Cecil Kellaway
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Cecil Lauriston Kellaway (22 August 1890 – 28 February 1973) was a South African-born character actor.
Cecil Kellaway spent many years as an actor, author, and director in the Australian film industry until he tried his luck in Hollywood in the 1930s. Finding he could get only gangster bit parts, he got discouraged and returned to Australia. Then William Wyler called and offered him a part in Wuthering Heights (1939).
Kellaway died 28 February 1973 in Hollywood, California, and his ashes were entombed in the Sanctuary of Remembrance, at Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. He received two Best Supporting Actor nominations, for The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.
Academy Award winning actor Edmund Gwenn, whose real surname was Kellaway also, was his cousin.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.401 |
| Birthday | 1890-08-22 |
| Place of Birth | Cape Town, South Africa |
| Also Known As |
1963
The Cardinal
6.5/41
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he rises to the office of cardinal.
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The Cardinal
1939
Wuthering Heights
7.2/266
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged l...
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Wuthering Heights
1967
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
7.6/823
A couple's attitudes are challenged when their daughter brings home a fiancé who is black.
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Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1964
Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
7.232/254
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
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Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte
1940
The Mummy's Hand
5.8/88
A couple of young, out-of-work archaeologists in Egypt discover evidence of the burial place of the ancient Egyptian princess Ananka. After receiving...
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The Mummy's Hand
1939
Intermezzo: A Love Story
6.649/37
A concert violinist becomes charmed with his daughter's talented piano teacher. When he invites her to go on tour with him, they make beautiful music...
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Intermezzo: A Love Story
1948
Portrait of Jennie
7/103
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
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Portrait of Jennie
1946
The Postman Always Rings Twice
7/333
A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.
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The Postman Always Rings Twice
1942
I Married a Witch
6.8/199
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.
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I Married a Witch
1940
Brother Orchid
6.4/32
When retired racket boss John Sarto tries to reclaim his place and former friends try to kill him, he finds solace in a monastery and reinvents himsel...
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Brother Orchid
1940
The House of the Seven Gables
6.9/29
In 1828, the bankrupt Pyncheon family fight over Seven Gables, the ancestral mansion. To obtain the house, Jaffrey Pyncheon obtains his brother Cliffo...
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The House of the Seven Gables
1953
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
6.548/186
The controlled explosion of an atomic bomb in the Arctic Circle awakens a frozen dinosaur that will wreak havoc in New York City.
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The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
1940
The Invisible Man Returns
6.3/119
The owner of a coal mining operation, falsely imprisoned for fratricide, takes a drug to make him invisible, despite its side effect: gradual madness.
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The Invisible Man Returns
1970
Getting Straight
6.2/30
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he...
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Getting Straight
1955
Interrupted Melody
5.5/12
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Interrupted Melody
1948
Joan of Arc
6.039/77
In the 15th Century, France is a defeated and ruined nation after the One Hundred Years War against England. The fourteen-year-old farm girl Joan of A...
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Joan of Arc
1950
The Reformer and the Redhead
6.3/3
A small-town politician falls for an idealistic zookeeper.
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The Reformer and the Redhead
1946
Easy to Wed
6.2/9
When a newspaper accuses a wealthy socialite of being a homewrecker, she files a multi-million-dollar libel lawsuit. The publication's frazzled head e...
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Easy to Wed
1942
The Mummy's Tomb
5.7/69
A high priest of Karnak travels to America with the living mummy Kharis (Lon Chaney Jr.) to kill all those who had desecrated the tomb of the Egyptian...
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The Mummy's Tomb
1961
Tammy Tell Me True
5.7/7
Tammy leaves the river in Mississippi to attend college, developing a relationship with Tom Freeman (John Gavin). Sandra Dee replaces Debbie Reynolds...
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Tammy Tell Me True
1955
Female on the Beach
5.7/31
Lynn Markham moves into her late husband's beach house the morning after former tenant Eloise Crandall fell from the cliff. To her annoyance, Lynn fin...
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Female on the Beach
1940
The Letter
7.3/213
After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.
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The Letter
1944
Mrs. Parkington
6/16
In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by m...
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Mrs. Parkington
1951
Francis Goes to the Races
6.5/13
In this funny sequel to the popular Francis the Talking Mule, the talkative Mule and his pal Peter get a job working on a horse-breeder's ranch. They...
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Francis Goes to the Races
1943
It Ain't Hay
6.4/12
Abbot and Costello must find a replacement for a woman's horse they accidentally killed after feeding it some candy. They head for the racetrack, find...
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It Ain't Hay
1947
Unconquered
6.2/54
England, 1763. After being convicted of a crime, the young and beautiful Abigail Hale agrees, to escape the gallows, to serve fourteen years as a slav...
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Unconquered
1941
Birth of the Blues
5.3/7
Jeff grows up near Basin Street in New Orleans, playing his clarinet with the dock workers. He puts together a band, the Basin Street Hot-Shots, which...
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Birth of the Blues
1941
The Night of January 16th
5/5
Accused of killing her employer, financier Bjorn Faulkner, Kit is championed by wisecracking sailor-on-leave Steve Van Ruyle, who has a vested interes...
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The Night of January 16th
1941
Bahama Passage
6/1
A girl, Carol whom the audience is quickly informed "has been around," and her father arrive to take over the business management of an island in the...
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Bahama Passage
1941
New York Town
10/1
Victor Ballard, a happy-go-lucky albeit impoverished sidewalk photographer, shares a New York City studio apartment with Polish immigrant painter Stef...
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New York Town
1942
The Lady Has Plans
5.3/3
Some dastardly criminals have stolen some top secret plans and tattoo them on the back of a woman so she can sell them to the highest bidder in Lisbon...
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The Lady Has Plans
1958
The Proud Rebel
5.962/39
Searching for a doctor who can help him get his son to speak again--the boy hadn't uttered a word since he saw his mother die in the fire that burned...
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The Proud Rebel
1961
Francis of Assisi
7.6/31
In 13th century Italy, Francis Bernardone, the son of an Assisi merchant, renounces a promising army career in favor of a monastic life and starts his...
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Francis of Assisi
1942
Take a Letter, Darling
6.5/11
A struggling painter takes a job as a secretary to a female advertising executive. While working to obtain an account from a tobacco company, they end...
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Take a Letter, Darling
1940
Lady with Red Hair
6.5/6
An actress hopes to regain her lost son by making it to the top.
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Lady with Red Hair
1945
Kitty
5.5/12
Pickpocket Kitty's life changes when painter Thomas Gainsborough makes her portrait. The artwork gains the attention of Sir Hugh Marcy, who later deci...
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Kitty
1942
Star Spangled Rhythm
5.9/8
Pop, a security guard at Paramount has told his son that he's the head of the studio. When his son arrives in Hollywood on shore leave with his buddie...
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Star Spangled Rhythm
1945
Love Letters
6.3/20
When a man asks another man more facile with words to do his wooing for him, there are always complications. The man with no talent for writing marrie...
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Love Letters
1950
Katie Did It
6/2
Katherine Standish, who has been brought up in a strict manner in a prudish New England town, falls in love with a city slicker commercial artist, Pet...
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Katie Did It
1948
The Luck of the Irish
5.7/18
Following American reporter Stephen Fitzgerald from Ireland to New York, a grateful leprechaun acts as the newsman's servant and conscience.
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The Luck of the Irish
1940
Mexican Spitfire
4.6/6
Newlyweds Dennis and Carmelita have several obstacles to deal with in their new marriage: Carmelita's fiery Latin temper, a meddling aunt and a conniv...
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Mexican Spitfire
1959
Destination Space
4.2/4
1959 television science fiction
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Destination Space
1942
Night in New Orleans
4/3
A policeman's family helps to exonerate him of murder charges in the death of a man he had under interrogation.
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Night in New Orleans
1946
The Cockeyed Miracle
6.7/3
A 60-ish Maine shipbuilder (Frank Morgan) and his 30-ish father (Keenan Wynn) provide for their family from the hereafter.
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The Cockeyed Miracle
1951
Half Angel
5.6/5
Nurse Nora Gilpin plans are to marry building contractor Tim McCarey and settle down. But one night a sleepwalking Nora slips into a provocative dress...
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Half Angel
1947
Variety Girl
6.1/9
Dozens of star and character-actor cameos and a message about the Variety Club (a show-business charity) are woven into a framework about two hopeful...
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Variety Girl
1944
Frenchman's Creek
5/15
An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet i...
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Frenchman's Creek
1944
And Now Tomorrow
5.7/3
Emily Blair is rich and deaf. Doctor Vance, who grew up poor in Blairtown, is working on a serum to cure deafness which he tries on Emily. It doesn't...
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And Now Tomorrow
1940
Adventure in Diamonds
5.2/4
A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.
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Adventure in Diamonds
1948
The Decision of Christopher Blake
3.5/2
A young boy begins to have fantasies when he learns his parents are planning to divorce. Director Peter Godfrey's 1948 drama stars Ted Donaldson, Alex...
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The Decision of Christopher Blake
1937
Wise Girl
7/6
Snooty heiress decides to track down her dead sister's kids, who are living a Bohemian life with their uncle in Greenwich Village. Once she finds them...
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Wise Girl
1949
Down to the Sea in Ships
6.9/14
During a whaling expedition in the late 1800's, the aging Captain Bering Joy (Lionel Barrymore) and his new first mate, Dan Lunceford (Richard Widmark...
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Down to the Sea in Ships
1938
Blond Cheat
6/2
Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings....
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Blond Cheat
1938
Maid's Night Out
6.2/3
A millionaire's son works as a milkman for a month to win a bet with his father. While delivering milk he falls in love with a young debutante whom he...
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Maid's Night Out
1943
The Crystal Ball
5.8/14
A young woman pretends to be a fortune teller in order to find romance.
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The Crystal Ball
1951
The Highwayman
0/0
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The Highwayman
1942
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
5.8/5
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
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My Heart Belongs to Daddy
1944
Practically Yours
0/0
In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly remembe...
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Practically Yours
1952
Thunder in the East
4.9/6
During India's first years of independence from Britain, Steve Gibbs lands his armaments loaded plane in Ghandahar province hoping to get rich. Pacifi...
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Thunder in the East
1938
This Marriage Business
4.8/4
A cocky reporter turns a small town marriage license clerk into a media celebrity.
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This Marriage Business
1918
Bond and Word
0/0
South African Film
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Bond and Word
1952
My Wife's Best Friend
5.4/5
When a man confesses to his wife that he has been unfaithful, she imagines all the different ways that historical figures such as Cleopatra and Joan o...
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My Wife's Best Friend
1938
Tarnished Angel
5.3/3
A showgirl with a dubious reputation flees the cops and transforms herself into a phony evangelist offering "cures" to the sick and disabled.
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Tarnished Angel
1957
Johnny Trouble
4.7/3
An elderly woman becomes convinced that a trouble-making college student is her grandson she's never met.
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Johnny Trouble
1953
Paris Model
3/2
A new dress plays a key role in the lives of four women who are not acquainted with each other.
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Paris Model
1937
It Isn't Done
0/0
Hubert Blaydon (Cecil Kellaway),a simple Australian farmer inherits a castle and a title in England, and moves his family from the farm to the castle....
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It Isn't Done
1939
Man About Town
4.5/3
Producer Bob Temple, who's brought an American show to London, loves his star Diana, but she won't take him seriously as a lover. To show her, he pick...
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Man About Town
1956
Toy Tiger
6.2/3
Advertising executive Gwen Taylor sends her art director Rick Todd on a mission to bring an artist back to the commercial fold. Meanwhile, Gwen's fath...
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Toy Tiger
1938
Law of the Underworld
5.5/4
A respected citizen with secret ties to the local mob is faced with revealing his criminal connections to save two innocent people from execution
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Law of the Underworld
1941
Appointment for Love
5.2/4
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progress...
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Appointment for Love
1940
Mexican Spitfire Out West
4.6/5
Dennis heads west to work on an important business deal minus the Mexican Spitfire, Carmelita. His hot-tempered spouse decides to surprise him, but en...
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Mexican Spitfire Out West
1938
Everybody's Doing It
5/1
Gangsters are attempting to control the solutions (and winning) of the puzzles in a national newspapers picture puzzles contest craze.
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Everybody's Doing It
1938
Double Danger
6.5/2
A crime novelist devises a scheme to catch the thief who has stolen the valuable "Konjer Diamonds". Director Lew Landers' 1938 B-film stars Preston Fo...
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Double Danger
1938
Night Spot
4.7/3
A young singer, Marge Dexter, becomes involved in trouble when she works in a nightclub in which two of the band-members are in reality undercover-pol...
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Night Spot
1946
Monsieur Beaucaire
5.6/8
A bumbling barber in the court of King Louis XV becomes engaged in political intrigue when he masquerades as a dashing nobleman engaged to the princes...
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Monsieur Beaucaire
1960
The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
3/2
A modern couple dream that they are Adam and Eve.
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The Private Lives of Adam and Eve
1947
Always Together
6.7/3
An old millionaire, who believes he's dying, bequeaths his fortune to a young woman with a fanatical obsession with movie stars. But then the elderly...
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Always Together
1950
Harvey
7.7/611
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileg...
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Harvey
1964
The Confession
1/1
Madame Rinaldi, owner of a bordello, helps thief Mario Forni locate an ancient buried treasure.
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The Confession
1967
Fitzwilly
6.117/30
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam...
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Fitzwilly
1938
Smashing the Rackets
5.5/2
Jim 'Socker' Conway, former boxer and FBI hero, is maneuvered for political reasons into a do-nothing job in the district attorney's office. Meanwhile...
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Smashing the Rackets
1940
South of Suez
5/3
Greedy diamond mine owner Eli Snedeker, resentful that his ex-foreman John Gamble stopped him from taking over kindly, but drunken, mine owner Roger S...
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South of Suez
1959
The Shaggy Dog
6.124/89
Through an ancient spell, a boy changes into a sheepdog and back again. It seems to happen at inopportune times and the spell can only be broken by an...
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The Shaggy Dog
1941
Small Town Deb
6/1
Family bickering features young daughter favored by her father and older daughter favored by snobbish mother.
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Small Town Deb
1939
Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
6/1
A down-and-out clerk happens upon a bag of money. Unknown to him, the money is all counterfeit, forcing the innocent man to become involved with gangs...
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Mr. Chedworth Steps Out
1939
Gunga Din
6.49/154
British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While compl...
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Gunga Din
1939
The Sun Never Sets
4.8/2
The Randolph family have a tradition of working in the British colonial service. Clive comes home from a mission in the Gold Coast of Africa accompani...
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The Sun Never Sets
1939
We Are Not Alone
6.2/3
A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.
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We Are Not Alone
1933
The Hayseeds
5.2/4
Wealthy Mary Townleigh gets lost in the bush and hurts her ankle, but is rescued and stays with the Hayseed family. She starts a romance with their ne...
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The Hayseeds
1939
The Under-Pup
6/2
A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first made fun of and ridiculed beca...
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The Under-Pup
1962
Zotz!
5.6/14
Jonathan Jones, a professor of ancient languages, comes into possession of an ancient coin. He translates its inscription, which gives him three power...
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Zotz!
1950
Kim
6.2/26
During the British Raj, the orphan of a British soldier poses as a Hindu and is torn between his loyalty to a Buddhist mystic and aiding the English s...
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Kim
1953
Young Bess
5.9/17
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch -- the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Je...
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Young Bess
1940
Phantom Raiders
6.1/15
In this second Carter mystery, a mysterious rash of cargo ships sinking in Panama leads insurers Llewellyns of London to hire vacationer Nick Carter a...
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Phantom Raiders
1953
Cruisin' Down the River
0/0
A New Yorker inherits an old river boat and decides to turn it into a night club while falling in love with Sally Jane, the granddaughter of his worse...
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Cruisin' Down the River
1941
Burma Convoy
0/0
A truck convoy traveling the Burma Road is menaced by a group of smugglers.
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Burma Convoy
1943
The Good Fellows
0/0
The title of Grand Caesar in the Ancient Order of Noblest Romans of Wakefield, Indiana keeps Jim "Pop" Helton so involved and distracted that he forge...
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The Good Fellows
1966
Spinout
5.5/36
Band singer/race driver Mike McCoy must choose between marrying a beautiful rich girl and driving her father's car in a prestigious race.
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Spinout
1940
Diamond Frontier
0/0
Story of the early days of the diamond-mining era in South Africa.
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Diamond Frontier
1943
Forever and a Day
7.2/8
In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...
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Forever and a Day
1950
Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
0/0
An elderly man leaves Wyoming to visit his daughter in a small Massachusetts town because, even though she didn't say so, he believes she needs his he...
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Hurricane at Pilgrim Hill
1955
The Prodigal
4/7
A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...
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The Prodigal
1941
West Point Widow
6/1
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so...
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West Point Widow
1970
The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
6/1
Based on Charles Goodrum’s book, "I’ll Trade You an Elk." The mayor wants to close down the run-down city zoo and use the site for a museum, but an ac...
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The Wacky Zoo of Morgan City
1941
A Very Young Lady
1/1
A tomboy is sent to a private school to become a refined young woman, but her innocent crush on the headmaster leads to serious complications.
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A Very Young Lady
1967
Kismet
7/2
The story follows one fateful day as a beggar-poet and his daughter cross paths with a wicked wazir, a wily temptress, a handsome prince, a magical cu...
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Kismet
1967
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
6.4/34
To restore his family's lost wealth, a young Boston lad stows away on a ship bound for the California Gold Rush. When their very proper butler gives c...
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The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1952
Just Across the Street
2/1
A plumber's secretary poses as the daughter of a prominent society couple.
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