Lester Matthews
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lester Matthews (June 6, 1900 - June 5, 1975) was an English actor born in Nottingham, England, UK. In his career, he made more than 180 appearances in film and on television. He was on occasion erroneously credited as Lester Mathews and especially in later years was sometimes known as Les Matthews. He died on the 6 June 1975 in Los Angeles, California. He was cremated. His ashes were scattered into the Pacific Ocean. He appeared on television many times including an episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour entitled "Completely Foolproof" (original air date: March 29, 1965). Description above from the Wikipedia Lester Matthews, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Birthday: June 05, 1900
Deathday: June 06, 1975
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Werewolf of London
1935-05-13
Werewolf of London
Overview: A strange animal attack turns a botanist into a bloodthirsty monster.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-05-13
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The Invisible Man's Revenge
1944-06-09
The Invisible Man's Revenge
Overview: A fugitive, dangerous madman reaches an English village where he confronts his former partner who left him for dead in the jungle after their discovery of a diamond mine. When the former partner also claims to have since lost the mine and all its wealth, which he took all for himself, and though the partmer is still living in a state of luxury , the madman takes up an offer from a crazed scientist to make him invisible, something the scientist has already done with experimental animals, so that he can take revenge.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-06-09
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Man in the Attic
1953-12-23
Man in the Attic
Overview: London, 1888: on the night of the third Jack the Ripper killing, soft-spoken Mr. Slade, a research pathologist, takes lodgings with the Harleys, including a gloomy attic room for "experiments." Mrs. Harley finds Slade odd and increasingly suspects the worst; her niece Lily (star of a decidedly Parisian stage revue) finds him interesting and increasingly attractive. Is Lily in danger, or are her mother's suspicions merely a red herring?
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-23
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Hollywood Horror House
1970-01-01
Hollywood Horror House
Overview: An enigmatic young man manipulates his way into working at the decaying mansion of a once prolific, but now reclusive and alcoholic, movie star named Katharine Packard. While the rest of the house staff become suspicious of Vic's intentions, the aging movie queen is smitten. But as Vic begins behaving in more and more erratic ways, it becomes clear that he's far more sinister than his demeanor implies.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Mysterious Mr. Moto
1938-09-17
Mysterious Mr. Moto
Overview: The Japanese detective rounds up a league of assassins for Scotland Yard.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-17
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Moonfleet
1955-06-24
Moonfleet
Overview: Set in the eighteenth century, Moonfleet is about John Mohune, a young orphan who is sent to the Dorset village of Moonfleet to stay with an old friend of his mother's, Jeremy Fox. Fox is a morally ambiguous character, an elegant gentleman involved with smugglers and pirates.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-24
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Assault on a Queen
1966-06-15
Assault on a Queen
Overview: A group of adventurers refloat a WWII German submarine and prepare to use it to pull a very large heist; The Queen Mary which they plan to rob on the high seas.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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The Prince and the Pauper
1937-04-30
The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: Two boys – the prince Edward and the pauper Tom – are born on the same day. Years later, when young teenage Tom sneaks into the palace garden, he meets the prince. They change clothes with one another before the guards discover them and throw out the prince thinking he's the urchin. No one believes them when they try to tell the truth about which is which. Soon after, the old king dies and the prince will inherit the throne.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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Two O'Clock Courage
1945-04-13
Two O'Clock Courage
Overview: A cab driver nearly hits a man with amnesia, then helps him unravel his past, only to discover he's a murder suspect as she falls for him.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-13
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Against All Flags
1952-12-24
Against All Flags
Overview: A British naval officer fights pirates in Madagascar.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-24
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Manila Calling
1942-10-16
Manila Calling
Overview: During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines and became the first U.S. Guerrilla fighters.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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The Raven
1935-07-08
The Raven
Overview: A brilliant but deranged neurosurgeon becomes obsessively fixated on a judge's daughter. With the help of an escaped criminal whose face he has surgically deformed, the mad man lures her, her father, and her fiancé to his isolated castle-like home, where he has created a torture chamber with the intent of torturing them for having 'tortured' him.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-08
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Across the Pacific
1942-09-04
Across the Pacific
Overview: Rick Leland makes no secret of the fact he has no loyalty to his home country after he is court-martialed out of the army and boards a Japanese ship for the Orient in late 1941. But has Leland really been booted out, or is there some other motive for his getting close to fellow passenger Doctor Lorenz? Any motive for getting close to attractive traveler Alberta Marlow would however seem pretty obvious.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-04
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I Love a Mystery
1945-01-25
I Love a Mystery
Overview: In San Francisco, detective partners Jack Packard and Doc Long are hired by socialite Jefferson Monk who believes someone is following him with the aim to kill him.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-25
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I Am a Criminal
1938-12-07
I Am a Criminal
Overview: In this crime drama, a gangster uses an innocent newsboy to manipulate the jury just prior to his manslaughter trial. The 10-year-old newsboy idolizes the gangster. Eventually the lad's admiration comes to deeply affect the gangster who begins to soften up. Meanwhile his moll plans to rob him. The newsboy intervenes and stops her.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-07
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King Richard and the Crusaders
1954-08-07
King Richard and the Crusaders
Overview: Based on Sir Walter Scott's The Talisman, this is the story of the romantic adventures of Christians and Muslims during the battle for the Holy Land in the time of King Richard the Lionheart.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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Bad for Each Other
1953-12-24
Bad for Each Other
Overview: A doctor returned from the Korean War must choose between joining a glamorous practice and helping the poor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-12-24
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The Pied Piper
1942-08-21
The Pied Piper
Overview: Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Setting off to try and get back home he is persuaded to take along the two Cavanaugh children, and as his journey progresses his family keeps growing in size. Once in German-occupied northern France a new problem arises — the risk of being heard speaking English.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-21
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The Mysterious Doctor
1943-03-03
The Mysterious Doctor
Overview: The citizens of a tiny Cornish village are tormented during World War II by a headless ghost which is haunting the local tin mine.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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Two Tickets to London
1943-06-14
Two Tickets to London
Overview: Accused of helping an enemy submarine, a man escapes and joins a beautiful girl in trying to find the real traitors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-06-14
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Four Jills in a Jeep
1944-03-17
Four Jills in a Jeep
Overview: Reenactments of actual USO experiences of its female stars entertaining troops overseas.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-03-17
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Northern Pursuit
1943-11-07
Northern Pursuit
Overview: Canadian Mountie Steve Wagner captures a German Luftwaffe officer on a spy mission, who later escapes from the prison camp. To catch the spy ring, the Mounties employ a ruse so that the spies, believing Steve to be sympathetic, enlist him in their plans.
Genres: Adventure War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-07
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Captain Pirate
1952-08-27
Captain Pirate
Overview: In 1690, years have passed since Captain Blood was pardoned by the Crown for his daring deeds against the Spanish on the Spanish Main, and he is living quietly on his plantation in the West Indies, practicing medicine and planning his marriage to Isabella. But his peaceful existence is shattered when Hilary Evans arrives and arrests him on a piracy charge. Somebody has been raiding the islands, and making it appear it was Captain Blood. In order to prove his innocence, Captain Blood has to sail again under the "Jolly Roger."
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-27
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Les Miserables
1952-08-14
Les Miserables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-08-14
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London Blackout Murders
1943-01-15
London Blackout Murders
Overview: A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-15
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Lancer Spy
1937-10-08
Lancer Spy
Overview: An Englishman impersonates an imprisoned German officer and "returns" to Germany to become a national hero. A female German spy is assigned to check him out but falls in love with him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-10-08
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Salty O'Rourke
1945-03-22
Salty O'Rourke
Overview: A gambler and his buddy find a wise-guy jockey for their long-shot horse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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If I Were King
1938-09-28
If I Were King
Overview: King Louis XI masquerades as a commoner in Paris, seeking out the treachery he is sure lurks in his kingdom. At a local tavern, he overhears the brash poet François Villon extolling why he would be a better king. Annoyed yet intrigued, the King bestows on Villon the title of Grand Constable. Soon Villon begins work and falls for a lovely lady-in-waiting, but then must flee execution when the King turns on him.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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The Son of Dr. Jekyll
1951-10-31
The Son of Dr. Jekyll
Overview: The son of the notorious Dr. Henry Jekyll is determined to prove that his father's reputation has been unjustly deserved. He sets out to develop his father's formula in order to prove that he was a brilliant scientist rather than a murderous monster.
Genres: Crime Horror Romance Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land
1952-03-17
Jungle Jim in the Forbidden Land
Overview: Jungle Jim is forced to lead anthropologist Dr. Edwards into a land inhabited by giant people.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-17
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Called Back
1933-06-05
Called Back
Overview: 'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-05
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Think It Over
1938-07-24
Think It Over
Overview: A gang of 'professional torches' burn down stores for the insurance money.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-24
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Jungle Man-Eaters
1954-06-01
Jungle Man-Eaters
Overview: Jungle Jim does battle with a would-be diamond smuggler and a renegade tribe.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-01
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Professional Soldier
1935-12-27
Professional Soldier
Overview: Mercenary Donovan is hired to kidnap King Peter II. He learns that the party in power is evil and that the King is in danger, so kidnaps the King to keep him safe while a revolution is planned.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Flame of the Islands
1955-12-04
Flame of the Islands
Overview: A café singer buys a gambling casino and several men fall in love with her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-04
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Too Many Parents
1936-03-19
Too Many Parents
Overview: Boys are sent to military school in order to get them out of the way of their too-busy-to-bother parents or guardians. Lonely young Philip Stewart writes himself letters his father should be writing. When his hoax is discovered, Philip attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-19
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Borrowed Clothes
1934-03-01
Borrowed Clothes
Overview: Lady Torrent attempts to sell some of her best Parisian gowns to get back into her husband's good books. Confusion ensues following a misunderstanding over an advertisement.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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The Brigand
1952-06-24
The Brigand
Overview: Carlos Delargo, the banished son of a royal princess of Mandorra, is returned to the kingdom to be tried for a murder change. However, he is freed by King Lorenzo, whom bears a remarkable resemblance to Delargo. When the king is wounded by assassins sent by Napoleon, Delargo takes over the throne at the request of the Prime Minister in a plot to thwart the traitors. He also falls in love with Princess Teresa, the king's fiancée.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-24
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Lorna Doone
1951-05-31
Lorna Doone
Overview: An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Operation Secret
1952-11-05
Operation Secret
Overview: After assisting the French Underground during WWII, an American Officer is later accused of murder and subversive activities by former colleagues. Based on the actual exploits of Lieutenant Colonel Peter Ortiz.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-05
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Fort Ti
1953-04-30
Fort Ti
Overview: Future horror-film entrepreneur William Castle warmed the director's chair for Fort Ti. Set in the 18th century, the film recounts the exploits of Rogers' Rangers, a band of adventurers devoted to seeking out a "northwest passage" through Canada. At this juncture, however, Major Rogers (Howard Petrie) is more concerned with helping the British forces at Fort Ticonderoga during a series of French and Indian raids. Top billing is bestowed upon George Montgomery as Captain Pedediah Horn, Rogers' right-hand man. The film boasts two leading ladies: Joan Vohs, as a suspected French spy, and Phyllis Fowler as a married Indian woman who falls in love with Captain Horn. Fort Ti was filmed in 3D, and in typical William Castle fashion the stereoscopic gimmick is exploited to the hilt.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-30
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Savage Mutiny
1953-02-03
Savage Mutiny
Overview: Jungle Jim battles enemy agents while helping a local tribe relocate from an atomic test bomb site.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-03
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Jungle Queen
1945-01-22
Jungle Queen
Overview: A young girl journeys to Africa to find her father, an explorer who vanished in the jungle.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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Crack-Up
1936-12-14
Crack-Up
Overview: Betrayal and espionage abound as an experimental aircraft is readied for its maiden voyage.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-14
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Three Loves Has Nancy
1938-09-02
Three Loves Has Nancy
Overview: A small-town country homebody goes to New York to find her missing fiancé and gets romantically involved with two sophisticated men.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-02
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Gipsy Blood
1931-10-30
Gipsy Blood
Overview: In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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There's Always a Woman
1938-04-20
There's Always a Woman
Overview: An investigator for the District Attorney's office quits to open his own detective agency. However, business is so bad that he finally decides to give it up and go back to his old job. As his wife is at his office closing up, a wealthy society matron walks in with a case: she wants to know if her husband is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, who is now married. The wife accepts what looks to be an easy case, figuring than she can then persuade her husband to re-start the agency. However, when the client's husband is found murdered, she decides to investigate the murder herself. Her husband has also been assigned by the D.A. to investigate the murder, and he doesn't know that his wife is also on the case. Complications ensue.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-04-20
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Blossom Time
1934-01-01
Blossom Time
Overview: World-renowned tenor Richard Tauber features in a dramatisation of the life of Schubert, focusing on the composer's unrequited love for a dance master's daughter.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Conspiracy
1939-08-01
Conspiracy
Overview: American Steve Kendall, a freighter's radio officer, discovers seaman Carlson sending an unauthorized message ashore as the ship approaches his war-poised homeland. Carlson is shot in cold blood when he jumps ship and Kendall, implicated in the espionage, swims ashore to avoid arrest. A woman he meets at the dock hides him in her apartment, where he learns Carlson was her brother, and they both work in a sabotage ring. Nedra is a singer at Tio's Cafe, and she approaches Tio for help when both the saboteurs and the secret police try to capture Steve.
Genres: Romance Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-01
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The Scorpio Letters
1967-09-01
The Scorpio Letters
Overview: A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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The Three Musketeers
1939-02-17
The Three Musketeers
Overview: A parodic remake of the story of the young Gascon D'Artagnan, who arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Susannah of the Mounties
1939-06-13
Susannah of the Mounties
Overview: This classic family drama stars Shirley Temple as young orphan Susannah Sheldon, the sole survivor of a brutal Indian attack who's befriended by Canadian Mountie Angus Montague (Randolph Scott) and his girlfriend, Vicky (Margaret Lockwood). The couple takes Susannah under their wing and soon learn that having a precocious child around can come in handy; when the Indians return, the girl uses her charm to broker peace.Shirley is the orphaned survivor of an Indian attack in the Canadian West. A Mountie and his girlfriend take her in...
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-13
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A Yank in the R.A.F.
1941-09-26
A Yank in the R.A.F.
Overview: An American pilot impulsively joins His Majesty's Royal Air Force in Britain in an attempt to impress his ex-girlfriend.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-26
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The Desert Rats
1953-05-20
The Desert Rats
Overview: In North Africa, German Field Marshal Rommel and his troops have successfully fended off British forces, and now intend to take Tobruk, an important port city. A ramshackle group of Australian reinforcements sent to combat the Germans is put under the command of British Captain MacRoberts. The unruly Aussies immediately clash with MacRoberts, a gruff, strict disciplinarian, however this unorthodox team must band together to protect Tobruk from the German forces.
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-20
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The Song You Gave Me
1933-01-01
The Song You Gave Me
Overview: Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Facing The Music
1933-12-23
Facing The Music
Overview: A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
1951-10-16
The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel
Overview: The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.
Genres: Action Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-16
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Appointment in Berlin
1943-07-15
Appointment in Berlin
Overview: The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-07-15
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The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
1940-11-02
The Lone Wolf Keeps a Date
Overview: Complicated plot involving missing stamp collection and kidnapped businessman, with the Lone Wolf keeping one step ahead of the police in Havana trying to solve the crime and make a profit.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-02
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5 Fingers
1952-02-22
5 Fingers
Overview: During WWII, the valet to the British Ambassador to Ankara sells British secrets to the Germans while trying to romance a refugee Polish countess.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-22
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Song and Dance Man
1936-03-11
Song and Dance Man
Overview: Julia and Hap are a dance team. He drinks and gambles, she succeeds for a while with the help of producer Alan.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-03-11
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Should a Girl Marry?
1939-06-07
Should a Girl Marry?
Overview: A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Free For All
1949-11-01
Free For All
Overview: The discovery of a way of turning petrol into water makes a fortune and romance for the young inventor.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-11-01
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Mary Poppins
1964-12-17
Mary Poppins
Overview: Mr Banks is looking for a nanny for his two mischievous children and comes across Mary Poppins, an angelic nanny. She not only brings a change in their lives but also spreads happiness.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Monsieur Verdoux
1947-09-26
Monsieur Verdoux
Overview: The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-26
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British Intelligence
1939-11-10
British Intelligence
Overview: During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Thank You, Jeeves!
1936-10-04
Thank You, Jeeves!
Overview: Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-04
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15 Maiden Lane
1936-10-16
15 Maiden Lane
Overview: Insurance investigator Trevor pretends to be a thief to enter a gang of jewel thieves.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-10-16
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The Biscuit Eater
1940-05-24
The Biscuit Eater
Overview: Two little boys have faith in a dog they name Promise, so much faith that they enter him in the championship trials for bird dogs. The favorite is Georgia Boy bred and trained by the boys' fathers. And if Georgia Boy doesn't win, the fathers may both lose their jobs.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-24
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1938-05-13
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Overview: Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Gaucho Serenade
1940-05-09
Gaucho Serenade
Overview: Gene Autry and sidekick Frog Millhouse depart Madison Square Garden and NYC heading west for home in their car and a horse trailer carrying Gene's horse, Champion. They discover that Ronnie Willoughby, a young boy just off the boat from school in England, has hitched a ride, thinking that Gene and Frog were sent by his father to meet him. Ronnie thinks his father is a big rancher in the west and doesn't know that his father, Alfred Willoughby, is serving time in San Quentin prison because of a frame-up by the officials of a packing company. To keep the father from testifying against them, the packing company officials, Carter, Jenkins and Martin, have arranged for the boy to be kidnapped. Along the way a runaway bride, Joyce Halloway, and her young sister Patsy join the troupe.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-09
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Rogues of Sherwood Forest
1950-06-21
Rogues of Sherwood Forest
Overview: The son of Robin Hood carries on his late father's tradition.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-06-21
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Northwest Passage
1940-02-23
Northwest Passage
Overview: Based on the Kenneth Roberts novel of the same name, this film tells the story of two friends who join Rogers' Rangers, as the legendary elite force engages the enemy during the French and Indian War. The film focuses on their famous raid at Fort St. Francis and their marches before and after the battle.
Genres: Adventure History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-23
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The Sea Hawk
1940-08-10
The Sea Hawk
Overview: Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-10
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Niagara
1953-01-26
Niagara
Overview: Rose Loomis and her older, gloomier husband, George, are vacationing at a cabin in Niagara Falls, N.Y. The couple befriend Polly and Ray Cutler, who are honeymooning in the area. Polly begins to suspect that something is amiss between Rose and George, and her suspicions grow when she sees Rose in the arms of another man. While Ray initially thinks Polly is overreacting, things between George and Rose soon take a shockingly dark turn.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-26
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Montana
1950-01-28
Montana
Overview: An Australian sheep man comes to Montana looking for grazing space, is opposed by local ranchers and a wealthy cattle-woman.
Genres: Western Action Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-28
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Trouble Along the Way
1953-04-04
Trouble Along the Way
Overview: Struggling to retain custody of his daughter following his divorce, football coach Steve Williams finds himself embroiled in a recruiting scandal at the tiny Catholic college he is trying to bring back to football respectability.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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Ten Wanted Men
1955-02-01
Ten Wanted Men
Overview: When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power in the territory.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-01
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Creeping Shadows
1931-07-28
Creeping Shadows
Overview: Three victims plot to murder a retired informer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-28
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Rulers of the Sea
1939-11-08
Rulers of the Sea
Overview: The struggle of a man to build a steam ship to take him across the Atlantic in spite of all setbacks, and his win against a crack sailing boat in the early 19th century.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-08
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The Man at Six
1931-08-01
The Man at Six
Overview: A butler is found murdered in an unfurnished mansion house.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-08-01
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Fires of Fate
1932-09-06
Fires of Fate
Overview: In Egypt a colonel with a year to live saves a girl from an Arab prince.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-06
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The Old Man
1931-12-15
The Old Man
Overview: 'Charlady helps unmask man who stabbed lady's blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-15
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The Wickham Mystery
1931-10-19
The Wickham Mystery
Overview: 'Crooks steal pearls and helicopter plans.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-19
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Her Night Out
1932-10-11
Her Night Out
Overview: A married couple accidentally become mixed up with a bank robber.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-11
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Indiscretions of Eve
1932-09-12
Indiscretions of Eve
Overview: Eve and Peter fall in love at first sight at a New Year's Eve party, but are separated by Eve's jealous fiancé, Ralph. With neither knowing the other's name, they both spend the following day searching frantically for each other around London. Peter's only clue is a set of shop mannequins, all perfect likenesses of Eve - and all made by Ralph's factory.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-12
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Dark Delusion
1947-06-24
Dark Delusion
Overview: Spoiled socialite Cynthia Grace is suffering from a blood clot. Not unexpectedly, Tommy Coalt falls in love with Cynthia, much to her parents' dismay. Soon he's drawing up plans to marry the girl and setting up private practice in a smaller town.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-24
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Nine Girls
1944-02-17
Nine Girls
Overview: One of the members of a sorority is found murdered. Although the police are called in to investigate, some of the girls decide to do some sleuthing on their own to unmask the killer.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-02-17
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Tyrant of the Sea
1950-02-22
Tyrant of the Sea
Overview: In 1803, the only thing standing between Napoleon and his plan of world domination is England and the British Navy. The admiralty, learning that Napoleon has assembled an invasion fleet decides to send out one of its vessels to destroy it the French flagship under cover of fog. Forced out of retirement, ruthless, tyrannical and temperamental Captain William Blake is put in command. He wields his command with sadistic fury until an epidemic of scurvy attacks the crew and, when he refuses to go ashore for needed provision, mutiny and insubordination results...and, then, the French flagship arrives.
Genres: History Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Lady In The Iron Mask
1952-07-04
Lady In The Iron Mask
Overview: A female version of the man in the iron mask. In this version the mask is put on a princess (patricia medina) rather than a prince as in the original book by Alexander Dumas.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-04
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay
1947-05-15
Bulldog Drummond at Bay
Overview: "Bulldog" Drummond is vacationing in his country home in England, and his house if rifled by two thieves. After they leave he finds a card marked with some mysterious letters. Doris Meredith comes by the next day, pretending her car has broken down. Drummond knows better but plays along with her. Drummond calls Scotland Yard Inspector Holmes, and is informed that some of the letters comprise the code-name for a Yard-man who disappeared while carrying some diamonds from France to England. Doris tells Drummond the man is her brother. Drummond uses a decoy to lure the thieves out of hiding, but they adduct Doris.
Genres: Adventure Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-15
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Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
1942-01-29
Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake
Overview: Sir Arthur Blake has inherited title and lands from his brother. He also has his orphaned nephew Benjamin working for him as a bonded servant. While he believes the lad was born out of wedlock and so cannot claim the inheritance, he is taking no chances. Benjamin eventually rebels against his uncle and sets sail to try and make his fortune. This may enable him to return to prove his claim to being the rightful heir to the estate.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-29
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Time Out for Murder
1938-09-25
Time Out for Murder
Overview: A bank runner is accused of killing a woman for whom he deposited a large amount. Reporter and bank official investigate.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-25
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Shadows in the Night
1944-07-27
Shadows in the Night
Overview: A criminal psychologist tries to help a beautiful heiress going mad in a haunted mansion.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-07-27
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Sangaree
1953-05-17
Sangaree
Overview: Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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Corvette K-225
1943-09-29
Corvette K-225
Overview: The story of a Canadian WWII naval vessel, with a dramatic subplot concerning her first captain.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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The Lady and the Bandit
1951-08-13
The Lady and the Bandit
Overview: Highwayman Dick Turpin rides 200 miles to save his wife from the gallows in 18th-century England.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-13
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The Exile
1947-10-17
The Exile
Overview: In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-17
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Lloyd's of London
1936-11-25
Lloyd's of London
Overview: Norfolk, England, 1770. The nephew of an innkeeper and the son of a reverend maintain a very close friendship until, after living a great adventure, they must separate their paths. The former will head his footsteps to London and bound his destiny to Lloyd's, a thriving insurance company; the latter will eventually become one of the greatest heroes in the history of the British Empire.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-25
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On Secret Service
1933-12-15
On Secret Service
Overview: Greta Nissen stars as an Italian noblewoman living a dangerous double life as a spy. A remake of the celebrated German thriller Spione am Werk. Co-starring noted German actor Karl Ludwig Diehl and American matinee idol Don Alvarado. The film takes place in Vienna, 1912. When an Austrian staff officer is implicated by association with a known Italian spy he goes on the run. Three years later - as the Great War gets into full swing - he returns and begs the Austrian Secret Service to allow him to clear his name from suspicion.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Young Bess
1953-05-29
Young Bess
Overview: The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her unexpected ascension to the throne at a mere 25. Charles Laughton reprises his Academy Award®-winning* role as her formidable father Henry VIII. Deborah Kerr plays her last stepmother (and Henry's last of six wives), gentle Catherine Parr. And Simmons' then real-life husband, Stewart Granger, adds heroics as Lord Admiral Thomas Seymour. In a resplendent world of adventure, romance and court intrigue, Young Bess reigns.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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Man Hunt
1941-06-13
Man Hunt
Overview: Shortly before the start of WW2, renown British big-game hunter Thorndike vacationing in Bavaria has Hitler in his gun sight. He is captured, beaten, left for dead, and escapes back to London where he is hounded by Nazi agents and aided by a young woman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2000.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-13
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By Love Possessed
1961-07-19
By Love Possessed
Overview: An unhappily married woman engages in an affair with her husband's law partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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Between Two Worlds
1944-05-20
Between Two Worlds
Overview: Passengers on an ocean liner can't recall how they got onboard or where they are going. Soon it becomes apparent that they all have something in common.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-20
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Walk Like a Dragon
1960-06-01
Walk Like a Dragon
Overview: California, 1870s. The cowboy Lincoln 'Linc' Bartlett finds out there's a slave auction of Chinese women in San Francisco and he intervenes and purchases the Chinese Kim Sung from the auction with the intent of setting her free. But it doesn't occur to Linc that setting her free isn't enough. Where is she going to go? Kim doesn't speak English and she's just going to be exploited by somebody else. Linc takes Kim home to serve as a housekeeper. Ma Bartlett Linc's mother, is not happy that a Chinese girl is living in her home, and even less happy when Kim and her son fall in love. Their affair also arouses the jealousy of Cheng Lu, a Chinese immigrant.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Far Horizons
1955-07-04
The Far Horizons
Overview: Virginia, 1803. After the United States of America acquires the inmense Louisiana territory from France, a great expedition, led by William Lewis and Meriwether Clark, is sent to survey the new lands and go where no white man has gone before.
Genres: Drama History Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-04
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Objective, Burma!
1945-02-17
Objective, Burma!
Overview: A group of men parachute into Japanese-occupied Burma with a dangerous and important mission: to locate and blow up a radar station. They accomplish this well enough, but when they try to rendezvous at an old air-strip to be taken back to their base, they find Japanese waiting for them, and they must make a long, difficult walk back through enemy-occupied jungle.
Genres: War Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-02-17
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She Was Only A Village Maiden
1933-02-23
She Was Only A Village Maiden
Overview: Quota quickie adaptation of the play "Priscilla The Rake".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-23
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