Miles Malleson
Also Known As: Майлс Моллесон, William Miles Malleson
Biography: William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as Nell Gwyn (1934) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays (The Misanthrope, which he titled The Slave of Truth, Tartuffe and The Imaginary Invalid).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Croydon, Surrey, England
Adult: No
Birthday: May 24, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 15, 1969
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Murder Ahoy
Overview: During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-22
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Stage Fright
Overview: A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-23
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Overview: Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated his alter ego in order to escape his country estate where he takes care of his charge, Cecily Cardew. Cecily believes that Ernest is Jack's wayward brother and is keen on his raffish lifestyle. Algernon, seeing an opportunity, assumes Ernest's identity and sneaks off to woo Cecily.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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Peeping Tom
Overview: Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which involves recording the reactions of victims as he murders them. He befriends Helen, the daughter of the family living in the apartment below his, and he tells her vaguely about the movie he is making.
Genres: Thriller Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-16
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The Queen's Affair
Overview: Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-01
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The Brides of Dracula
Overview: A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently unleashes the horrors of the undead once again on the populace, including those at her school for ladies. Luckily for some, Dr. Van Helsing is already on his way.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-01
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
Overview: When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-05-04
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The 39 Steps
Overview: Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as The 39 Steps.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-06
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The Thief of Bagdad
Overview: When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-19
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Scrooge
Overview: Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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First Men in the Moon
Overview: The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts discover an old British flag and a document declaring that the moon is taken for Queen Victoria proving that the astronauts were not the first men on the moon.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-07-01
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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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Dead of Night
Overview: Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-09-09
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
Overview: Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king brings it to the attention of the Foreign Office in Whitehall. They decide to send Cadogan de Vere Carlton-Browne to re-establish friendly relations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-03-10
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Kidnapped
Overview: Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands, evading the redcoats.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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The Captain's Paradise
Overview: Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather more hot-blooded Mistress, Nita in Tangiers. A perfect life. As long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-09-28
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The Phantom of the Opera
Overview: A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-25
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Overview: Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fanatic about cards, murders her for the secret, then finds himself haunted by the woman's spirit.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-16
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
Overview: London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their leader, discovers the bank's weak spot: an old forgotten sewer straight under the vaults.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-04
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Golden Salamander
Overview: An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-02-01
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The Perfect Woman
Overview: In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of Professor Belman, but it turns out rather to be the Professor's niece Penelope doing a pretty good imitation of the perfect Olga who winds up with them in the bridal suite at the Hotel Splendide.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-05-23
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Postman's Knock
Overview: Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Innocent in the ways of the big city, he is thought to be a member of another gang by both the train robbers and the police, who all suspect him of trying to rob the post office where he works.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-02-22
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
Overview: A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, Holmes and Watson must penetrate the city's criminal underworld to find her.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Romance Crime Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-05-12
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Rhodes of Africa
Overview: Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston, Oskar Homolka, Basil Sydney and Bernard Lee.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-06-30
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Perfect Understanding
Overview: A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds himself attracted to a beautiful young woman.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-15
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The Demi-Paradise
Overview: Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking ships. Naïve about British people and convinced by hearsay that they are shallow and hypocritical, Ivan is both bemused and amused by them. He is blunt in his opinions about Britons and at first this puts off his hosts, including the lovely Ann Tisdall, whose grandfather runs the shipbuilding firm that will make use of Ivan's propeller. The longer Ivan stays, however, the more he comes to understand the humor, warmth, strength, and conviction of the British people, and the more they come to see him as a friend rather than merely a suspicious Russian. As a romantic bond grows between Ivan and Ann, a cultural bond begins to grow as well, particularly as the war begins and Russia is attacked by Germany.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-18
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Summer Lightning
Overview: Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to raise funds to marry her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-07-10
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Trent's Last Case
Overview: When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicide is really a murder, and becomes highly interested in the young widow and the dead man's private secretary.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-09-22
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Cardboard Cavalier
Overview: Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depicts a historical romance between Lord Lovelace and Nell Gwyne.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-03-31
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Happy Is the Bride
Overview: In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else to take over proceedings, to the dismay of the couple and the increasing despair of Janet's father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-04
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You Must Be Joking
Overview: A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-03
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The Captain's Table
Overview: A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take charge of such a ship, he is less prepared for the social duties his new position involves, not least the way he in which becomes the target for all the unattached women on board.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-01-06
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Money Means Nothing
Overview: British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Lazybones
Overview: Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-23
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Barnacle Bill
Overview: A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-12-17
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The Hellfire Club
Overview: Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Thomas. In order to reclaim his title, Jason must do battle with his cousin, who calls upon the members of the deadly Hellfire Club to stop him.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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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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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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The Admirable Crichton
Overview: Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still believes that members of the serving class should know their place and be happy there. But when the Loam family are shipwrecked on a desert island with the self-reliant Crichton and lady's maid Tweeny, the class system is put to the test.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-11
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Vintage Wine
Overview: The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rome and generally living a wild life. Unbeknownst to them he has happily re-married and had a son with a much younger woman. She believes he is twenty years younger than he really is and is shocked when his relatives including his mother, grown-up sons and granddaughter arrive in Italy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-19
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Tudor Rose
Overview: The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Q Planes
Overview: In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraft which have disappeared without a trace while over the ocean on their maiden flights; unaware, as they are, that a spy ring has been shooting the planes down with a ray machine hidden aboard a salvage vessel which is on hand to haul the downed aircraft aboard, crews and all.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-02-21
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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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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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King's Rhapsody
Overview: Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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The Woman's Angle
Overview: The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search, however, has landed him in the divorce courts and the judge's summary does not paint him in a favourable light.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-02-12
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For Freedom
Overview: Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Giant German battleship Graf Spee flees into Montevideo Harbour after a punishing encounter with the British warships Exeter and Ajax. As events unfold in a very unexpected way, he is there with his camera to capture the dramatic end to the encounter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-04
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Night Birds
Overview: Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the crimes to a posh night club.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-10-16
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The Brain
Overview: A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
Genres: Science Fiction Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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Knight Without Armour
Overview: British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he poses as a Russian Commissar. Because of his position among the revolutionaries, he is able to rescue a Russian countess from the Bolsheviks.
Genres: History Drama Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-23
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Frail Women
Overview: Lilian has an illegitimate war-baby which is then adopted by a wealthy spinster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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Unpublished Story
Overview: Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-10
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Victoria the Great
Overview: The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-09-01
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Heavens Above!
Overview: A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-20
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Behind the Mask
Overview: A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-11-23
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The Love Contract
Overview: A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-27
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Love on Wheels
Overview: A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-07-26
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They Flew Alone
Overview: The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-06-29
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A Night in Montmartre
Overview: A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-07-16
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The Happy Family
Overview: When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the pedestrian subway into the site, are blocked by a little corner shop, which is owned and run by a Mr. Lord and his family. When the Lords refuse to be bought off, and decline the compensation offered by the authorities. the police and the bailiffs try to evict them, only to come under fire from the family, who have barricaded themselves inside the shop.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-03-30
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Sixty Glorious Years
Overview: Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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Geordie
Overview: Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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Major Barbara
Overview: Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvation Army. Wooed by professor-turned-preacher Adolphus Cusins, Barbara eventually grows disillusioned with her causes and begins to see things from her father's perspective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-14
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Action for Slander
Overview: A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-07-21
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Treasure Hunt
Overview: Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-06-01
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Nell Gwyn
Overview: King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent company to that of the aristocratic French Duchess of Portsmouth. Nell becomes his most loyal subject, while ever-ready to take the Duchess down a peg. But the actress can never hope to be fully accepted by the King's circle despite his constant attentions.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-08-01
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Bachelor of Hearts
Overview: A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-12
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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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City of Song
Overview: A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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Dracula
Overview: After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-21
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The Mayor's Nest
Overview: A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-06-27
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The Bing Crosby Show
Overview: Bing Crosby performs with special guests Bob Hope, Marion Ryan, Dave King, Terry-Thomas, and Shirley Bassey.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-12-11
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Dry Rot
Overview: Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-31
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The Man in the White Suit
Overview: The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune selling clothes made of the material, but may cause a crisis in the process. After all, once someone buys one of his suits they won't ever have to fix them or buy another one, and the clothing industry will collapse overnight. Nevertheless, Sidney is determined to put his invention on the market, forcing the clothing factory bigwigs to resort to more desperate measures...
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-07
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The Gentle Sex
Overview: During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-23
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Thunder Rock
Overview: David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
Genres: Drama Fantasy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-12-04
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Train of Events
Overview: A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-18
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And the Same to You
Overview: Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elaborate plan to keep his budding boxing career a secret, with he and his tough-talking promoter Wally Burton both pretending to be devout 'men of the cloth'.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-02-01
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Brothers in Law
Overview: Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with a particularly hot-tempered judge and tricky case, Thursby learns how to prove himself not only to the judge and fellow barristers but also to the public gallery.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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The Silken Affair
Overview: An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-10-02
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Peg of Old Drury
Overview: a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-27
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Land of Promise
Overview: Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as they were, houses as they are and houses as they might be.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-02
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Bond Street
Overview: Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending wedding of society girl Hazel Court and Robert Flemyng.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-05-12
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Three Men in a Boat
Overview: Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-12-23
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Folly to Be Wise
Overview: A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-04
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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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Venetian Bird
Overview: Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Journey Together
Overview: Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-10-01
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Idol of Paris
Overview: The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches story of a girl named Theresa. Sleeping her way to the top, she becomes a highly sought-after Parisian courtesan, one worthy of the attentions of the Emperor Napoleon. But Theresa has no time for the Emperor, not with such virile lovers as Hertz around and about.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-24
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Gideon's Day
Overview: Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From there, his 'typical day" consists in learning that one of his most-trusted detectives has accepted bribes; hunts an escaped maniac who has murdered a girl; tracks a young girl suspected of involvement in a payroll robbery and then helps break up a bank robbery.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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The Man Who Never Was
Overview: The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.
Genres: Thriller War Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-04-03
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Woman Hater
Overview: A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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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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Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery
Overview: An opening section of heavy handed humour about boxing styles gives way to a genuine and extraordinary discovery in this silent curio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-11-01
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Campbell's Kingdom
Overview: Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-09-03
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While the Sun Shines
Overview: Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanced by two different men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-01
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
Overview: It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. But when a gang of cut-throats, led by the infamous Black John (Bernard Lee) begins to lure ships onto the rocks of Smugglers Bay, and murdering their crews for the sake of loot, the fishermen begin to fear for their livelihoods. In desperation, they appeal to the local magistrate Squire Trevenyan (Peter Cushing).
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Blue Danube
Overview: In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor becomes infatuated. Yutka soon flees from her faithless lover. Sandor roams the country, searching for his lost love, but finds her too late. she now wears furs and has her own aristocratic love. Sandor returns heartbroken to his Romany encampment.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-01-11
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The Headmaster
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1921-01-01
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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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Lazybones
Overview: Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries her but finds she has been disinherited as well. They find even more trouble in the shape of the American's cousin.
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-23
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