Ian Wilson
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Ian Wilson was born on July 2, 1901 in Hampstead, London, England, UK. He was an actor, known for The Wicker Man (1973), The Good Companions (1957) and The Day of the Triffids (1963). He died in December 1987 in Exeter, Devon, England, UK.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Hampstead, London, England, UK
Birthday: July 02, 1901
Deathday: December 01, 1987
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Gender: Male
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Carry On Jack
Overview: Tenth entry in the Carry On series. Able seaman Poop-Decker signs up for adventure on the high seas with the wicked Captain Fearless. Those swabbing the decks include Juliet Mills, Charles Hawtrey and Donald Houston. The film was originally to be titled Up the Armada, but the British Board of Film Censors objected to such a rude title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-23
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The Last Page
Overview: A married bookstore owner is blackmailed after he makes a pass at his new sexy blonde clerk.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-25
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-25
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
Overview: The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to control the world with the help of his robot, which accidentally gets shipped to Mother Riley. Through radar control, he contacts the robot and orders it to come to him, bringing along Mother Riley! But his life is turned upside down when he holds this most meddling of mothers captive.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Box for One
Overview: A man on the run from a gang of criminals makes a series of increasingly panicked calls from a phone booth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-01-01
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What Next?
Overview: A man acquires a valuable artifact as a present for his girlfriend, inadvertently drawing a lunatic collector into pursuit of him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-22
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Dead by Morning
Overview: Gorgeous Kate Dax and her crime-writer husband, Andrew, investigate the murder of eccentric spinster Miss Tulip at a remote country cottage.
Genres: Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-07-01
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The Flanagan Boy
Overview: Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-10
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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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The Lady Craved Excitement
Overview: A music-hall performer and her boyfriend find themselves caught up in the machinations of a trio of not particularly bright crooks.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-08-01
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Thursday's Child
Overview: A couple's little girl becomes a movie star, but all it seems to bring is trouble.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-24
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Carry On Cleo
Overview: Two Britons—inventor Hengist Pod, and Horse, a brave and cunning fighter—are captured and enslaved by invading Romans and taken to Rome. One of their first encounters in Rome leaves Hengist being mistaken for a fighter, and gets drafted into the Royal Guard to protect Cleopatra.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-11-08
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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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The Key Man
Overview: The host of a radio crime show finds himself mixed up with real gangsters after he re-creates a notorious murder on the air. He uses his knowledge of criminology to foil the gang's wicked scheme.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Things Are Looking Up
Overview: Scatterbrain circus lady has to cover for her sour schoolmistress sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-09
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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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Inquest
Overview: A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Facing The Music
Overview: A joyful medley of farce, romance, song and slapstick starring Stanley Lupino as an impressionable youth whose pursuit of an opera singer’s niece lands him in trouble!
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-23
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Love, Life and Laughter
Overview: Gracie plays a London publican's daughter named after Nell Gwynn, who much like the original, becomes romantically involved with a King(John Loder).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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The Love Test
Overview: Romance set in a chemical factory.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-30
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Let George Do It!
Overview: Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
Genres: Comedy Music War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-12
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The Unholy Quest
Overview: A mad doctor attains the dead body of a racketeer who was recently murdered by a rival mobster. The doctor has a bizarre and sinister experiment in mind...he intends to use the corpse as a vessel to resurrect one of the Knights Templar from the time of the Christian Crusades.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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Shooting Stars
Overview: The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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Radio Cab Murder
Overview: Fred Martin, a taxi driver who is a reformed convict, is used by the police to go undercover in order to help catch a gang of safe robbers. However things start to go wrong when the police stake out the wrong bank and Fred finds himself alone with the crooks.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-10-01
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The Saint's Return
Overview: A private detective goes after the people who murdered his girlfriend.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-12
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Always Tell Your Wife
Overview: A comedic short filmed directed by an uncredited Alfred Hitchcock about an affair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-10
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Windsor Castle
Overview: British horror drama short from 1926.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Britannia of Billingsgate
Overview: The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Quiet Wedding
Overview: A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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Atlantic Ferry
Overview: The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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Love on the Dole
Overview: Depressing and realistic family drama about the struggles of unemployment and poverty in 1930s Lancashire. The 20-year-old Kerr gives an emotionally charged performance as Hardcastle, one of the cotton workers trying to make life better. Interlaced with humour that brings a ray of sunshine to the pervasive bleakness, this remains a powerful social study of life between the wars, and was a rare problem picture to come out of Britain at the time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-28
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The Dummy Talks
Overview: An operation of counterfeit five pound notes is discovered at a variety theater, leading to murder during the performance.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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The Woman from China
Overview: A jealous wife helps a Chinaman kidnap a lieutenant's fiancée.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-27
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Joy Ride
Overview: Two cousins invite their girlfriends on a joy-ride, but car trouble leads to catastrophe!
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-16
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Play Up the Band
Overview: A brass band goes to London to take part in a competition.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Third Time Lucky
Overview: Third Time Lucky" was released in February 1931 and was the first film to star Bobby Howes in a leading role. Based on a play by Arnold Ridley, who also wrote "The Ghost Train", and later went on to star in "Dad's Army", "Third time lucky" tells the story of a timid parson (Howes) who steps in to protect his ward from blackmail at the hands of Garry Marsh and Gordon Harker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-26
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The Dizzy Limit
Overview: A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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The Bailiffs
Overview: Two incompetent Bailiffs men reposess the wrong house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-30
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The Good Companions
Overview: The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-22
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Splinters in the Navy
Overview: To celebrate their Admiral's impending marriage, his men stage a variety performance. Meanwhile Joe Crabbs attempts to win back his girlfriend from the Navy's boxing champion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-09
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His Lordship
Overview: The commoner is a happy cockney plumber by the name of Bert Gibbs. Bert comes into contact with the celebrated Russian movie star Ilya Myona. Desperate for publicity and aware that nobility make for good copy, Ilya persuades Bert to pose as her fiancé (with the possibility of persuading him to go through with the marriage if need be). Things are complicated by a pair of anarchic Bolsheviks, one of whom has a daughter named Lenina who knows Bert from his plumber days and is quite in love with him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-02
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Little Waitress
Overview: A romance occurs between an impoverished tourist and a surprisingly wealthy Germany waitress.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-28
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Birds of a Feather
Overview: A sausage-making tycoon rents a castle from an impoverished aristocrat.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-04-12
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Lucky Jim
Overview: Jim Dixon feels anything but lucky. At the university he has to do the bidding of absent-minded and boring Professor Welch to have any hope of keeping his job. Worse, he has managed to get entangled with unexciting but neurotic Margaret Peel, a friend of the Professor's. All-in-all, the pub is the only friendly place to be. His misery is completed at a dreadful weekend gathering of the Welch clan by the arrival of son Bertrand. Not so much that Betrand is loud-mouthed and boorish - which he is - but that he has as companion Christine Callaghan, the sort of marvellous and unattainable woman Jim can only dream about.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-17
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Out of the Blue
Overview: Impoverished aristocrat's daughter Tommy Tucker is in love with radio announcer Bill Coverdale, but he is engaged to her more glamorous sister Angela, who he does not love. Seeking escape from this hopeless situation, and her life of genteel poverty, Tommy flees abroad to Biarritz to become a nightclub singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-05
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The Million Pound Note
Overview: An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, people treat him like a king and let him have whatever he likes for free. Ultimately, the money proves to be more troublesome than it is worth when it almost costs him his dignity and the woman he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-07
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help from her friend Mary to pretend her whereabouts but disaster strikes during a boating accident. It is soon discovered Jenny was not with Mary. When the parents find out the truth they pressure the couple to get married, but Jenny thinks otherwise.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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The Demi-Paradise
Overview: Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-18
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Kill Me Tomorrow
Overview: A reporter who needs cash for his son's operation is paid by a smuggler to take a murder rap.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-01
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The Ugly Duckling
Overview: Henry Jekyll was always the outsider, a bungling and awkward buffoon, relegated to waiting for his invitation to participate in life that never arrived: until he discovers a medical formula developed by a dead uncle, which claimed to turn 'a man of timid disposition into a bold, fearless dragon'. Taking a draught of the elixir Henry is transformed into suave, sophisticated and highly desirable Teddy Hyde. Armed with his new persona, Teddy is ready to face the world; but is Henry ready for the consequences?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Meet Me Tonight
Overview: Meet Me Tonight was the American title for the British-filmed Tonight at 8:30, adapted from the Noel Coward stage production of the same name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-09
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My Learned Friend
Overview: An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-10-25
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The Iron Maiden
Overview: The film follows Jack Hopkins, an aircraft designer with a passion for traction engines. His boss is eager to sell a new supersonic jet plane that Jack has designed to American millionaire Paul Fisher. The first encounter between Fisher and Jack goes badly, and tensions only heighten after Fisher's daughter Kathy damages Jack's prize traction engine "The Iron Maiden", rendering it impossible to drive solo. Jack is desperate to enter the annual Woburn Abbey steam rally with the machine, but his fireman is injured and unable to participate. When all seems lost the millionaire himself is won over by Jack's plight and joins him in driving the engine; the two soon become firm friends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-06-07
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The Wicker Man
Overview: Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. Stranger still, however, are the rituals that take place there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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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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Bond Street
Overview: Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Suddenly, Last Summer
Overview: The only son of wealthy widow Violet Venable dies while on vacation with his cousin Catherine. What the girl saw was so horrible that she went insane; now Mrs. Venable wants Catherine lobotomized to cover up the truth.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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The Day of the Triffids
Overview: After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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The Big Money
Overview: Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is only the start of his troubles, now he has to find a way of changing the notes, so he can impress the barmaid of his local pub.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-09
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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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Trottie True
Overview: Tottie True is a gay-90s British music-hall performer who has her sights set on moving from rags to riches, who loses her heart to the pure-and-true blue balloonist, Sid Skinner, but continues her upward search on improving her social status. She finally settles for Lord Landon Digby who has lots of assets and a very-stiff upper lip. She gets a lot of the latter and very little of the former, and decides Sid might have been a better choice.
Genres: Music Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-09-29
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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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The Plank
Overview: A slapstick comedy about two workmen delivering planks to a building site. This is done with music and a sort of "wordless dialogue" which consists of a few mumbled sounds to convey the appropriate emotion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-18
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Marry Me
Overview: The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on the run from a violent boyfriend, a country vicar, and a newspaper reporter, sent by his editor, to do an undercover story.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-07
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The Boys
Overview: A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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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 Agitator
Overview: The Agitator is a 1945 British drama film directed by John Harlow and starring William Hartnell, Mary Morris and John Laurie. Its plot follows a young mechanic who unexpectedly inherits the large firm where he works and tries to run it according to his socialist political beliefs. It was based on the 1925 novel Peter Pettinger by William Riley.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-24
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Value for Money
Overview: A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-09
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Rx Murder
Overview: An American doctor, Jethro Jones, comes into a quiet British seaside community and becomes entangled in a murder mystery when the town gossips inform him that all of the three wives of the town doctor, Doctor Dysert (or Doctor Deadcert as they call him) have had mysterious deaths. And now Doctor Dysert is treating his own secretary, Kitty, who he wants to make her his next wife, as she has inexplicably fallen ill.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-02-18
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One Way Out
Overview: A tragedy played in standard cops and robbers costume. A policeman faced with deep moral choices finds that once he's set foot on the path of corruption he is trapped by an ever more complex web of lies and intrigue. A lifetime of personal honour is at stake and we wonder if redemption is possible.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-01
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Over the Garden Wall
Overview: An aunt objects to the romance between her niece and a neighbour's nephew, and steps in to put an end to the love affair – with comic consequences...
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-20
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A Woman's Temptation
Overview: Lost Danziger's crime cheapie.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-12
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The Merry Men of Sherwood
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Double Dealing
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-01
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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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Through Fire and Water
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-02-01
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Help!
Overview: An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
Genres: Comedy Music Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-29
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