Emlyn Williams
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. George Emlyn Williams, CBE (26 November 1905 – 25 September 1987), known as Emlyn Williams, was a Welsh dramatist and actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Emlyn Williams, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 26, 1905
Deathday: September 25, 1987
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Jamaica Inn
1939-05-11
Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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They Drive by Night
1938-12-01
They Drive by Night
Overview: “Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered. Fearing he will be wrongly accused of being the culprit he disappears amongst the long-distance lorry driving community. Meanwhile, the real killer, unassuming ex-schoolteacher Walter Hoover, continues to prey on London women. As Shorty had feared he has become the main suspect. He returns to London with old flame Molly to prove his innocence.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-01
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Ivanhoe
1952-07-31
Ivanhoe
Overview: Sir Walter Scott's classic story of the chivalrous Ivanhoe who joins with Robin of Locksley in the fight against Prince John and for the return of King Richard the Lionheart.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-31
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The Scarf
1951-04-06
The Scarf
Overview: A man who is believed to have murdered a woman, escapes from the insane asylum to find if he was the one to actually kill her using the scarf she was wearing.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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The Stars Look Down
1940-01-22
The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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Major Barbara
1941-05-14
Major Barbara
Overview: Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-14
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Another Man's Poison
1951-11-20
Another Man's Poison
Overview: Mystery novelist Janet Frobisher, lives in an isolated house, having been separated for years from her criminal husband. She has fallen in love with her secretary's fiancé and when her estranged husband unexpectedly returns, Janet poisons him, but just as she's about to dispose of the body, one of her husband's criminal cohorts also shows up.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-20
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The Citadel
1938-10-29
The Citadel
Overview: Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to London. His new practice does badly. But when a friend shows him how to make a lucrative practice from rich hypochondriacs, it will take a great shock to show him what the truth of being a doctor really is.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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Hatter's Castle
1942-02-02
Hatter's Castle
Overview: The year is 1880. On the outskirts of the fictional small Scottish town of Levenford there stands a strange building, half cottage, half castle, embraced with thick stone walls. The townsfolk nickname the fortress "Hatter's Castle", for James Brodie, the man who built it. Brodie is a hatter who keeps the members of the family in fear and submission; he is brutal, arrogant, selfish and cruel. His wife, who has long been ailing, and his daughter Mary, are in awe of him. His son Angus, aged 15, alone dear to his heart, suffers under his love as the others suffer under his sternness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-02
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The L-Shaped Room
1962-11-20
The L-Shaped Room
Overview: Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby's father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London boarding house, Jane befriends the odd group of inhabitants and starts an affair with one boarder, Toby. As Jane's pregnancy threatens her new relationship, and the reality of single motherhood approaches, she is forced to decide what to do about both her baby and her budding romance.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-20
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Girl in the News
1940-08-28
Girl in the News
Overview: An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arouses.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-28
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Web of Evidence
1959-04-28
Web of Evidence
Overview: A World War II evacuee returns years later to England and finds his father in prison framed for murder.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-28
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The Walking Stick
1970-04-15
The Walking Stick
Overview: A young woman's highly ordered and structured life is turned upside-down when she meets a handsome stranger at a party. Friendship soon develops into romance and for the first time in her life she is truly happy. This happiness is short lived, however, as little by little she discovers her partner has been lying to her about his past. It is soon revealed that he and his friends have been planning to rob the auction house that she works for and they require her inside knowledge in order to pull off the crime.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare
1959-11-17
The Wreck of the Mary Deare
Overview: A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-17
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The Last Days of Dolwyn
1949-04-13
The Last Days of Dolwyn
Overview: An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-13
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Broken Blossoms
1936-05-20
Broken Blossoms
Overview: A Chinese missionary comes to England. He helps a young girl ill-treated by her father. A remake of D. W. Griffith's Masterpiece.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-20
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The Deep Blue Sea
1955-11-01
The Deep Blue Sea
Overview: A woman is unhappy in her marriage to a boring, stiff judge, so she takes up with a wild-living RAF pilot, who ends up being more than she can handle. (TCM.com)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-01
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The Epic That Never Was
1969-09-19
The Epic That Never Was
Overview: The story of the aborted 1937 filming of "I, Claudius", starring Charles Laughton, with all of its surviving footage.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-19
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I Accuse!
1958-03-05
I Accuse!
Overview: Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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The Dictator
1935-02-07
The Dictator
Overview: The film depicts a dramatic episode in Danish history: the tumultous relationship between King Christian VII of Denmark and his English consort Caroline Matilda in Eighteenth century Copenhagen and the Queen's tragic affair with the royal physician and liberal reformer Johann Friedrich Struensee.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-07
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This England
1941-07-22
This England
Overview: Set in Claverly Village, it follows the fortunes of the Rookebys (Clements) and the ne'r-do-well Appleyards (Williams) from the time of the Normans, 1588, 1804, 1914, and 1940. Made to support morale during the war, its message is basically that you can't suppress the British; they've been there since the beginning; they'll be there to the end.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-07-22
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Evensong
1934-09-03
Evensong
Overview: Loosely based on the story of the singer Nellie Melba...
Genres: War Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-03
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My Song for You
1934-07-30
My Song for You
Overview: In this opera-oriented musical, Riccardo Gatti, an Italian young tenor in Venice, meets a young woman who sneaks into the opera house to try and get her fiancé hired as the orchestra's pianist.
Genres: Romance Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-30
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Dead Men Tell No Tales
1938-02-01
Dead Men Tell No Tales
Overview: The middle aged matron at a Norwich school wins a large prize in a French lottery. She is murdered in London and the murderer's secretary impersonates her and draws the old lady's prize money. There follows a series of killings until the murderer realises that he is trapped and commits suicide.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-01
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Road House
1934-11-29
Road House
Overview: Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Genres: Crime Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-29
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Night Alone
1938-07-13
Night Alone
Overview: Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-13
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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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City of Beautiful Nonsense
1935-05-01
City of Beautiful Nonsense
Overview: A young woman who is in love with a penniless composer, but believes she must marry a wealthy man to please her father. But only realises after various tribulations she should follow her heart rather than her head.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-01
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The Deadly Game
1982-07-22
The Deadly Game
Overview: Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party, an unwitting American becomes part of the game.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-07-22
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The Iron Duke
1934-11-30
The Iron Duke
Overview: The life and times of the Duke of Wellington
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-30
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Eye of the Devil
1966-11-18
Eye of the Devil
Overview: A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-18
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The Frightened Lady
1932-03-01
The Frightened Lady
Overview: A young woman goes to stay at the house of Lord Lebanon, but two murders in quick succession lead to the arrival of detectives and cause the woman to fear for her life.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-01
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Men of Tomorrow
1932-09-29
Men of Tomorrow
Overview: In the years after his graduation Allen Shepherd has become a successful novelist and has married Jane Anderson. A firm proponent of traditional sex roles, Shepherd leaves Jane when she accepts a teaching post at Oxford. He later changes his views, and the couple is reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-29
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Sally Bishop
1932-10-17
Sally Bishop
Overview: A British romantic drama film directed by T. Hayes Hunter
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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Past Caring
1986-11-02
Past Caring
Overview: 67 year-old Victor is forced to move into an old people's home but he prefers to grow old disgracefully.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-11-02
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The Magic Box
1952-01-01
The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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You Will Remember
1941-02-08
You Will Remember
Overview: Biography of popular English composer Leslie Stuart (Robert Morley), who rose to fame through performances of his songs by the tenor Ellaline Terriss (Dorothy Hyson). The peak of Stuart's success in the early 1900s is followed by poverty and obscurity with the arriving Jazz Age. In debtor's prison, Stuart is rescued by friends from happier times, and achieves a comeback in British music halls shortly before his death.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-08
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Three Husbands
1950-11-10
Three Husbands
Overview: When a recently deceased playboy gets to heaven and is granted one wish--granted to all newcomers--he requests that he be able to see the reactions of three husbands, with whom he regularly played poker, to a letter he left each of them claiming to have had an affair with each's wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-10
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Friday the Thirteenth
1933-11-01
Friday the Thirteenth
Overview: It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-01
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