Dennis Price
Also Known As: Denis Price , Деннис Прайс, Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price
Biography: Dennistoun Franklyn John Rose Price (23 June 1915 – 6 October 1973) was an English actor, best remembered for his role as Louis Mazzini in the classic Ealing Studios film Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) and for his portrayal of the omnicompetent valet Jeeves in 1960s television adaptations of P. G. Wodehouse's stories.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Twyford, England
Adult: No
Birthday: June 23, 1915
Age: 109 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 06, 1973
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Murder Most Foul
Overview: A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-01
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The Horror of Frankenstein
Overview: Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-08
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The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein
Overview: Dr. Frankenstein is left for dead in the woods. His daughter, Dr. Vera Frankenstein, hunts for his attacker: Dr. Cagliostro, a mad scientist who’s created a race of human-animal hybrids.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-31
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Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein
Overview: Dracula kills another innocent victim and Dr. Seward decides it's time to wipe him off the face of the earth. Armed with a hammer and a wooden stake, he arrives at Castle Dracula and duly dispatches the vampire Count. Next day, however, Dr. Frankenstein arrives with his assistant, Morpho, and a large crate containing the monster. Using the blood of a pub singer who has been abducted by his creation, the doctor brings Dracula back to life and uses him for his own ends. The Count and a female vampire continue to terrorise the town, so Dr Seward once again sets out for Castle Dracula. Unfortunately, he is attacked by the Frankenstein monster and left for dead. Amira, a gypsy, rescues him and summons up a werewolf to do battle with the forces of evil...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1972-10-17
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The Millionairess
Overview: When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Ten Little Indians
Overview: Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style. It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 million sales to date, making it the world's best-selling mystery ever, and one of the most-printed books of all time.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-07-31
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The Pure Hell of St. Trinian's
Overview: The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best ever – they have burned down St Trinian’s school! As the girls stand trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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Horror Hospital
Overview: Following his forced retirement from an appalling rock band, Jason decides to vacation at Brittlehouse Manor, a health farm run by the leather-gloved, ex-Nazi scientist Dr. Storm. Along the way, Jason meets Judy, also on her way to Brittlehouse Manor to visit her aunt, who married Dr. Storm some years ago. Once they arrive, the pair realise rather quickly that something is wrong, probably because the other guests have had their brains surgically removed, or all the blood pouring from the sink, or possibly just because the creepy midget keeps telling them to brush their teeth.
Genres: Comedy Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-11
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Tower of Evil
Overview: A group of experienced archeologists are searching for an old and mystic Phoenician treasure when they are surprised by a series of mysterious murders...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-05-26
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
Overview: When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be buried in the family mausoleum, Louis avenges his mother's death by attempting to murder every family member who stands between himself and the family fortune. But when he finds himself torn between his longtime love and the widow of one of his victims, his plans go awry.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-06-21
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Pulp
Overview: A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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I'm All Right Jack
Overview: Naive Stanley Windrush returns from the war, his mind set on a successful career in business. Much to his own dismay, he soon finds he has to start from the bottom and work his way up, and also that the management as well as the trade union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-18
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Venus in Furs
Overview: A musician finds the corpse of a beautiful woman on the beach. The woman returns from the dead to take revenge on the group of wealthy sadists responsible for her death.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-08-19
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Theatre of Blood
Overview: A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
Genres: Comedy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-16
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Twins of Evil
Overview: While dabbling in Satanism, Count Karstein resurrects Mircalla Karnstein who initiates him into vampirism. As a rash of deaths afflicts the village, Gustav the head of Puritan group leads his men to seek out and destroy the pestilence. One of his twin nieces has become inflicted with the witchcraft but Gustav's zeal and venom has trapped the innocent Maria, threatening her with a tortuous execution, whilst Frieda remains free to continue her orgy of evil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-10-03
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A Place of One's Own
Overview: An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife. However, soon the girl is possessed by the spirit of another girl, a wealthy woman who had once lived in the house but who had been murdered there.
Genres: Drama Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-03-20
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The Horror of It All
Overview: In this dark comedy, a Yankee goes to visit a family of British eccentrics to ask for the hand of one of their daughters in marriage. He soon finds himself in the midst of a really odd family. One of them talks like Bela Lugosi, another believes herself to be a vampire, while a third is locked away in a padded cell. Another family member is thrilled when he finally invents a horseless carriage (50 years after Ford), and the family grandfather is found reading Playboy just before he dies. Trouble begins when members of the family begin to be mysteriously murdered. The American suitor must then discover which member of the strange family is in line to inherit the family fortune.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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Dear Murderer
Overview: When a man discovers his wife is having an affair, he commits the perfect crime.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-23
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School for Scoundrels
Overview: Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-03-24
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Victim
Overview: A web of blackmail and murder attracts the attention of a barrister with a seemingly idyllic life, threatening to derail his career on the path of success.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-01
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Tunes of Glory
Overview: Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, with the strict, temperamental Lieutenant Colonel Basil Barrow. Resentful toward his replacement, Sinclair undermines Barrow's authority and damages his successor's reputation among the soldiers. Barrow faces an uphill battle in regaining the discipline and respect of his battalion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-17
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For Better, for Worse
Overview: In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a £5.10.0 job and a 30/- a week single-room flat. The newly-weds find money fearfully tight, the flat cramped, the neighbours a trial, and her parents always hovering. Can faith conquer all? Is there some way of getting rid of tea-leaves except down the sink?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-06-20
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The V.I.P.s
Overview: Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-09-01
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A Canterbury Tale
Overview: Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury.
Genres: Drama Mystery War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-08-21
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon
Overview: Phineas T. Barnum and friends finance the first flight to the moon but find the task a little above them. They attempt to blast their rocket into orbit from a massive gun barrel built into the side of a Welsh mountain, but money troubles, spies and saboteurs ensure that the plan is doomed before it starts...
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-13
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Vampyros Lesbos
Overview: An erotic horror tale about a vixen vampiress seducing and killing women to appease her insatiable thirst for female blood.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1971-07-15
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The House in the Square
Overview: Atomic scientist Peter Standish travels back in time to 1784, an era he has read about in his forefather's diaries. He falls in love with his forefather's cousin, Helen, but his contemporaries of 1784 are perplexed by his strange talk and the odd knowledge he possesses. Remake of Berkeley Square (1933).
Genres: Romance Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-12-07
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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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Double Bunk
Overview: When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends Sid and Sandra, on a local trip down the river to Folkestone, but somehow they end up in France, and with no fuel and supplies, they resort to desperate actions to get back home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-06
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Private's Progress
Overview: Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be officer material, but befriends wily Private Percival Cox who knows exactly how all the scams work in the confused world of the British Army. And Stanley's brigadier War Office uncle seems to be up to something more than a bit shady too - and they are both soon working for him, behind the enemy lines.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-17
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Good-Time Girl
Overview: Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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The Haunted House of Horror
Overview: Teenagers gathered in an old mansion are being murdered one by one. The survivors must discover who among them is the killer before he finishes off everybody.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-15
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The Earth Dies Screaming
Overview: A crack test pilot lands to find the planet has been devastated by unknown forces. There are a few survivors, so he organizes them in a plan to ward off control by a group of killer robots.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-10-14
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The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Easy Money
Overview: A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered the coupon apparently didn't get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of the big money even turns some people into criminals, as when a coupon checker is tempted by his night-club singer girlfriend to cheat the company. Written by Jeremy Perkins
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-01-20
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The Rebel
Overview: Anthony Hancock gives up his office job to become an abstract artist. He has a lot of enthusiasm, but little talent, and critics scorn his work. Nevertheless, he impresses an emerging very talented artist. Hancock proceeds to con the art world into thinking he is a genius.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-03-07
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Murder Without Crime
Overview: A man gets in trouble when he accidentally kills and covers up a murder of a girl he meets after a big fight with his wife.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-10-01
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Snowbound
Overview: Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-23
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The Echo Murders
Overview: Detective Sexton Blake takes on Nazi spies while solving a series of crimes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-17
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Murder at 3am
Overview: A police detective suspects that his sister's boyfriend is a murderer.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-07-01
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Noose for a Lady
Overview: A woman has been sentenced to death by hanging. Her cousin believes she is innocent and he works against time to prove it before she is executed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-04-01
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Time Is My Enemy
Overview: A happily-married woman is blackmailed by her first husband, who she wrongly believed was killed in the Blitz.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-01
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Fortune Is a Woman
Overview: An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-13
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Tamahine
Overview: The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-30
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Some Will, Some Won't
Overview: Four people go to great lengths to obtain the fortune left in a will by a very wealthy practical joker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-04-01
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Hungry Hill
Overview: Life becomes a tragedy for the wife of an Irish heir to a 19th-century family feud and fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-01-07
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That Lady
Overview: In 1570, widowed Princess Ana de Mendoza becomes the love object of a deadly rivalry between her cousin Don Inigo, King Philip II of Spain and his secretary of state Antonio Perez.
Genres: Adventure Drama History Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-05
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No Love for Johnnie
Overview: Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-14
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The Magic Bow
Overview: Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin virtuoso Yehudi Menuhin supplies the breathtaking Paganini solos.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-09-20
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Piccadilly Third Stop
Overview: A playboy tries to recruit a gang, who include an American who needs cash to satisfy his wife's expensive tastes, and an old time expert cracksman, to rob a foreign embassy's safe, but trouble starts when the plan begins to go wrong.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-05
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Go to Blazes
Overview: A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversion. But posing as firemen leads them to disaster.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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The Lost People
Overview: Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears off and the refugees unite in their hostility to the British.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-08-22
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Jassy
Overview: In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling threaten the very ownership of the house. Despite her humble origins as a servant girl, Jassy must try to use her talents to climb the social ladder and save Mordelaine for the man whom she loves.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-13
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Rope
Overview: BBC adaptation of the Patrick Hamilton play
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Rope
Overview: British iTV adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's Rope that aired as a part of ITV Play of the Week.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-10-02
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The White Unicorn
Overview: In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-29
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Watch It, Sailor!
Overview: Sailor Albert gets a message from the Navy saying he can't marry for certain unexplained legal reasons. Everyone, including his domineering mother-in-law to be, jumps to the conclusion that there must be another woman involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-08-14
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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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Oh... Rosalinda!!
Overview: In post-war Vienna, Rosalinda and her husband become embroiled in a series of complicated escapades that puts their marital bliss at risk.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-21
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The Cool Mikado
Overview: In this musical, the Gilbert and Sullivan classic is updated and set in post-war Japan. This time, the trouble begins when a soldier, the son of a Yankee judge, falls in love with a Japanese girl. This enrages her Yakuza fiancé who kidnaps him.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-01-07
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Song of Paris
Overview: An archetypal Englishman returns from a jaunt abroad to face a dastardly foreign count in a screwball duel for the hand of a beautiful mademoiselle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-10
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What a Carve Up!
Overview: Ernie's Uncle Gabriel has just died but to claim his inheritance he must spend the night in the ancestral family home with the rest of his rather eccentric relatives. Ernie's imagination has been affected by his constant immersion in cheap horror novels, but his wildest fears turn out to be justified when the guests begin to drop dead.
Genres: Horror Comedy Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-15
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Go for a Take
Overview: Two inept gamblers on the run from their debts and a gang of crooks find refuge in a film studio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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Holiday Camp
Overview: The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the run, and a pregnant young girl and her boyfriend missing from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-05
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Son of Dracula
Overview: Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe–the son of Count Dracula–falls in love with the beautiful but human Amber and finds himself in conflict with Baron Frankenstein, who is vying for the same honorary title.
Genres: Comedy Horror Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-04-19
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Curse of the Voodoo
Overview: In Africa, a professional hunter kills a male lion which is sacred to a local tribe which also practices voodoo; and when he returns to England, he finds himself deteriorating under the influence of a curse which they have placed on him for his sacrilege.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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The Cracksman
Overview: Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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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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Play It Cool
Overview: A struggling singer and his band befriend an heiress who, against the wishes of her father, is searching for the lover who she has been forbidden to see and with whom she is hoping to elope.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-01
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Kill or Cure
Overview: A private eye is hired to go undercover at a health farm, but before he can find out why his client is murdered.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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A Touch of the Sun
Overview: A hotel porter is left a fortune but after living it up for a while he returns to his old place of work which is in financial difficulties.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-01
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The Intruder
Overview: When Ex Colonel Merton discovers a burglar ransacking his home, he is shocked to find out that the thief is a former soldier from his tank regiment. When the thief escapes, Merton tries to contact former members of the regiment, in order to find out what set the thief on the road to crime.
Genres: Crime War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-10-18
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Port Afrique
Overview: An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find the killer, even if it means uncovering family secrets he never knew about.
Genres: Romance Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-06-18
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That's Your Funeral
Overview: Two funeral parlours fight one another for business, one of whom is more shady than the other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-12-01
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Julius Caesar
Overview: The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-09
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Lovers of Devil's Island
Overview: A lawyer finds out that a young couple convicted of murder was in fact framed for the crime and goes to the prison with the hope of freeing them and learns the events that happened to the two from a fellow prisoner who helped them escape.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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Tall Headlines
Overview: A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-04-15
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Fortune in Diamonds
Overview: As the Boer War ends a South African soldier hides a cache of diamonds he finds on a body. He returns to the town he left three years earlier where his girl has married a disgraced English officer. Needing funds to get back to pick up the diamonds the Boer enlists the help of a fellow soldier as well as the Englishman and a local hotel keeper. This ill-assorted bunch set off into the bush intent on finding their fortune.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
Overview: Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-25
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
Overview: An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-15
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Charley Moon
Overview: A new career opens for Charley Moon when, during his army service, he is detailed to appear in a unit concert. In doing so, he becomes friendly with Harold Armytage, a peacetime actor of the old school. Hearing that Charley has no job to go to when demobilized, Armytage suggests they team up as stage comics. Things are not easy; jobs are few and far between, and when they can be found they are in the tattiest of theatres, but Charley gains the experience he needs. They then decide to try their luck in London.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-01
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The Master of Bankdam
Overview: Generational family struggles for control of a family business in 19th century Yorkshire, and to be the Master of Bankdam.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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The Dancing Years
Overview: The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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The Pot Carriers
Overview: New inmate Rainbow has just been imprisoned for a year for his part in a fight over his girlfriend Wendy. After being assigned to kitchen duty, he becomes involved in a food-trading racket. When the scheme is betrayed to the prison's governor, its prime mover is threatened with an extended sentence - unless Rainbow can come up with a way to save him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-10
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Eight Witnesses
Overview: A scientist on the run with a valuable formula is murdered, and the only witnesses are eight blind people.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-09-17
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Just Like a Woman
Overview: Lewis and Scilla's rocky marriage finally breaks apart – a situation made worse by the fact that Scilla is a key part of the television show that Lewis produces. But while Lewis copes by picking up a passing starlet, Scilla indulges her passion for bathrooms by getting one custom-designed by an ex-Nazi architect!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-02-26
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Doctor in Distress
Overview: "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-07-30
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The Bad Lord Byron
Overview: Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-04-18
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Overview: American horror television movie from 1956.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-11-03
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Caravan
Overview: During the last half of the 19th century writer Richard Darrell saves Don Carlos from two robbers, and is entrusted by Don Carlos to take a valuable necklace to Spain. Richard leaves his fiancé, Oriana, and starts the trip. He meets Wycroft, a henchman for Sir Francis Castteldow, an aristocrat out to steal Oriana from Richard. The latter is assaulted, robbed and nearly killed and, as a result, loses his memory. He marries a gypsy girl, Rosal, while Oriana, thinking him dead marries the dastardly Sir Francis. Everybody will meet again. Complications will arise.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-03
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The Magic Christian
Overview: Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless man, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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A High Wind in Jamaica
Overview: In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-05-01
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Nana
Overview: Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-06-25
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Oscar Wilde
Overview: England, 1891. Ascending writer Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) meets Lord Alfred Douglas, a young nobleman. Over the years, they will maintain an intimate relationship that will be openly criticized by Alfred's father, the Marquis of Queensberry, in such a harsh way that Wilde, instigated by Alfred, decides to sue Queensberry in 1895, accusing him of defamation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-29
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Overview: An all-star cast highlights this vibrant musical adaptation of Lewis Carroll's immortal tale. One day, plucky young Alice follows a white rabbit down a hole and discovers a world of bizarre characters.
Genres: Family Fantasy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-11-20
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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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Five Golden Hours
Overview: A petty crook gallantly consoles wealthy widows and is doing all right in his chosen profession until he meets and falls in love with a lovely baroness, who knows all about get-rich-quick schemes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie
Overview: Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-12
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Helter Skelter
Overview: A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer
Overview: Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-12
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Behave Yourself
Overview: An amusing guide on how to act in public, based on Emily Post's Book of Manners.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-04-17
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The Wrong Arm of the Law
Overview: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upsets the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-17
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Inside the Tower
Overview: A look back at a 70s cult classic, Tower of Evil.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-02
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