Basil Dignam
Also Known As: Basil Martin Dignam
Biography: Basil Dignam (24 October 1905 - 31 January 1979) was an English character actor.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sheffield, Metropolitan Borough of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
Birthday: October 24, 1905
Deathday: January 31, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Corridors of Blood
Overview: Dr. Thomas Bolton fights for the use of anesthetic in surgery and uses himself as a guinea pig, but soon finds himself addicted.
Genres: Drama Horror Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Overview: Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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Naked Evil
Overview: Jamaican obi-man hexes student hostel manager, eventually causing the manager's death, before being killed himself by the manager's vengeful spirit.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-27
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The Court Martial of Major Keller
Overview: Lawrence Payne stars as Major Kellor, a well respected and decorated officer who is being court-martialled for the murder of his commanding officer Colonel Winch. The facts of the case are shrouded by the mayhem of war and the effects that fear, pressure and duty have upon a soldier. Did the Major covet the Colonel's wife? Was the Major ambitious and kill Winch to secure a promotion? Or had the Colonel cracked under the pressure of an illustrious battle career? To prove his innocence Major Keller must rely on the evidence and testimonies given in court, however when he himself is the only witness, his word may not be good enough to win his freedom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Son of a Stranger
Overview: A young man searches for the father he never knew, who he believes to be a millionaire.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-03
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The Depraved
Overview: Fed up with her wealthy but abusive husband, Tom (Basil Dignam), young English homemaker Laura Wilton (Anne Heywood) conspires with her lover, American Army captain Dave Dillon (Robert Arden), to have her boozy spouse meet an "accidental" demise. But a nosy copper (Denis Shaw) suspects foul play, and soon the lovers' crafty scheme deteriorates into fear, distrust and betrayal. Paul Dickson directs this vintage noir thriller.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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Three Sundays to Live
Overview: Band leader Frank Martin is convicted and sentenced to death for murdering the owner of a club in which he had performed. Frank's innocent of the crime, and singer Ruth Chapman can provide him with an alibi. But Ruth is missing, and records show she died years before. As Frank awaits execution, he enlists the help of his heiress girlfriend and his lawyer to clear his name.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-01
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The Secret Partner
Overview: A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-01
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The Jokers
Overview: Brothers Michael and David Tremayne decide to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London, not for criminal purposes, but to make themselves famous.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-15
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The Nice Americans
Overview: American airman loves English girl whose father refuses permission for their marriage out of hatred for all Yankees.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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80,000 Suspects
Overview: A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-08-15
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Up the Creek
Overview: Bumbling navy officer Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather (David Tomlinson) is transferred to HMS Berkeley, an old World War II destroyer, to keep him out of harm's way. But together with Chief Petty Officer Doherty (Peter Sellers), Fairweather gets into more trouble than might be thought possible, with events coming to a riotous conclusion when the Admiralty turn up for an inspection of the ship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-05-13
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname
Overview: Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-18
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Seven Seas to Calais
Overview: Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Ring of Spies
Overview: The film is based on the actual events of the Portland Spy Ring trial in the U.K. A disgruntled Navy Clerk is transferred to a secret research establishment and is subsequently black-mailed/paid by Czech intelligence to procure secrets for them. He seduces the secretary who controls the most secret documents, and they enjoy the fruits of their treachery until the British authorities begin to close in on them.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-23
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The Weapon
Overview: A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder case.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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Suspect
Overview: A government team researching cures for plague find their results put on the Official Secrets list. One of their number is so incensed by this that he lets the maimed and jealous companion of a female colleague draw him into what, technically, could be a treasonable act.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-15
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Innocent Sinners
Overview: A neglected girl in post-World War II London befriends street urchins who help her build a tiny garden in a bombed-out church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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The Cuckoo Patrol
Overview: Freddie and the Dreamers play part of a Scout troupe that get caught up in a series of misadventures on their way to camp.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-16
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Victim
Overview: A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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I'm All Right Jack
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Touch and Go
Overview: When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to uproot his family and emigrate to Australia - but his problems are only just beginning.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-02
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You Pay Your Money
Overview: Crime drama in which a couple get involved in a web of intrigue surrounding the husband's employer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-02-13
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Further Up the Creek
Overview: The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Gorgo
Overview: Greedy sailors capture a giant lizard off the coast of Ireland and sell it to a London circus. Then its mother shows up.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-02
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Assignment K
Overview: Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-16
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Room at the Top
Overview: An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-29
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Number Ten
Overview: The Prime Minister heads a cabinet divided on the question of either using force against an African state, or referring the matter to the United Nations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-10-07
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Sentenced for Life
Overview: An engineer is wrongly convicted of selling secrets to enemy agents and is sentenced to life in prison. Convinced it was his former partner who framed him, he enlists his son to investigate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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I Spy a Stranger
Overview: Play set in the Home Counties during the Second World War. A Czech refugee arrives at her cousin's Mrs Hudson's, which create xenophobic problems in the local community.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-09-25
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The Quatermass Xperiment
Overview: The first manned spacecraft, fired from an English launchpad, is first lost from radar, then roars back to Earth and crashes in a farmer's field, and is found to contain only one of the three men who took off in it; and he is unable to talk but appears to be undergoing a torturous physical and mental metamorphosis.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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Lawrence of Arabia
Overview: The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Lawrence becomes a flamboyant, messianic figure in the cause of Arab unity but his psychological instability threatens to undermine his achievements.
Genres: Adventure History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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The Counterfeit Plan
Overview: An escaped murderer flees France to England, where he forces an ex-forger, now established as a reputable estate owner, and the forger's daughter who knew nothing of his past, to counterfeit 5-pound notes for mass distribution around the countryside.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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10 Rillington Place
Overview: The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles
Overview: In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-24
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The Narrowing Circle
Overview: A journalist is framed for the murder of a rival and has to prove his innocence, whatever the cost.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-29
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Twisted Nerve
Overview: Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Overview: While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Smart Alec
Overview: A young artist plots "the perfect murder" in order to inherit his wealthy uncle's fortune.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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The Spider's Web
Overview: Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie story.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-01
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Two on the Tiles
Overview: A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-01
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Sapphire
Overview: Two Scotland Yard detectives investigate the murder of a young woman of mixed race who had been passing for white. As they interview a spate of suspects -- including the girl's white boyfriend and his disapproving parents -- the detectives wade through a stubbornly entrenched sludge of racism and bigotry.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-11-02
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A Lizard in a Woman's Skin
Overview: Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes up to a real investigation into her neighbor's murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-02-18
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Where the Spies Are
Overview: A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Middle East, only to experience that his mission is complicated by a sexy female double agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-26
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Reach for the Sky
Overview: The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-07-05
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The Games
Overview: From Great Britain, the United States, France, Italy, Australia and behind the Iron Curtain. They are the most superbly conditioned animals in the world. They are also the pawns of powerful nations, the victims of dangerous drugs and the object of many men's ambitions. Once every four years they come together... for the Olympic Games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-07
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Life for Ruth
Overview: John Harris finds himself ostracized and placed on trial for allowing his daughter Ruth to die. His religious beliefs forbade him to give consent for a blood transfusion that would have saved her life. Doctor Brown is determined to seek justice for what he sees as the needless death of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-06
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Brothers in Law
Overview: Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Overview: The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Fate Takes a Hand
Overview: When a mail bag full of post that was taken in a robbery is discovered fifteen years later, a Post Office employee and local reporter decide to deliver the letters to their original intended addressees. This solitary incident has profound ramifications on several of the recipients and this film tells the story of how just five of those letters changed peoples lives forever.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-12
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Maytime in Mayfair
Overview: Penniless man-about-town Michael Gore-Brown is delighted to hear he has been left a high-class Mayfair fashion salon. His intention is to sell it as quickly as possible, but on meeting Ellen, chief designer and manager, he quickly changes his mind and turns his attention to courting her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-24
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Hammer the Toff
Overview: A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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The Lady with a Lamp
Overview: Based on the Reginald Berkeley stage play, this compelling historical drama offers a depiction of the life story of Florence Nightingale, the young 19th-century Englishwoman famously drawn to a career in nursing. Traveling to Turkey during the Crimean War, Florence gains a reputation for being devoted to the care of wounded soldiers and for pioneering higher standards for sanitary hospital conditions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-09-22
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Rotten to the Core
Overview: Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-14
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They Can't Hang Me
Overview: A murderer hopes to escape his death sentence by identifying the leaders of a spy ring.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-01
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A Touch of Larceny
Overview: After falling in love with an American woman, Virginia Killain, who is engaged to another man, British Naval Commander Max Easton, hatches a plan that will get him enough money to support Virginia in the lifestyle she is accustomed to. Easton's plan is to disappear for a time making it seem that he has defected to the Soviets taking important Naval secrets from his job at the Admiralty and to return and sue the newspapers for slander. Not everything goes as planned for Commander Easton.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-04
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Port of Escape
Overview: Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, commandeer a boat and take the three women on board hostage as they try to outrun the law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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Appointment with Venus
Overview: At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-08
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Laughter in the Dark
Overview: Swinging London in the 1960's. Deals with the affection of a middle-aged man for a very young woman, resulting in a mutually parasitic relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-11
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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 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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Carry On Sergeant
Overview: Sergeant Grimshawe wants to retire in the flush of success by winning the Star Squad prize with his very last platoon of newly called-up National Servicemen. But a motley bunch they turn out to be, and it's up to Grimshawe to put the no-hopers through their paces.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-08-31
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Master Spy
Overview: Boris Turganev (Murray) is a Russian scientist who has absconded from a Communist prison in an attempt to achieve a better life working for the British. As Boris struggles to make his superiors believe he is there to work and not to spy for the Russians, an office romance blossoms that could put his mission in jeopardy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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Young Winston
Overview: This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-20
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Battle of Britain
Overview: In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Genres: War History Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-15
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