Ian Hunter
Biography: Ian Hunter (13 June 1900 – 22 September 1975) was a British character actor. Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include That Certain Woman (1937) with Bette Davis, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, as King Richard the Lionheart), The Little Princess (1939, as Captain Reginald Crewe) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, as Dr. Lanyon). Hunter returned to the Robin Hood legend in the 1955 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the recurring role of Sir Richard of the Lea. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ian Hunter, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: June 13, 1900
Deathday: September 23, 1975
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1941-08-12
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run amok.
Genres: Drama Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-12
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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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Come Live with Me
1941-01-31
Come Live with Me
Overview: Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-01-31
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The Little Princess
1939-03-17
The Little Princess
Overview: A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
Genres: Family Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-17
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
1932-05-12
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Overview: A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-12
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Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939-06-16
Tarzan Finds a Son!
Overview: A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later a search party comes to find the young heir to millions of dollars. Jane agrees, against Tarzan's will, to lead them to civilization.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-16
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Tower of London
1939-11-17
Tower of London
Overview: In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne, then occupied by his brother King Edward IV of England. As each murder is accomplished he takes particular delight in removing small figurines, each resembling one of the successors, from a throne-room dollhouse, until he alone remains. After the death of Edward he becomes Richard III, King of England, and need only defeat the exiled Henry Tudor to retain power.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-17
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Easy Virtue
1928-04-01
Easy Virtue
Overview: Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-04-01
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The Ring
1927-09-28
The Ring
Overview: Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-28
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1941-02-21
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
Overview: All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge has gone to all the trouble of getting him his very own private secretary.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-21
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The Battle of the River Plate
1956-10-30
The Battle of the River Plate
Overview: In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Isles, facing the great danger posed by the many German warships, such as the Admiral Graf Spee, which are scouring the ocean for cargo ships to sink.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-30
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Bedelia
1946-07-08
Bedelia
Overview: Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-08
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Maisie
1939-06-22
Maisie
Overview: Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman Charles "Slim" Martin when he accuses her of lifting his wallet and ends up being hired as a maid for ranch owners Cliff and Sybil, who are attempting to mend their rocky marriage after Sybil's infidelity with a cowboy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-22
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935-10-09
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-09
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Strange Cargo
1940-03-01
Strange Cargo
Overview: Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Doctor Blood's Coffin
1961-01-01
Doctor Blood's Coffin
Overview: After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research laboratory in a secluded cave. There, he attempts to revive the dead, using kidnapped humans -- who he views as unworthy of life -- for their body parts, specifically, their hearts.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Long Voyage Home
1940-11-16
The Long Voyage Home
Overview: The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-16
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Bad Little Angel
1939-10-27
Bad Little Angel
Overview: A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Appointment in London
1953-02-17
Appointment in London
Overview: Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortly be retiring from flying, but the strain is showing. He tries to make sure his men concentrate only on their job and so keeps women away from the base, but then he himself meets naval officer Eve Canyon.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-02-17
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Confession
1937-08-19
Confession
Overview: Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-19
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Another Dawn
1937-06-26
Another Dawn
Overview: Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashton, who cares deeply for him but believes herself incapable of love following the death of her fiancé; some time before. Wister convinces her that he loves her enough to live without her romantic love and that she should marry him. She does so and returns to Dubik with him. There she meets his adjutant, Captain Denny Roark. Roark is a dashing young man who reminds Julia thoroughly of her lost love. Soon she finds she is indeed capable of love, but it is Roark with whom she falls in love, not her husband. As warfare with the local tribes heats up and as Wister gains awareness of the unconsummated romance growing between his wife and best friend, tragedy lurks.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-26
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The Man from Toronto
1933-01-01
The Man from Toronto
Overview: According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelor. Both are bequeathed a fortune, but there is a condition to receive it; the two must marry within a year. To aid matters, Leila disguises herself as Fergus' maid, and the two begin to fall in love. However, when Fergus discovers the truth, he is less than pleased by the deception.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Edward, My Son
1949-03-01
Edward, My Son
Overview: Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-01
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That Certain Woman
1937-08-30
That Certain Woman
Overview: A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-30
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Eight O'Clock Walk
1954-03-16
Eight O'Clock Walk
Overview: Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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Bitter Sweet
1940-11-08
Bitter Sweet
Overview: A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-08
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Death at Broadcasting House
1934-11-01
Death at Broadcasting House
Overview: An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-01
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The Sisters
1938-10-14
The Sisters
Overview: Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-10-14
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Billy the Kid
1941-05-30
Billy the Kid
Overview: Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Keating is killed, Billy seeks revenge on the men who killed him, even if it means opposing his friend, Marshal Jim Sherwood.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-30
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Something Always Happens
1934-12-10
Something Always Happens
Overview: Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol stations more attractive to customers. When the man rejects the idea Peter joins a rival company and becomes a great success.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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Broadway Serenade
1939-04-07
Broadway Serenade
Overview: A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer only wants the singer, leaving the husband without a job and feeling a failure.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-07
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Smilin' Through
1941-10-01
Smilin' Through
Overview: John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kathleen, the 5-year-old orphaned niece of Moonyean, and she quickly grows up to look just like her aunt.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-01
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The Phantom Light
1935-08-05
The Phantom Light
Overview: Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the rock along with Alice Bright. When the light is later smashed, Jim reveals that his brother’s ship is the wreckers’ latest target, while Alice is a detective sent to investigate.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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Fortune Is a Woman
1957-03-13
Fortune Is a Woman
Overview: An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Call It a Day
1937-04-17
Call It a Day
Overview: The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-17
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Dulcy
1940-10-04
Dulcy
Overview: A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's future father-in-law. And Wacky stuff happens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-04
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Always Goodbye
1938-06-24
Always Goodbye
Overview: Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is born, Jim helps her find a home for the baby with Phil Marshall and his wife. Margot insists that neither the Marshalls nor the child can ever know that she is his mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-24
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Secrets of an Actress
1938-09-10
Secrets of an Actress
Overview: Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-10
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
1935-06-01
The Girl from 10th Avenue
Overview: When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decide to give their marriage a chance. Their landlady, a one-time Floradora girl, offers to help Miriam become refined. Successful again, Geoffrey is approached ("if only we were free") by Valentine. Miriam tells Valentine off in no uncertain terms. Geoffrey moves into his club where Valentine's husband tells him he is a fool to leave Miriam
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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The Door in the Wall
1956-06-29
The Door in the Wall
Overview: A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-29
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Stolen Holiday
1937-02-06
Stolen Holiday
Overview: A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-02-06
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983-02-25
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Overview: Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival footage make up this star-studded voyeuristic look at the Golden age of Hollywood during the 30s, 40, and 50.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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The Church Mouse
1934-12-10
The Church Mouse
Overview: When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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Gallant Sons
1940-11-15
Gallant Sons
Overview: When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-15
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Sally in Our Alley
1931-07-09
Sally in Our Alley
Overview: A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-09
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Lazybones
1935-06-23
Lazybones
Overview: Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-23
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The Treasure of Monte Cristo
1961-06-22
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
Overview: A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jackson (Ian Hunter) and his daughter Pauline (Patricia Bredin) on a perilous quest for treasure. Possessing one-quarter of a map, they soon rendezvous with three mysterious characters, each with a fragment and a secret agenda. Armed with only a sword and his wits, Corbett battles brigands, soldiers and thieves as he accompanies the expedition to the island of Monte Cristo, where betrayal and fortune await.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-22
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
1939-02-25
Yes, My Darling Daughter
Overview: Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend their last weekend together in a tourist cabin at a rural lake. Her family is shocked that a young unmarried woman would engage in such amoral activity. The comic plot develops as Ellen argues her case for women's freedom and independence, trying to win over her mother, grandmother, and other dubious relatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-25
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White Cradle Inn
1947-02-28
White Cradle Inn
Overview: This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants to adopt a French orphan and he doesn't.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-28
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It Started in Paradise
1952-10-28
It Started in Paradise
Overview: A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She also forgets that you meet the same people on the way up as on the way down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-28
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I Found Stella Parish
1935-11-16
I Found Stella Parish
Overview: A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-16
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It Comes Up Love
1943-04-09
It Comes Up Love
Overview: This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a flirtation parallel with that of their elders, Louise Allbritton and Ian Hunter.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-04-09
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Guns of Darkness
1962-07-19
Guns of Darkness
Overview: Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife to the edge of despair. It turns them into outlaws and fugitives, hunted by a vicious South American regime; yet it could also bring them together in a way they have never been before.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-07-19
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The Bulldog Breed
1960-12-13
The Bulldog Breed
Overview: Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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The White Unicorn
1947-10-29
The White Unicorn
Overview: In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-29
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Comet Over Broadway
1938-12-03
Comet Over Broadway
Overview: Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-03
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Cape Forlorn
1931-01-08
Cape Forlorn
Overview: William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an affair with Henry Cass, the handsome assistant later taken on by her husband; when she then begins to flirt with a stranger who is rescued from the wreck of a motor-launch, a chain of shocking events is set in motion...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-08
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The Devil Is a Sissy
1936-09-18
The Devil Is a Sissy
Overview: A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Ziegfeld Girl
1941-04-25
Ziegfeld Girl
Overview: Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-25
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The White Angel
1936-06-25
The White Angel
Overview: In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable profession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-25
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To Mary - with Love
1936-08-01
To Mary - with Love
Overview: Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keeping them together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-08-01
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A Yank at Eton
1942-09-01
A Yank at Eton
Overview: An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-01
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Safeguarding Military Information
1942-01-16
Safeguarding Military Information
Overview: World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military information.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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The Queen's Guards
1961-10-17
The Queen's Guards
Overview: Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead a parachute battalion while Henry is put in charge of a platoon of armoured cars of the Household Cavalry. John is constantly being told by his father, an ex-Guards officer that he is not as good as his brother who was killed during the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-17
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Broadway Melody of 1940
1940-02-09
Broadway Melody of 1940
Overview: Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who thinks he is one of the people they lent money to, gives him the name of his partner.
Genres: Music Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-09
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Jalna
1935-08-09
Jalna
Overview: A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-09
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Syncopation
1929-03-23
Syncopation
Overview: Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-23
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Not For Sale
1924-09-30
Not For Sale
Overview: An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-09-30
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The Valley of Ghosts
1930-03-21
The Valley of Ghosts
Overview: 'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-21
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The Mystery of the Indian Temple
1963-11-20
The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Overview: Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of Hasnabad. Doctor Palmer and Gopal, his devoted assistant, escape with the complicity of Amrita
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
1963-11-06
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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The Water Gipsies
1932-03-21
The Water Gipsies
Overview: Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-21
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Confessions
1925-06-01
Confessions
Overview: Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attractive girl but finally finds a match in the plainer one, while the other girl realises the worth of the prim and correct head clerk.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-06-01
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The Night of the Party
1934-07-16
The Night of the Party
Overview: A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect, but the inspector isn't so sure ...
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-07-16
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The Silver Spoon
1934-06-04
The Silver Spoon
Overview: “A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-04
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Forever and a Day
1943-01-21
Forever and a Day
Overview: In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-21
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No Escape
1934-11-26
No Escape
Overview: “Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-11-26
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Marry Me
1932-10-05
Marry Me
Overview: A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-10-05
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Breakdowns of 1938
1938-12-31
Breakdowns of 1938
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-31
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A Dream Comes True
1935-12-31
A Dream Comes True
Overview: A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-31
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Breakdowns of 1937
1937-12-31
Breakdowns of 1937
Overview: Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-31
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1942-10-05
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
Overview: Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-05
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52nd Street
1937-11-19
52nd Street
Overview: The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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The Morals of Marcus
1935-02-11
The Morals of Marcus
Overview: A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-02-11
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Orders Is Orders
1933-07-18
Orders Is Orders
Overview: A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't want any part of it, but the producer and his secretary cook up a scheme to trick the officer into letting him use the base and its men. Their plan succeeds, but things don't turn out quite the way they were expecting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-18
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Rockets Galore
1958-10-19
Rockets Galore
Overview: The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world would be the perfect place for a rocket launch site.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-19
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His House in Order
1928-02-24
His House in Order
Overview: A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-24
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Downhill
1927-10-24
Downhill
Overview: Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-24
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North West Frontier
1959-10-13
North West Frontier
Overview: In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-13
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Don't Blame the Stork
1954-01-01
Don't Blame the Stork
Overview: When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to take it in. Katie O'Connor, an actress who has auditioned unsuccessfully for a part in a production featuring Redway, pretends to be the child's mother in order to be near the actor. Complications develop involving Lillian Angel, Redway's fiancée, her admirer Captain Fluffy Faversham, and Katie's father, who suspects the worst of Sir George and his daughter. Eventually, the real mother of the baby returns to collect her child, all is resolved, and romance blossoms between Katie and Sir George.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Escape!
1930-08-28
Escape!
Overview: When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day and is forced to rely on the goodwill of local people to remain a fugitive of the law.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-28
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The Thoroughbred
1929-08-19
The Thoroughbred
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-19
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