Allan Cuthbertson
Also Known As: Allan Darling Cuthbertson, Аллан Катбертсон
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Birthday: April 07, 1920
Deathday: February 08, 1988
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Guns of Navarone
Overview: A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held island and destroy the two enormous long-range field guns that prevent the rescue of 2,000 trapped British soldiers.
Genres: War Adventure Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-27
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Hopscotch
Overview: When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-26
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Thirteen at Dinner
Overview: Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will take the precise Poirot to sort out the lies from the alibis - and find the criminal before another victim dies.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-09-19
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Operation Crossbow
Overview: Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between German developments of the V-1 missile and V-2 rocket (with a German cast speaking their own language) and discovery by British Intelligence of the weapon.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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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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Room at the Top
Overview: An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in love with a married older woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-29
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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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The Fast Lady
Overview: A Scottish civil servant must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's tycoon father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-14
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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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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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The Criminals
Overview: A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-12-28
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Captain Nemo and the Underwater City
Overview: Survivors of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo and his submarine crew. They are taken to an underwater city where they may spend the rest of their lives.
Genres: Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-12-01
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Term of Trial
Overview: A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him, including his bitter wife, Anna. When the lovely young Shirley Taylor, one of Weir's students, falls for her unfortunate instructor, he is tempted and flattered but turns down her advances. Taylor's subsequent actions make Weir's life even more complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-16
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The Stranglers of Bombay
Overview: In 1826 British-ruled India, the secret Cult of Thugee demonstrates their worship of their goddess, Kali, by the mutilation and mass murder of thousands of Indians while pirating the shipments of the British East-Indian Tea Company. As the British military leaders play down the implications of the piracy and disappearances, a lone captain realizes that they are not just coincidence and sets out to uncover the source of the deviltry, at the risk of his career. Based on history.
Genres: Thriller Crime Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-12-04
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The 7th Dawn
Overview: Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Trygon Factor
Overview: A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to suspect that neither the family nor the nuns is quite what they seem to be.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-16
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The Body Stealers
Overview: A British military paratrooper disappears in mid-air during a jump from an army plane. Two investigators, Patrick Allen and Neil Connery, try to unravel how this happened. What they uncover is an alien plot to steal the bodies of earthlings by snatching them out of the air.
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-21
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Life at the Top
Overview: Successful businessman Joe Lampton is married to the wealthy Susan, has two children, and lives in the mill town of Warley in northern England. But his career seems to have plateaued, leaving him disillusioned. This feeling is only exacerbated when he discovers his wife's infidelity with local man Mark. So he takes up with attractive TV host Norah and moves with her to London, aiming to reignite the fire that drove him to the top.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-14
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Killers of Kilimanjaro
Overview: An American engineer reaches Mombasa to finish the works of an African railroad and to find his predecessor, who has mysteriously disappeared. While the work continues, will have to face several obstacles, especially violent local tribes, Arabs slave traders and wild animals.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-01
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Sinful Davey
Overview: A young man, convinced of his paternity, aims to emulate his notorious father by committing daring crimes. However, his childhood friend is equally determined to track him down and save him from his rogue ways.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-02-10
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Invitation to the Wedding
Overview: An American student arrives in England for the wedding of his room-mate's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Doublecross
Overview: A Cornish fisherman becomes involved with Iron Curtain spies.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Cast a Giant Shadow
Overview: An American Army officer is recruited by the yet to exist Israel to help them form an army. He is disturbed by this sudden appeal to his Jewish heritage. Each of Israel's Arab neighbors has vowed to invade the poorly prepared country as soon as partition is granted. He is made commander of the Israeli forces just before the war begins.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-30
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Game for Three Losers
Overview: A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-01
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Solo for Sparrow
Overview: A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Yard, the local detective inspector, Sparrow, decides to go solo to investigate the crime himself.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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A Passage to India
Overview: The BBC's 1965 adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel, screened as part of their Play of the Month strand, adapted by Santha Ramu Rau and John Maynard, and directed by Waris Hussein.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-16
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North West Frontier
Overview: In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-10-13
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East of Ipswich
Overview: Seventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-02-01
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The Boys
Overview: A night watchman at a garage is found murdered, and four teddy boys are put on trial for the crime. Witnesses and suspects give differing accounts of the lead-up to the crime, and the truth emerges.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-31
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Press for Time
Overview: Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Diamonds on Wheels
Overview: Three kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen diamonds in a 24-hour road rally.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-19
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The Passionate Stranger
Overview: Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her husband, a professor currently recovering from an attack of paralysis, he causes quite a flutter; when he then reads the manuscript of Judith's latest novel, he jumps to a rather unfortunate conclusion... and life in the Wynter household becomes very complicated indeed!
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-03-04
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Justice Is a Woman
Overview: Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth, an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-14
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Tommy Cooper - The Magic Touch
Overview: Tommy Cooper, the hapless magician who was in a league of his own, is joined here by a star-studded selection of guests in previously unseen extracts from his classic TV series. The guests include Penny Meredith, Eric Sykes, Henry Cooper and Norman Rossington.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Law and Disorder
Overview: When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to the Judge, who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-09
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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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Rust
Overview: A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat, at the prospect of a lucrative government contract.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-04
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The Running Man
Overview: An Englishman with a grudge against an insurance company for a disallowed claim fakes his own death and escapes to Spain, but is soon pursued by an insurance investigator.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-01
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The Malpas Mystery
Overview: After Audrey leaves prison after being framed for jewel theft, she gets a job offer from the mysterious Mr. Malpas, triggering a plot involving a missing heir, diamonds and kidnapping.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-12-01
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Shake Hands with the Devil
Overview: In 1921 Dublin, the IRA battles the "Black & Tans," special British forces given to harsh measures. Irish-American medical student Kerry O'Shea hopes to stay aloof, but saving a wounded friend gets him outlawed, and inexorably drawn into the rebel organization...under his former professor Sean Lenihan, who has "shaken hands with the devil" and begun to think of fighting as an end in itself. Complications arise when Kerry falls for a beautiful English hostage, and the British offer a peace treaty that is not enough to satisfy Lenihan.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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One More Time
Overview: London nightclub buddies Salt and Pepper link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-05-01
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Ice Cold in Alex
Overview: A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.
Genres: War Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-06-24
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The Great Snail Race
Overview: A race is arranged after Magpie boasts about her pet snail. Paid to catch snails in the Colonel's cabbage patch, Fiddler later persuades Magpie's Mum to give her daughter's snail collection to a French restaurant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Unity
Overview: Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-03-20
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Carrington V.C.
Overview: Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distinguished service career. He decides to act in his own defence at his court martial hearing, his argument being that he is owed a lot of money from the army for his various postings that have cost him out of his own pocket. To further complicate the proceedings, Carrington alleges he told his superior, the very disliked Colonel Henniker, that he was taking the money from the safe. A man's career, his marriage, and quite a few reputations all hang in the balance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Still Crazy Like a Fox
Overview: Jack Warden is back as quirky detective Harry Fox, who becomes a suspect in a murder case while on holiday in England.
Genres: Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-04-05
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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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Portrait of Alison
Overview: An actress and an artist are linked by his brother to deadly smugglers sought by Scotland Yard.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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Performance
Overview: In underworld terms, Chas Devlin is a 'performer,' a gangster with a talent for violence and intimidation. Turner is a reclusive rock superstar. When Chas and Turner meet, their worlds collide—and the impact is both exotic and explosive.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-08-03
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Assault
Overview: After a schoolgirl is raped while taking a short cut through the local woods, and another murdered a few days later, the police are baffled. With the help of a reporter, and against the wishes of a local psychologist, a young schoolteacher uses herself as bait to lure the perpetrator out.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-02-11
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Yangtse Incident: The Story of H.M.S. Amethyst
Overview: While sailing lawfully up the Yangste in 1949, the British warship Amethyst found its return to the open sea blocked by Communist Chinese shore batteries that unexpectedly opened fire. In charge, Lietenant Commander Kerans was not however prepared for his crew and his ship to remain as a hostage for the Chinese to use as an international pawn.
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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The Sea Wolves
Overview: A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to undertake a full military operation in the Portuguese stronghold, English intelligence brings out of retirement a crew of geriatric ex-soldiers, veterans from World War I, using their age as cover. These old soldiers are asked to take to the seas and pull off an unlikely undercover mission.
Genres: War Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-07-03
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The Firechasers
Overview: Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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The Devil's Disciple
Overview: In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
Genres: War Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-20
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On Such a Night
Overview: An American tourist on a day trip to Sussex from London inadvertently finds himself at Glyndebourne Opera House in Sussex where he learns to appreciate Opera.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-01
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Bitter Harvest
Overview: A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London is the price too high?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-08
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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 Mirror Crack'd
Overview: Jane Marple solves the mystery when a local woman is poisoned and a visiting movie star seems to have been the intended victim.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Outsider
Overview: Michael Flaherty (Craig Wasson), an American Vietnam veteran of Irish descent, returns to Belfast to join the cause of his grandfather, Seamus (Sterling Hayden). Soon he finds that he is not as welcomed in his home country as he imagined he would be. Even worse, he's the target of an IRA assassination plot designed to make the British forces look bad in order to elicit financial support from wealthy Americans.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-02
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The Crowning Touch
Overview: Several stories linked by a hat.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-01
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The Adventurers
Overview: The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country- a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put into power. He returns from living a jet-set life in Europe to lead a revolution against the government, only to find out that things aren't quite as black and white as he'd assumed.
Genres: Drama Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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I Was Monty's Double
Overview: The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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Dick Turpin: Highwayman
Overview: A Hammer Films short recounting the adventures of Dick Turpin.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Half a Sixpence
Overview: "If I had the money, I'd buy me a banjo!" says struggling sales clerk Arthur Kipps. Soon he'll inherit enough to buy a whole bloomin' orchestra. But can his newfound wealth buy happiness?
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-21
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On the Double
Overview: American GI Ernie Williams, admittedly weak-kneed, has an uncanny resemblance to British Colonel MacKenzie. Williams, also a master of imitation and disguise, is asked to impersonate the Colonel, ostensibly to allow the Colonel to make a secret trip East. What Williams is not told is that the Colonel has recently been a target of assassins. After the Colonel's plane goes down, the plan changes and Williams maintains the disguise to confuse the Nazis about D-Day.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-19
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Freud: The Secret Passion
Overview: An examination of Austrian psychologist Sigmund Freud's career when he began to treat patients diagnosed with hysteria, using the radical technique of hypnosis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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The Mouse on the Moon
Overview: Sequel to The Mouse that Roared; The Tiny Country of Grand Fenwick has a hot water problem in the castle. To get the money necessary to put in a new set of plumbing, they request foreign aid from the U.S. for Space Research. The Russians then send aid as well to show that they too are for the internationalization of space. While the grand Duke is dreaming of hot baths, their one scientist is slapping together a rocket. The U.S. and Soviets get wind of the impending launch and try and beat them to the moon.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-05-07
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The Informers
Overview: When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-29
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Cloak Without Dagger
Overview: A British Intelligence officer fails a mission during WW2. Years later whilst working in a hotel he bumps into an old flame who is desperate to discover what went wrong?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-31
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Quay South
Overview: Facing pressure from authorities to relinquish control of his ship the Ebb Tide, Capt. Daniel Thwaite (Roger Livesey) struggles to decide what course of action he should pursue in this riveting military drama set in 1940 northeastern England. Based on a novel by Howard Clewes, this episode from the "ITV Television Playhouse" series co-stars Michael Bates, Miriam Karlin and Peter Barkworth.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-12-10
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