Terence Alexander
Also Known As: Terence Joseph Alexander, Terrence Alexander, Terry Alexander, Теренс Александер
Biography: Terence Joseph Alexander (11 March 1923 – 28 May 2009) was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac. He was born in London, the son of a doctor, and grew up in Yorkshire. Alexander was educated at Ratcliffe College, Leicestershire, and Norwood College, Harrogate, and started acting in the theatre at the age of 16. During World War II he served in the British Army as a lieutenant with the 27th Lancers, and was seriously wounded by artillery fire in Italy. In 1956 he appeared on stage in Ring For Catty at the Lyric Theatre in London. He is probably best remembered as Charlie Hungerford from the detective series Bergerac, though he was also very prominent in the 1967 BBC adaptation of The Forsyte Saga. One of his early roles was in the children's series Garry Halliday. He also appeared in one episode of Please Sir in 1970 as the headteacher of a rival school. He appeared in many other film and television roles including three appearances in different roles in The Avengers; Terry and June (1979–1980); Behind the Screen (1981–1982); the 1985 Doctor Who serial The Mark of the Rani; and The New Statesman (1987). On radio he starred as The Toff in the BBC radio adaptation of the John Creasey novels. He appeared in all but one episode of Bergerac from 1981 to 1991. He appeared on the West End in comedies and farces and his credits included Move Over Mrs Markham (1971), Two and Two Make Sex (1973), There Goes The Bride (1974/5) and Fringe Benefits (1976). Alexander later retired from acting in 1999 and lived in London with his second wife, the actress Jane Downs. He died on 28 May 2009. Description above from the Wikipedia article Terence Alexander, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Islington, London, England
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Birthday: March 11, 1923
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 28, 2009
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Frankenstein
Overview: A scientist who is obsessed with creating life finally does it, with tragic results.
Genres: Horror Thriller TV Movie Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-06-17
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The Mind Benders
Overview: A British scientist is discovered to have been passing information to the Communists, then kills himself. Another scientist decides that they might have brainwashed him by a sensory deprivation technique, but he doesn’t know if someone really can be convinced to act against their strongest feelings. So he agrees to be the subject in an experiment in which others will try to make him stop loving his wife.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Carry On Regardless
Overview: After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Mission: Monte Carlo
Overview: Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Square Peg
Overview: Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-04
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The One That Got Away
Overview: Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The League of Gentlemen
Overview: Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-15
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The Runaway Bus
Overview: When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb to drive to another airport. The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-28
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The Vault of Horror
Overview: The sequel to Tales from the Crypt. Five strangers trapped in a basement vault converse about their recurring nightmares. Their stories include vampires, bodily dismemberment, east Indian mysticism, an insurance scam, and an artist who kills by painting his victims' deaths.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Park Plaza 605
Overview: Suave private investigator Norman Conquest intercepts a secret message and meets a beautiful but foreign blonde lady in room 605 of the Park Plaza hotel. But when Conquest wakes up in the room the next morning he is lying next to a dead body. With the mysterious blonde nowhere to be seen, Conquest soon becomes the police s number one suspect with Inspector Williams following his every move. In order to clear his name, Conquest enlists the help of Pixie Everard (Joy Shelton), but the going gets rough when he discovers that the murder is connected to a stash of stolen diamonds. As gun-happy gangs of communists and Nazi sympathizers turn up the heat, Conquest has to solve the murder whilst staying one step ahead of both the gangs and the police.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-11
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The Internecine Project
Overview: Offered a job as a presidential adviser, a professor is forced to dispose of those who knew him when he was a spy.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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She Always Gets Their Man
Overview: The longtime tenants at a London women's hotel decide to take action when the newest resident, a sexy young flirt, begins stealing everyone's boyfriends. Director Godfrey Grayson's 1962 British comedy stars Ann Sears, Sally Smith, Avril Edgar, Terence Alexander, Bernice Swanson, William Fox and Michael Balfour.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-01-01
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The Woman with No Name
Overview: This is a British drama film from 1950 about a young woman in London in WW2 with amnesia.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-31
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Dangerous Cargo
Overview: Inspired by the real events of the attempted heist at Heathrow Airport in 1952, a criminal tricks an old friend into giving away the location of a shipment of gold bullion so he and his gang can steal it.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-01
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Don't Panic Chaps!
Overview: During World War II, four British soldiers are commissioned to set up an observation post on a seemingly deserted island in the Mediterranean. However, while surveying the island, the Brits come across four German soldiers holed up in a monastery. The Brits and the Germans agree to a truce, sharing the monastery together until either the British or German troops arrive. But when a shipwrecked Slavic girl ends up on the island, a battle over her erupts amongst the men.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Waterloo
Overview: After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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All the Way Up
Overview: Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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Top Secret
Overview: A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-10
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Our Family Business
Overview: A syndicate mob boss doesn't realize that his eldest son, Gep, has been informing to the police on the family's dealings in exchange for protection, while Gep's younger brother, Phil, a bank vice president, tries to separate himself from the family's business.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-09-20
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On the Beat
Overview: Norman Pitkin wants to be a policeman like his father was, but he fails the height test (amongst others). One day he gets out his father's old uniform and "walks the beat". This leads to a level of chaos that only Pitkin could cause
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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What's Good for the Goose
Overview: Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the sea of love. Timothy goes middle-aged crazy, making a spectacle of himself in hippie clothes as he tries to fit into the swinging scene. Nude dips in the ocean are followed and preceded by wild parties as he tries to recapture the days of his flaming youth. After he feels remorse and embarrassment over his behavior, he calls on his wife to join him at the convention to rekindle their love in this lowbrow comedy. The British rock group The Pretty Things provides the music.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Man at the Carlton Tower
Overview: The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-01
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The Gentle Terror
Overview: The predictably boring life of a meek bookkeeper until fate transforms him into an underworld terror.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Run a Crooked Mile
Overview: A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, and living in Switzerland. Now remembering the incident he returns to England to try to solve the mystery.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-11-18
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Breakout
Overview: A local government official leads a double life when organising a breakout from a prison.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-01
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Ike
Overview: Eisenhower the military man is the focus of this mini-series, his relationships with the other wartime leaders, and, very discreetly, his personal relationship with his driver, Kay Summersby.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-03
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: Be careful of what you wish for - it might come true, but no in the way you expect.
Genres: TV Movie Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-05-11
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The Gentle Gunman
Overview: The relationship between brothers Terry and Matt, both active in the IRA, comes under strain when Terry begins to question the use of violence.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-23
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The All New Adventures of Mr Blobby
Overview: He's back! Everyone's favourite big, bouncy, big blob (well how many do you know?) In his new guises, Mr Blobby is a complete hoot, hilariously bumping, bashing and bruising his way through life.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-02-05
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All in Good Time
Overview: A Guinness advert in the form of a short comic film set in a traditional country pub.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-02
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The Boy Who Never Was
Overview: The son of African diplomat is kidnapped and replaced by his double in an attempt to assassinate a VIP at a London conference.
Genres: Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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Death Is a Number
Overview: A man relates the story of his friend, racing driver John Bridgnorth, whose death may have been the final act of an ancient family curse
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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The Corvini Inheritance
Overview: Unstable security chief of an auction house becomes increasingly obsessed with his female neighbor, who's being stalked, and a supposedly cursed jewel that's being auctioned. Is he losing his mind or is the curse real?
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-15
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The Laughing Prisoner
Overview: A funny remake of "The Prisoner" - with a 1980's twist to it 'The Laughing Prisoner' is a remake (or homage) of (to) the Kafkaesque 1960's television show 'The Prisoner' with Patrick McGoohan in the lead role. This time it is a successful television presenter (Jools Holland) who decides to quit at the height of his stardom. He is abducted from his apartment and brought to the village, where number 2 (a young Stephen Fry) is questioning him. The whole show has a cosy 1980's feel to it, with several bands from that period performing their music.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-03
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The Spare Tyres
Overview: Dennis is told by his wife to remove two old tyres from the garden of their new home. He tries various ways to dispose of them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Long Duel
Overview: An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his official colonial capacity, the policeman is impressed by the ingenuity and integrity of his enemy and is determined to arrest him alive rather than bring him in dead as his superiors might wish.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-27
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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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Comin' Thro the Rye
Overview: Biopic of Robbie Burns with a lot of Scottish singing. Heavy on narrative.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-01
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The Price of Silence
Overview: Roger Fenton has been released from prison and stared to build a new life. But his past catches up when an elderly visitor is murdered in his office.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-06
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Churchill and the Generals
Overview: The complicated relationship between Winston Churchill and the leaders of the British army during World War II.
Genres: Drama History War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-23
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The Bulldog Breed
Overview: Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, he attempts suicide, but can't even do that. He is saved from jumping off a cliff at 'Lover's Leap' by a Royal Navy petty officer. He persuades Puckle to join the Royal Navy, where he'll meet 'lots of girls'. Life in the Navy proves not to be as rosy as it's been described, and Puckle fails at every task during basic training. But despite this, he's regarded by the Admiral in charge of a rocket project to be a 'typical average British sailor', and chosen to be the first man to fly into outer space in an experimental rocket.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-13
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Bitter Harvest
Overview: A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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A Room in Town
Overview: A woman discovers that her husband has rented a flat in London for his mistress, and sets out to catch him in the act
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-09-15
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That Englishwoman: An Account of the Life of Emily Hobhouse
Overview: Dirk de Villiers -An English woman dares to defy the might of the British Empire and champions the cause of the Boers during the Anglo-Boer War, battling to alleviate the suffering of women and children in concentration camps. - Veronica Lang, Terence Alexander, Jenny Runacre
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dials Mystery
Overview: When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing leads them into a world of espionage and international intrigue as they discover a secret society known as "The Seven Dials" and the attempted theft of top-secret government documents.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-08
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The Intelligence Men
Overview: A chance meeting with a Schlecht agent forces a humble coffee shop manager into the secret world of spies in Swinging London. With the help of his MI5 friend, he poses as the recently dead Major Cavendish who had managed to infiltrate the dreaded organization; he knows that they are intending to assassinate someone - could it be the famous Russian ballerina who has recently arrived for an appearance at Covent Garden?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-13
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The Fast Lady
Overview: A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-14
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Who Done It?
Overview: This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money. He becomes a private detective and investigates a plot to assassinate British scientists.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-03-20
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Danger Within
Overview: Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-02-17
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A Tale of Five Cities
Overview: An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured and loses his memory. Because he talks like an American, the doctors repatriate him to the States where he is housed with a New York family. After the war they all travel throughout Europe, searching for the women he still remembers in the hope of restoring his lost memory
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-01
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Doctor Who: The Mark of the Rani
Overview: The Doctor discovers his old enemy the Master is intent on preventing Earth's industrial revolution in 19th century England. But the Rani, a second rogue Time Lord, has plans of her own...
Genres: Drama Action Adventure Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-02-09
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Death Was a Passenger
Overview: Strangers conversing in a train compartment, revive wartime memories for one passenger.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Only When I Larf
Overview: A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-05-27
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The Eternal Question
Overview: Real-life palm reader Josef Ranald helps people two determine their futures. Some sources claim this British film was never released, or even finished, until 1956 when American Ron Ormond acquired it and added a brief sequence about a girl hitchhiker and a psycho motorist, releasing it finally as The Eternal Question.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-11
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Claudine
Overview: Claudine is a single mother in New York City who endures an exhausting commute to the suburbs where she works as a maid for wealthy families. In one carefully tended white community, she meets Roop, a charismatic but irresponsible garbage collector. Romance quickly ensues, but Claudine doubts that their relationship is good for her six children, and Rupert, despite his good nature, is reluctant to take on fatherhood.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-22
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The Elusive Pimpernel
Overview: A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-07
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