Trevor Howard
Howard was born in Cliftonville, Kent, England, the son of Mabel Grey (Wallace) and Arthur John Howard. He was educated at Clifton College (to which he left in his will a substantial legacy for a drama scholarship) and at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), acting on the London stage for several years before World War II. His first paid work was in the play Revolt in a Reformatory (1934), before he left RADA in 1935 to take small roles.
Although stories of his courageous wartime service in the British Army's Royal Corps of Signals earned him much respect among fellow actors and fans alike, files held in the Public Record Office reveal that he had actually been discharged from the British Army in 1943 for mental instability and having a "psychopathic personality". The story, which surfaced in Terence Pettigrew's biography of the actor, published by Peter Owen in 2001, was initially denied by Howard's widow, actress Helen Cherry. Later, confronted with official records, she told the Daily Telegraph (24 June 2001) that his mother had claimed he was a holder of the Military Cross. She added that Howard had an honourable military record and "had nothing to be ashamed of".
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 12.482 |
| Birthday | 1913-09-29 |
| Place of Birth | Cliftonville, Kent, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, |
1949
The Third Man
7.9/1859
In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he...
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The Third Man
1982
Gandhi
7.563/2284
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...
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Gandhi
1945
Brief Encounter
7.687/622
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuo...
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Brief Encounter
1973
Ludwig
7.471/157
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betraye...
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Ludwig
1978
Superman
7.137/3823
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...
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Superman
1956
Around the World in Eighty Days
6.6/515
Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the world. Which has to be completed within 80 days, a ve...
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Around the World in Eighty Days
1986
Foreign Body
4.9/4
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain a...
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Foreign Body
1975
The Count of Monte-Cristo
6.7/148
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...
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The Count of Monte-Cristo
1966
Triple Cross
6/70
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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Triple Cross
1964
Father Goose
7.012/170
During World War II, South Sea beachcomber Walter Eckland is persuaded to spy on planes passing over his island. He gets more than he bargained for as...
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Father Goose
1962
Mutiny on the Bounty
7/303
The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as...
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Mutiny on the Bounty
1965
Von Ryan's Express
7.094/213
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win ov...
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Von Ryan's Express
1984
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
5.2/53
Gawain was a squire in King Arthur's court when the Green Knight burst in and offered to play a game with a brave knight. Gawain journeys across the l...
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Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
1969
Battle of Britain
6.8/303
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the N...
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Battle of Britain
1971
Kidnapped
6.2/32
Scottish orphan David Balfour is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer, who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that he canno...
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Kidnapped
1973
The Offence
6.789/154
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
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The Offence
1965
The Liquidator
6.2/19
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it was hims...
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The Liquidator
1946
I See a Dark Stranger
6.3/23
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...
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I See a Dark Stranger
1979
Meteor
5.1/137
After a collision with a comet, a nearly 8km wide piece of the asteroid "Orpheus" is heading towards Earth. If it hits it will cause an incredible cat...
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Meteor
1946
Green for Danger
6.7/86
In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?
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Green for Danger
1968
The Charge of the Light Brigade
6/61
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamo...
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
1965
Operation Crossbow
6.7/105
Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and sabotage the plant. The film alternates between Ge...
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Operation Crossbow
1987
White Mischief
6/51
A millionaire past his prime and his young wife arrive in Kenya circa 1940 to find that the other affluent British expatriates are living large as the...
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White Mischief
1965
Morituri
6.8/78
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS officer on board a cargo ship leaving Japan for German...
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Morituri
1973
The Catholics
5.3/5
Set in the near future. As a consequence of an ecumenical movement (Vatican Council IV), the Catholic Church has joined other religions and has elimin...
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The Catholics
1976
Aces High
5.772/68
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By...
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Aces High
1950
The Clouded Yellow
6.1/18
After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers (played by Trevor Howard) finds work cataloging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas an...
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The Clouded Yellow
1957
Interpol
6.4/18
Spurred on by the death of his drug-addicted sister at the hands of ruthless narcotics kingpin Frank McNally, U.S. drug enforcement agent Charles Stur...
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Interpol
1971
Mary, Queen of Scots
6.7/53
Mary Stuart, who was named Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old, is the last Roman Catholic ruler of Scotland. She is imprisoned at the ag...
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Mary, Queen of Scots
1970
Ryan's Daughter
7.1/153
The wife of an Irish school teacher is branded a traitor when she falls for a British officer who is part of an occupying force in 1917 Ireland.
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Ryan's Daughter
1986
Time After Time
0/0
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three...
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Time After Time
1955
The Cockleshell Heroes
5.889/27
During WW2, German ships are "safely" docked upriver at Bordeaux, but the British send a team of kayakers to attack them.
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The Cockleshell Heroes
1956
Run for the Sun
5.9/27
Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine,...
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Run for the Sun
1941
Squaring the Circle
0/0
Royal Air Force training film starring Trevor Howard as an RAF pilot. Focus of the film is on the importance of finding the right job for the right pe...
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Squaring the Circle
1947
They Made Me a Fugitive
6.7/51
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
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They Made Me a Fugitive
1950
Odette
6.146/24
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemne...
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Odette
1980
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
6.6/9
Sir Henry Rawlinson attempts to exorcise the ghost of his brother Humbert, who was accidentally killed in a drunken duck-shooting incident.
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Sir Henry at Rawlinson End
1949
The Passionate Friends
6.9/47
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
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The Passionate Friends
1980
The Sea Wolves
5.8/85
A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of Goa, India, with catastrophic results. Unable to un...
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The Sea Wolves
1982
The Missionary
5.581/43
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment...
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The Missionary
1952
Gift Horse
6.6/17
Compton Bennett's war drama The Gift Horse follows the fortunes of ageing destroyer The Ballantrae and her crew from the time they come together in 19...
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Gift Horse
1971
The Night Visitor
6.3/45
An insane Swedish farmer escapes from an asylum to get revenge on his sister, her husband and others.
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The Night Visitor
1985
Dust
4.6/8
A South African spinster murders her father after he rapes the wife of the black foreman for his plantation.
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Dust
1975
Hennessy
4.7/11
Former Irish Republican Army member Niall Hennessy lives in Belfast, Ireland, with his wife and daughter amid the ongoing Irish-British conflict. Thou...
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Hennessy
1960
Sons and Lovers
6.5/34
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman f...
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Sons and Lovers
1979
Hurricane
4.7/16
The story of the desperate love affair between a young Samoan chief and a beautiful American painter, against the will of her father, the powerful gov...
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Hurricane
1977
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
5.6/40
Digby Geste joins his brother, Beau, in the Foreign Legion following the theft of a priceless family heirloom.
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste
1958
The Roots of Heaven
6.2/21
In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His cause...
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The Roots of Heaven
1971
Catch Me a Spy
4.6/14
While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, she begins looking for a suitable spy to capture and...
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Catch Me a Spy
1974
Who?
4.9/25
After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military....
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Who?
1962
The Lion
4.9/8
Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her...
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The Lion
1988
The Unholy
5.3/51
A priest battles a demon that kills sinners in the act of sinning.
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The Unholy
1951
Outcast of the Islands
5.8/27
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal ch...
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Outcast of the Islands
1970
Twinky
4.826/23
A middle aged writer of pornographic novels meets and falls in love with a sixteen year old school girl. This alone is cause for concern but when the...
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Twinky
1975
Conduct Unbecoming
6.2/19
A company of British soldiers in colonial India is shaken when the widow of their most honored hero is assaulted. A young officer must defend a fellow...
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Conduct Unbecoming
1967
The Long Duel
5.1/20
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his offi...
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The Long Duel
1950
Golden Salamander
5.8/16
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
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Golden Salamander
1981
Light Years Away
7.3/7
A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds
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Light Years Away
1974
Persecution
3/3
A cat lover (Lana Turner) kills her husband, blackmails her lover (Trevor Howard) and torments her son (Ralph Bates).
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Persecution
1958
The Key
6/27
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged Allied ships. An American named David Ross arrives to...
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The Key
1974
Craze
5.3/16
A demented art dealer and antique shop owner performs nightly rituals in honour of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimag...
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Craze
1955
Lovers' Net
4.7/12
Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive...
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Lovers' Net
1962
Hedda Gabler
7.5/8
Hedda Gabler has just come back from her honeymoon, married to boring but reliable academic George Tesman. Refusing to tie herself down in life and na...
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Hedda Gabler
1964
Man in the Middle
6.4/19
In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood....
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Man in the Middle
1966
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
5.8/21
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to its source on the Afghanistan-Iran border.
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1953
The Heart of the Matter
6.6/9
Based on Graham Greene’s novel, a married colonial police chief struggles with his conscience when he has an affair with a younger woman.
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The Heart of the Matter
1988
The Dawning
5.4/4
An IRA gunman on the run from the government meets an idealistic young woman and attempts to win her support for his cause.
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The Dawning
1978
Slavers
3.5/2
A story about slave hunting, colonialism, revenge and love.
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Slavers
1960
Moment of Danger
0/0
Having been coerced unto helping a criminal pull off a jewellery theft, a locksmith is double crossed by the crook and heads off to Spain with an eye...
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Moment of Danger
1973
A Doll's House
4.8/8
Nora Helmer lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald, in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their childr...
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A Doll's House
1947
So Well Remembered
5.2/13
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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So Well Remembered
1954
The Stranger's Hand
6.8/4
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in thr...
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The Stranger's Hand
1974
11 Harrowhouse
5.7/23
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen...
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11 Harrowhouse
1985
God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
4/1
The story of the last years of Handel.
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God Rot Tunbridge Wells!
1978
Stevie
7/7
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her...
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Stevie
1980
The Shillingbury Blowers
7/5
A small English village is in turmoil with the arrival of a pop star and his wife. He soon becomes the conductor of the local brass band after the pre...
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The Shillingbury Blowers
1976
The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
4.8/5
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser
1985
Memory of the Camps
0/0
In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. A film...
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Memory of the Camps
1976
Death in the Sun
4.7/6
A colonial police officer in Rhodesia hunts down the albino terrorist who raped and murdered his fiancee.
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Death in the Sun
1982
Inside the Third Reich
7.3/6
A dramatization of the life of Albert Speer, Hitler's young architect and onetime confidant, and his meteoric rise into the Nazi hierarchy. Based upon...
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Inside the Third Reich
1951
Lady Godiva Rides Again
5.9/8
Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. Th...
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Lady Godiva Rides Again
1980
Windwalker
5.9/19
An ancient Indian warrior who has reached the end of his life is brought back from his 'death' to save his family from a raiding party of enemy Indian...
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Windwalker
1957
Manuela
5.7/6
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain – and he’s...
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Manuela
1986
Christmas Eve
6.4/5
Story of a well-to-do elderly woman, who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children, who learns she has an incurable illness and wan...
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Christmas Eve
1987
Hand in Glove
0/0
A woman finds herself on the verge of madness after experiencing a vision of her lovers imminent death.
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Hand in Glove
1945
The Way to the Stars
5.826/23
Life on a British bomber base, and the surrounding towns, from the opening days of the Battle of Britain, to the arrival of the Americans, who join in...
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The Way to the Stars
1982
The Deadly Game
7.2/4
Several criminal lawyers reunite every year in the Swiss mountains to entertain themselves with fake trials and murder mysteries. At one year's party,...
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The Deadly Game
1976
The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
2/2
Another stab at Henry Fielding's hilarious novel about the amorous misadventures of a dashing young man in 18th century England. The brilliant 1963 ve...
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The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
1972
Pope Joan
6.2/6
Based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, who was made Pope for a brief period around 855 A.D. The movie presents her existence as fact, though it is...
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Pope Joan
1980
Staying On
7/1
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
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Staying On
1967
Pretty Polly
4/4
Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in India her aunt's demise leaves her alone to...
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Pretty Polly
2017
German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
7.3/16
On the 29th September 1945, the incomplete rough cut of a brilliant documentary about concentration camps was viewed at the MOI in London. For five mo...
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German Concentration Camps Factual Survey
1980
The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
6.3/6
Ernie Anderson narrates this look at the making of Richard Donner's blockbuster 1978 film. Behind-the-scenes footage, as well as scenes from the film,...
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The Making of 'Superman: The Movie'
1944
The Way Ahead
6.4/35
A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...
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The Way Ahead
1980
Flashpoint Africa
0/0
A black revolutionary group kidnaps a couple of young white women in a southern African state in the 1970s. They ask for a specific female reporter to...
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Flashpoint Africa
1963
The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
7/1
The rise of the legendary 19th-century British politician and prime minister Benjamin Disraeli.
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The Invincible Mr. Disraeli
1979
The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
0/0
British TV-movie, starring Trevor Howard and Bo Svensson
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The Spirit of Adventure: Night Flight
1984
The Bengal Lancers!
0/0
30 minutes of footage left after the finances collapsed.
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The Bengal Lancers!
1980
Superman II
6.735/2260
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, th...
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Superman II
1965
Eagle in a Cage
0/0
Recounts the events of the final years of Napoleon, culminating in his exile on the isle of St. Helena.
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Eagle in a Cage
1944
The Aircraft Rocket, Part 4: Tactics, Section 2: Coastal
0/0
One of a series of World War II-era RAF training films, this instalment instructs Coastal Command pilots on proper formation and firing techniques for...
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