John Burton
Biography: John Burton was an English-born actor who appeared in American films from 1923 to 1953.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 06, 1904
Deathday: September 29, 1987
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Rulers of the Sea
1939-11-08
Rulers of the Sea
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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Invisible Agent
1942-08-07
Invisible Agent
Overview: The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Captain from Castile
1947-12-25
Captain from Castile
Overview: Spain, 1518: young caballero Pedro De Vargas offends his sadistic neighbor De Silva, who just happens to be an officer of the Inquisition. Forced to flee, Pedro, friend Juan Garcia, and adoring servant girl Catana join Cortez' first expedition to Mexico. Arriving in the rich new land, Cortez decides to switch from exploration to conquest...with only 500 men. Embroiled in continuous adventures and a romantic interlude, Pedro almost forgets he has a deadly enemy...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-25
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Lancer Spy
1937-10-08
Lancer Spy
Overview: An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941-09-26
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Overview: An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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Journey for Margaret
1942-12-17
Journey for Margaret
Overview: An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her baby she returns to America. War weary, he is forced to do a story about war orphans, where he meets Margaret.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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Pierre of the Plains
1942-07-29
Pierre of the Plains
Overview: A French-Canadian trapper's adventures jeopardize his romance with an innkeeper.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-29
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The Very Thought of You
1944-10-20
The Very Thought of You
Overview: Army sergeants Dave and "Fixit" spend a three-day pass in Pasadena, where they meet Janet and Cora, two young women who work in a parachute factory.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-10-20
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Three Strangers
1946-01-28
Three Strangers
Overview: On the eve of the Chinese New Year, three strangers, Crystal Shackleford, married to a wealthy philanderer; Jerome Artbutny, an outwardly respectable judge; and Johnny West, a seedy sneak thief, make a pact before a small statue of the Chinese goddess of Destiny. The threesome agree to purchase a sweepstakes ticket and share whatever winnings might accrue.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-28
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White Cargo
1942-12-12
White Cargo
Overview: In Africa early in World War II, a British rubber plantation executive reminisces about his arrival in the Congo in 1910. He tells the story of a love-hate triangle involving Harry Witzel, an in-country station superintendent who'd seen it all, Langford, a new manager sent from England for a four-year stint, and Tondelayo, a siren of great beauty who desires silk and baubles. Witzel is gruff and seasoned, certain that Langford won't be able to cut it. Langford responds with determination and anger, attracted to Tondelayo because of her beauty, her wiles, and to get at Witzel. Manipulation, jealousy, revenge, and responsibility play out as alliances within the triangle shift.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-12
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Dark Delusion
1947-06-24
Dark Delusion
Overview: Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
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Two Tickets to London
1943-06-14
Two Tickets to London
Overview: Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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The Fan
1949-04-01
The Fan
Overview: Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-01
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Assignment in Brittany
1943-03-11
Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Enter Arsène Lupin
1944-11-24
Enter Arsène Lupin
Overview: A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Genres: Crime Mystery Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-24
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Everybody Does It
1949-10-24
Everybody Does It
Overview: Leonard Borland loves his monied wife, but with his wrecking business looking shaky he treasures her all the more. So when she decides to try again to become an opera singer he indulges her. While organising a concert for her he meets glamorous Cecil Carver. She in turn discovers Leonard has a splendid voice, and encourages him to use it for reasons very much her own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-24
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The Day the Earth Stood Still
1951-09-28
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Overview: An alien and a robot land on Earth after World War II and tell mankind to be peaceful or face destruction.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-28
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David and Bathsheba
1951-08-10
David and Bathsheba
Overview: King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequences for his family and Israel.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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My Blue Heaven
1950-09-15
My Blue Heaven
Overview: Radio star Kitty Moran, long married to partner Jack, finds she's pregnant, but miscarries. For a change, the couple turn their act into a series on early TV and try to adopt a baby. Finally they acquiring a girl in a somewhat back alley manner.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Three Came Home
1950-02-20
Three Came Home
Overview: Borneo, 1941, during World War II. When the Japanese occupy the island, American writer Agnes Newton Keith is separated from her husband and imprisoned with her son in a prison camp run by the enigmatic Colonel Suga.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-20
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The Flames of Wrath
1923-01-01
The Flames of Wrath
Overview: After P. C. Gordon is murdered and robbed of a diamond ring that he bought as a birthday present for his wife, one of the thieves, C. Dates, is apprehended. A woman prosecuting attorney makes a compelling case against him, and he is given a ten-year penitentiary sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Dark Streets of Cairo
1940-12-01
Dark Streets of Cairo
Overview: A rapid series of murders occurs when a professor disrupts a tranquil Egyptian tomb by removing some precious jewels.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-01
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The Earl of Chicago
1940-01-05
The Earl of Chicago
Overview: A behind the times Chicago bootlegger goes to England with his lawyer to claim his estate as the Earl of Gorley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-05
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The House on Telegraph Hill
1951-05-12
The House on Telegraph Hill
Overview: Concentration camp survivor Victoria Kowelska finds herself involved in mystery, greed, and murder when she assumes the identity of a dead friend in order to gain passage to America.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-12
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Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
1942-12-25
Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon
Overview: In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he quickly falls into the clutches of the evil Professor Moriarty.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-25
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Marie Antoinette
1938-08-26
Marie Antoinette
Overview: The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the rival countries. The opulent Marie indulges in various whims and flirtations. When Louis XV passes and Louis XVI ascends the French throne, his queen's extravagant lifestyle earns the hatred of the French people, who despise her Austrian heritage.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-26
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Kidnapped
1938-05-27
Kidnapped
Overview: Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-27
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Random Harvest
1942-12-17
Random Harvest
Overview: Wandered away from his asylum, an amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star but his amnesia makes it difficult to last.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-17
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Storm Over Bengal
1938-11-14
Storm Over Bengal
Overview: This being a Republic picture, it should come as no surprise that Storm Over Bengal was filmed in its entirety in the San Fernando Valley. Within its concise 65 minutes, the film manages to accommodate a Bengal Lancers main plot, a romantic subplot, the obligatory coward who makes good, intrigue aplenty from a villainous Indian potentate, and an outsized climactic battle between the rebels and the British forces. Patric Knowles, previously one of the leads in the British-India epic Charge of the Light Brigade, heads the cast. Worth noting is the presence in the cast of Richard Cromwell as secondary romantic lead Neil Allison and Douglass Dumbrille as the despicable Khan. Three years earlier, Cromwell had been tortured by Dumbrille's minions in Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and he undergoes much the same treatment here-"just to make him feel at home" observed film historian Roger Dooley.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-14
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The Woman in Green
1945-06-15
The Woman in Green
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes believes the killings to be part of a diabolical plot.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-06-15
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Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
Lloyd's of London
Overview: Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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Nostradamus Says So!
1953-01-03
Nostradamus Says So!
Overview: The life of the French seer and some of his selected quatrains are reviewed.
Genres: Documentary History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-03
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Rage in Heaven
1941-03-07
Rage in Heaven
Overview: A jealous man frames his wife's suspected lover for murder.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-07
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Lord Jeff
1938-06-17
Lord Jeff
Overview: Spoiled child Geoffrey Bramer teams up with a pair of small time crooks to pose as an aristocrat and steal jewelry from exclusive shops. During a a caper, Geoffrey is caught and is sentenced to a reformatory where young men are trained to be sailors. He is befriended by model in-mate Terry O'Mulvaney but soon starts to get them both in trouble.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-17
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Lost Horizon
1937-03-03
Lost Horizon
Overview: British diplomat Robert Conway and a small group of civilians crash land in the Himalayas, and are rescued by the people of the mysterious, Eden-like valley of Shangri-la. Protected by the mountains from the world outside, where the clouds of World War II are gathering, Shangri-la provides a seductive escape for the world-weary Conway.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-03
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Beloved Enemy
1936-12-25
Beloved Enemy
Overview: In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks. As wanted Irish rebel leader Dennis Riordan is not recognized in public, he is able to move about freely and saves the Athleighs from an assassination attempt by a radical faction. Dennis and Helen meet again and, unaware of his position, Helen falls in love with him. Later when Dennis admits his identity, Helen must make a fateful decision.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-25
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Black Beauty
1946-08-29
Black Beauty
Overview: Based on Anna Sewell's novel. In rural England of the 1880's, widower Squire Wendon is rearing his young daughter Anne. Her father has forbidden her to be present when their mare, "Duchess," gives birth. Anne sneaks out to the stable, however, and is discovered by her father who forbids her ever to ride Duchess again. Despite this punishment, he gives Anne Duchess's colt because it is her birthday, and she names him "Black Beauty."
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-08-29
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Mrs. Miniver
1942-07-03
Mrs. Miniver
Overview: Middle-class housewife Kay Miniver deals with petty problems. She and her husband Clem watch her Oxford-educated son Vin court Carol Beldon, the charming granddaughter of the local nobility as represented by Lady Beldon. Then the war comes and Vin joins the RAF.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
Foreign Correspondent
Overview: American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the imminent war. When he walks into the middle of an assassination and stumbles on a spy ring, he seeks help from a beautiful politician’s daughter and an urbane English journalist to uncover the truth.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-16
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Phantom Raiders
1940-06-07
Phantom Raiders
Overview: In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter and his eccentric associate Bartholomew to investigate. Nick recognizes influential nightclub owner Al Taurez as a shady operator, but getting the goods on him depends on slick diversions involving the heavyweight champ of the Pacific Tuna Fleet, a Panamanian bombshell armed with American slang, a young couple in love and a whole raft of crooks and cutthroats.
Genres: Crime Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-07
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The Sun Never Sets
1939-05-31
The Sun Never Sets
Overview: The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompanied by his wife Helen. He discovers his younger brother John, is not keen on following in his footsteps. John is then persuaded to try colonial service by his grandfather. He is accompanied by Clive who has been sent to investigate the source of a series of radio broadcasts that are sewing unrest throughout the world. These may be linked to Hugo Zurof, a man plotting to rule the world.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-31
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The King Without a Crown
1937-10-09
The King Without a Crown
Overview: This short explores the possibility that Louis XVII, son of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette, escaped death during the French Revolution and was raised by Indians in America.
Genres: History Mystery Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-09
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Sherlock Holmes in Washington
1943-03-24
Sherlock Holmes in Washington
Overview: In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on Sherlock Holmes to recover it.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-24
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Slave Ship
1937-06-16
Slave Ship
Overview: Action-filled drama about a ship captain, ashamed of his background in the slave trade, forced against his will to again transport human cargo.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-16
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Eagle Squadron
1942-06-16
Eagle Squadron
Overview: An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-16
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Whispers
1941-02-08
Whispers
Overview: In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short we see how gossip can be used to spread propaganda or to ruin a person's reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Nostradamus
1938-09-24
Nostradamus
Overview: A look at various predictions Nostradamus made, such as the American and French Revolutions.
Genres: History Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-24
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More About Nostradamus
1941-01-18
More About Nostradamus
Overview: This short film portrays Nostradamus as having predicted the horrors of WWI and Hitler's rise to power, as well as the eventual triumph of "the daughter of the English Isles" against these forces. The film was nominated for an Oscar for Best Short Subject, One-Reel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-18
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Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
1942-05-09
Further Prophecies of Nostradamus
Overview: This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.
Genres: History Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-09
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Let's Ask Nostradamus
1953-06-06
Let's Ask Nostradamus
Overview: Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution.
Genres: History Drama Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-06
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The Spider Woman
1943-12-24
The Spider Woman
Overview: Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider. Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-24
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Bravest of the Brave
1938-08-06
Bravest of the Brave
Overview: This short film looks at the life of Michel Ney, who fought at Napoleon's side and was made a Marshall of France.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-08-06
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The Black Swan
1942-12-04
The Black Swan
Overview: When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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