Norman Rossington
Biography: Norman Rossington (December 24, 1928 - May 21, 1999) was an English actor best remembered for his roles in The Army Game, the Carry On films and the Beatles' film A Hard Day's Night.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 24, 1928
Deathday: May 21, 1999
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A Hard Day's Night
1964-07-07
A Hard Day's Night
Overview: Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-07
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Death Line
1972-10-13
Death Line
Overview: There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors underground than they would wish.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-13
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Carry On Sergeant
1958-08-31
Carry On Sergeant
Overview: Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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Tobruk
1967-02-07
Tobruk
Overview: In September 1942, the German Afrika Korps under Rommel have successfully pushed the Allies back into Egypt. A counter-attack is planned, for which the fuel dumps at Tobruk are a critical impediment. In order to aid the attack, a group of British commandos and German Jews make their way undercover through 800 miles of desert, to destroy the fuel dumps starving the Germans of fuel.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-07
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Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
1960-10-27
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Overview: A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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House of the Long Shadows
1983-06-17
House of the Long Shadows
Overview: An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet that he can write a classic novel like 'Wuthering Heights' in 24 hours. However, upon his arrival he discovers that the apparently empty manor has several rather odd inhabitants.
Genres: Horror Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-17
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Man in the Wilderness
1971-11-24
Man in the Wilderness
Overview: In the early 1800s, a group of fur trappers and Indian traders are returning with their goods to civilization and are making a desperate attempt to beat the oncoming winter. When guide Zachary Bass is injured in a bear attack, they decide he's a goner and leave him behind to die. When he recovers instead, he swears revenge on them and tracks them and their paranoiac expedition leader down.
Genres: Western Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-24
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Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
Tune On the Old Tax Fiddle
Overview: When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
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Strangers' Meeting
1957-10-30
Strangers' Meeting
Overview: A fateful Stranger's Meeting leads to a maelstrom of crime, deception and murder in this 64-minute British programmer. The beautiful Delphi Lawrence heads a stellar cast, including such reliables as Victor Maddern, Norman Rossington, Conrad Phillips and Reginald Hearne. The plot centers around acrobat Peter Arne, falsely accused of murder. Escaping from the authorities, Arne hides out in a rustic inn, allowing first-time director (and former cinematographer) Robert Day ample opportunity for dark, menacing shadows and sinister underlighting. The genuine murderer is revealed just seconds before the culprit's death. Stranger's Meeting was held back from release until Robert Day's "official" directorial debut, The Green Man, had made the rounds.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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A Night to Remember
1958-07-03
A Night to Remember
Overview: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
1959-10-31
The Running Jumping & Standing Still Film
Overview: A short film without any direct action designed more as an experiment, with disjointed comic scenes with no common thread.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-31
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Nurse on Wheels
1963-01-03
Nurse on Wheels
Overview: Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Treasure Island
1982-01-01
Treasure Island
Overview: Intrigue...comedy...adventure...unforgettable characters and exotic settings - the legendary story of Treasure Island comes to life in this colourful adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's masterpiece. Join these timeless travellers in this wonderful and immortal tale of treasure and treachery!
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Joseph Andrews
1977-03-09
Joseph Andrews
Overview: Lady Booby alias 'Belle', the lively wife of the fat landed squire Sir Thomas Booby, has a lusty eye on the attractive, intelligent villager Joseph Andrews, a Latin pupil and protégé of parson Adams, and makes him their footman. Joseph's heart belongs to a country girl, foundling Fanny Goodwill, but his masters take him on a fashionable trip to Bath, where the spoiled society comes mainly to see and be seen, but drowns in the famous Roman baths. When the all but grieving lady finds Joseph's Christian virtue and true love resist her lusting passes just as well as the many ladies who fancy her footman, she fires the boy. He's found and nursed by an innkeeper's maid, which stirs lusts there, again besides his honorable conduct, but is found by the good parson.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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The Adventures of Gerard
1970-07-03
The Adventures of Gerard
Overview: Based on satirical short stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle about a vain, egotistical Etienne Gerard, a French brigadier serving during the Napoleonic Wars. He thinks he's the best soldier and lover that ever lived and intends to prove it.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-03
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Two Gentlemen Sharing
1969-09-17
Two Gentlemen Sharing
Overview: An insecure Briton and a Briton of Jamaican descent share a London apartment together.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-17
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Go for a Take
1972-12-12
Go for a Take
Overview: Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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Cup Fever
1965-07-21
Cup Fever
Overview: The children of Barton United are trying to win the cup in their local football (soccer) league. Nasty councillor Mr Bates doesn't like them and wants the team his son plays for to win instead so he makes life as difficult as he can for them. But Barton United are offered help by the local professional team that just happens to be Manchester United with boss man Matt Busby.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-21
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Simon Simon
1970-06-01
Simon Simon
Overview: A comedy short with very little speaking. Graham Stark and John Junkin have a new elevated platform to work with but still manage to get into lots of trouble. Lots of celebrity appearances.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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The League of Gentlemen
1960-04-15
The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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Rhubarb Rhubarb
1980-12-15
Rhubarb Rhubarb
Overview: During a game of golf between a police inspector and a vicar the inspector cheats by having a constable move his ball into favourable positions and the vicar's into hazardous ones. when the vicar discovers this he prays for divine intervention which turns the tables.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-15
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The Big Flame
1969-02-19
The Big Flame
Overview: After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-02-19
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Negatives
1968-09-05
Negatives
Overview: A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-05
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Negatives
1968-09-05
Negatives
Overview: A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-05
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Carry on Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
1972-12-20
Carry on Christmas (or Carry On Stuffing)
Overview: Two unforeseen problems meant that many fans consider this the weakest Christmas special. Firstly, Talbot Rothwell became ill whilst writing the script, and was unable to finish it. Dave Freeman had to be brought in to complete the script, but the two men did not work together. As a result, the script does not flow as easily as the earlier offerings. Secondly, Charles Hawtrey pulled out of the special at short notice. Having taken third billing to Sid James and Terry Scott in the previous two shows, and knowing they would both be absent, Hawtrey demanded top billing. But Carry On producer Peter Rogers refused, giving top billing to Hattie Jacques instead. Hawtrey's role had hastily to be recast, and was split between Norman Rossington and Brian Oulton, both of whom had played cameo roles in several Carry On films. The special featured a collection of historical sketches, loosely linked around an 18th-century banquet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-20
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The Long Distance Piano Player
1970-10-15
The Long Distance Piano Player
Overview: The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-15
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The Krays
1990-04-27
The Krays
Overview: The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-27
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The Prisoner of Zenda
1979-08-17
The Prisoner of Zenda
Overview: Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-17
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S.O.S. Titanic
1980-02-29
S.O.S. Titanic
Overview: The Titanic disaster as seen through the eyes of one couple in each of the three classes on board.
Genres: History Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-02-29
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Vinegar Trip
1973-04-24
Vinegar Trip
Overview: The title is taken from a Liverpool saying, "Off on a vinegar trip," which is applied to a person behaving strangely. Barrie plays Sammy Chester, a pensioner who shocks his daughters and whose cavorting leads to a heart attack. His eldest daughter takes him to live with her, and calls a family conference to decide what is to be done Sammy is far from happy with the arrangements.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-24
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Prisoner and Escort
1964-04-05
Prisoner and Escort
Overview: Private Jupp is under arrest for a long list of charges and is being escorted by train to Catterick Camp. A girl is invited to share their compartment on the long train journey and the encounter reveals the truth about the escort as well as the prisoner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-04-05
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Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
1993-01-01
Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
Overview: Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded selection of guests in previously unseen extracts from his classic TV series. The guests include Penny Meredith, Eric Sykes, Henry Cooper and Norman Rossington.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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No Love for Johnnie
1961-02-14
No Love for Johnnie
Overview: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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Carry On Regardless
1961-04-04
Carry On Regardless
Overview: After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Doctor in Love
1960-07-12
Doctor in Love
Overview: Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-07-12
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Carry On Nurse
1959-01-30
Carry On Nurse
Overview: In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill every time she walks past, with only Reckitt standing up to her. There's a colonel who's a constant nuisance, a bumbling nurse, a romance between Ted York and Nurse Denton, and Bell wants his bunion removed straight away, so after a couple of pints, the men decide to remove the bunion themselves!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-30
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Lawrence of Arabia
1962-12-11
Lawrence of Arabia
Overview: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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Daylight Robbery
1964-12-01
Daylight Robbery
Overview: Three children are locked in a store by accident. They help catch a gang who break into the store the same day in order to get to the bank next door.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-01
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The Wrong Box
1966-06-19
The Wrong Box
Overview: In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-19
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Big Jim and the Figaro Club
1979-06-24
Big Jim and the Figaro Club
Overview: In the early 1950s 'College' comes down from Cambridge to work for the summer with his old mates on the buildings - only to find a seething passion gripping the Figaro Club.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-24
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Double Trouble
1967-04-05
Double Trouble
Overview: When singer Guy Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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The Changeling
1974-01-20
The Changeling
Overview: Sexual passion breeds violence in the Thomas Middleton and William Rowley written tale of a beautiful woman who falls in love with a sea-captain. Filmed with lush production values and at a leisurely, very British pace, Helen Mirren is riveting as Beatrice-Joanna, a young lass already torn by love and commitment.Beatrice-Joanna (Helen Mirren) is betrothed to Lord Alonzo de Piraquo (Malcolm Reynolds) but is in love with Alsemero (Brian Cox). She hires her father's manservant, De Flores (Stanley Baker), to kill Alonzo but after he has done so, she realises De Flores wants her as a reward.The Changeling was an instalment of the BBC's Play of the Month series and is a production for television of a 1622 Jacobean tragedy of the same name, written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-20
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Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
1973-12-01
Digby, the Biggest Dog in the World
Overview: Digby consumes a bowl of Project X, a liquid growth formula. Soon, he becomes a sheepdog of gigantic size!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Overview: During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-10
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Sharpe's Regiment
1996-05-01
Sharpe's Regiment
Overview: Told his battalion is to be split up due to lack of recruits at home, Sharpe and Harper return to England to investigate. What should have been a simple query turns politically explosive as they come nearer to exposing profiteering on the home front that could jeopardize the Wellington's war.
Genres: War Action Adventure History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Let Him Have It
1991-10-04
Let Him Have It
Overview: In 1950s England, slow-witted Derek Bentley falls in with a group of petty criminals led by Chris Craig, a teenager with a fondness for American gangster films. Chris and Derek's friendship leads to their involvement in the true case which would forever shake England's belief in capital punishment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-04
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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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The One That Got Away
1957-11-22
The One That Got Away
Overview: Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Comedy Man
1964-09-03
The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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The Long Haul
1957-08-27
The Long Haul
Overview: An American ex-GI takes a job as a truck driver to support his British war bride Connie. It isn't long, however, before Harry is blackmailed into joining a smuggling operation run by a conniving criminal.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-08-27
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Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
1971-09-29
Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?
Overview: They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Three Men in a Boat
1956-12-23
Three Men in a Boat
Overview: Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Crooks Anonymous
1962-03-31
Crooks Anonymous
Overview: A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-31
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The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
1970-11-12
The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Overview: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
1965-06-16
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Overview: In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,000 to the first person who can fly across the English Channel. But one of the participants, Percy, plots to sabotage his competitor's planes. Will Percy triumph?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-16
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Jumbo
1976-05-14
Jumbo
Overview: "1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-14
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