James Hayter
Biography: James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a British actor. He was born in Lonavala, India, brought up in Scotland and died in Spain. His best remembered film roles include Friar Tuck in the 1952 film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles. A pupil of Dollar Academy, he became a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his film career began in 1936 in Sensation, but was interrupted by World War II during which he served in the Royal Armoured Corps. His later career included roles in TV series such as The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Onedin Line and Are You Being Served?. His 1946 television series Pinwright's Progress, shown on the BBC, is recognised as the first real example of the half-hour situation comedy format in the history of British television. He was also the original narrator of the UK television advertisements for Mr. Kipling cakes. In fact, these ads led to his departure from Are You Being Served?; the cake company paid him a significant bonus to withdraw from the series, as they felt his reputation lent an air of dignity to their snack advertisements. In the film Oliver!, he played Mr Jessop the book shop owner. He appeared in scenes when Dodger steals a gentleman's wallet outside the book shop and also when Oliver is in court charged with the robbery. Hayter used to have a tree house in his back garden where he would retire of an evening to learn and practise his lines from his current script. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Hayter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 23, 1907
Deathday: March 27, 1983
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The Horror of Frankenstein
1970-11-08
The Horror of Frankenstein
Overview: Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-08
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The Fallen Idol
1948-09-30
The Fallen Idol
Overview: Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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The Crimson Pirate
1952-09-27
The Crimson Pirate
Overview: Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval fights and tons of swordplay.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-27
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The 39 Steps
1959-03-13
The 39 Steps
Overview: In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-13
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The Blood on Satan's Claw
1971-01-28
The Blood on Satan's Claw
Overview: The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of devil worshipers.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-28
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The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1952-05-26
The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
Overview: Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by henchmen of Prince John. Robin takes up the life of an outlaw, gathering together his band of merry men with him in Sherwood Forest, to avenge his father's death and to help the people of the land that Prince John are over taxing.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-26
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Burke & Hare
1972-02-03
Burke & Hare
Overview: Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Genres: Horror Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Beau Brummell
1954-11-16
Beau Brummell
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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For Better, for Worse
1954-06-20
For Better, for Worse
Overview: In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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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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The End of the River
1947-12-01
The End of the River
Overview: A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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Gideon's Day
1958-03-25
Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Royal Review
1953-01-01
Royal Review
Overview: Survey of the Royal Highlights of June in Coronation year; the Coronation, the Derby, Queen's visits to Guildhall and Edinburgh. Made in 3-D.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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A Challenge for Robin Hood
1967-07-01
A Challenge for Robin Hood
Overview: After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group of outlaws. Although initially suspicious of the aristocrat's motives, the men are soon won over by his integrity and prowess and Robin transforms them into a formidable fighting force, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. As word of his fame and valour spreads, a legend is born.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-01
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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
1947-03-12
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Overview: A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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The Moon in the Yellow River
1938-12-28
The Moon in the Yellow River
Overview: Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-28
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Once a Jolly Swagman
1949-02-02
Once a Jolly Swagman
Overview: A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Four Sided Triangle
1953-06-15
Four Sided Triangle
Overview: A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends, the perfect triangle. But years later when Lena returns to her sleepy home the tone of the relationship changes and it is Robin she loves. Bill has discovered a method of duplication and decides to make an exact replica of the woman he cannot have... .with disastrous consequences for them all.
Genres: Science Fiction Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-15
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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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Murder in Soho
1939-02-01
Murder in Soho
Overview: A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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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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The Pickwick Papers
1952-11-14
The Pickwick Papers
Overview: The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Always a Bride
1953-08-12
Always a Bride
Overview: Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald Squire and Peggy Cummins) who pose as a married couple and swindle wealthy clients at the region's swankiest resorts. But their scams take on a whole new dimension when daughter Clare falls for a British government bureaucrat (Terence Morgan) who may have a secret or two of his own. [Netflix]
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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The Big Money
1958-06-09
The Big Money
Overview: Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-09
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Dear Mr. Prohack
1949-09-07
Dear Mr. Prohack
Overview: A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-07
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Silent Dust
1949-02-01
Silent Dust
Overview: A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long before the dedication ceremony is to be held, the son shows up; it turns out that he wasn't killed in battle but deserted, and has become a blackmailer and a killer. He wants to get some money to "start a new life", but his blind father senses that something is wrong and sets out to find out what's going on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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I'm A Stranger
1952-07-01
I'm A Stranger
Overview: When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has mysteriously gone missing. As his greedy relatives try to seize the estate, George gets the help of a movie star (Greta Gynt), a window cleaner (James Hayter and a police inspector (Herbert Ross) to track down the missing will. It seems that justice will prevail -- but is George Wescott really George Wescott?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-01
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Out of the Fog
1962-09-01
Out of the Fog
Overview: Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Song of Norway
1970-11-04
Song of Norway
Overview: Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic Norwegian national music. It stars Toralv Maurstad as Grieg and features an international cast including Florence Henderson, Christina Schollin, Robert Morley, Harry Secombe, Oskar Homolka, Edward G. Robinson and Frank Porretta (as Rikard Nordraak). Filmed in Super Panavision 70 by Davis Boulton and presented in single-camera Cinerama in some countries, it was an attempt to capitalise on the success of The Sound of Music.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-04
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A Day to Remember
1953-11-10
A Day to Remember
Overview: A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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A Song for Tomorrow
1948-06-08
A Song for Tomorrow
Overview: Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn Maccabe). When he regains consciousness, Wardwell thinks he's in love with her. After his amnesia is cured, Wardwell returns to his fiancee while Helen begins a romance with his doctor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-08
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Marigold
1938-11-03
Marigold
Overview: Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title by Lizzie Allen Harker and Francis R. Pryor.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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Big Fella
1938-01-03
Big Fella
Overview: Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns Gerald escaped of his own will and takes him to stay with a local singer, who offers a refuge from his repressed white parents.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-03
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The Blue Lagoon
1949-03-01
The Blue Lagoon
Overview: In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical island in the company of kindly old sailor. Together they survive solely on their resourcefulness and the bounty of their remote paradise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-01
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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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All Over the Town
1949-04-25
All Over the Town
Overview: Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's partner and son offers Nat a position as editor in return for his financial backing. But Nat's reluctance to shy away from controversial issues raises more than a few eyebrows.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-25
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Port Afrique
1956-06-18
Port Afrique
Overview: An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-18
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The Captain's Table
1959-01-06
The Captain's Table
Overview: A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-06
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Touch and Go
1955-10-02
Touch and Go
Overview: When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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The Great Game
1953-01-01
The Great Game
Overview: The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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It's a Wonderful World
1956-08-28
It's a Wonderful World
Overview: Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of the charts, they find themselves having to produce the "real" composer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-28
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David Copperfield
1969-12-01
David Copperfield
Overview: A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin Phillips as a young man, brooding on a deserted beach, recalling his youth. The characters are all trotted out in choppy flashbacks as David remembers his life as a young orphan, brought to London and passed around from relatives, to guardians, to boarding school.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Not Tonight, Darling
1971-09-23
Not Tonight, Darling
Overview: A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his friend. She eventually finds out and gets her revenge on them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-09-23
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Come on George!
1939-12-01
Come on George!
Overview: George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse and wins
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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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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For Them That Trespass
1949-04-21
For Them That Trespass
Overview: In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to begin wandering about the seamiest side of town where he witnesses a murder. When an innocent man is arrested, the writer refuses to assist him as the knowledge that he has been "slumming" could destroy his career. The young man is sentenced to 15 years in prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-21
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Keep It Clean
1956-05-01
Keep It Clean
Overview: A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Band Waggon
1940-03-23
Band Waggon
Overview: A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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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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Morning Departure
1950-02-21
Morning Departure
Overview: The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-21
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Sensation
1936-12-16
Sensation
Overview: Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him promise to give the job up. When a pretty waitress is found murdered, however, Pat falls in line with the rest of the 'Murder Gang' the pack of reporters who gather to glean stories by fair means or foul!
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-16
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Aren't Men Beasts!
1937-01-19
Aren't Men Beasts!
Overview: Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-19
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Passport to Pimlico
1949-10-26
Passport to Pimlico
Overview: When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Oliver!
1968-09-26
Oliver!
Overview: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-26
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Flesh and Blood
1951-03-06
Flesh and Blood
Overview: Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various conflicts and romances.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-06
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The Firechasers
1971-01-01
The Firechasers
Overview: Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Land of the Pharaohs
1955-07-24
Land of the Pharaohs
Overview: A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his next life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-24
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Quartet
1948-10-26
Quartet
Overview: Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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The Light Princess
1978-12-24
The Light Princess
Overview: Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-24
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Mañana...
1957-03-15
Mañana...
Overview: "Tomorrow ..." (mañana...) is the easy exit to deceive themselves of those who feel the impotence and the cowardice to confront face to face their circumstances in life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-03-15
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The October Man
1947-08-28
The October Man
Overview: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-28
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Waterfront
1950-07-26
Waterfront
Overview: When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after his departure. After an absence of fourteen years McCabe returns, sacked and humiliated, trailing trouble in his wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-26
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The Awakening
1954-07-14
The Awakening
Overview: "The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Cop-Out
1967-05-23
Cop-Out
Overview: John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is accused of murder, Sawyer decides to try to pull himself together and defend him in court.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-23
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Your Witness
1950-03-06
Your Witness
Overview: Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-06
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Sailors Three
1940-12-14
Sailors Three
Overview: Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-14
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Night and the City
1950-06-15
Night and the City
Overview: Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-15
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The Heart Within
1957-07-01
The Heart Within
Overview: This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a black friend on the run who is accused of murder.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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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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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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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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I Was Monty's Double
1958-10-21
I Was Monty's Double
Overview: The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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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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Captain Boycott
1947-08-26
Captain Boycott
Overview: Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt. Boycott (Cecil Parker) band together to assert their rights. Patriotic farmer Hugh Davin (Stewart Granger) leads the rebels. Choosing nonviolent resistance, the villagers ostracize their nemesis, who squanders his fortune to repair his ruined reputation and wagers what's left on a horse race.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Will Any Gentleman...?
1953-08-25
Will Any Gentleman...?
Overview: A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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Gideon's Day
1958-03-25
Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Woman Hater
1948-10-13
Woman Hater
Overview: A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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No Room at the Inn
1948-11-22
No Room at the Inn
Overview: A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-22
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Don't Ever Leave Me
1949-07-19
Don't Ever Leave Me
Overview: Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous actor. When Harry loses his nerve, Sheila won't let him give up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-07-19
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The Laughing Lady
1946-10-16
The Laughing Lady
Overview: A musical set during the French Revolution.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-16
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The Spider and the Fly
1949-12-01
The Spider and the Fly
Overview: "The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe plays Phillipe de Ledocq, a resourceful safecracker who always manages to elude arrest. Eric Portman is cast as police-chief Maubert, who will not rest until Ledocq is behind bars. And Nadia Gray is Madeleine, the woman beloved by both Ledocq and Maubert. Just as Maubert has managed to capture his man, Ledocq is released at the behest of the government, who wants him to steal secrets from the German embassy revealing the whereabouts of the Kaiser's secret agents. And just how does Madeleine figure into all of this? Spider and the Fly is a diverting precursor to the 1960s TV series It Takes a Thief." ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-01
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Sail Into Danger
1957-11-01
Sail Into Danger
Overview: In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm his shipmate, sending the pilot, himself an ex-smuggler into such a rage that he kills two gang members and helps police capture the survivors and bring them to justice.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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The Mark of Cain
1947-03-14
The Mark of Cain
Overview: An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it leads to murder…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-03-14
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Vice Versa
1948-01-28
Vice Versa
Overview: Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-28
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The Boy and the Bridge
1959-07-28
The Boy and the Bridge
Overview: A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on the Tower Bridge in London. A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a bad brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up housekeeping there. The atmosphere and life around the bridge are a secondary protagonist in the story, introducing several interesting characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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