Michael Ward
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Birthday: April 09, 1909
Deathday: November 08, 1997
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Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
1974-04-01
Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell
Overview: Dr Simon Helder, sentenced to an insane asylum for crimes against humanity, recognises its director as the brilliant Baron Frankenstein, the man whose work he had been trying to emulate before his imprisonment. Frankenstein utilises Helder's medical knowledge for a project he has been working on for some time. He is assembling a man from vital organs extracted from various inmates in the asylum. And the Baron will resort to murder to acquire the perfect specimens for his most ambitious project ever.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-01
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Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
1966-12-10
Carry On Don't Lose Your Head
Overview: Amidst the French revolution, Citizen Robespierre is beheading the aristocracy! When word gets to England, noblemen Sir Rodney Ffing and Lord Darcy Pue take it upon themselves to aid their French counterparts. Sir Rodney is a master of disguise, and becomes 'The Black Fingernail' scourge of Camembert and Bidet, leaders of the French secret police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-10
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Carry On Cleo
1964-11-08
Carry On Cleo
Overview: Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
1951-04-17
Tom Brown's Schooldays
Overview: When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his friend East, plucky Brown devises a plan to get back at Flashman; in the meantime, he’s asked to look out for a timid new student, whose life is accidentally put in peril during a school race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-17
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An Ideal Husband
1947-11-14
An Ideal Husband
Overview: A prominent politician is preparing to expose a financial scandal. But then a woman who has invested heavily in the shady venture threatens to uncover a damaging secret in the politician's past if he exposes the speculation as a fraud. His problem is compounded by his wife's intolerance of the slightest character flaws.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-14
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Mary Had a Little...
1961-07-25
Mary Had a Little...
Overview: A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-25
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A Body Like Mine
1955-01-01
A Body Like Mine
Overview: Michael Ward learns about bodybuilding from Britian's top muscle men and olympians.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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I'm All Right Jack
1959-08-18
I'm All Right Jack
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Pool of London
1951-02-20
Pool of London
Overview: Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-02-20
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
1951-07-02
Calling Bulldog Drummond
Overview: Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-02
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Tall Headlines
1952-04-15
Tall Headlines
Overview: A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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The Fake
1953-09-25
The Fake
Overview: Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is assigned to protect it. Upon the painting's arrival, Paul realizes it has been switched. Eager to collect the museum's $50,000 reward, he teams up with Mary Mason, a Tate employee, to recover the original.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-25
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The Big Job
1965-01-01
The Big Job
Overview: A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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Lilli Marlene
1950-12-08
Lilli Marlene
Overview: Lilli Marlene, a French girl working as a bar maid in her uncle's café in Benghazi, Libya, turns out to be the girl that the popular German wartime song Lili Marleen had been written for before the war, so both the British and the Germans try to use her for propaganda purposes - especially as it turns out that she can sing as well. When the Germans kidnap her in Cairo and she starts appearing in radio broadcasts from Berlin, her British soldier friends think that she's joined the enemy. They couldn't be more wrong, because after the war it turns out that her songs over the radio contained secret messages to London from British agents in Berlin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Carry On Screaming!
1966-05-20
Carry On Screaming!
Overview: The sinister Dr. Watt has an evil scheme going—he's kidnapping beautiful young women and turning them into mannequins to sell to local stores. Fortunately for him, Detective Sergeant Bung is on the case, and he doesn't have a clue!
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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What the Butler Saw
1950-06-01
What the Butler Saw
Overview: An Earl returns from a tropical island and discovers the daughter of the tribal King has stowed away in his luggage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-01
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Song of Paris
1952-02-10
Song of Paris
Overview: An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-10
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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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The Ugly Duckling
1959-09-09
The Ugly Duckling
Overview: Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
1952-01-01
Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Up in the World
1956-12-06
Up in the World
Overview: Norman is a window cleaner who has to clean a manor house with hundreds of windows. He is distracted by the son of the house who persuades him to go into town. When some villains try and kidnap the young heir Norman fights them off but the heir has banged his head and can't remember Norman's heroic stand
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-06
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So Long at the Fair
1950-05-31
So Long at the Fair
Overview: Vicky Barton and her brother Johnny travel from Naples to visit the 1889 Paris Exhibition. They both sleep in seperate rooms in their hotel. When the she gets up in the morning she finds her brother and his room have disappeared and no one will even acknowledge that he was ever there. Now Vicky must find out what exactly happened to her brother.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-05-31
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John of the Fair
1954-02-28
John of the Fair
Overview: Set in the fairgrounds of 18th century England, the story of a kidnapped heir who regains his rightful inheritance to title and estates with the help of his friends.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-28
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Emergency Call
1952-05-19
Emergency Call
Overview: A 5-year-old child is diagnosed with leukaemia and has only days to live. Her only hope is a blood transfusion, but her blood type is extremely rare, so the race is on to find the donors.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-19
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Lost
1956-01-31
Lost
Overview: U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London. He was last seen with their nanny, and the couple seemingly have no leads that might help police Detective Craig in his investigation. The media sensationalizes the incident, causing an unnecessary distraction as the couple prepares to confront the culprit face-to-face.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-31
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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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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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Street Corner
1953-03-17
Street Corner
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
1978-01-08
Revenge of the Pink Panther
Overview: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-01-08
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Josephine and Men
1955-11-09
Josephine and Men
Overview: The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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The Frightened Man
1952-03-01
The Frightened Man
Overview: Kicked out of Oxford, a junk dealer's son joins a gang of thieves fenced by his father.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-01
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High Jinks in Society
1949-12-01
High Jinks in Society
Overview: After foiling a robbery, Ben, a window cleaner is hired by Lady Barr-Nunn to guard her valuables. A comedy based on class divisions and snobbery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Tread Softly
1952-12-01
Tread Softly
Overview: Story of a chorus girl who is "discovered" and finds romance during the unraveling of a mystery in a once derelict theatre.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-01
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Helter Skelter
1949-01-07
Helter Skelter
Overview: A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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Trottie True
1949-09-29
Trottie True
Overview: Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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Marry Me
1949-06-07
Marry Me
Overview: The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-07
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Stop Press Girl
1949-06-02
Stop Press Girl
Overview: A young woman leaves her backwards hometown to go to London to find a runaway suitor. What she doesn't know is that she has inherited a strange ability; if she's in the vicinity of a machine for more than fifteen minutes, it stops working.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-02
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No Trace
1950-09-08
No Trace
Overview: A famous mystery writer uses his own plot tricks to murder a blackmailer in this British thriller.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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Appointment with Venus
1951-10-08
Appointment with Venus
Overview: At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-08
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The Galloping Major
1951-05-07
The Galloping Major
Overview: A syndicate is set up to buy a racehorse, but they end up buying the wrong one by mistake. Unfortunately the horse is useless on the flat, so they try entering him as a jumper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-07
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1959-03-10
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Overview: Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948-10-04
Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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