Miles Malleson
William Miles Malleson (25 May 1888 – 15 March 1969) was an English actor and dramatist, particularly remembered for his appearances in British comedy films of the 1930s to 1960s. Towards the end of his career he also appeared in cameo roles in several Hammer horror films, with a fairly large role in The Brides of Dracula as the hypochondriac and fee-hungry local doctor. Malleson was also a writer on many films, including some of those in which he had small parts, such as Nell Gwyn (1934) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He also translated and adapted several of Molière's plays (The Misanthrope, which he titled The Slave of Truth, Tartuffe and The Imaginary Invalid).
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 3.532 |
| Birthday | 1888-05-24 |
| Place of Birth | Croydon, Surrey, England |
| Also Known As | Майлс Моллесон, William Miles Malleson, |
1964
Murder Ahoy
7/131
During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets...
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Murder Ahoy
1950
Stage Fright
6.8/323
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
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Stage Fright
1952
The Importance of Being Earnest
7.2/101
Algernon Moncrieff is surprised to discover that his affluent friend -- whom he knows as "Ernest" -- is actually named Jack Worthing. Jack fabricated...
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The Importance of Being Earnest
1960
Peeping Tom
7.4/789
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which i...
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Peeping Tom
1934
The Queen's Affair
0/0
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Queen's Affair
1960
The Brides of Dracula
6.683/227
A young teacher on her way to a position in Transylvania helps a young man escape the shackles his mother has put on him. In so doing she innocently u...
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The Brides of Dracula
1959
The Hound of the Baskervilles
6.732/327
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1935
The 39 Steps
7.4/935
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed - with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it a...
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The 39 Steps
1940
The Thief of Bagdad
7.1/264
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, a...
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The Thief of Bagdad
1951
Scrooge
7.4/307
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show...
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Scrooge
1964
First Men in the Moon
6.291/122
The world is delighted when a spacecraft containing a crew made up of the world's astronauts lands on the moon, but are shocked when the astronauts di...
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First Men in the Moon
1959
I'm All Right Jack
6.7/70
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 fr...
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I'm All Right Jack
1945
Dead of Night
7.2/270
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. D...
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Dead of Night
1959
Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
5.9/6
Great Britain has had an international agreement for the last 50 years with a small pacific island. It has been ignored until the death of their king...
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Carlton-Browne of the F.O.
1960
Kidnapped
6.5/25
Kidnapped and cheated out of his inheritance, young David Balfour falls in with a Jacobite adventurer, Alan Breck Stewart. Falsely accused of murder,...
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Kidnapped
1953
The Captain's Paradise
5.5/17
Mediterranean ferryboat captain Henry St James has things well organized - a loving and very English wife Maud in Gibraltar, and the loving if rather...
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The Captain's Paradise
1962
The Phantom of the Opera
6.366/93
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is inten...
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The Phantom of the Opera
1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
5.9/13
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of E...
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
1949
The Queen of Spades
6.5/51
An elderly countess strikes a bargain with the devil and exchanges her soul for the ability to always win at cards. An army officer, who is also a fan...
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The Queen of Spades
1960
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
6.1/18
London at the turn of the century. Three men are on a mission from the IRA to steal all the gold in the vaults of the Bank of England. Norgate, their...
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The Day They Robbed the Bank of England
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
1949
The Perfect Woman
5.8/5
In need of cash, Roger Cavendish and his valet take a job escorting the perfect woman for a night on the town. She is in fact the robotic creation of...
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The Perfect Woman
1962
Postman's Knock
4.3/5
Likeable country postman Harold Petts gets transferred from his village to London, where on his arrival he unwittingly foils a mail train robbery. Inn...
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Postman's Knock
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
1936
Rhodes of Africa
6/1
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was directed by Berthold Viertel and starred Walter Huston,...
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Rhodes of Africa
1933
Perfect Understanding
6.1/7
A young couple decide to marry under the condition that they agree never to disagree. That agreement is soon put to the test when the husband finds hi...
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Perfect Understanding
1943
The Demi-Paradise
6.5/6
Ivan Kouznetsoff, a Russian engineer, recounts during World War II his stay in England prior to the war working on a new propeller for ice-breaking sh...
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The Demi-Paradise
1933
Summer Lightning
0/0
Hugo Carmody, the impoverished secretary to Lord Emsworth falls for Millicent the boss's niece, and steals his Lordship's prize pig in a scheme to rai...
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Summer Lightning
1952
Trent's Last Case
5.4/7
When a wealthy business man is found dead reporter Philip Trent is sent to investigate. Against the police conclusions, he suspects the assumed suicid...
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Trent's Last Case
1949
Cardboard Cavalier
5.7/3
Cardboard Cavalier is a 1949 British comedy film directed by Walter Forde and starring Sid Field, Margaret Lockwood and Jerry Desmonde.The film depict...
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Cardboard Cavalier
1958
Happy Is the Bride
5.7/3
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else...
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Happy Is the Bride
1965
You Must Be Joking
5.6/7
A motley group of soldiers are set loose on swinging England in an initiative test to collect a selection of esoteric items
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You Must Be Joking
1959
The Captain's Table
5.8/5
A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to take...
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The Captain's Table
1932
Money Means Nothing
0/0
British comedy film directed by Harcourt Templeman and Herbert Wilcox..
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Money Means Nothing
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
1957
Barnacle Bill
6.4/20
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Barnacle Bill
1961
The Hellfire Club
5.2/5
Years after fleeing his ancestral home with his mother, Jason returns home to claim his birthright, only to find his way blocked by his evil cousin Th...
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The Hellfire Club
1956
Private's Progress
6.4/23
Stanley Windrush has to interrupt his university education when he is called up towards the end of the war. He quickly proves himself not to be office...
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Private's Progress
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.675/533
When his mother eloped with an Italian opera singer, Louis Mazzini was cut off from her aristocratic family. After the family refuses to let her be bu...
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Kind Hearts and Coronets
1957
The Admirable Crichton
6.8/27
Lord Loam has modern ideas about his household, he believes in treating his servants as his equals - at least sometimes. His butler, Crichton, still b...
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The Admirable Crichton
1935
Vintage Wine
5.7/3
The members of the Popinot family of French champagne tycoons suspect that the widowed head of the family Charles Popinot is keeping a mistress in Rom...
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Vintage Wine
1936
Tudor Rose
8.1/7
The tragic story of Lady Jane Grey, the young queen who reigned in England for nine days before she was executed.
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Tudor Rose
1939
Q Planes
5.8/38
In England, an eccentric police inspector, an earnest test pilot and a spunky female reporter team up to solve the mystery of a series of test aircraf...
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Q Planes
1964
A Jolly Bad Fellow
5.5/2
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...
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A Jolly Bad Fellow
1961
Double Bunk
5.7/6
When newly weds Jack and Peggy face eviction, they are tricked into buying a run down houseboat. After rebuilding the engine, they take their friends...
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Double Bunk
1955
King's Rhapsody
3/2
Flynn plays the exciled Ruritanian king who leaves his mistress to return home to a political marriage. Love versus duty in this enjoyable romantic fi...
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King's Rhapsody
1952
The Woman's Angle
0/0
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness. This search,...
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The Woman's Angle
1940
For Freedom
0/0
Made in 1940, this stirringly patriotic film cleverly combined new scenes with genuine newsreel footage. A newsreel journalist is on hand when the Gia...
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For Freedom
1930
Night Birds
2/1
Early British thriller about a master criminal named 'Flash Jack', who heads a gang of top-hatted thieves that rob the wealthy. A detective tracks the...
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Night Birds
1962
The Brain
5.5/14
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
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The Brain
1937
Knight Without Armour
5.6/15
British agent working in Russia is forced to remain longer than planned once the revolution begins. After being released from prison in Siberia he pos...
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Knight Without Armour
1932
Frail Women
4.7/3
An illegitimate war-baby adopted by a wealthy spinster.
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Frail Women
1942
Unpublished Story
6.3/5
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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Unpublished Story
1937
Victoria the Great
5.3/6
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule af...
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Victoria the Great
1963
Heavens Above!
6.2/22
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and p...
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Heavens Above!
1958
Behind the Mask
6/6
A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
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Behind the Mask
1932
The Love Contract
0/0
A young woman becomes the driver of a wealthy stockbroker who lost her family’s savings.
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The Love Contract
1932
Love on Wheels
0/0
A department store assistant becomes publicity conscious.
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Love on Wheels
1942
They Flew Alone
6/3
The story of flyer Amy Johnson the girl from Yorkshire who won the hearts of the British public in the 1930s with her record-breaking solo flights aro...
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They Flew Alone
1931
A Night in Montmartre
5/1
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. How...
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A Night in Montmartre
1952
The Happy Family
7.2/4
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan, all except the fact that the main road and the ped...
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The Happy Family
1938
Sixty Glorious Years
6/2
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
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Sixty Glorious Years
1955
Geordie
6.8/10
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength....
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Geordie
1941
Major Barbara
6.605/19
Idealistic young Barbara is the daughter of rich weapons manufacturer Andrew Undershaft. She rebels against her estranged father by joining the Salvat...
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Major Barbara
1937
Action for Slander
0/0
A bankrupt officer, accused of cheating at cards, defends his honour with a writ.
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Action for Slander
1952
Treasure Hunt
5.4/8
Short of money the owners of Ballyroden Hall must attempt to run it as a guest house, but not everyone is happy about the plan.
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Treasure Hunt
1934
Nell Gwyn
6.6/5
King Charles II first meets Nell Gwyn after seeing her do a turn at Drury Lane. They soon become close, the King preferring her feisty irreverent comp...
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Nell Gwyn
1958
Bachelor of Hearts
5.6/7
A German scholar has girl troubles while studying at Cambridge.
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Bachelor of Hearts
1952
The Magic Box
6.3/20
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to i...
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The Magic Box
1931
City of Song
0/0
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by an English woman impressed by his singing, and who regards him as her protege.
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City of Song
1958
Dracula
7.2/598
After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only...
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Dracula
1932
The Mayor's Nest
0/0
A trombonist becomes mayor of a small town, but he struggles to cope with municipal issues.
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The Mayor's Nest
1961
The Bing Crosby Show
0/0
Bing Crosby performs with special guests Bob Hope, Marion Ryan, Dave King, Terry-Thomas, and Shirley Bassey.
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The Bing Crosby Show
1956
Dry Rot
7.1/7
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.
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Dry Rot
1951
The Man in the White Suit
6.8/179
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out. Clearly he can make a fortune sell...
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The Man in the White Suit
1943
The Gentle Sex
7/10
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, dri...
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The Gentle Sex
1942
Thunder Rock
6.1/16
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his payc...
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Thunder Rock
1949
Train of Events
6.2/10
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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Train of Events
1960
And the Same to You
5.6/7
Dickie Dreadnought is the boxing-mad nephew of pious clergyman Reverend Sydney Mullet. To mollify his disapproving uncle, Dickie embarks on an elabora...
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And the Same to You
1957
Brothers in Law
7.1/7
Roger Thursby is an overly keen, newly-qualified barrister who rubs his fellow barristers up the wrong way. When he is thrown in at the deep-end, with...
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Brothers in Law
1956
The Silken Affair
1/1
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.
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The Silken Affair
1935
Peg of Old Drury
6.3/3
a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces.
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Peg of Old Drury
1946
Land of Promise
0/0
Described as a 'film argument' about homes and houses, this film is in three parts showing houses as they were, houses as they are and houses as they...
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Land of Promise
1948
Bond Street
6.8/3
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending w...
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Bond Street
1956
Three Men in a Boat
6.3/9
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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Three Men in a Boat
1952
Folly to Be Wise
6.7/10
A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately...
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Folly to Be Wise
1962
Go to Blazes
6.3/9
A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate diversio...
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Go to Blazes
1952
Venetian Bird
5.9/15
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect...
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Venetian Bird
1945
Journey Together
6.1/5
Two Englishmen (Richard Attenborough, Jack Watling) train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
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Journey Together
1948
Idol of Paris
0/0
The Idol of Paris is based on Paiva, Queen of Love, a novel by Alfred Schirokauer. Set in the mid-19th century, the film traces the rags-to-riches sto...
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Idol of Paris
1958
Gideon's Day
6.3/29
Scotland Yard Inspector George Gideon starts his day off on the wrong foot when he gets a traffic-violation ticket from a young police officer. From t...
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Gideon's Day
1956
The Man Who Never Was
7/84
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis...
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The Man Who Never Was
1948
Woman Hater
7/2
A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.
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Woman Hater
1957
The Naked Truth
6.5/25
Nigel Dennis publishes a scandal magazine. But for each story he writes, he first approaches the person whose scandalous behavior is described (or rat...
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The Naked Truth
1925
Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery
0/0
An opening section of heavy handed humour about boxing styles gives way to a genuine and extraordinary discovery in this silent curio.
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Battling Bruisers: Some Boxing Buffoonery
1957
Campbell's Kingdom
5.5/14
Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In...
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Campbell's Kingdom
1947
While the Sun Shines
0/0
Lady Elisabeth Randall is an English Air Force corporal during World War II. She is on her way to marry her fiancé when she finds herself being romanc...
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While the Sun Shines
1964
A Midsummer Night's Dream
0/0
Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
1961
Fury at Smugglers' Bay
4.6/5
It is the end of the 18th century and smuggling is considered to be a legitimate spare-time occupation for most fishermen around the British shores. B...
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Fury at Smugglers' Bay
1932
The Blue Danube
0/0
In a Hungarian gypsy encampment, carefree Sandor lives with his beautiful sweetheart Yutka. Into their lives rides a blonde countess, with whom Sandor...
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The Blue Danube
1921
The Headmaster
0/0
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The Headmaster
1930
Children of Chance
0/0
A casual date at a high-class hotel leads Binnie, an aspiring showgirl, to be mistaken for model and actress Lia de Marita – landing her an audition f...
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