Finlay Currie
Biography: Finlay Jefferson Currie (20 January 1878 – 9 May 1968) was a Scottish actor of stage, screen and television. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Currie's acting career began on the stage. He and his wife Maude Courtney (1884–1959) did a song and dance act in the US in the 1890s. He made his first film (The Old Man) in 1931. He appeared as a priest in the 1943 Ealing World War II movie Undercover. His most famous film role was as the convict Abel Magwitch in David Lean's Great Expectations (1946), based on the novel, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens. He later began to appear in Hollywood film epics, including the 1951 Quo Vadis (as Saint Peter), the multi-Oscar winning 1959 Ben-Hur, as Balthazar, one of the Three Wise Men, and The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) as an aged, wise senator; He appeared in People Will Talk with Cary Grant; and he also portrayed Robert Taylor's embittered father in MGM's Technicolor 1952 version of Ivanhoe. In 1962, he starred in an episode of The DuPont Show of the Week (NBC) entitled The Ordeal of Dr. Shannon, an adaptation of A. J. Cronin's novel, Shannon's Way. Currie's last role was as Mr. Lundie, the minister, in the 1966 television adaptation of the musical Brigadoon. In one of his very last performances, Currie plays a dying mafioso boss in the two part "Vendetta For The Saint" (1968) starring Roger Moore. Later in life he became a much respected antiques dealer, specialising in coins and precious metals. He had been a long time collector of the works of Robert Burns. Description above from the Wikipedia article Finlay Currie, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 19, 1878
Deathday: May 09, 1968
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Ben-Hur
1959-11-18
Ben-Hur
Overview: In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-18
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Murder at the Gallop
1963-06-24
Murder at the Gallop
Overview: Miss Marple and Mr. Stringer are witnesses to the death by heart attack of elderly, rich Mr. Enderby. Yet they have their doubts about what happened. The police don't believe them, thus leading Miss Marple to yet again investigate by herself.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-24
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
1965-10-03
Bunny Lake Is Missing
Overview: A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-03
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1956-10-17
Around the World in Eighty Days
Overview: Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a very short period for those days.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-17
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Corridors of Blood
1958-12-01
Corridors of Blood
Overview: Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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People Will Talk
1951-08-29
People Will Talk
Overview: Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witchhunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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Treasure Island
1950-07-19
Treasure Island
Overview: Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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Quo Vadis
1951-11-08
Quo Vadis
Overview: After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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My Old Dutch
1934-10-01
My Old Dutch
Overview: Moving family drama of the life of a working-class Hackney couple over 40 years, inspired by the famous music hall song This moving family drama - with time for some laughs - portrays the life and hardships of a working class Hackney couple over a span of 40 years. Our intrepid couple (wonderfully played by Betty Balfour and Michael Hogan) have to face everything life throws at them with fortitude, from the Great War (a son in the RAF and zeppelin raids) to a raging oil fire during the Great Strike. The inimitable Gordon Harker provides sterling support. The film the couple watch at the cinema is the 1915 version of My Old Dutch, starring Albert Chevalier (writer of the original music hall song) and Florence Turner. As the complete silent film is now believed to be lost, this 1934 version contains the only surviving footage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-01
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Billy Liar
1963-08-15
Billy Liar
Overview: A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Ivanhoe
1952-07-31
Ivanhoe
Overview: Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-31
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The Improper Duchess
1936-01-17
The Improper Duchess
Overview: The King of Moldavia tries to negotiate a loan from the United States in return for oil concessions, with the wily assistance of the Duchess of Tann.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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Me and Marlborough
1935-07-22
Me and Marlborough
Overview: A woman disguises herself in men's clothes in order to follow her husband to the wars.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-22
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Great Expectations
1946-12-26
Great Expectations
Overview: In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Solomon and Sheba
1959-12-18
Solomon and Sheba
Overview: Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the court, swearing he will become king. Other rulers are concerned that Solomon's benevolent rule and interest in monotheism will threaten their tyrannical, polytheistic kingdoms. The Queen of Sheba makes an agreement with the Egyptian pharaoh to corrupt Solomon for their mutual benefit.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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Kidnapped
1960-02-24
Kidnapped
Overview: Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
1960-07-21
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Overview: From chicken thief to cabin boy, riverboat pilot to circus performer, Huck Finn outsmarts everyone on his way down the muddy Mississippi.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-21
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Stars and Stripes Forever
1952-12-22
Stars and Stripes Forever
Overview: A film biography of the composer John Philip Sousa, from his early days in the Marine Corps Band through the Spanish-American War in 1898.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-22
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The Edge of the World
1937-09-10
The Edge of the World
Overview: A way of life is dying on a remote Scottish island, but some of the inhabitants resist evacuating to the mainland.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-10
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Footsteps in the Fog
1955-09-14
Footsteps in the Fog
Overview: A Victorian-era murder mystery about a parlour maid who discovers that her employer may have killed his first wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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6.5 Special
1958-03-01
6.5 Special
Overview: A spin-off from the BBC television show. At the suggestion of her girlfriend, a young singer decides to try and make her name in London. Catching the overnight '6.5 Special' the two find the train full of 1950's British pop stars only too ready to burst into song. As the presenters of the show are also on board, our heroine is assured of a spot on the following Saturday's 'Six Five Special'.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-01
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The Brothers
1947-05-07
The Brothers
Overview: An orphan wreaks havoc on a remote Scottish island when she causes an age-old feud to be reignited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-07
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The Fall of the Roman Empire
1964-03-24
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Overview: In the year 180 A.D. Germanic tribes are about to invade the Roman empire from the north. In the midst of this crisis ailing emperor Marcus Aurelius has to make a decision about his successor between his son Commodus, who is obsessed by power, and the loyal general Gaius Livius.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-24
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So Evil My Love
1948-08-02
So Evil My Love
Overview: In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-08-02
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The History of Mr. Polly
1949-02-08
The History of Mr. Polly
Overview: Quiet and somewhat direction-less, Alfred Polly uses the money he inherits from his father to marry and to set up shop in a small town. His heart is in neither of these enterprises and he eventually resorts to desperate measures to break free. His random wanderings in the countryside lead him to a new opportunity that just might be what he's been looking for all along.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-08
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School for Secrets
1946-12-23
School for Secrets
Overview: Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of Britain against the might of the Nazi Luftwaffe. Without it the little island could well have been overrun.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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I Know Where I'm Going!
1945-11-16
I Know Where I'm Going!
Overview: Plucky Englishwoman Joan Webster travels to the remote islands of the Scottish Hebrides in order to marry a wealthy industrialist. Trapped by inclement weather on the Isle of Mull and unable to continue to her destination, Joan finds herself charmed by the straightforward, no-nonsense islanders around her, and becomes increasingly attracted to naval officer Torquil MacNeil, who holds a secret that may change her life forever.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-16
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Walk East on Beacon
1952-06-01
Walk East on Beacon
Overview: An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-01
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
1953-10-26
Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Overview: After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-26
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Thunder Rock
1942-12-04
Thunder Rock
Overview: David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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Francis of Assisi
1961-07-12
Francis of Assisi
Overview: In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his own religious order, sanctioned by the Pope.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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Abandon Ship
1957-03-12
Abandon Ship
Overview: After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over twenty desperate and injured passengers. As a hurricane approaches and the many wounded passengers struggle for life, difficult decisions must be made about who will remain on the boat and who must be cast to the sea in order to give others the chance to survive.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-12
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Joseph and His Brethren
1961-08-23
Joseph and His Brethren
Overview: A brother is cast out from his family, sold in to slavery and then returns years later as a man of power - but shows forgiveness and compassion to his family through the strength of character given to him by God.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-08-23
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Saint Joan
1957-05-08
Saint Joan
Overview: Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-08
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Third Party Risk
1954-10-08
Third Party Risk
Overview: Vacationing at a resort hotel in Spain, a man discovers he is the only one not mixed up one way or another in murder, drugs and microfilm smuggling. But, the police are after him!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-08
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The Mudlark
1950-10-03
The Mudlark
Overview: It's 1875 and a young street urchin wants to see Queen Victoria...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-03
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Captain Lightfoot
1955-03-26
Captain Lightfoot
Overview: In 1815, Michael Martin, member of an Irish revolutionary society, turns highwayman to support it, and soon becomes an outlaw. In Dublin, he meets famous rebel "Captain Thunderbolt" and becomes his second-in-command, under the name "Lightfoot."
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-26
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My Daughter Joy
1950-08-21
My Daughter Joy
Overview: A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-21
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The Little Hut
1957-05-03
The Little Hut
Overview: Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are shipwrecked on a desert island. This potential ménage à trois where the two men compete for the lady's attention is interrupted by the unexpected arrival of a fourth inhabitant of the island.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Rome Express
1932-10-31
Rome Express
Overview: The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-31
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The Angel Wore Red
1960-04-14
The Angel Wore Red
Overview: A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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The Inspector
1962-05-24
The Inspector
Overview: At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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Kangaroo
1952-05-16
Kangaroo
Overview: In turn-of-the-century Australia, two criminals ingratiate themselves with a rancher in order to swindle him. However, the two partners become rivals for the affection of the rancher's beautiful daughter.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-16
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The Bells Go Down
1943-05-16
The Bells Go Down
Overview: Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London under control during the blitz and fire bombings of WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-16
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
1965-05-26
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
Overview: Two British children travel to Italy in an attempt to break up their runaway mother's affair with an Italian concert pianist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-26
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Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
1948-09-27
Mr. Perrin and Mr. Traill
Overview: A handsome young master at a boys school incurs the jealousy of an embittered colleague. From the novel by Hugh Walpole.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-27
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Treasure of the Golden Condor
1953-02-04
Treasure of the Golden Condor
Overview: A nobleman searches for a hidden treasure in Guatemala.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-04
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Undercover
1943-07-26
Undercover
Overview: Occupied Yugoslavia. With organised resistance shattered by the Nazi onslaught it is only the activity of small guerrilla bands that bring fresh hope to the people. But quislings and infiltrators are everywhere – and trusting the wrong person could easily get you killed...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-26
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Make Me an Offer!
1954-12-08
Make Me an Offer!
Overview: A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items. The trouble is, the owners of the vase are pretty shrewd themselves and are not keen on letting it go for a song - meaning that our hapless chap has to pull out every trick in the book in order to win his prize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-08
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
1948-10-26
Bonnie Prince Charlie
Overview: Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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Hand in Hand
1961-02-06
Hand in Hand
Overview: Seven-year-olds Michael and Rachel are best friends who do everything together and who have vowed to remain friends "forever and ever and can't be parted for never and never". Unfortunately, the society that Michael and Rachel live in is one of religious intolerance. The fact that Michael is Irish Catholic and Rachel is Jewish is a point of conflict for just about everyone in the community.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-06
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In the Zone
1946-01-02
In the Zone
Overview: Adaptation of the Eugene O'neill play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-02
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Mister Cinders
1934-01-01
Mister Cinders
Overview: The Cinderella story is reversed in this light-hearted adaptation, with Cinders a young man who eventually wins the 'princess' – in this case, an oil millionaire's daughter!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
1948-10-06
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Overview: Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-06
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Princess Charming
1934-04-24
Princess Charming
Overview: Revolution breaks out in a small European kingdom, and a young princess is forced to flee for her life. She heads for the neighboring country, which just happens to be ruled by the king she is betrothed to. Unfortunately, the new revolutionary government won't let citizens leave, which she actually doesn't mind all that much because she's not particularly jazzed about marrying the elderly king. He sends a young naval officer to bring her across the border, but in order to do so they are forced into a marriage of convenience. Complications ensue.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-24
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Clue of the Silver Key
1961-08-01
Clue of the Silver Key
Overview: The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Who Was Maddox?
1964-06-01
Who Was Maddox?
Overview: A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-01
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Little Friend
1934-11-18
Little Friend
Overview: A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-18
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Warn That Man
1943-07-13
Warn That Man
Overview: At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.
Genres: War Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-13
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The Good Companions
1933-02-28
The Good Companions
Overview: Film musical taken from JB Priestley's novel about three musicians joining together to save a failing concert party, the Dinky Doos.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-28
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49th Parallel
1941-11-24
49th Parallel
Overview: In the early days of World War II, a German U-boat is sunk in Canada's Hudson Bay. Hoping to evade capture, a small band of German soldiers led by commanding officer Lieutenant Hirth attempts to cross the border into the United States, which has not yet entered the war and is officially neutral. Along the way, the German soldiers encounter brave men such as a French-Canadian fur trapper, Johnnie, a leader of a Hutterite farming community, Peter, an author, Philip and a soldier, Andy Brock.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-24
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Heat Wave
1935-05-30
Heat Wave
Overview: Musical comedy telling the hilarious story of greengrocer Albert Speed’s (Albert Burdon) adventures with would-be revolutionaries in a mythical South American banana republic. He becomes mistaken for a gun-runner, and problems arise when Albert begins using the names of vegetables as code words for weapons and ammunition that they are smuggling! Albert saves not only his own skin, but also those of the Presidente and his attractive daughter.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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My Brother Jonathan
1948-02-05
My Brother Jonathan
Overview: Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work as a partner in a poor general practice in the Black Country. Edie falls in love with Jonathan's brother, Harold, who is killed in the Great War, and Jonathan marries her as planned. It is only afterwards that he realises he now loves another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-05
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King's Rhapsody
1955-06-07
King's Rhapsody
Overview: Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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No Funny Business
1933-03-30
No Funny Business
Overview: 'Riviera. Professional co-respondents mistake one another for clients.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-30
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Excess Baggage
1933-03-24
Excess Baggage
Overview: 'Colonel thinks he has killed superior while hunting ghost.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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The Monkey's Paw
1948-02-18
The Monkey's Paw
Overview: The monkey's paw can make wishes come true. But not in the ways people expect.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-18
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Tempest
1958-12-01
Tempest
Overview: A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Dangerous Exile
1957-12-12
Dangerous Exile
Overview: Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and Richard O'Sullivan. It concerns the fate of Louis XVII, who died in 1795 as a boy, yet was popularly believed to have escaped from his French revolutionary captors.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-12
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Glamorous Night
1937-04-28
Glamorous Night
Overview: Based on Ivor Novello's hit stage play: an opera singer and her gypsy friends try to rescue their king from the clutches of a would-be dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-28
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The Day Will Dawn
1942-06-08
The Day Will Dawn
Overview: Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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The Black Rose
1950-09-01
The Black Rose
Overview: In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
Genres: War Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Zarak
1956-12-01
Zarak
Overview: A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-01
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Gay Love
1934-09-01
Gay Love
Overview: Sisters are music-hall performers. One loves the other's fiancé and decides to quit the show, but the other runs into an old flame and new relations develop.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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The Big Splash
1935-01-01
The Big Splash
Overview: A millionaire hires a man to play his double...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Brigadoon
1966-10-15
Brigadoon
Overview: Every 100 years, people stumble upon the Scottish village of Brigadoon, which will never be found on a map. A wonderful, fun filled day will be had by all who find it.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-10-15
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Paradise for Two
1937-12-22
Paradise for Two
Overview: A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Alice in Wonderland
1966-12-28
Alice in Wonderland
Overview: Alice in Wonderland (1966) is a BBC television play based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. It was directed by Jonathan Miller, then most widely known for his appearance in the long-running satirical revue Beyond the Fringe.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-28
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
1938-09-04
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Overview: "The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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Crook's Tour
1940-09-03
Crook's Tour
Overview: Charters and Caldicott are touring the Middle East. After visiting Saudi Arabia they find themselves in Bagdad where they are mistaken by a group of German spies for the messengers who are to carry a song record by beautiful singer La Palermo which contains secret instructions of the German Intelligence. Realizing their error, the German spies follow Charters and Caldicott to Istanbul and Budapest, trying to eliminate them and retrieve the record.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-03
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Command Performance
1937-01-01
Command Performance
Overview: Arthur Tracy and Lilli Palmer star in this 1930's British romantic drama. With his voice faltering due to nerves, celebrated stage performer "The Street Singer" (Tracy) parts company with the theatre and goes to live in a gypsy camp where he meets and falls in love with Susan (Palmer), an attractive young woman who is unaware of his fame.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Old Man
1931-12-15
The Old Man
Overview: 'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Frightened Lady
1932-03-01
The Frightened Lady
Overview: A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Trio
1950-10-10
Trio
Overview: W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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West 11
1963-10-08
West 11
Overview: Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-08
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
1963-12-11
The Three Lives of Thomasina
Overview: Thomasina is the pet cat of Mary McDhui, the daughter of Scottish veterinarian Andrew McDhui. When Thomasina falls ill, McDhui declares that the pet should be put down. But when Mary and her father try to bury the cat, Lori MacGregor (Susan Hampshire), who is said to be a witch, shows up and attempts to steal it.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Thriller Mystery Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-11
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The Naked Earth
1958-02-05
The Naked Earth
Overview: Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested with crocodiles.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-05
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Campbell's Kingdom
1957-09-03
Campbell's Kingdom
Overview: Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-03
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Orders Is Orders
1933-07-18
Orders Is Orders
Overview: A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-18
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The Cracksman
1963-01-01
The Cracksman
Overview: Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The End of the Road
1954-01-01
The End of the Road
Overview: Having been given enforced retirement due to his age, Mick-Mack creates strain upon his extended family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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The Shipbuilders
1943-12-15
The Shipbuilders
Overview: A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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The Amorous Prawn
1962-11-26
The Amorous Prawn
Overview: While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-26
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Go to Blazes
1962-04-18
Go to Blazes
Overview: A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Cleopatra
1963-06-12
Cleopatra
Overview: Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his general, Marc Antony, who vows to take power—but Caesar’s successor has other plans.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Wanted!
1937-08-23
Wanted!
Overview: A married couple are mistaken for jewel thieves and forced to go to a party. The husband turns on the burglar alarm by mistake and the real thieves are captured.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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The Trojan Brothers
1946-02-04
The Trojan Brothers
Overview: Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-02-04
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They Met in the Dark
1943-08-11
They Met in the Dark
Overview: A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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Catch as Catch Can
1937-07-01
Catch as Catch Can
Overview: Undercover agent Robert Leyland entraps crooks trying to sneak expensive goods past customs on transatlantic crossings. After Leyland falls for reluctant smuggler Barbara Standish, he convinces her to return with him to France with her cache of diamonds. But she is unaware of a network of thieves onboard their ship, competing against each other to make off with her jewels.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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Spring Song
1946-12-23
Spring Song
Overview: The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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Don Chicago
1945-08-06
Don Chicago
Overview: Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-06
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Theatre Royal
1943-07-26
Theatre Royal
Overview: The Theatre Royal is a struggling London venue battling to keep its doors open. When the bank threatens to close it, the workers fear that they will soon be forced out of their jobs. The Royal's property master, Bob Parker (Bud Flanagan), recruits the rest of the staff to stage a benefit gala. They hope their show, featuring songs and dances, can raise enough cash to stave off the end. Meanwhile, they seek investors who can keep the Theatre Royal and its staff in business permanently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-26
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Rockets Galore
1958-10-19
Rockets Galore
Overview: The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-19
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Five Golden Hours
1961-02-01
Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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It's a Boy
1934-06-07
It's a Boy
Overview: "It's a Boy" stars Horton as Dudley Leake, who is betrothed to Mary Bogle (the very pretty Wendy Barrie). Shortly before the wedding, Dudley blurts a confession to his friend and best man, Jim Skippett: 20 years ago, Dudley had a brief affair with a certain Miss Piper, but he's never heard from her since then. Next day, who should suddenly appear? A youth about 19 or 20 years old, claiming to be named Joe Piper. Is he Horton's son, or is Skippett playing a practical joke?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-07
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