins an affair with the scion of...
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1983
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In The Toy, director Richard Donner and screenwriter Carol Sobieski update the 1976 Pierre Richard farce Le Jouet as a...
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Barkley
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1982
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In this drama, adapted from a W. Somerset Maugham novel, a philandering wife is accused of killing her lover. ~ Sandra...
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1982
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Club Member
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1981
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An episode of the television series, with Buck, Wilma, Hawk, and the crew plunged into strange surroundings because of a...
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1981
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More formally known as Father Damien: The Leper Priest, this made-for-TV biopic stars a heavily-wigged Ken Howard in the...
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1980
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In the first episode of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) climb aboard the legendary...
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1980
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In the conclusion of a two-part story, Laverne (Penny Marshall) and Shirley (Cindy Williams) are still trying to solve a...
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1980
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In this mild sequel to the 1977 appearance of George Burns as God, the Heavenly Father shows up again, this time to talk to...
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1980
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In this film, the mysterious Kira (Olivia Newton-John) appears to assist and inspire a young artist, Sonny Malone...
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1980
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Comedian Marty Feldman directed and co-wrote this satire of the less-scrupulous side of organized religion. Brother Ambrose...
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Abbot Thelonius
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1980
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In this children's movie, a single executive enjoys her life on the fast track, but when she is talked into becoming a den...
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1980
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The Rebels was the second "Operation Prime Time" miniseries to be based on author John Jakes' Kent Family Chronicles (the...
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1979
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This feature-length movie is a re-edited version of the first few episodes of the TV series. The story line concerns a...
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1979
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1979
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The religious conversion of British actress Joan Winmill is chronicled in this bio-pic. Told via flashback her life up until...
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Lord Home
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1978
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In Part Three of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, the survivors of the war between the Cylons and Mankind have been...
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1978
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In Part Two of Battlestar Galactica's pilot episode, Galactica's Commander Adama (Lorne Greene) has managed to escape the...
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1978
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Frank Willard's 1927 stage play The Cat and the Canary was filmed several times before this 1978 version saw the light of...
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1978
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With only an ancient medallion to guide him, a British explorer launches an adventure-packed expedition to a mysterious lost...
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1976
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Made for television, The Great Houdinis tells the life story of famed American illusionist/escape-artist Harry Houdini and...
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1976
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1972
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1972
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A team of anthropologists travel to New Guinea in search of the missing link in this routine adventure tale. The expedition...
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1970
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This chilling mystery begins when Lucy Dawson (Flora Robson) is found strangled in her apartment. Her nephew Tim...
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Mr. Copsey
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1970
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1969
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Ritual of Evil was a sequel to the earlier TV movie Fear No Evil; both were pilots for a never-realized Universal series,...
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1969
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This zany British comedy finds a homeless hobo (Ringo Starr) being adopted by the world's richest man, Sir Guy Grand...
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1969
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Made for television, Run a Crooked Mile is an kaleidoscopic espionager filmed in Britain. Louis Jourdan plays a schoolteacher...
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1969
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Ben Hecht's reminiscences from his youth as a cub reporter in 1910 Chicago makes an uneasy transition to the screen in this...
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1969
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In this detective drama, a struggling private detective is hired to protect a millionaire's mistress. After repeated...
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Billings Browne
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1968
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Cliff Robertson essays a dual role in the made-for-TV Sunshine Patriot. He portrays a top secret agent as well as an American...
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1968
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Two Yankee spies team up with British intelligence to stop the beautiful but deadly Su-Muru, a woman with eyes literally on...
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Col. Baisbrook
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1967
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Powerful but gullible German industrialist Otto Kelmann (Wilfred Hyde-White) is on the verge of handing over his munitions...
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1967
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Horace Quilby (Michael Bentine) is a sandwich-board advertising man who gets a tour of London and sees some of the city's...
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1966
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Harold Blount
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1966
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Arthur Fairbrother
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1966
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This James Bond parody brings a new sort of jet-set secret agent to the screen -- one who hates flying, is afraid to shoot...
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Chief
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1966
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You Must be Joking? draws its laughs from an Army endurance test. Over a 48-hour period, five officers in the British...
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1965
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The third of many film and TV adaptations of the popular Agatha Christie novel And Then There Were None (Ten Little Indians...
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1965
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Politics and sports clash in this occasionally funny spoof centered around a downed U2 pilot and an extravagant oil sheik....
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1964
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Col. Pickering
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1964
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Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone episode from his own short story "Song for a Lady."...
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McKenzie
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1963
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Pretty Aliki Vouyouklaki had starred in several successful Greek films, notably the previous year's I Aliki Sto Naftiko, when...
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1963
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This comedy features a 12-step Program for habitual hoods. The recovering criminal takes a job as a department store Santa,...
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1963
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Lord Glenarvan
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1962
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Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running...
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1961
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Dean Martin plays an easygoing Southern politician, long on charm but short on brains. Susan Hayward, a poor girl with rich...
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Sylvester Marin
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1961
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Danny Kaye headlines this lively WW II-era comedy. He plays a foot soldier who with his fellow troop is preparing for D-day....
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1961
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This scattered, slightly anarchic and uneven comedy stars the inimitable Terry-Thomas as Reggie Blake, a writer whose books...
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1961
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Let's Make Love is a breezy comedy about an off Broadway musical production. Jean-Marc Clement (Yves Montand) is the richest...
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John Wales
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1960
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Soapy Stevens
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1960
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The "Carry On" gang take up residence in the men's ward of a British hospital in this wildly funny and wildly crude farce....
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1959
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Northwest Frontier was the original British title for Flame Over India. When the Moslems attack a British fortress in...
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1959
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A musical and comedic bit of fluff without any other pretensions, The Lady Is a Square plays off the popularity of...
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1959
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This film is based on the popular British TV series Emergency Ward 10. A surgeon arrives from the U.S. with a new heart-lung...
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1959
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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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Hubert Foxley
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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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Wonderful Things was one of two Frankie Vaughan vehicles produced in the late 1950s by actress Anna Neagle. The popular...
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1958
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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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Originally released in Britain as The Circle, The Vicious Circle was based on the BBC TV series The Brass Candlestick....
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1957
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The British That Woman Opposite is better known by its American title City After Midnight. Dan O'Herlihy stars as detective...
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1957
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Tarzan and the Lost Safari is the first MGM-released Tarzan picture since 1942, and the first of the series to be lensed in...
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"Doodles" Fletcher
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1957
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Time is of the essence in this comedy when an American cabaret singer learns that she is in line for a large inheritance....
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Mr. Starke
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1956
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Directed by Roy Kellino, this British comedy stars David Niven as Roger Tweakham, an accountant for a silk manufacturer who...
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1956
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Set in Ireland, The March Hare stars Terence Morgan as Sir Charles Hare, a wastrelly aristocrat who gambles away his family...
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Col. Keene
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1956
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What was the lady-like Dame Anna Neagle doing in something called Bad Girl -- or, as it was renamed in certain regions,...
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1955
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Scads of color stock footage from the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth was strategically deployed in John and Julie. The...
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1955
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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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1955
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In this crazy British comedy, a Cockney corporal dreams of getting promoted so that he can finally receive his inheritance....
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1955
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Released in the US as Man With a Million, The Million Pound Note is a satisfying adaptation of a satirical short story by...
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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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In this thriller, shot on location in Rhodesia, an American insurance investigator looks into the strange death of a diamond...
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1954
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Clark Gable's final effort for his longtime home studio MGM, Betrayed is an exciting espionage thriller set during World War...
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1954
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1953
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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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1952
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The Promoter was based on the Arnold Bennett novel The Card, which served as its British release title. Impoverished young...
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1952
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Top Secret gets under way when George (George Cole), a janitor in a research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the...
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1952
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Long before she distinguished herself as a director, Mai Zetterling was the star of several moody melodramas. Based on a...
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1951
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Stanley Holloway carries the ball, comedically and dramatically, in the British Midnight Episode. Holloway plays "The...
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1951
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Mr. Denning (John Mills) is bedeviled by a blackmailer with whom his daughter Liz (Eileen Moore) has fallen in love. In a...
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1951
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This early nuclear satire offers a twisted retelling of the old fairy tale "The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg." The story...
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1951
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Henry Koster directs the 1951 aviation drama No Highway in the Sky, based on the novel by Nevil Shute. James Stewart stars as...
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1951
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Michael Redgrave gives his greatest performance as Andrew Crocker-Harris, a boarding-school teacher who realizes that his...
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Frobisher
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1951
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In this adventure, an archaeologist is working at a Tunisian dig and having a passionate affair with a local girl when he...
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1950
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Informed that he has only a short time to live, salesman Alec Guinness decides to enjoy his last months to the fullest. He...
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1950
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The mudlark is Andrew Ray, an illiterate London street urchin of the mid-19th century. Having seen a picture of Queen...
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1950
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1950
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1950
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1950
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In this Cold War spy classic, Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a third-rate American pulp novelist, arrives in postwar Vienna,...
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1949
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1949
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A persistent case of hiccups causes all sorts of problems for a pretty young socialite in this comedy. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi...
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1949
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Elizabeth Taylor played her first grown-up romantic lead in the Anglo-American melodrama Conspirator. Taylor portrays Melinda...
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1949
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The Anglo-American co-production Britannia Mews was released in the U.S. as The Affairs of Adelaide, then reissued as...
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Mr. Culver
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1949
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George Gordon, aka Lord Byron, the clubfooted 19th-century poet with the uncontrollable libido, is played by Dennis Price in...
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1949
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1949
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In this drama, a young Englishman wants to become a surgeon, but after medical school, his father dies, leaving him the...
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1949
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Though hampered by a small budget that shrank with each shooting day, director Burgess Meredith fashioned a serviceable film...
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1949
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The British That Dangerous Age is based on Autumn, a play by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surgutchoff. Myrna Loy heads the cast...
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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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1949
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1948
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1947
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Director Anthony Asquith's first postwar effort, While the Sun Shines was based on a play by frequent Asquith collaborator...
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1947
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This romantic comedy is set in Paris at the beginning of the 20th century. It tells the story of a professional duelist who...
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1947
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Anne Fielding (Dulcie Gray), a shop clerk, meets Jack Williams (Derek Farr), a bus conductor, on the London Underground....
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1946
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If nothing else, the British melodrama Night Boat to Dublin had topicality going for it. As Captain David Grant, Robert...
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1946
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1943
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British music-hall comedian Max Miller ("The Cheeky Chappie") always had difficulty transferring his risque style to films,...
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1942
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In this British espionage comedy, an opportunistic South American woman will do anything to get her hands on a copy of the...
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1942
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In this comedy, a groom's constant jealousy creates domestic turmoil for his devoted bride. More trouble comes when he buys...
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1941
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Lambeth Walk is the film version of the evergreen West End musical Me and My Girl, which was still being successfully revived...
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1940
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In this psychological drama set in a small English village, the villagers become hysterical after a series of damning...
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1939
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In this comedy, a man becomes the owner of a race horse, at least he thought it was a race horse. As he watches the beast...
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1938
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In 1954 there was Godzilla, the lizard transformed by radiation, and in 1959, the British gave us Behemoth, the Sea Monster,...
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1938
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In this romantic comedy, a humble country girl lives her life in the ramshackle mansion of her aged uncle. Feeling sorry for...
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1938
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This British comedy tells the tale of the king of Ruritania who finds a drunken look-a-like to replace him while he takes a...
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1937
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1937
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1936
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1936
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Admirals All was based on the British stage farce by Ian Hay and Stephen-King-Hall. Wynne Gibson takes over from the stage...
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1935
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This 53-minute British "quota quickie" was released in the U.S. by MGM. Frederick Bradshaw plays an eccentric inventor...
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1935
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1935
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Farm worker Ernie Lotinga confronts a greedy entrepreneur who wants the farm leading to his election as a magistrate and...
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1934
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1934
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