Wally Patch
Also Known As: Walter Sydney Vinnicombe
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Willesden, Middlesex, England, UK
Adult: No
Birthday: September 26, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 27, 1970
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King of the Castle
Overview: A family butler tries to find the missing heir to a title.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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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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Bank Holiday
Overview: A 1930s British summer Bank Holiday starts at midday on Saturday with a rush for the trains to the seaside. Doreen and Milly are off to a beauty contest, Geoffrey and Catherine are having an illicit weekend in the Grand Hotel and May and the kids are set for a more straightforward holiday of sea, sand, and pub. Meanwhile, the manager and performers on the pier are praying for rain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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The Skin Game
Overview: An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-26
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Sparrows Can't Sing
Overview: Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-03-26
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Gasbags
Overview: It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
Genres: War Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-02-01
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River Patrol
Overview: The Thames river police try to track down smugglers.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-01
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Men Are Not Gods
Overview: Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-26
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Carry On!
Overview: 'Admiral's son loves girl who becomes spy, and dies foiling her schemes.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-12-02
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The King's Highway
Overview: '1765. Judge sentences highwayman to die, then finds he is his son.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-10-01
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Tiger Bay
Overview: Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-09-01
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The Adventures of Jane
Overview: Jane is given a bracelet by an elderly admirer. He is in league with Cleaver, a suave crook, and the two plan to use Jane and the bracelet to smuggle diamonds into England.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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Dusty Ermine
Overview: A forger returns to his family when he leaves jail vowing to go straight. Although approached by an international counterfeiting gang he keeps his word only to find his nephew is in the Swiss Alps helping the crooks. He sets off to try and put a stop to things, but with Scotland Yard also hot-footing it to the resort his problems are just beginning. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-12-01
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Inspector Hornleigh
Overview: When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, inside it he finds a bag that was used to carry important government documents. The documents have been taken, and to make things even more confusing, a duplicate of the stolen bag soon turns up.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-07
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Off the Dole
Overview: Without a job, a young man is given the opportunity to run his ill uncle's private-detective agency. He finds himself mixed up with everything from an unfaithful husband who is a secret nudist to a schoolteacher who believes his pupil's father is beating him.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-06-01
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Alf's Button Afloat
Overview: Alf discovers that one of the buttons on his pyjamas is made from the metal of Aladdin's lamp and that when he cleans it a genie appears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-30
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Green Fingers
Overview: A fisherman begins studying to be an osteopath. Although he isn't finished with medical school, he begins treating his landlady's daughter who is believed to have a chronic illness. He seems to cure her, and the case draws a lot of attention, some of it negative because he was unlicensed when he treated her. He still does not have a degree when he marries the daughter and begins practising osteopathy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-06-02
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The Perfect Flaw
Overview: A clerk is planning to murder a stockbroker but is foiled in the attempt.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-05-31
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The Public Life of Henry the Ninth
Overview: Henry, an unemployed London street entertainer, gets his big break when he is engaged to perform as the opening act of a cabaret in local pub. He proves a huge success and his popularity ensures his transition from pub entertainer to star performer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-23
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Inspector Hornleigh Goes to It
Overview: Third and final film in the 'Inspector Hornleigh’ series of comedy-thrillers. Inspector Hornleigh (Gordon Harker), disappointed at not being handed an important spy case, is assigned by Scotland Yard to an army barracks to investigate the mundane thefts of supplies from the stores. This accidentally leads Hornleigh and Sergeant Bingham (Alastair Sim) to a nest of fifth columnists when his dim-witted assistant carelessly talks to a girl in the cafeteria – and that night, news of Hornleigh and Bingham’s arrival is embarrassingly transmitted back to Germany.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-05-17
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Let the People Sing
Overview: An out-of-work comedian persuades a drunken nobleman to join a protest against the closing of a village hall.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-08-11
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Inspector Hornleigh on Holiday
Overview: During a holiday by the British seaside, Hornleigh and Bingham grow bored and turn their hand to investigating a local crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-12-01
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Where’s George?
Overview: A British comedy about a blacksmith who in looking to get away from his wife discovers a talent for rugby league.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-18
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Owd Bob
Overview: Adam McAdam is an old, dour sheepherder whose life is devoted to his faithful dog, the whiskey bottle and his daughter, Jeannie. And a conflict that arises when the other sheep-men of the district try every means within their power to have his dog, accused of being a sheep-killer, destroyed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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Operation Cupid
Overview: A gang of criminals plan to use a marriage agency that they won during a card game, to arrange a lucrative marriage for one of their number.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-04-01
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The High Command
Overview: A general must come to terms with a crime he commited years earlier.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-23
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Cathy Come Home
Overview: A British woman faces a downward social climb thanks to her country's rigid and problem-ridden welfare system.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-11-16
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A Matter of Life and Death
Overview: When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama War Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-12-15
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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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The Street Singer
Overview: Following an argument with his co-star during the rehearsals for a new stage show, famous singer Richard King walks out of the theatre, still wearing his ragged stage costume. Mistaken for a beggar, he’s taken in by a pair of street entertainers and joins their act incognito.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-03-01
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The Ware Case
Overview: An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the aristocrat's house
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Doctor Syn
Overview: A highly respected clergyman is actually a former pirate who exacts vigilante justice in this British production.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-08-25
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The Scarab Murder Case
Overview: One of a series of murder mysteries featuring the character Philo Vance. A Lost Movie
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-30
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Smith
Overview: John Smith, a middle-aged married man, is made redundant by his employer; at a loss and despairing, his friend Harry Jones suggests applying to the Embankment Fellowship Centre, a charity that provides hostelling, retraining and help finding work for men in his position.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-06-28
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Prison Breaker
Overview: A British secret service agent falls in love with the daughter of a leading London criminal, and soon after becoming involved with her father finds himself in prison facing a charge of manslaughter..
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-02-01
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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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Night Ride
Overview: Two truck drivers fired by the crooked trucking firm they worked for start their own company. Their former boss, worried about the competition, tries everything he can to drive them out of business, from sending his pretty daughter to seduce them to having his henchmen sabotage their trucks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-28
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Crime Unlimited
Overview: A young Scotland Yard police academy recruit tries to break up a gang of thieves.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-08-01
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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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Pygmalion
Overview: Can Professor Higgins transform flower-girl Eliza Dolittle into a great lady?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-08
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The Challenge
Overview: Jailed for his role in a gang heist and ditched by its female leader (Jayne Mansfield), a widower (Anthony Quayle) decides to keep the loot.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-05-17
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Poison Pen
Overview: The inhabitants of a peaceful village begin receiving mysterious hate mail penned by someone with malicious thoughts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-03
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Gert and Daisy's Weekend
Overview: Gert and Daisy accompany a crowd of Cockney children who are being evacuated to a stately home in the country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-02-16
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Get Off My Foot
Overview: A Smithfield porter becomes a butler, and later finds himself heir to a fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-10-28
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
Overview: An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-23
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Not So Dusty
Overview: Two London rubbish collectors come into possession of a valuable book, and thwart the attempts of some criminals to con them out of it. Meanwhile one of the dustmen pursues a romance with a housemaid he has met on his round. Remake of a 1936 film of the same title which had also been directed by Maclean Rogers. Wally Patch who had written and starred in the earlier film, appears in a small role in the remake.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-02-16
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I See Ice
Overview: George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensue....
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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Danger by My Side
Overview: A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-01
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Castle Sinister
Overview: A scientist seeks to transplant the brain of a young girl into his apeman.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-03-30
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Sword of Honour
Overview: A recruit at Sandhurst initially makes a poor impression, but goes on to prove himself by riding in the Grand National.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-08-13
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The Guns of Loos
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the shell crisis of 1915 at home and the Battle of Loos on the Western Front, two soldiers, one the manager of Grimlaw’s munitions factory are tested in their rivalry for Diana, a red cross nurse (Madeleine Carroll in her first film role).
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-28
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The Great Game
Overview: Set in Chelsea’s Stamford Bridge football ground and featuring appearances from many real-life players from the day, this is the first film to feature football as its central theme and is recognisably modern and authentic. It deals with the day to day dramas, conflicts and love interests of players and managers in the run-up to the Cup Final.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-08-27
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High Treason
Overview: The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
Genres: War Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-03-25
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Thread o' Scarlet
Overview: 'Innocent blacksmith hanged on circumstantial evidence.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-22
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Nothing Barred
Overview: Penniless Lord Whitebait's plan to save his sinking fortunes is to open stately Whitebait Manor to the public. But the public ignores his gesture, and his fortunes fade even further, with a stream of debts threatening to run into a deluge when his daughter's fiancé demands a plush and costly wedding. Where is the cash to come from? Whitebait and his servant Spankforth's answer is a scam involving the theft of a valuable painting from the Manor. How could such a cunningly original ruse fail?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-10
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Here's George
Overview: 'Man borrows service flat to impress girl's parents.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-09-20
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The Scotland Yard Mystery
Overview: A doctor uses his unique medical knowledge to mastermind a lucrative life-insurance scam; in a rare film role, legendary thespian Gerald du Maurier stars as the Metropolitan Police Commissioner who sets out to uncover the secret of five empty coffins and catch the villainous swine responsible for such depravities.
Genres: Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-03
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Up for the Derby
Overview: 'Stableboy buys ruined employer's horse and wins Derby.' (British Film Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-20
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Dora
Overview: 'An American visitor to England is frustrated by the restrictions placed upon him and his social life by the Defence of the Realm Act.' (National Film Archive Catalogue)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-06-14
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Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt
Overview: Charley's (Big-Hearted) Aunt is a 1940 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde starring Arthur Askey and Richard Murdoch as Oxford 'scholars'. The film is one of many to be made based on the farce Charley's Aunt. Taking inspiration from a well-known Victorian play, a modern-day prankster poses as a wealthy woman in a ploy to prevent him and his friends from being expelled from college.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Band Waggon
Overview: A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-23
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The Flying Squad
Overview: Inspector Bradley of Scotland Yard is on the trail of the murderous ringleader of a smuggling organization in London.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-10-12
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Neutral Port
Overview: A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-12-06
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Night Alone
Overview: Charles and Barbara are a devoted couple who, in seven years' marriage, have never spent a night apart. When they come up to town for a family engagement, an urgent business appointment obliges Charles to let Barbara go on without him. Left alone and bored in the hotel, Charles agrees to accompany a man-about-town friend to a nightclub. He gets helplessly drunk among dubious company, and come the morning finds that a hangover is the least of his problems..!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-07-13
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George in Civvy Street
Overview: George Formby plays George Harper, a tavern owner, who works to turn a waitress from her current employer, a rival tavern owner, when Formby falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-07-07
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Those Were the Days
Overview: A farce based on Arthur Wing Pinero's play 'The Magistrate' in which the son (John Mills) of a stern magistrate (Will Hay) visits a music hall against the wishes of his father. In true farcical style, the magistrate too ends up at the music hall, and before long all the characters are trying not to avoid each other... Mainly notable (a) because of its depiction of the music hall as seen by a generation which knew it intimately (b) because of its use of music hall acts of the time and (c) because it gave Will Hay his first film role.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-04-02
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Excuse My Glove
Overview: A young man, whose main interest in life is stained glass, accidentally accepts a challenge to fight in a fair boxing booth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-07-20
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Shooting Stars
Overview: The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-02-06
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The Sky’s the Limit
Overview: Romance of an absent minded designer of planes and a famous singer to whom he tries to sell his friends' songs.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Laugh It Off
Overview: As WWII begins, vaudeville entertainer Tommy Towers is called up to serve. He arranges a job for his girlfriend at the local pub. To keep moral up, his commanding officer orders him to perform for the troops.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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The Crime at Blossoms
Overview: After moving into a picturesque country cottage, a woman becomes increasingly concerned about the fate of the previous owner who she believes was murdered.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-03-01
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The Fire Raisers
Overview: Jim Bronton is an insurance investigator, but he's unhappy with his work and gets involved with a gang of arsonists. His conscience is troubling him ...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-01-22
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Farewell Again
Overview: Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to unravel their domestic tribulations before having to ship out again. American expatriate Tim Whelan was the directorial hand who kept the various plot threads from entangling, while another Hollywood vet, James Wong Howe, manned the cameras. The film became instantly dated with the advent of World War II, but in its own time Farewell Again was a box-office smash. The film was issued in the US as Troopship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-01-05
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Return to Yesterday
Overview: Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-09
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Badger’s Green
Overview: A lovely English village is threatened with "development" by a speculative builder. The annual cricket match with another village shall decide its fate, between the builder and the three local gentry who oppose the scheme.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-11
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Britannia of Billingsgate
Overview: The owner of a fish-and-chips shop in the Billingsgate area of London harbors a secret ambition: to become a movie star. It turns out that she has a beautiful singing voice, and when that fact comes to the attention of a movie studio, it begins to turn her and her family's lives upside down.
Genres: Comedy Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Death on the Set
Overview: A well-known film director has a gangster double, whom he ends up killing. Taking the gangsters place, he then causes an actress to be framed.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-07-29
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A Glimpse of Paradise
Overview: “Ex-convict saves his estranged daughter from a blackmailer.” - BFI.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-04-08
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The Man Who Made Diamonds
Overview: “Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-12-06
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Quiet, Please
Overview: “Comedy of a little man forced by chance into a big jewel robbery.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-06-27
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Hail and Farewell
Overview: “A troopship bringing home a battalion from Bermuda docks at Southampton and the men are granted only 6 hours leave. The film shows how some of the men spend this precious time.” - BFI.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-30
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Poor Cow
Overview: A young woman lives a life filled with bad choices. At a young age she marries and has a child--with an abusive thief who quickly ends up in prison. Left alone, she takes up with the guy's mate, another thief, who seems to give her some happiness but who also ends up locked up. She then takes up with a series of seedy types who offer nothing but momentary pleasure--if that.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-12-05
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Three Clear Sundays
Overview: Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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The Butler's Dilemma
Overview: Rodney Playfair is persuaded, by a promise to meet his gambling debts, to impersonate a manservant named Chapman at his fiancée's house...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-29
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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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The Common Touch
Overview: On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel which will disappear if a company building project goes ahead.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-11-15
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I Thank You
Overview: Classic comedy starring Arthur Askey. The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former famous music-hall star Lady Randall (Lily Morris), is withdrawn. Not to be defeated, the stars decide the show must go on and devise a plan to persuade her to reinvest
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-10-20
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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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They Came by Night
Overview: A man is blackmailed into taking his brother's place in a gang for a jewellery heist.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-03-07
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Henry Steps Out
Overview: On the outbreak of the Second World War an idler is forced to join the army by his domineering wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-11-01
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The Seventh Survivor
Overview: During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by a torpedo. The spy winds up on a lifeboat with other survivors, one of whom is a counterintelligence agent who reveals the German spy's true identity.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-01-05
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Bob's Your Uncle
Overview: Home guardsman Albert is in love with Dolly, the daughter of commanding officer Diehard. In order to impress her, Albert tries to raise funds to buy a tank for the village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-03-02
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Warned Off
Overview: An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-01
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The Millionairess
Overview: When her father dies, Epifania Parerga, an Italian in London, becomes the world's richest woman. She feels incomplete without a husband and falls in love with a humble, Indian physician, Ahmed el Kabir, much loved by his indigent English patients.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Kissing Cup's Race
Overview: A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-11-01
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Shadows
Overview: The estranged son of a newspaper owner returns to his father's good favour by unmasking a gang of criminals.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-31
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The Sport of Kings
Overview: Algernon Sprigg, a horse-racing fanatic, is convinced that everyone is a gambler at heart. To prove his theory, he bets a friend that he can convert Amos Purdie, the puritanical head of an anti-betting association, into a punter within a week.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-02-23
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Never Trouble Trouble
Overview: A comedy film directed by Lupino Lane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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The Great Gay Road
Overview: 'Romance of the open road and the circus. A tramp poses as baronet's lost son but relinquishes his sweetheart to a younger man.' (British Film Institute)
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-10-21
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Heroes of the Mine
Overview: A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1932-08-25
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Busman's Holiday
Overview: A bus conductor and his driver manage to round up a gang of criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-11-01
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Once in a New Moon
Overview: When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Street Song
Overview: Lucy and her brother are struggling to make a go of their Soho pet shop, until Lucy meets Tom, a street singer.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-09-16
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The Price of Folly
Overview: When Leonora Corbett phones Colin Keith-Johnson that she wants to give their marriage another chance, he tries to buy off his lover Judy Kelly. She wants to stick around for the wife, with a gun. There's a struggle, and Keith-Johnson sticks the inconvenient body in a trunk and begins to figure out how to get rid of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-06-06
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Much Too Shy
Overview: A simple handyman, who also is an amateur artist, gets into trouble when the head and shoulders portraits of some prominent local females are sold without his knowledge to an advertising agency and are published with nude bodies added to them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-10-12
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Serena
Overview: Scotland Yard investigate when a woman, apparently the estranged wife of a London painter, is murdered with a shotgun in rural Surrey at the same time as the artist's striking model with her long black hair disappears.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-01
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Calling Paul Temple
Overview: Paul Temple is called in to help Scotland Yard track down a serial killer who has murdered several wealthy women.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-29
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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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Wanted for Murder
Overview: The son of a notorious hangman is gradually becoming insane and he finds himself unable to resist the urge to strangle women to death.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-06-17
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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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Passing Shadows
Overview: The film stars Edmund Gwenn, who plays a chemist, whose son Lawrence (played by Barry MacKay) is attacked on a train. He appears to have shot the man.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-10-22
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Get Cracking
Overview: Get Cracking is a 1943 British comedy war film, directed by Marcel Varnel and starring Dinah Sheridan, Ronald Shiner and George Formby. It was produced by Marcel Varnel, Ben Henry and Columbia (British) Productions. This comedy explores the wayward rivalry between mechanic and Home Guard Lance Corporal George Singleton (George Formby) and an adversary also in the Home Guard (Ronald Shiner). When the rival Home Guard units of Major Wallop and Minor Wallop are sent on battle manoeuvres, George Singleton (Formby) launches his own unique style of commando raid against neighbouring Major Wallop to steal a Vickers machine gun. The raid fails and Singleton loses his Lance Corporal's stripe, so he and a little evacuee girl named Irene (Vera Frances) decide to fall back on 'Plan B' - to build their very own tank.
Genres: Comedy War Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-05-17
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Death by Design
Overview: Dastardly deeds are afoot in a smog of pipe smoke when a man is found dead - is it cyanide poisoning or smoke inhalation?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-23
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The Comedy Man
Overview: A middle-aged stock actor goes to London to try the big time. After much frustration, he lands a job doing TV commercials, gaining wealth and recognition. He eventually gives it all up to return to stage work and keep his pride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-03
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Music Hall
Overview: A rare film put out by Twickenham Film Studios which includes many original music hall acts.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-06-26
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Dandy Dick
Overview: The Very Reverend Richard Jedd has a problem: the church spire, now in a parlous state of repair, will cost nearly £1,000 to fix. When various money-raising schemes go awry, he is persuaded to waive his principles and bet what’s left of his savings on Dandy Dick, a 10-1 odds-on at the local races. A simple tonic to enhance the nag’s performance seems a good idea… but when the butler decides to intervene, the respectable clergyman finds himself in the middle of a doping scandal – and worse!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-03-01
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The Adventure of the Torture Cage
Overview: Lieutenant Commander John Byrne of the Naval Secret Service and his partner Pvt. Bill Riggers chase criminal Dr. Sin Fang, who is desperate to find a lost sacred seal. (The fifth and only surviving episode of a six-part serial about an evil mastermind inspired on Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu Manchu.)
Genres: Crime Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-03-11
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Josephine and Men
Overview: The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-11-09
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Salute the Toff
Overview: The Toff solves the mystery of a missing employer. One of the BFi's most wanted films.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-02
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Hammer the Toff
Overview: A detective proves that a Robin Hood-type crook did not steal a metal formula.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-05-01
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Helter Skelter
Overview: A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-07
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I Didn't Do It
Overview: Gormless George Trotter (George Formby) moves down from Manchester to the bright lights of London in search of fame and fortune on the stage - only to find himself the prime suspect in a bizarre murder mystery! Whilst staying at Ma Tubbs' theatrical boarding house, a man is murdered in the room right next door to George. When George tries to solve the mystery, he ends up presenting the police with a whole load of clues - all of which point to him as the culprit! Now George must uncover the real murderer himself, with the help of his showbiz friends, his little Ukulele and a fiendishly cunning song! This delightful comedy musical includes three full-length musical numbers - The Daring Young Man, She's Got Two of Everything and I'd Like a Dream Like That.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-06
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Night Train to Munich
Overview: Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Old Mother Riley at Home
Overview: Old Mother Riley and her daughter's true love, Dan, go in search of Kitty who has run off with her new boyfriend to a gambling den.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-12-24
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Date with a Dream
Overview: Four war-time performers known for their concert parties, have a reunion. They decide they are still good together and form a successful nightclub act.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-11-01
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Read All About It
Overview: An account of the technique of reading the tabloid press in an intelligent manor via differing editorial techniques that leads to three styles of newspapers giving varying accounts of a strip-tease act.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-04-08
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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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The Twenty Questions Murder Mystery
Overview: The story evolves around a radio panel game show "Twenty Questions." The panel is challenged with an anonymous question. The answer leads to a series of murders in which the killer uses the programme to name his victims in advance. Two reporters spot a link between them and enlist the aid of the panel in trapping the guilty party.
Genres: Mystery Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-01-31
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Sorrell and Son
Overview: Stephen Sorrell, a decorated war hero, raises his son Kit alone after Kit's mother deserts husband and child in the boy's infancy. Sorrell loses a promising job offer and is forced to take work as a menial. Both his dignity and his health are damaged as he suffers under the exhausting labor and harsh treatment he receives as a hotel porter. But Sorrell thrives in the knowledge that his son will benefit from his labors. Sorrell has allowed the boy to believe his mother dead, but when the mother shows up, wanting to re-enter the young man's life, Sorrell must make hard decisions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1934-03-05
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The Coming Out Party
Overview: When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-12-22
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Old Mother Riley in Business
Overview: Old Mother Riley starts a new business.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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The Ghosts of Berkeley Square
Overview: The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit. It will take more than 200 years... Based on the novel "No Nightingales" by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-10-30
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In Which We Serve
Overview: The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship's first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1942-09-17
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Don Chicago
Overview: Timid Don Chicago yearns to follow in the footsteps of his gangster mother, but is forced by the Mulligan Gang to leave America. In England, he tangles with a British police officer and high society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1945-08-06
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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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Good-Time Girl
Overview: Sent to a home for "problem" girls, incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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Appointment with Crime
Overview: Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Will Any Gentleman...?
Overview: A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the world's greatest lover and becomes a terrorizing Casanova.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-08-25
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Pygmalion
Overview: When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Higgins's home and begins her rigorous training after the professor comes to a financial agreement with her dustman father, Alfred. But the plucky young woman is not the only one undergoing a transformation.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-03
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Facing the Music
Overview: Betty driver vehicle
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-12-12
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The Mind of Mr. Reeder
Overview: Mr. Reeder, a somewhat eccentric old gentleman employed by the Director of Public Prosecutions, gets it into his head to break up a counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-03-04
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You Know What Sailors Are
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-12-14
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Tell England
Overview: In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1931-03-02
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Captain's Orders
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1937-11-23
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His Majesty & Co.
Overview: John, holidaying in the Ruritanian principality of Poldavia, falls for Princess Sandra. Returning to Britain, he meets not only the princess but her parents. As the King is a wine expert and the Queen a decent cook, they get together to open a restaurant, where John can also sing at table.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Up the Junction
Overview: The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-11-03
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