John Stuart
Also Known As: John Alfred Louden Croall
Biography: John Stuart (John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979) was born to Scottish parents, and was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to talking pictures in the 1930s and his film career went on to span almost six decades. He appeared in 172 films (including shorts), 123 stage plays, and 103 television plays and series.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK
Birthday: July 17, 1898
Deathday: October 17, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Revenge of Frankenstein
Overview: Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-13
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The Wandering Jew
Overview: Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-15
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Alias John Preston
Overview: A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into local life, is married and is serving on the board of the local hospital. Everything seems to be going well for him until a newly appointed consultant psychiatrist shows up and starts asking some probing questions.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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The Scarlet Blade
Overview: A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring-do.
Genres: Adventure War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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To the Rescue
Overview: Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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Pearls Bring Tears
Overview: About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-20
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Love's Old Sweet Song
Overview: 'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-27
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Reasonable Doubt
Overview: A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Gilded Cage
Overview: Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-02-01
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Paranoiac
Overview: A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-07
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Number Seventeen
Overview: A gang of thieves gather at a safe house following a robbery, but a detective is on their trail.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-18
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The Pleasure Garden
Overview: Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-03
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Sink the Bismarck!
Overview: The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bismarck and her sister ship, Tirpitz, were the most powerful battleships in the European theater of World War II. The British Navy must find and destroy Bismarck before it can escape into the convoy lanes to inflict severe damage on the cargo shipping which was the lifeblood of the British Isles. With eight 15 inch guns, it was capable of destroying every ship in a convoy while remaining beyond the range of all Royal Navy warships.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-11
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The Blue Squadron
Overview: Anglo Italian aviation drama. Now lost.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-12
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
Overview: In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-22
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
Overview: Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from captivity in Germany. Though disguised as a troubadour, Robin is betrayed and captured. Lady Alys and the merry men help him escape in time to foil an intended ambush on King Richard as he returns from the Crusades.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-09-12
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Sailors Don't Care
Overview: '1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-01-01
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A Woman in Pawn
Overview: 'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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The Glad Eye
Overview: 'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending that they are accompanying a famous airman on a flight, but the latter does not proceed according to plan, and they have a hard time countering the suspicious questionings and moves of the sophisticated wife.' (BFI)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-06-01
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Headline
Overview: A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-16
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Overview: In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers.
Genres: Adventure Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-12-25
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a plot to have Sir Henry murdered by a terrible trained hound.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-28
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We Women
Overview: A sacked skater falls into the clutches of an actor who abandoned a girl and her baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Yacht of the Seven Sins
Overview: The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini, has been murdered shortly before the departure in a mysterious way. Several persons are suspected and these are, precisely, the passengers of the "Yoshiwara".
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-05
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Abdul the Damned
Overview: In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-05
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The Pointing Finger
Overview: A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
Genres: Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-26
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
Overview: Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-06-08
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Hard Steel
Overview: A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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House of Darkness
Overview: In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition and so sets off a fatal attack by smashing a beloved violin. However, his actions do not come without a terrible price.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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This Week of Grace
Overview: Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinford Castle the home of the eccentric Duchess of Swinford.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-30
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The House of Trent
Overview: It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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The Show Goes On
Overview: A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-31
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Johnny, You're Wanted
Overview: Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, but on returning to his cab finds the woman gone. Assuming she has hitched another ride, he continues on his way. A short time later he is flagged down by another driver, who has come across a woman lying by the roadside. The woman is Johnny's hitchhiker and she's dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-20
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Talking Feet
Overview: An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that she persuades her dad and various friends to help stage a concert at the local Hippodrome to raise money to save the local hospital.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-26
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Lend Me Your Husband
Overview: A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-12
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Village of the Damned
Overview: In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-06-16
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Superman
Overview: Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush: Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the nefarious Lex Luthor launches a plan to take over the world.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-14
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The Ringer
Overview: An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-11-24
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The Missing Million
Overview: Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda. His plucky sister Joan aids the police in their investigations, but Rex’s disappearance sets in motion a chain of violent and incomprehensible events when blackmail turns to murder...
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-01
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The Black Abbot
Overview: A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-10
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Further Up the Creek
Overview: The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship Aristotle and, together with his second-in-command, Fairweather wreaks havoc when he is ordered to deliver the Aristotle to its new owners in a mythical Middle-Eastern country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-28
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Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler
Overview: Part of a series known as “Haunted Castles”.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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Danger by My Side
Overview: A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Escape from Broadmoor
Overview: A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-30
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Mine Own Executioner
Overview: Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-11-22
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Hindle Wakes
Overview: A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-02
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High Seas
Overview: 'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-13
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Taxi for Two
Overview: 'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-21
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Women Aren't Angels
Overview: Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-18
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Candles at Nine
Overview: A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Several attempts on her life are thwarted by a detective, who sets out to discover who's behind the scheme to kill her.
Genres: Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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The Lost Chord
Overview: 'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spinster. The only thing they have in common is that they were each involved in a case of unexpected death. They soon find something very odd about their invitations, and then they start to die, one by one. But who is the murderer and where is he hiding.
Genres: Mystery Horror TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-20
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The Great Gay Road
Overview: A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-10-04
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Verdict of the Sea
Overview: When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Captain's daughter. But he little realises the danger that is to unfold when the Captain conceals diamonds on board as a favour...
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-11-13
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The Mistletoe Bough
Overview: British horror short from 1923.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-05-01
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The Tower of London
Overview: In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts the crown of England but insists on wielding power alone.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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In a Monastery Garden
Overview: An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-11
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Mayfair Girl
Overview: An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-09-01
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His Grace Gives Notice
Overview: A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-05-01
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
Overview: "The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in investigating murders at Marsh Manor, home of the wealthy Claydon family. Plenty of suspects to choose from, Kerrigan believes that the murders may be connected to hidden treasure on the estate.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-04
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The Alley of Golden Hearts
Overview: A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-07-01
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Ships with Wings
Overview: Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Greece, he gets a chance to redeem himself and rejoin his old unit on a British carrier. This is regarded the last of the conventional, rather stiff 1930's style Ealing war films, to be succeeded by much more realism and better storytelling.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-10
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Royal Flash
Overview: Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair of devious nobles with their own agenda. At their urging, Flashman agrees to re-create himself as a bogus Prussian nobleman to woo a beautiful duchess. But the half-baked plan quickly comes unraveled, and he's soon on the run from several new enemies who are all calling for the rapscallion's head.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Quatermass 2
Overview: In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly government-run, complex of identical design has been built in a remote part of England and is the focus of periodic falls of small, hollow "meteorites" originating in outer space. Quatermass determines to investigate and uncovers a terrifying extraterrestrial life form which has already begun action to take over the Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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The Seventh Survivor
Overview: During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-05
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Old Mother Riley in Society
Overview: Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the show one day, Mother Riley accidentally pops up through a trap door onto the stage. Accosted by the angry star, Mother Riley’s belligerent responses have the audience in stitches. Outraged, the star walks out, leaving Kitty to take over the leading role, to great success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-07-27
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Eve's Fall
Overview: A girl with amnesia believes she is a bachelor's wife.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-01
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The Nipper
Overview: A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-06-01
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Kissing Cup's Race
Overview: A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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No Exit
Overview: A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-01
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Tons of Trouble
Overview: An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-09
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Children of Chance
Overview: A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition for the producer of a new musical stage show. Marvelling at her good fortune, what Binnie doesn't know is that Lia is also the wife of a notorious jewel thief and that she's already fled the country in possession of a valuable, ill-gotten necklace!
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-20
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Elstree Calling
Overview: A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-02-06
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Banana Ridge
Overview: When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-20
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Once a Thief
Overview: Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missing.
Genres: Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-14
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The Wrong Mr. Perkins
Overview: An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Men of Steel
Overview: James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Atlantic
Overview: English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-11-15
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The Secret Man
Overview: A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-01
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R.U.R.
Overview: A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologically driven utopia.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-04
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Bella Donna
Overview: That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. His latest victim is American girl Mona Chepstow (Mary Ellis), whom Baroundi treats like dirt and makes her like it. The plot centers around a murder by poison, as evidenced by the film's deliberately exotic title. Critics in 1934 praised newcomer Mary Ellis for underplaying her role, but many film fans preferred Nazimova's arm-waving histrionics in the earlier version.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-11
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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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Eyewitness
Overview: After a fight with her husband, Lucy runs out of the house, and into a night of terror. She heads for the local cinema, and in doing so, becomes the only eyewitness to a couple of crooks, who are robbing the cinema's safe. In her haste to escape the thieves, she is knocked down by a passing bus, and is taken to the local hospital. The two crooks follow, and wait for a chance to finish her off, and thus eliminate the only person who can tie them to the robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-08-14
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The School for Scandal
Overview: An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-09-12
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Mr. Denning Drives North
Overview: When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-18
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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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Bottoms Up!
Overview: An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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Third Time Lucky
Overview: A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl as well.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-06
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The Magic Box
Overview: Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-01-01
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The Man from Yesterday
Overview: A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! Soon the psychic points the finger at her jealous husband.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-01
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Chain of Events
Overview: When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-09-30
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Blind Justice
Overview: When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-04
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Smashing Through
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-01
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Penn of Pennsylvania
Overview: Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Henry Oscar, Herbet Lomas and Edward Rigby. The film depicts the life of the Quaker founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn. It portrays his struggle to be granted a colonial charter in London and attracting settlers to his new colony as well as his adoption a radical new approach with regard to the treatment of the Native Americans. It is also known by the alternative title Courageous Mr. Penn.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-24
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The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
Overview: The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1924-02-04
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
Overview: Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is engaged to be married. He later learns that, Cravens, the man she is to marry already has a wife. He also learns that Craven cleaned out Lucy's father in a crooked gambling game, and Lucy is paying the price to hold the family home together.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-22
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The Green Pack
Overview: A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-11
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The Phantom Shot
Overview: A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-09-09
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It's a Great Day
Overview: Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the council, over building supplies that he needs to complete a job on a local housing estate. Under pressure to finish the job, his son gets them from a local crook. When the council find out, they call in the police, so the Grove family get together, to clear themselves, in time for the grand opening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-01-01
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Kitty
Overview: Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-06-15
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The Naked Truth
Overview: Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rather implied, to avoid any libel suit) and says he will suppress the story in return for money. Several of his victims first decide individually to kill him instead of paying, but fail in amusing ways. Then they find that to protect their various secrets they must now join forces for a rather different purpose...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-03
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Man on the Run
Overview: An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who helps him elude the police while he looks for the real criminals.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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The Mummy
Overview: One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries ago, has been brought to life by the power of the ancient gods and his sole purpose is to destroy those responsible for the desecration of the sacred tomb. But Isobel, wife of one of the explorers, resembles the beautiful princess, forcing the speechless and tormented monster to defy commands and abduct Isobel to an unknown fate.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Too Many Crooks
Overview: Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Revenue - but he sees Fingers and the boys off. So they decide to kidnap his daughter, only to end up with his wife Lucy. Gordon makes out he couldn't be more pleased, spuring Lucy to take charge of the hopeless bunch of villains.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-08
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Roses of Picardy
Overview: In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Overview: The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-12-03
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Little Fella
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-02-06
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Little Miss Nobody
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-06-01
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A Daughter of Love
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-02-01
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