David Horne
Also Known As: David Edgar Alderson Horne
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Balcombe, Sussex, England
Adult: No
Birthday: July 13, 1898
Age: 126 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 15, 1970
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They Were Sisters
Overview: The story of three sisters and the men they marry: one is happily married but childless, the second promiscuously escapes an unhappy, loveless marriage, and the third is tortured by the mental cruelties inflicted by a domineering husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-02
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The First of the Few
Overview: This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in aviation history - visionary Spitfire designer R.J. Mitchell and his test pilot Geoffrey Crisp - designed a streamlined monoplane that led to the development of the Spitfire.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-14
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Seven Sinners
Overview: Ed Harwood, a wisecracking private investigator from New York, discovers a crime at a hotel in Nice during a carnival. The unraveling of the mystery which lies behind will lead him and Caryl Fenton, a female insurance agent, who will become his companion, first to Paris, then to London, later through the English countryside and finally to Southampton, in search of a criminal train wrecker.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-01
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The Man Within
Overview: A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-05-19
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It's Love Again
Overview: Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-06
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The Village Squire
Overview: Comedy about how a travelling film actor who arrives in a small village transforms a squire's production of "Macbeth" and subsequently weds his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-14
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Tale of Three Women
Overview: A compilation of 3 stories, "The Wedding Gift", "The Thief of London" and "The Final Twist". Originally part of the Danziger Brothers series "Calling Scotland Yard"
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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San Demetrio London
Overview: Based on the true story of the 1940 rescue of the tanker MV San Demetrio by parts of her own crew after she had been set afire in the middle of the Atlantic by the German heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer and then had been abandoned. When one of the lifeboats drifted back to the burning tanker the day after, and found that she still hadn't exploded, they decided to board her and put out the fires. Eventually, they managed to start the engine again and decided to try to reach Britain against all odds.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-07
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The Man from Morocco
Overview: With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-17
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Clue of the New Pin
Overview: TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Green Cockatoo
Overview: A young girl is travelling to London to find work. Arriving at the station, she meets a man who has been stabbed by a member of a gang of crooks involved with greyhound racing. She becomes a suspect, but flees the scene in order to deliver a message to the dead man's brother. She is protected from the police by a night club entertainer, who she learns is the man she is seeking.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Once Upon a Dream
Overview: An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-02-01
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Dentist on the Job
Overview: Colonel Proudfoot of Proudfoot Industries tries to entice a couple of newly qualified dentists to advertise "Dreem", a revolutionary type of toothpaste, but he knows that if the dentists learn that they are part of an advertising campaign, they will be struck off, and the campaign will be a disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-06-01
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The Winslow Boy
Overview: In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-24
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The Cardinal
Overview: Set in 15th-century Italy, The Cardinal stars Matheson Lang as one Cardinal de Medici. Bound by the rules of the confessional, the cardinal is unable to disclose the multitude of sins revealed to him by one of his most influential parishioners. De Medici's dilemma is compounded by the fact that the confessor has committed a murder for which the Cardinal's brother has been arrested. The basic plot gimmick was good for another go-round in the 1953 Hitchcock flick I Confess. This 7-reel British film was based on a play by Louis N. Parker.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-04
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Badger’s Green
Overview: A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-11
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Beau Brummell
Overview: Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of Wales with insulting comments about the prince's uniform designs, he eventually becomes his close confidant. Brummel also falls in love with the beautiful Lady Patricia Belham. However, his outspoken manner eventually leads to his being exiled to France.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-16
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The Prince and the Showgirl
Overview: An American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-13
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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The Big Job
Overview: A gang of hapless crooks, led by Sidney James, successfully perpetrate a robbery only to be caught after the fact. Fifteen years later they emerge from prison intent on retrieving their stolen loot - and discover a police station has been built over its hiding place.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw
Overview: English gunsmith Jonathon Tibbs travels to the American West in the 1880s to sell firearms to the locals. He inadvertently acquires a reputation of quickness on the draw due to his wrist mounted Derringer style weapon. Soon gaining the post of sheriff, he endeavours to clean up the town using what skills he has—and by multilateral diplomacy.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Gentlemen's Agreement
Overview: A young doctor realises that his father is a quack and changes places with a down-and-out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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The Mill on the Floss
Overview: Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-09
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Blind Folly
Overview: A man inherits a nightclub that belonged to his brother but soon discovers that it is the headquarters for a dangerous criminal gang.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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21 Days Together
Overview: After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-07
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Crimes at the Dark House
Overview: In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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The House of the Spaniard
Overview: A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Hyde Park Corner
Overview: A dead man's curse on a London party house seems to echo from 1780 to 1936.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Return to Yesterday
Overview: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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The Door with Seven Locks
Overview: A wealthy lord dies and is entombed with a valuable deposit of jewels. Seven keys are required to unlock the tomb and get hold of the treasure. A mad doctor uses an iron maiden to systematically eliminate the heirs to the fortune.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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They Flew Alone
Overview: The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-29
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Overview: Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-17
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Don't Take It to Heart
Overview: A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-11-13
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The Stars Look Down
Overview: Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-22
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The Seventh Veil
Overview: A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-18
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The Rake's Progress
Overview: Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-06
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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Spaceways
Overview: The test launch for the first inter-planetary research station goes wrong when the satellite station is inadvertently set up instead of returning to earth. Two people attached to the secret project are missing, presumed murdered, and all suspicions fall on the cuckold husband, the scientist responsible for the lack of fuel aboard the rocket. The theory is he murdered his wife and her lover, depositing the bodies on the errant rocket. Desperate to prove his innocence he volunteers for the next mission to link up with the satellite and clear his name.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Debt of Honour
Overview: A Colonel's daughter steals from the regimental mess funds to pay off her gambling debts. One of the officers, who is love with her, takes the blame, and is sent to Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-02
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The Devil's Disciple
Overview: In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
Genres: War Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-20
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Gaiety George
Overview: The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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The Day Will Dawn
Overview: Sports journalist Colin Metcalfe is picked for the job of foreign correspondent in Norway when Hitler invades Poland. On the way to Langedal his boat is attacked by a German U-Boat, however when he tells the navy about it they do not believe him and, to make matters worse, he is removed from his job. When German forces invade Norway, Metcalfe returns determined to uncover what is going on and stop the Germans in their tracks.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-08
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The Intruder
Overview: When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Genres: Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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The Last Man to Hang
Overview: A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Martin Luther
Overview: A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant Reformation movement.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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The Wicked Lady
Overview: A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-11-15
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Caravan
Overview: During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-03
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Diamonds for Breakfast
Overview: Swinging playboy Grand Duke Nicholas Goduno, a direct descendent of the Romanov family who were overthrown in the Russian Revolution of 1917, learns that his family's crown jewels will be exhibited at a London museum and plots to steal them. To this end, he gathers a crew of beautiful but dangerous women, led by Bridget Rafferty, to assist in his plot against Popov, the Soviet functionary in charge of the exhibit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-01
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Nurse on Wheels
Overview: Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes the suspicion of her patients used to someone rather older, while becoming romantically involved with a local farmer - at least until he tries to evict a newly-arrived expectant couple who park their caravan on his land.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-03
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Street Corner
Overview: A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-17
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
Overview: The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean Jagger to rouse things up in the square. Snotty British Neagle and Jagger clash and fall for each other. What will Harrison have to say or do about these? What will the consequences be? Will the three finally become two and which two in this extremely patriotic love and war story.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-07-20
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The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Night Train to Munich
Overview: Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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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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Spring Song
Overview: The film follows the history of a brooch after it is given as a present by a man to a woman in 1911.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-23
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The Magic Bow
Overview: Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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Yellow Canary
Overview: A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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The Safecracker
Overview: Safe cracker, Colley Dawson, is recruited to steal a list of Nazi agents from a safe in a Nazi occupied chateau in Belgium.
Genres: Crime Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Easy Money
Overview: A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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A Flea in Her Ear
Overview: Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-11-27
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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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The Young Mr. Pitt
Overview: This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-21
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Lust for Life
Overview: An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustrations with failure. Supported by his brother, Theo, the tormented Van Gogh eventually leaves Holland for France, where he meets volatile fellow painter Paul Gauguin and struggles to find greater inspiration.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-09-15
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