Hay Petrie
Also Known As: David Hay Petrie
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: July 16, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 30, 1948
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The Wandering Jew
Overview: Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return. The Crusades, 1150: Matathias, now an anonymous knight, competes for glory in combat and for the wife of a soldier. Palermo, 1290: Matteos Battadios witnesses the death of his young son, leading to conflict with his wife over whether to take comfort in Christianity. Seville, 1560: Dr Matteos Battadios dedicates himself to the treatment and comfort of the poor, but his life and work are endangered by the arrival of the Spanish Inquisition.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-11-15
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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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Colonel Blood
Overview: '1670. Irish patriot caught stealing Crown Jewels talks his way to pardon.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Jamaica Inn
Overview: In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-05-11
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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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Noose
Overview: Set in post Second World War Britain, Noose is the story of black market racketeers who face attempts to bring them to justice by an American fashion journalist, her ex-army fiancée and a gang of honest toughs from a local gym. When a corpse turns up at black market front The Blue Moon Club, Yank reporter Carole Landis starts snooping, much to gang boss Joseph Calleia’s annoyance. And soon there’s a hit man on the way...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-28
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Contraband
Overview: When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved in a beautiful British Naval Intelligent agent's efforts to capture a group of German spies operating from a London cinema.
Genres: Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-11
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Crimes at the Dark House
Overview: In this lurid melodrama, Tod Slaughter plays a villain who murders the wealthy Sir Percival Glyde in the gold fields of Australia and assumes his identity in order to inherit Glyde's estate in England. On arriving in England, "Sir Percival" schemes to marry an heiress for her money, and, with the connivance of the cunning Dr. Isidor Fosco, embarks on a killing spree of all who suspect him to be an imposter and would get in the way of his plans to stay Lord of the Manor.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-01
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Forget Me Not
Overview: A young British woman, tricked into believing she was used during a whirlwind romance, marries a gentle widowed Italian opera star, whose songs she and her first love shared.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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The Conquest of the Air
Overview: This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Moscow Nights
Overview: During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Genres: Romance War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-23
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The Voice Within
Overview: Dennis O'Shea joins a gang of smugglers in order to raise the money to pay for his brother, who is fleeing from the IRA, to move to the USA. But after he accidentally kills a constable during a smuggling trip, the policeman's dog begins to follow him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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Hard Steel
Overview: A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-05-18
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For You Alone
Overview: Wartime romantic melodrama, suggested by a popular song of the same title, with a young woman torn between her love for a naval officer and duty to an injured admirer.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-05-28
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Do Not Forget About Me
Overview: This rare 1935 film (the title translated means "do not forget me") features Beniamino Gigli as, of course, an Italian singer who warbles his way through a touching love story. Features musical selections from "Il Trovatore" and "Rigoletto" as well as a lullaby and some Neapolitan songs, including the title tune. Distributed by New York's Bel Canto Society (an organization of hard-core opera buffs).
Genres: Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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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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Pastor Hall
Overview: The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join the Nazi party avidly, and some just go along with things, hoping for a quiet life, but Pastor Hall takes his convictions to the pulpit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-05-28
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Inquest
Overview: A woman is suspected of killing her husband after a revolver is found in her attic. A coroner is determined to prove that she did it, but thanks to the assistance of a quick-witted lawyer she is eventually found innocent.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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On Approval
Overview: Two wealthy Victorian widows are courted tentatively by two impoverished British aristocrats. When one of the dowagers suggests that her beau go away with her for a month to see if they are compatible, the fireworks begin.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-05-22
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Gipsy Blood
Overview: In 1931, Sir Malcolm Sargent – then a rising young conductor – acted as musical director for this first filmed musical version of Prosper Mérimée’s classic story of passion and fatal jealousy, Carmen. With a score based on Bizet’s opera, Gipsy Blood features celebrated American soprano Marguerite Namara as the capricious gypsy girl from the cigarette factory; her co-performers include Thomas Burke as Carmen’s tormented lover, Don José, and New Zealand-born baritone Lance Fairfax as his rival, the toreador Escamillo.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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Rush Hour
Overview: The British government tries to persuade people not to clog up the wartime (World War II) public transportation system by keeping its use to a minimum during "rush hour".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-01
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Freedom Radio
Overview: Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. His wife is courted by the party and accepts a political post in Berlin. Meanwhile Dr Karl decides to try to do something to counteract the Nazi propaganda and with the help of an engineer and a few friends he sets up the Freedom Radio to counteract the Nazi propaganda.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-04
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The Old Curiosity Shop
Overview: An elderly shop-keeper and his grand-daughter are threatened by the rich, mean-spirited dwarf Quilp, and decide to flee across England to escape him. They are pursued both by Quilp and by the shop-keeper's long-lost brother, who wants to find them for a different reason.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Kiss the Bride Goodbye
Overview: Working-class girl Joan Dodd's plan to marry Jack Fowler is thwarted when her mother Gladys interferes. Hoping to improve her daughter's social status, Gladys arranges for Joan to wed her boss Adolphus Pickering while Jack is away at war. Jack arrives home to discover his love is engaged to another man. Who will Joan decide to marry?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-01-28
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The Private Life of Henry VIII
Overview: Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-17
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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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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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The Spy in Black
Overview: A German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-03
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The Four Feathers
Overview: A disgraced officer risks his life to help his childhood friends in battle.
Genres: Adventure Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Crime on the Hill
Overview: In this murder mystery, Vicar Casson looks into the poisoning of a wealthy man. He soon finds that the man they convicted, the fiance of the rich man's niece, was innocent.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-27
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Matinee Idol
Overview: A well-known actor is murdered. Another performer becomes an amateur sleuth so she can prove her sister is innocent of the crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-08-29
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Crimson Dynasty
Overview: Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-04
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Song of the Plough
Overview: 'Farm life on the South Downs. A gentleman farmer beats his unscrupulous rival in sheepdog trials.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-12-04
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Convoy
Overview: A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-09-28
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21 Days Together
Overview: After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-01-07
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Ten Days in Paris
Overview: Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true because he insists that he crashed his plane and has no recollection of being anywhere for ten days. Bob decides to follow a note found in his jacket, to the woman who wrote it, "Miss D", and get to the bottom of the whole strange situation.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-06-01
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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 House of the Spaniard
Overview: A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn’t add up…
Genres: Adventure Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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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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Invitation To The Waltz
Overview: As the threat of Napoleonic invasion looms ever closer, a German duke and potential ally of England falls for a pretty ballerina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-01
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Suspense
Overview: During the First World War a British unit take up a new position in a trench unaware that the Germans are laying a mine underneath it.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-04
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Secret Lives
Overview: A German-born woman works as a spy for the French in Switzerland during the First World War, and has to marry an interned French lieutenant in order to be able to stay in the country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-04-22
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The Two Frightened Ladies
Overview: Dramatised short about the advantages of gas appliances in the home, with music.
Genres: Comedy Animation
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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The Spell of Amy Nugent
Overview: A young man's fiancé dies after contracting a terminal illness, and in his efforts to contact her he gets involved with a group of spiritualists.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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Design for Murder
Overview: When a wealthy, lonely university music student is beaten and has his apartment trashed by a fellow dorm resident-bully and his gang, he goes mad, lures the bully into his room on pretense of forgiveness, slips him a paralyzing agent in a drink, throws him in a trunk and locks him in, and taunts the bully with the promise that he will be buried alive in the trunk. Only, once he gets his trunk and his prey to his country estate, the vengeful victim finds things keep going wrong...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-27
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I Give My Heart
Overview: The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th century Parisian milliner who sleeps her way to the uppermost rungs of French aristocracy, emerging at last as the glamorous Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV (Owen Nares). Refusing to gloss over du Barry's sexual peccadilloes (as previous films with Norma Talmadge and Dolores del Rio had done), the film presents the "heroine" as a whore, pure and simple-or, on second thought, not so pure and simple! Particularly troublesome for American censors was a scene in which du Barry is depicted as a resident of a bawdy house. Otherwise, The Loves of Madame du Barry is standard historical-drama fare, allowing dozens of top European actors to play "dress-up" for 90 minutes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-24
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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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Quiet Wedding
Overview: A young couple become engaged, but enjoy a number of comedic aventures before their wedding day.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-19
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Turned Out Nice Again
Overview: George Pearson, an employee at an underwear factory, is caught between his modern wife and his meddling mother. After buying a special yarn and getting his wife to promote it, he has an argument with his boss, Mr Dawson who insults Pearson's wife and refuses to apologise. Pearson then resigns. After finding out that the yarn is actually worth a fair amount, Mr Dawson tries to buy it from Pearson but he has some competition.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-08-01
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The Ghost of St. Michael's
Overview: Will Hay, back in his role as a hapless teacher, is hired by a grim school in remotest Scotland. The school soon starts to be haunted by a legendary ghost, whose spectral bagpipes signal the death of one of the staff. Hay, assisted by Claude Hulbert and Charles Hawtrey, has to unravel the mystery before he becomes the next victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-01
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Cottage to Let
Overview: Allied spies and Nazi Agents insinuate themselves at a Scottish cottage (converted to a wartime hospital) with interests on an inventor's nearly perfected bomb sight.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-09-06
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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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Great Expectations
Overview: In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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The Lucky Number
Overview: A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-17
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Many Waters
Overview: An elderly couple reminisce about the romantic adventures of their youth.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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The Monkey's Paw
Overview: A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-06-01
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Spy for a Day
Overview: During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-04-26
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The Guinea Pig
Overview: A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-10-26
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The Fallen Idol
Overview: Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes when he accidentally discovers the secret that Baines keeps and witnesses the consequences that adults' lies can cause.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-09-30
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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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The Shipbuilders
Overview: A patriotic, cinematic salvo, this wartime production tells the story of the owner of a shipbuilding company doing his best to contribute to the British fleet. War is good for business, but what will happen once the war is won? It was based on a novel by George Blake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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The Ghost Goes West
Overview: Donald Glourie shares his crumbling ancestral home with the ghost of his Highland ancestor, Murdoch, who has been condemned to haunt the castle until he avenges a 200-year-old insult from a rival clan. To clear his mounting debts, Donald sells the dilapidated pile to an American businessman, Mr Martin, who has the castle complete with the Glourie ghost transported and rebuilt in Florida. While old-world gentility rubs up comically against 20th-century materialism, Martin's daughter takes a liking to both Donald and Murdoch, convinced they are one and the same man...
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-12-17
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They Met in the Dark
Overview: A Royal navy Commander is tricked by a pretty girl who is working for the Nazis. She tricks him into revealing some military secrets and he is court martial. He vows to track her and her accomplices down.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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The Laughing Lady
Overview: A musical set during the French Revolution.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-16
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One of Our Aircraft Is Missing
Overview: On its way back from a raid on the city of Stuttgart, Germany, a British bomber is shot down over Nazi-held Holland. Parachuting into Dutch farmlands under cover of darkness, the six-member crew connects with members of the local resistance, who shelter the Brits from their Nazi inquisitors as they make their way towards freedom.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-04-24
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Night Boat to Dublin
Overview: British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-01-08
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Sabotage at Sea
Overview: The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-07
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Midnight Taxi
Overview: A London cabby uncovers the city's secret nightlife in this surprising plug for post-war National Savings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Blind Justice
Overview: When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowardice during World War One.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-04
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Rembrandt
Overview: A character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-06
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Consider Your Verdict
Overview: A short featurette about a murderer summoned by chance to sit on the jury and try the man accused of his crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Men of Yesterday
Overview: A retired major and ex-enemies pledge peace at reunion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-05-01
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