Geoffrey Bayldon
Also Known As: Albert Geoffrey Bayldon
Biography: Albert Geoffrey Bayldon (7 January 1924 – 10 May 2017) was an English actor. After playing roles in many stage productions, including the works of William Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle (1969–70). Bayldon's other long-running parts include the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge (1979–81) and Magic Grandad in the BBC television series Watch (1995).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK
Birthday: January 07, 1924
Deathday: May 10, 2017
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Tenth Man
Overview: During World War 2 the Germans arrested people at random off the streets of Paris and in retaliation to sabotage by the resistance announced the execution of one in ten prisoners. Chosen as one of the victims, lawyer Chavel trades his place with another man in return for all his possessions. At the end of the war he returns to his house and tries to integrate himself with the family of the man who traded places with him, all the while hiding his true identity. However matters are complicated when a stranger arrives claiming to be Chavel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-12-04
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Overview: Young Prince Caspian of Narnia wonders and dreams about the old days of Narnia when animals talked, and there were mythical creatures and four rulers in Cair Paravel. But his uncle and aunt don’t like to hear him thinking of such things, and plan to murder him and take his throne. Caspian’s tutor, Dr. Cornelius manages to save him, and not only teach him about the old ways, but bring him into the real Narnia and introduce him to the real Narnia. But Caspian’s plight is desperate, and he must use the legendary horn to call help from another world: Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy. Then, Lucy and Edmund are sent back to Narnia, along with their cousin Eustace, to assist Caspian on a voyage. Along their journey the children battle dragons and sea serpents, and sail across a golden lake to reach the edge of the world.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-11-19
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Casino Royale
Overview: Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-13
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To Sir, with Love
Overview: A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and delinquent pupils are in desperate need of attention and care.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-14
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Asylum
Overview: A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-17
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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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Scrooge
Overview: A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-05
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Two A Penny
Overview: Set in London's Swiinging Sixties, Cliff Richard plays Jamie Hopkins, an art student whose desperate need for money leads him to dabble in the underworld of drug dealing. Cliff has stated that Two A Penny, his most dramatically challenging movie role ever, is the film he is proudest of. He has stated, "if I did want to send a fiolm as a CV, I would send that one". It is certainly his most demanding and controversial role; cynical, self centered and highly manipulative, Jamie Hopkins lies, steals and double-crosses his mother (Dora Bryan), forces himself on his girlfriend (Ann Holloway) and gets involved in fist fights with criminals. Through the influence of his girlfriend, a born again Christian, is the possibility that he may reform, yet in the mystery of the film's by-line "He promised to love her forever….today" lies the possibility that he may well not.
Genres: Family Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-31
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Bullshot
Overview: The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno, his wartime adversary. And, of course, win the heart of a jolly nice young lady.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-27
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Porridge
Overview: Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-12
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A Child and a Half
Overview: A man enters into a correspondence with his colleague's eight-year-old daughter.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-04-09
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Charleston
Overview: Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-05
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The Monster Club
Overview: A vampire attacks a horror author on the street and then invites him to a nearby club as a gesture of gratitude, which turns out to be a meeting place for assorted creatures of the night. The vampire then regales him with three stories, each interspersed with musical performances at the club.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-04-11
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Frankenstein Must Be Destroyed
Overview: Blackmailing a young couple to assist with his horrific experiments the Baron, desperate for vital medical data, abducts a man from an insane asylum. On route the abductee dies and the Baron and his assistant transplant his brain into a corpse. The creature is tormented by a trapped soul in an alien shell and, after a visit to his wife who violently rejects his monstrous form, the creature wreaks his revenge on the perpetrator of his misery: Baron Frankenstein.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Amicus: House of Horrors
Overview: For the first time on DVD, the Alpha Archives Collection proudly presents a two part feature length documentary celebrating the history of the Amicus Productions film company. Founded in the early 1960s by Americans Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg, Amicus produced some classic (now cult) horror movies, including Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From The Crypt, Asylum and From Beyond The Grave. Featuring interviews with key individuals who worked for Amicus (actors, directors, etc.), and with many rare photographs and production designs throughout, this documentary is a must-see for fans of British horror cinema.
Genres: Documentary Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-10-30
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All Passion Spent
Overview: his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the deathbed of her husband. Tended by her equally aged French maid Genoux (Eileen Way), who has served her faithfully for a lifetime, Lady Slane deals with a succession of advice from her large flock of middle-aged children. The family is chagrined by, but honors, her choice to live a modest country retirement at some distance, in Hampstead Heath. Lady Slane competently comes to terms to lease and restore a crumbling house, aided by an aging land agent Gervase Bucktrout (Maurice Denham). Once settled, an acquaintance from 50 years past, Mr. Fitzgeorge (Harry Andrews), visits the cottage to rekindle memories of their brief, deep, but unfulfilled brush as soul-mates in colonial India when Lady Slane was a devoted young wife and mother. Great-granddaughter Deborah (Jane Snowden), who has been trapped by a socially desirable but passionless engagement, regularly visits to confide and seek wisdom.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-12-09
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The Stranger Left No Card
Overview: A strangely-garbed and eccentric-acting stranger arrives in a small English town. But, after several days on being in the town, the citizens accept him as a harmless, though a bit daft, member of the community. He then pays a visit to the town's leading citizen and reveals himself as a man with the perfect plan for murder.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-02
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The Gathering Storm
Overview: Winston Churchill's life in the years leading up to World War II.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-29
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Journey to the Unknown
Overview: TV Movie consisting of two episodes of the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown" (1968): 'Matakitas is Coming' (episode 1.3) and 'The Last Visitor' (episode 1.9).
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-06-15
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Say Hello to Yesterday
Overview: Approaching middle-age and stuck in an unfulfilled marriage, a suburban British housewife allows herself a sexual fling with a brash young hunk she meets on a commuter train.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-14
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The Wood Demon
Overview: A luncheon party gathers to celebrate a wealthy unmarried man's birthday; his sister hopes he'll marry Sonya, the daughter of a selfish gout-ridden old professor who makes life Hell for his son George and his young wife, Helen. At the luncheon is Khrushchov, a passionate environmentalist, called "the Wood Demon" by all, in love with Sonya and she with him, but neither will say it. Two weeks later there's a family meeting at the professor's estate; two weeks after that, a supper at the cabin of Dyadin, who's cheerful to all. George, Helen, Sonya, and Khrushchov are each suffocating. Can any of them take action?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-11-17
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Madame Sousatzka
Overview: In London, eccentric piano instructor Madame Sousatzka takes on a new prize protégé, Manek, a teenage Bengali immigrant who displays incredible talent. Manek forms a close bond with his teacher, but soon discovers that she expects her pupils to become disciplined in all areas of life, and not just behind the piano. As he struggles to meet the challenges, Manek must also deal with his mother, who vies with his teacher for his attention.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-14
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The Bushbaby
Overview: The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her from the one thing she loves most, a pet Bushbaby. Fearing what the future holds she decides to set the pet free but while doing so misses the boat back to England. After meeting up with a friendly native they try to resolve the situation together. Things take a turn for the worse when it is falsely reported that the native has kidnapped her, thus putting a price on his head
Genres: History Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-09-01
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Yesterday's Enemy
Overview: Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage and endurance of the soldiers struggling at close quarters against the enemy. The film examines the moral dilemmas ordinary men face during war, when the definitions of acceptable military action and insupportable brutality become blurred and distorted.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-09-10
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Sky West and Crooked
Overview: A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 years earlier.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-31
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Greyfriars Bobby
Overview: In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to his master, refuses to be adopted by anyone, and takes to sleeping on his master's grave in the Greyfriars kirkyard, despite a caretaker with a "no dogs" rule. And when Bobby is taken up for being unlicensed, it's up to the children of Edinburgh and the Lord Provost to decide what's to be done.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-17
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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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55 Days at Peking
Overview: Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion. The disparate interests unite for survival despite competing factions, overwhelming odds, delayed relief and tacit support of the Boxers by the Empress of China and her generals.
Genres: History War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-06
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Dead Man's Chest
Overview: Two young journalists simulate a murder, but the scheme backfires when the mock victim disappears.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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Whirlpool
Overview: The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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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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This Office Life
Overview: On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension fund, paid holidays - and (apparently) nothing much doing between the hours of nine to five. Then his colleagues began to take an unhealthy interest in him. They asked questions he couldn't answer, and answered questions he hadn't asked. Only the lovely Pam made life bearable, but even she was not quite what she seemed....
Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-12-30
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Becket
Overview: Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Love/Loss
Overview: A chance meeting reunites Mary and Joe, childhood sweethearts from the 1940s. But after 60 years apart, is there still love between them? How have their separate experiences shaped their lives over this long period apart, and is there still time for them to share the happiness that has so long been denied? As Mary and Joe confront the mistakes of their past and share memories of a previously unspoken love, their reunion appears to take them on a path to happiness. But the gentle narrative hides a twist that will challenge any preconceptions of love and loss.
Genres: Romance Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Overview: Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-03
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The Nutcracker and the Mouse King
Overview: Clara is given a nutcracker in the form of a toy soldier for Christmas. That night she sees the nutcracker in battle with the terrible Seven-headed Mouse King. The nutcracker turns into a young Prince and takes Clara to the Kingdom of Sweets.
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-23
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That Sinking Feeling
Overview: At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to the guests.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-11-13
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Au Pair Girls
Overview: Four sexy young foreign girls come to England as au pairs and quickly become quite intimate with their employers, host families, and just about everyone else they encounter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-07-01
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Alice Through the Looking Glass
Overview: 1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll.
Genres: Family Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-25
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Jigsaw
Overview: A woman is found murdered in a seaside house along the coast from Brighton in the county of East Sussex, England. Local D.I. Fred Fellows and D.S. Jim Wilks lead an investigation methodically following up leads and clues mostly in Brighton and Hove but also further afield. _-= Based on the novel "Sleep Long My Love" by Hillary Waugh and Inspired by the Brighton Trunk Murders of the late 1930's =-_
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-21
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Simulation Exercise
Overview: 'They're no trouble', says the head-master, 'just give them something simple and undemanding to do - just keep their heads down'. It was better advice then he knew.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-29
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Doctor Who: The Creature from the Pit
Overview: The Doctor and Romana follow a distress signal which leads to the jungle planet Chloris, whose ruthless ruler Lady Adrasta harbors a deadly creature in a pit.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-17
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The Slipper and the Rose
Overview: Prince Edward wants to marry for love, but the King and court of the kingdom of Euphrania are anxious for the prince to wed no matter what. When the prince meets Cinderella at a ball, he's sure she's the one, and when she loses her slipper upon exiting the dance, the prince is determined to find and marry her.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-25
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Inspector Clouseau
Overview: Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-19
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Dracula
Overview: After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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King Rat
Overview: When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942, the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Among the American prisoners is Cpl. King, a wheeler-dealer who has managed to establish a pretty good life for himself in the camp. King soon forms a friendship with an upper-class British officer who is fascinated with King's enthusiastic approach to life.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-27
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Tom & Viv
Overview: The story of the marriage of the poet T. S. Eliot to socialite Vivienne Haigh-Wood, which had to cope with her gynaecological and emotional problems and his growing fame.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-04-15
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Otley
Overview: A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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The Camp on Blood Island
Overview: Set in a Japanese prisoner of war camp during World War II, the film focuses on the brutality and horror that the allied prisoners were exposed to as the Japanese metered out subjugation and punishment to a disgraced and defeated enemy. This harrowing drama concentrates on the deviations of legal and moral definitions when two opposing cultures clash. Although fictional, this was one of the earliest films to deal realistically with life and death in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp during the Second War.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-15
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Ladies in Lavender
Overview: Andrea, a gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of Ursula and Janet and the community in which they live.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-11-12
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Gawain and the Green Knight
Overview: The medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
Genres: Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-06-01
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The House That Dripped Blood
Overview: A Scotland Yard investigator looks into four mysterious cases involving an unoccupied house.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-22
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Cone of Silence
Overview: A seasoned pilot is condemned for an error which causes a crash. The pilot later dies in a crash with similar circumstances and an examiner looks for scientific reasons for the crashes.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-10
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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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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Overview: Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-12-15
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Life at the Top
Overview: Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-14
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The Man with the Power
Overview: Boysie discovers he has 'second sight' but neither his girlfriend Gloria nor his work-mate Brian will accept his 'gift'. He sets out on a spiritual voyage that leads to Adler, a 'sensitive', and finally to the devil himself.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-11-03
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The Webster Boy
Overview: A gambler comes out of prison, returns to his old-flame, and finds that she has a teenage son, who begins to believe that the ex-con is his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark. Its title is a conflation of The Magnificent Seven and the seven deadly sins. It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent. The sketches are linked by animation sequences. The music score is by British jazz musician Roy Budd, cinematography by Harvey Harrison and editing by Rod Nelson-Keys and Roy Piper. It was produced by Tigon Pictures and distributed in the U.K. by Tigon Film Distributors Ltd..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
Overview: This exclusive documentary looks at the life and career of Jon Pertwee. With contributions from actors Katy Manning, Judy Cornwell, David Jacobs, Geoffrey Bayldon and Kenneth Earle, Doctor Who writer and script editor Terrance Dicks and long-time friend Stuart Money.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-07-15
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A Night to Remember
Overview: The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspective of the ocean liner's second officer, Charles Lightoller. Despite numerous warnings about ice, the ship sails on, with Capt. Edward John Smith keeping it going at a steady clip. When the doomed vessel finally hits an iceberg, the crew and passengers discover that they lack enough lifeboats, and tragedy follows.
Genres: Drama Action History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-07-03
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Tales from the Crypt
Overview: Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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The Amorous Prawn
Overview: While her husband, the General is abroad, Lady Fitzadam decides to convert their army residence into a fishing resort for rich American tourists in order to raise money for their dream retirement cottage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-26
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Trent's Last Case
Overview: When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special
Overview: Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-27
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Steptoe & Son Ride Again
Overview: Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are rag-and-bone men, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. Always on the lookout for ways to improve his lot, Harold invests his father's life savings in a greyhound who is almost blind and can't see the hare. When the dog loses a race and Harold has to pay off the debt, he comes up with another bright idea. Collect his father's life insurance. To do this his father must pretend to be dead.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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The Raging Moon
Overview: Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-21
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Libel
Overview: A California commercial pilot sees a telecast in London of an interview with Sir Mark Lodden at his home. The Canadian is convinced that the baronet is a fraud, and he is actually a look-alike actor named Frank Welney.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-23
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The Tale of Little Pig Robinson
Overview: Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-12-26
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Platonov
Overview: The title character is a married provincial schoolmaster and a notorious philanderer. He is a russian Don Juan except that he himself doesn't seek to seduce; the women around him simply find him irresistibly attractive, and he is only too happy to go along. The play predates the realism of Chekhov's later works in its desjointedness, but many of its scenes show the seeds of brilliance that would eventually emerge.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-05-23
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The Last Invasion
Overview: A film following Harold II at the Battle of Hastings
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Cause Célèbre
Overview: When the ailing husband of an adulterous wife is discovered bludgeoned to death and suspicions fall on the older woman's young lover, the newly widowed woman claims that it was she who was solely responsible for the death despite evidence that points to the contrary in this dramatic account of true-life 1935 trial that shocked all of England. Though notable evidence and strong suspicion suggests that the murder may have been of crime of passion perpetrated by the jealous lover only half her age, Alma Rattenbury (Helen Mirren) confesses to the murder of her husband and is soon brought to trial. Despite the fact that Alma is already being deemed guilty by the general public for her adulterous indiscretion alone, her lawyer, star attorney T.J. O'Connor (David Suchet), remains convinced that his client will eventually be cleared of all charges.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-08-23
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The Two-Headed Spy
Overview: Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exaggerated the actual events of A.P. Scotland's experiences, including the addition of a fictional love interest.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-17
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A Dandy in Aspic
Overview: Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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