Ian Hunter
Ian Hunter (13 June 1900 – 22 September 1975) was a British character actor.
Among dozens of film roles, his best-remembered appearances include That Certain Woman (1937) with Bette Davis, The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938, as King Richard the Lionheart), The Little Princess (1939, as Captain Reginald Crewe) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941, as Dr. Lanyon). Hunter returned to the Robin Hood legend in the 1955 TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the recurring role of Sir Richard of the Lea.
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 11.323 |
Birthday | 1900-06-13 |
Place of Birth | Cape Town, South Africa |
Also Known As |
1941
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
6.4/165
Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c...
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood
7.5/746
Robin Hood fights nobly for justice against the evil Sir Guy of Gisbourne while striving to win the hand of the beautiful Maid Marian.
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
1941
Come Live with Me
6.9/23
Seeking US citizenship, a Viennese refugee arranges a marriage of convenience with a struggling writer.
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Come Live with Me
1939
The Little Princess
6.7/107
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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The Little Princess
1932
The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
4.5/12
A young woman turns to Holmes for protection when she's menaced by an escaped killer seeking missing treasure. However, when the woman is kidnapped, H...
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The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
1939
Tarzan Finds a Son!
6.1/95
A young couple die in a plane crash in the jungle. Their son is found by Tarzan and Jane who name him Boy and raise him as their own. Five years later...
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Tarzan Finds a Son!
1939
Tower of London
5.9/39
In the 15th century Richard Duke of Gloucester, aided by his club-footed executioner Mord, eliminates those ahead of him in succession to the throne,...
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Tower of London
1928
Easy Virtue
5.1/72
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They a...
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Easy Virtue
1927
The Ring
5.9/93
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.
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The Ring
1941
Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
5.3/7
All set to graduate from high school , Andy Hardy flunks his English exam -- in spite of the fact that Aunt Milly is his teacher, and that the Judge h...
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Andy Hardy's Private Secretary
1956
The Battle of the River Plate
6.2/55
In the early years of the World War II, the Royal Navy is fighting a desperate battle to keep the Atlantic convoy routes open to supply the British Is...
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The Battle of the River Plate
1946
Bedelia
5.2/6
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begin...
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Bedelia
1939
Maisie
4.7/7
Wisecracking showgirl Maisie Ravier finds herself trapped in a Wyoming town when her new employer closes the show prematurely. She meets ranch foreman...
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Maisie
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
6.4/40
Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile, a troupe of amateur actors rehear...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1940
Strange Cargo
7/52
Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.
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Strange Cargo
1961
Doctor Blood's Coffin
5.2/28
After being thrown out of medical school for ethical violations, Dr. Peter Blood returns home to a small Cornish village, where he sets up a research...
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Doctor Blood's Coffin
1940
The Long Voyage Home
6.5/80
The crew of the merchant ship Glencairn hope to survive a transatlantic crossing during World War II. Adapted from four Eugene O'Neill one-act plays.
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The Long Voyage Home
1939
Bad Little Angel
4.9/4
A bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
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Bad Little Angel
1953
Appointment in London
6.2/14
Wing-commander Tim Mason leads a squadron of Lancaster bombers on almost nightly raids from England. Having flown eighty-seven missions he will shortl...
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Appointment in London
1937
Confession
6.1/14
Vera Kowalska is put on trial for murdering concert pianist Michael Michailow. In court it is revealed that some years earlier Michael ruined Vera's l...
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Confession
1937
Another Dawn
6.2/8
Colonel John Wister, on duty with the British army in the desert region of Dubik, returns to England on leave. There he falls in love with Julia Ashto...
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Another Dawn
1933
The Man from Toronto
4/2
According to the terms of a will two strangers must marry. Leila (Jessie Matthews) is an English widow, and Fergus (Ian Hunter) is a Canadian bachelo...
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The Man from Toronto
1949
Edward, My Son
6.526/19
Following the death of his only son, a ruthless businessman reflects on his life, his unhappy marriage and his questionable parenting skills.
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Edward, My Son
1937
That Certain Woman
6.1/13
A gangster's widow fights for love despite society's disapproval.
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That Certain Woman
1954
Eight O'Clock Walk
6.7/7
Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) believe him innocent of killing a little girl.
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Eight O'Clock Walk
1940
Bitter Sweet
5.8/5
A woman runs away with her music teacher in order to escape an arranged marriage, but they struggle to make ends meet.
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Bitter Sweet
1934
Death at Broadcasting House
5.7/12
An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.
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Death at Broadcasting House
1938
The Sisters
6.1/10
Three daughters of a small down pharmacist undergo trials and tribulations in their problematic marriages between 1904 and 1908.
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The Sisters
1941
Billy the Kid
4.7/19
Billy Bonney is a hot-headed gunslinger who narrowly skirts a life of crime by being befriended and hired by a peaceful rancher, Eric Keating. When Ke...
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Billy the Kid
1934
Something Always Happens
6/5
Unemployed car salesman Peter is encouraged by his girlfriend Cynthia to approach the head of a petrol company with his plan for making petrol station...
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Something Always Happens
1939
Broadway Serenade
6.2/4
A married singer, pianist/composer team are struggling to hit it big in New York. Finally, they audition before a Broadway producer, but the producer...
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Broadway Serenade
1941
Smilin' Through
6/7
John Carteret has long been depressed and lonely, because, at his wedding years ago, his bride, Moonyean, was murdered. He accepts into his house Kath...
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Smilin' Through
1935
The Phantom Light
5.3/13
Criminals pose as ghosts to scare a lighthouse keeper on the Welsh coast, in attempt to distract him. Jim Pearce deliberately maroons himself on the r...
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The Phantom Light
1957
Fortune Is a Woman
6.7/14
An insurance man discovers his ex-girlfriend and her husband's art-forgery/arson scam.
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Fortune Is a Woman
1937
Call It a Day
5/1
The various members of the middle-class Hilton family have a series of romantic misadventures during one eventful spring day.
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Call It a Day
1940
Dulcy
5.8/4
A dizzy young woman aranges to turn her inventor-boyfriend's vacation into a chance meeting with a possible investor who happens to be her brother's f...
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Dulcy
1938
Always Goodbye
6.8/6
Following the death of her fiancé, Margot Weston is left pregnant and unmarried. Former doctor Jim Howard helps the desperate Margot. When her son is...
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Always Goodbye
1938
Secrets of an Actress
5.6/5
Two architects lose their heads over a glamorous actress.
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Secrets of an Actress
1935
The Girl from 10th Avenue
6.5/9
When his fiancée Valentine dumps him, prominent lawyer Geoffrey Sherwood goes on a bender and winds up married to a stranger, Miriam Brady. They decid...
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The Girl from 10th Avenue
1956
The Door in the Wall
5.8/4
A man is haunted throughout his life, by a magical door that opens onto an alternate, Garden-of-Eden like world.
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The Door in the Wall
1937
Stolen Holiday
6.6/6
A young model is set up with her own fashion business by a crooked financier, who sells worthless bonds.
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Stolen Holiday
1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
6.5/2
Out-takes (mostly from Warner Bros.), promotional shorts, movie premieres, public service pleas, wardrobe tests, documentary material, and archival fo...
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Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1934
The Church Mouse
4.7/3
When a meek secretary goes to work for her new boss, she becomes a sophisticated lady.
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The Church Mouse
1940
Gallant Sons
7.2/5
When a teenager's father is accused of murder, the boy and his high-school classmates set out to find the real killer.
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Gallant Sons
1931
Sally in Our Alley
4.5/4
A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
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Sally in Our Alley
1935
Lazybones
6.3/3
Lazybones is an idle baronet. He hasn't a care in the world until his father cuts him off without a penny. He then meets an American heiress & marries...
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Lazybones
1961
The Treasure of Monte Cristo
4/3
A dashing ex-officer in His Majesty’s army, Captain Adam Corbett (Calhoun) becomes embroiled in intrigue when he agrees to escort Colonel Wilfred Jack...
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The Treasure of Monte Cristo
1939
Yes, My Darling Daughter
4/2
Ellen is a free spirited young woman in love with Doug. Sadly he must leave America for a two year job in Belgium. Ellen and Doug decide to spend thei...
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Yes, My Darling Daughter
1947
White Cradle Inn
6.2/2
This drama is set in Switzerland and chronicles a fight between an innkeeper and her husband, a chronic adulterer. The trouble begins when she wants t...
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White Cradle Inn
1952
It Started in Paradise
5/1
A talented dress designer, who lets nothing get in the way of her success, rises in the fashion world then loses contact with her own humanity. She al...
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It Started in Paradise
1935
I Found Stella Parish
7/5
A blackmailer preys on an actress who is trying to protect her daughter from her past.
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I Found Stella Parish
1943
It Comes Up Love
3/2
This modest bit of comedy and romance in the adolescent vein is about a couple of spirited juveniles, Donald O'Connor and Gloria Jean, who carry on a...
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It Comes Up Love
1962
Guns of Darkness
6/11
Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a simple act of mercy that takes him and his wife t...
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Guns of Darkness
1960
The Bulldog Breed
5.7/15
Norman Puckle, a well-meaning but clumsy grocer's assistant, can't seem to do anything right. After being rejected by Marlene, the love of his life, h...
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The Bulldog Breed
1947
The White Unicorn
7.5/1
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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The White Unicorn
1938
Comet Over Broadway
5/2
Story of a rising stage star and the trouble she causes by her ambition.
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Comet Over Broadway
1931
Cape Forlorn
7.5/1
William Kell, the keeper of a lighthouse on a lonely stretch of coastline, marries cabaret dancer Eileen. His young wife, however, goes on to have an...
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Cape Forlorn
1936
The Devil Is a Sissy
6.9/11
A well-bred young English lad living in lower Manhattan tries to gain acceptance from his not-so-well-bred peers at school.
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The Devil Is a Sissy
1941
Ziegfeld Girl
6.5/32
Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on...
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Ziegfeld Girl
1936
The White Angel
8/4
In Victorian England, Florence Nightingale's heroic measures slowly change the attitude towards nurses when it was considered a disreputable professio...
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The White Angel
1936
To Mary - with Love
4.5/2
Mary stands by Jack after the Depression of 1929 but considers divorce when he again becomes successful by 1935. Bill, who loves Mary, works at keepin...
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To Mary - with Love
1942
A Yank at Eton
6.2/5
An American playboy is sent to a British boarding school to learn discipline.
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A Yank at Eton
1942
Safeguarding Military Information
5/2
World War II propaganda short which focuses on the dangers of inadvertent dispersal of military information.
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Safeguarding Military Information
1961
The Queen's Guards
4.3/3
Captains John Fellows and Henry Wynne-Walton finish their Army training at Sandhurst Military Academy and are sent to the Middle-East. John is to lead...
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The Queen's Guards
1940
Broadway Melody of 1940
6.7/37
Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who...
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Broadway Melody of 1940
1935
Jalna
4.8/4
A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.
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Jalna
1929
Syncopation
5/1
Benny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and take...
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Syncopation
1924
Not For Sale
0/0
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
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Not For Sale
1930
The Valley of Ghosts
10/1
'Detective loves daughter of artist suspected of murdering blackmailer.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Valley of Ghosts
1963
The Mystery of the Indian Temple
4.3/3
Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of Hasnabad. Doctor Palmer and Gopal, his devoted as...
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The Mystery of the Indian Temple
1963
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
4/2
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting...
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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
1932
The Water Gipsies
6/2
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her li...
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The Water Gipsies
1925
Confessions
0/0
Two typists, one attractive, the other efficient, fall in love with the son of one of the firm's partners. The young man makes overtures to the attrac...
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Confessions
1934
The Night of the Party
5.3/3
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party. The publishers secretary is the obvious suspect,...
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The Night of the Party
1934
The Silver Spoon
0/0
“A homeless gentleman confesses to a Lord's murder to protect a woman they both love.” - BFI.
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The Silver Spoon
1943
Forever and a Day
7.3/9
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
1934
No Escape
0/0
“Crime film set in Malaya concerning the pursuit of a planter framed for poisoning his partner and suspected of carrying plague.” - BFI.
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No Escape
1932
Marry Me
0/0
A British musical comedy film directed by Wilhelm Thiele
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Marry Me
1938
Breakdowns of 1938
5/2
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1938.
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Breakdowns of 1938
1935
A Dream Comes True
5.5/1
A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).
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A Dream Comes True
1937
Breakdowns of 1937
6/3
Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1937.
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Breakdowns of 1937
1942
Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
6/1
Narrator Hopper covers two war benefit affairs, a garden party and a USO fashion show, at Pickfair, "The White House of Hollywood."
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Hedda Hopper’s Hollywood No. 6
1937
52nd Street
0/0
The story of how 52nd Street became New York City's "Nightclub Row" in the 1930s.
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52nd Street
1935
The Morals of Marcus
0/0
A confirmed bachelor takes pity on a young woman and takes her to London.
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The Morals of Marcus
1933
Orders Is Orders
0/0
A brash American movie producer arrives at an army base in England wanting to shoot a movie and use the soldiers as extras. The base commander doesn't...
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Orders Is Orders
1958
Rockets Galore
6/6
The inhabitants of Todday are content to live their lives in peace and quiet, until, that is, the government decides their little corner of the world...
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Rockets Galore
1928
His House in Order
0/0
A rich man's worship of his first wife ends when he learns their son is a bastard.
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His House in Order
1927
Downhill
5.7/83
Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away an...
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Downhill
1959
North West Frontier
6.7/46
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsole...
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North West Frontier
1954
Don't Blame the Stork
0/0
When Sir George Redway, a famous actor, makes the public boast that he loves babies, a baby is promptly abandoned on his doorstep, and he is forced to...
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Don't Blame the Stork
1930
Escape!
6.3/3
When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy day...
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Escape!
1929
The Thoroughbred
0/0
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