Geoffrey Keen
Also Known As: Geoffrey Keene, Geoffrey Ian Keen
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Geoffrey Keen (21 August 1916 – 3 November 2005) was an English actor who appeared in supporting roles in many famous films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Geoffrey Keen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: August 21, 1916
Age: 108 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 03, 2005
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Moonraker
Overview: After Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned to investigate, traveling to California to meet the company's owner, the mysterious Hugo Drax. With the help of scientist Dr. Holly Goodhead, Bond soon uncovers Drax's nefarious plans for humanity, all the while fending off an old nemesis, Jaws, and venturing to Venice, Rio, the Amazon...and even outer space.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-06-26
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The Spy Who Loved Me
Overview: Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-07
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Octopussy
Overview: James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the mystery and uncovers a smuggling scandal and a Russian General who wants to provoke a new World War.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-05
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For Your Eyes Only
Overview: A British spy ship has sunk and on board was a hi-tech encryption device. James Bond is sent to find the device that holds British launching instructions before the enemy Soviets get to it first.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-06-24
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A View to a Kill
Overview: A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-24
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Thunderbird 6
Overview: The International Rescue team is faced with one of its toughest challenges yet, as the revolutionary lighter-than-air craft Skyship One is hijacked while on her maiden voyage around the world. Against backdrops including the Statue of Liberty and the Sphinx, Lady Penelope, Parker, Alan and Tin-Tin fight the hijackers from on-board, while the rest of the team tries to stop the airship crashing.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-03
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Yield to the Night
Overview: Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-19
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The Fallen Idol
Overview: Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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Treasure Island
Overview: Enchanted by the idea of locating treasure buried by Captain Flint, Squire Trelawney, Dr. Livesey and Jim Hawkins charter a sailing voyage to a Caribbean island. Unfortunately, a large number of Flint's old pirate crew are aboard the ship, including Long John Silver.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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Malta Story
Overview: Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a British pilot falls in love with a young Maltese girl.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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Town on Trial
Overview: When an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club. It falls to Police Inspector Halloran to sort out all the red herrings, and finally after a confrontation at the top of the local church spire, arrest the culprit. Another fascinating look at what life was like in Britain during the 50's.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-24
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Doomwatch
Overview: The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Angels One Five
Overview: The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of Britain. After an unfortunate start and a drumming down from his commanding officer, Baird must balance the struggle to impress his Group Captain, regain his pride, fit in with his fellow pilots, and survive one of the most intense air battles in history.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-19
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Taste the Blood of Dracula
Overview: Three elderly distinguished gentlemen are searching for some excitement in their boring borgoueis lives and gets in contact with one of count Dracula's servants. In a nightly ceremony they restore the count back to life. The three men killed Dracula's servant and as a revenge, the count makes sure that the gentlemen are killed one by one by their own sons.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-07
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Berserk!
Overview: A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-01
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Dr. Syn, Alias the Scarecrow
Overview: English vicar Dr. Syn becomes a scarecrow on horseback by night to thwart King George III's taxmen.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-06
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Genevieve
Overview: Two friends driving in the London to Brighton vintage car rally bet on which of them will be the first to arrive back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-28
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Born Free
Overview: At a national park in Kenya, English game warden George Adamson and his wife, Joy, care for three orphaned lion cubs. After the two larger lions are shipped off to a zoo in the Netherlands, the smallest of the three, Elsa, stays with the couple. When Elsa is blamed for causing an elephant stampede in the nearby village, head warden John Kendall demands the young lion either be trained to survive in the wilds of the Serengeti or be sent to a zoo.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-26
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The Man Who Never Was
Overview: The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
Genres: Thriller War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-03
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The Clouded Yellow
Overview: After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion (wrongfully) falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux (Jean Simmons). Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together. After a cross-country chase they arrive at a coastal city with the intention of leaving the country by ship. All's well that ends well after the true identity of the murderer is revealed.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-21
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Horrors of the Black Museum
Overview: A writer of murder mysteries finds himself caught up in a string of murders in London.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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Raising the Wind
Overview: 'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Overview: Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-16
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Doctor in the House
Overview: The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-03-23
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Doctor at Sea
Overview: The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-12
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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Nowhere to Go
Overview: A professional thief is sprung from prison with the assistance of a new partner who wants to know where he's hid his loot.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-02
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The Mind Benders
Overview: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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The Long Memory
Overview: An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-23
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Living Free
Overview: When Elsa's three mischievious cubs begin wreaking havok on the nearby villages, Joy and her husband are forced to move them hundreds of miles to a game preserve.
Genres: Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-04-15
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Lady in the Fog
Overview: In this murder mystery, a woman's brother is killed in a freak accident, or so she believes. Fortunately for her, an American journalist is more suspicious and so begins roaming the London streets in search of the killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-13
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The Angry Silence
Overview: When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Rise and Fall of Idi Amin
Overview: The chronicle of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin and his tyranic rule from 1971 to his overthrow in 1979.
Genres: Drama History Crime Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-07-16
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Walt Disney Treasures - Dr. Syn: The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh
Overview: "Scarecrow! Scarecrow! The soldiers of the King feared his name!" And so begins the hard-to-forget theme song to The Scarecrow of Romney Marsh. Walt Disney's thrilling 3-part adventure was produced for his Wonderful World of Color weekly TV show and aired February 1964. Filled with action, drama and suspense, it follows the adventures of Dr. Christopher Syn - brave priest by day, righter of wrongs by night. And, for the first time, presented in Widescreen format on DVD.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-11
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High Treason
Overview: Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
Genres: Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-13
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Rob Roy, The Highland Rogue
Overview: After the 1715 defeat of the clans, one of the highland leaders, Rob Roy MacGregor escapes, has lots of adventures, gets married, and eventually becomes enough of a nuisance to George I to be outlawed, and hunted by the English
Genres: Action Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-26
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The Spanish Gardener
Overview: Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small coastal town in Spain with his son, Nicholas. Harrington is unreasonably possessive of Nicholas and becomes jealous when he begins to form a close friendship with Jose, their gentle gardener.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-25
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House of Secrets
Overview: Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-23
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The Glass Cage
Overview: A circus barker stages a sensational new act, the world's longest fast undertaken by “Sapolio”, on view in a glass cage. But this act also results in several murders, a kidnapping, and a poisoning!
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Face the Music
Overview: A famed trumpet player is suspected of murdering a blues singer. Using only two minor clues, he narrows the suspects to four people, but only after surviving poison placed on the mouthpiece of his trumpet!
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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The Scapegoat
Overview: An Englishman in France unwittingly is placed into the identity, and steps into the vacated life, of a look-alike French nobleman.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-06
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Turn the Key Softly
Overview: A bitter burglar, a prostitute and an elderly shoplifter spend their first day out of jail.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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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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The Masqueraders
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis), investigate crimes.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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The Spiral Road
Overview: A selfish and prideful young Dutch doctor, through a series of circumstances, comes to learn that he does indeed "need" a higher spiritual being and other people.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-03
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Green Grow the Rushes
Overview: Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-06
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The Inspector
Overview: At the end of WW2, a compassionate Dutch policeman helps smuggle a Jewish woman into British Palestine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-05-24
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Portrait of Alison
Overview: An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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The Dover Road Mystery
Overview: A British short film about Scotland Yard investigating a group of bank robbers who take normal sedan cars and transform them into race cars.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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The Divided Heart
Overview: During World War II, a German woman, Inga, goes missing and is presumed dead. Her infant son is placed in an orphanage where, years later, he's adopted by a childless couple. The adoptive parents' happiness is shattered when Inga reappears and insists on custody of her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-09
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Spare the Rod
Overview: It is London in the year 1960 and John Saunders enthusiastically begins his new teaching career at a tough slum-area school. His class are bored pupils in their last term before leaving. Will he handle the grave problems that lie ahead?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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His Excellency
Overview: A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-22
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Passage Home
Overview: Set in 1931, the film takes place aboard a merchant ship, briefly harboured in South America. A young woman (Diane Cilento) boards the ship as a passenger, resulting in disharmony among the superstitious crew members. Virtuous seaman Anthony Steel protects the girl from the lecherous advances of captain Peter Finch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-17
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The Scamp
Overview: Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-07
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Chance of a Lifetime
Overview: The workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-04-24
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The Long Arm
Overview: Scotland Yard detectives attempt to solve a spate of safe robberies across England beginning with clues found at the latest burglary in London. The film is notable for using a police procedural style made popular by Ealing in their 1950 film The Blue Lamp. It is known in the US as The Third Key.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-01
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No. 1 of the Secret Service
Overview: No. 1 is fearless, irrestible, and licensed to kill. No. 1 is assigned to capture a madman killing international financiers. Before getting the bad guy, No. 1 encounters mercenaries from the evil organization K.R.A.S.H. (Killing, Rape, Arson, Slaughter, and Hit).
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-10-31
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Live Now - Pay Later
Overview: Albert, a cheeky, womanising, door-to door salesman, with a never-take-no-for-an-answer attitude, lives his life for the moment, and with no thought of his future, or the consequences of his actions on the people he encounters.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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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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Licensed to Love and Kill
Overview: A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-01
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Return to Sender
Overview: A fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. When he learns that a particularly brilliant barrister will lead the prosecution against him he sets out to undermine the credibility of the barrister.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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The Cracksman
Overview: Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Prince and the Pauper
Overview: In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the prince regains his rightful identity and graciously makes his "twin" a ward of the court.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-11
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Loser Takes All
Overview: Bertrand, an accountant employed by a large London firm, is called to the office of the Managing Director, Dreuther, to explain a mistake in the accounts. Dreuther is highly impressed by the young accountant's skilful explanation of the error and, hearing that Bertrand is soon to marry his spirited young fiancée, tells him to spend the honeymoon not in Bournemouth, but Monte Carlo at the company s expense! However, events in the fabulous Mediterranean paradise do not work out quite as Bertrand had envisaged...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-09
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Devil's Bait
Overview: The police, with the help of a baker, try to find the owner a loaf of bread accidentally poisoned with potassium cyanide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-01
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Hunted
Overview: An unexpected bond develops between a fugitive killer and a runaway orphan on an odyssey across England.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-17
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The Third Man
Overview: In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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Best Ever Bond
Overview: Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
Genres: Documentary Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-11-22
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Deadly Record
Overview: A young airline pilot wrongly accused of murdering his unfaithful wife searches for the real killer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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The Birthday Present
Overview: Returning from a business trip, toy salesman Simon Scott is caught attempting to smuggle a wristwatch bought for his wife's birthday through Customs. He is arrested and, due to a bungled defence by his solicitor, obliged to serve a three-month prison sentence. It is only the beginning of his woes; his employer, Colonel Wilson, is understanding, but he is ultimately forced to sack Simon, who discovers that finding another job under such circumstances is extremely difficult. But Colonel Wilson is determined to help his former employee find a solution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-31
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Holocaust 2000
Overview: An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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Doctor at Large
Overview: Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-26
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The Malpas Mystery
Overview: After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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The 'Maggie'
Overview: The poor, elderly—and the wily, when it comes to parting those who can afford it from their money—Scottish skipper of a broken-down old 'puffer' boat tricks an American tycoon into paying him to transport his personal cargo. When the tycoon learns of the trick, he attempts to track down the boat and remove his possessions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-25
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Doctor Zhivago
Overview: The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Riders of the New Forest
Overview: Two children attempt to tame a wild New forest pony in this jolly kids' adventure. When they befriend local farm hand, Davy, the children begin to suspect he may be a horse thief.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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The Living Daylights
Overview: After a defecting Russian general reveals a plot to assassinate foreign spies, James Bond is assigned a secret mission to dispatch the new head of the KGB to prevent an escalation of tensions between the Soviet Union and the West.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-29
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The New Lot
Overview: A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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The Secret Place
Overview: British Melodrama and crime thriller that follows a group of jewel robbers after a major heist. The film makes extensive use of bombed out areas of London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Storm Over the Nile
Overview: In 1885, while his regiment is sent to the Sudan to battle the rebellious Dervish tribes, British Lieutenant Harry Faversham resigns his officer's commission in order to remain with his fiancée Mary Burroughs in England. His friends and fellow officers John Durrance, Peter Burroughs and Tom Willoughby brand him a coward and present him with the white feathers of cowardice. His fiancée, Mary, adds a fourth feather and breaks off their engagement. However, former Lieutenant Faversham decides to regain his honor by fighting in the Sudan incognito.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-26
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The Heroes of Telemark
Overview: Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf Pedersen in an effort to destroy the German heavy water production plant in rural Telemark.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-12
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Torpedo Bay
Overview: An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-09-21
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Cry, the Beloved Country
Overview: In the back country of South Africa, black minister Stephen Kumalo journeys to the city to search for his missing son, only to find his people living in squalor and his son a criminal. Reverend Misimangu is a young South African clergyman who helps find his missing son-turned-thief and sister-turned-prostitute in the slums of Johannesburg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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Sailor Beware
Overview: Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-04
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
Overview: The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-03
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A Matter of WHO
Overview: Health officials from the World Health Organization link a smallpox outbreak in Europe to oil drilling in the Middle East.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-03
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No Love for Johnnie
Overview: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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The Awakening
Overview: "The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-07-14
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Cheer the Brave
Overview: A newly married man soon finds his new wife to be a tyrant. After discovering her previous husband is not really dead, he manages to escape from her clutches.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-01
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It's Hard to be Good
Overview: A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-10
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Cromwell
Overview: Disgusted with the policies of King Charles I, Oliver Cromwell plans to take his family to the New World. But on the eve of their departure, Cromwell is drawn into the tangled web of religion and politics that will result in the English Civil War.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-16
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Carrington V.C.
Overview: Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn
Overview: Tribute to Desmond Llewelyn who playing Q in 17 James Bond films. This trailer with archief footage was created as tribute for SE dvd of The World Is Not Enough. His final movie before he died on 19 December 1999.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-12-31
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The Small Back Room
Overview: At the height of World War II, the Germans begin dropping a new type of booby-trapped bomb on England. Highly skilled but haunted bomb disposal officer Sammy Rice must overcome his personal demons to defeat this new threat.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-21
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Odd Man Out
Overview: Belfast police conduct a door-to-door manhunt for an IRA gunman wounded in a daring robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-30
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A Town Like Alice
Overview: In 1941 Malaysia, the advancing Japanese army captures a lot of British territory very quickly. The men are sent off to labor camps, but they have no plan on what to do with the women and children of the British.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-01
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Meet Mr. Lucifer
Overview: A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-11-30
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The Boy and the Bridge
Overview: A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on the Tower Bridge in London. A little boy named Tommy watches as his father is arrested after a bad brawl. Tommy believes his father must have killed someone and rather than return home, he heads to Tower Bridge to set up housekeeping there. The atmosphere and life around the bridge are a secondary protagonist in the story, introducing several interesting characters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-07-28
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