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Sailor Beware (1956)

Battle-axe Emma Hornett dominates her hen-pecked husband Henry, his meek sister Edie and daughter Shirley. Shirley is to marry young sailor Albert,raised in an orphanage,and he and best man Carnoustie stay with the Hornetts on the eve of the wedding. ...

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The Rainbow Jacket (1954)

A champion jockey is banned from racing so spends his time helping a young lad to become the next champion. ...

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Doctor in the House (1954)

The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immer ...

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The Weak and the Wicked (1954)

Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is re ...

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The Million Pound Note (1954)

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds. The sailor finds that whenever he tries to use the note to buy something, p ...

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Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)

A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time. ...

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The Fake (1953)

Someone is stealing priceless paintings from the great museums of the world and replacing them with nearly flawless forgeries. Leonardo da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" is being shipped to London's Tate Gallery for a special exhibition, and Paul Mitchell is ...

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The Yellow Balloon (1953)

A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death. ...

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Decameron Nights (1953)

Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust. ...

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Strange Stories (1953)

'Strange Stories' consists of two stories, 'The Strange Mr Bartleby' and 'The Strange Journey'. The stories were sometimes shown individually on television. ...

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The Crimson Pirate (1952)

Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. A light hearted adventure involving prison breaks, an oddball scientist, sailing ships, naval f ...

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Scrooge (1951)

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man. ...

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Green Grow the Rushes (1951)

Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to cur ...

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Scarlet Thread (1951)

Tale of Cambridge college exploits of two smash-and-grab thieves on the run. ...

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Trio (1950)

W. Somerset Maugham introduces three more of his stories about human foibles. ...

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Children of Chance (1949)

In Ischia, a priest uses the money a young woman has made on the black market toward a home for illegitimate children. ...

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Murder at the Windmill (1949)

A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder. ...

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Forbidden (1949)

Set on Blackpool's Golden Mile, Jim (Douglass Montgomery), a once promising scientist, sets up in business as a patent medicine man selling hair tonic at the fair with his ex-army colleague Dan (Ronald Shiner). Following a fight with local hoods over pitch ...

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Vote for Huggett (1949)

A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center. ...

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No Room at the Inn (1948)

A group of children are evacuated during world war two into the care of an alcoholic woman. ...

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Love in Waiting (1948)

The story of three women working as waitresses in post-World War II Britain. ...

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So Evil My Love (1948)

In the late 19th century, on board a ship sailing from Jamaica to England, Olivia Harwood, a recent widow, takes on the task of caring for several malaria patients, including Mark Bellis, a mysterious and tormented painter. ...

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Daybreak (1948)

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy. ...

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Jassy (1947)

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home. Unfortunately, his father's drinking and gambling thr ...

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Frieda (1947)

An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. ...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby (1947)

A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle. ...

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The Shop at Sly Corner (1947)

The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, (Oskar Homolka) has become disillusioned with society since his torture as a prisoner on Devil's Island, since when he has allowed his shop to become a front for criminal activity, and he himself is a rece ...

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The Magic Bow (1946)

Biography of the famous Italian violinist Nicola Paganini which focuses as much on the musician's romances as it does on his craft. Phyllis Calvert plays Jeanne de Vermond, the aristocratic French woman who captures Paganini's heart, and real-life violin v ...

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Perfect Strangers (1945)

After World War II service changes them, a married couple dread their postwar reunion. ...

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I'll Be Your Sweetheart (1945)

In turn-of-the-century London a young music publisher fights both competitors and piracy in a time where author's royalties were still unprotected. ...

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Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945)

In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and he ...

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Champagne Charlie (1944)

A man from the countryside becomes London's newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience's attention. ...

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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Three modern day pilgrims investigate a bizarre crime in a small town on the way to Canterbury. ...

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Give Us the Moon (1944)

Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). Peter, the young wastrel son of a hard working hotel owner doesn't like ...

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The Halfway House (1944)

A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? An ...

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Bell-Bottom George (1944)

George is an unwilling civilian during the war. When an enlisted friend switches clothes with him in order to go to a party, George finds himself mistakenly pressed into the navy, where he gets involved with pretty Ann Firth and caught up in a subplot invo ...

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Candles at Nine (1944)

A rich but miserly old man taunts his relatives about who will get his money when he dies, and is soon mysteriously murdered. It turns out that he has left his estate to a beautiful young actress whom the other relatives didn't know was related to him. Sev ...

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Yellow Canary (1943)

A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent. ...

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Uncensored (1942)

During the Nazi occupation of Belgium during World War II, a Belgian resistance group revives the newspaper "La Libre Belgique" to expose and counter Nazi propaganda efforts to deceive the people. They are so effective that the Nazis offer a reward for the ...

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They Flew Alone (1942)

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 around the world. Her marriage to fellow aviator Jim Mallison was less noteworthy. ...

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Suspected Person (1942)

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden awa ...

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Facing the Music (1941)

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The Common Touch (1941)

On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. Realising the other directors want to keep him in the dark he starts asking questions, and is soon undercover as a down-and-out in a hostel w ...

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Spare a Copper (1940)

George is an inept reserve policeman working in wartime Liverpool, who is chosen by a gang of Nazi saboteurs as the stooge for their planned destruction of the British battleship HMS Hercules. Framed by the villains and forced to go on the run, George sets ...

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Saloon Bar (1940)

A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man. ...

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Night Train to Munich (1940)

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out the ...

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Busman's Honeymoon (1940)

When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, unt ...

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Just William (1940)

A rascal child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father to get elected to the city council. Sadly, the children accidentally helped two jewel thieves to escape. They feel sorry about this, and then, to redeem themselves, the kids begin investi ...

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A Window in London (1940)

A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is no ...

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All Hands (1940)

From a series of propaganda films made to raise awareness of the risks of idle gossip providing vital information to enemy spies and collaborators. This Ealing Studios production features well-known 1940s actor John Mills, playing a sailor whose girlfriend ...

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Pastor Hall (1940)

The village of Altdorf has to come to terms with Chancellor Hitler and the arrival of a platoon of Stormtroopers. The Stormtroopers go about teaching and enforcing "The New Order", but Pastor Hall, a kind and gentle man, won't be cowed. Some villagers join ...

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Spy for a Day (1940)

During World War I, a British farmer is abducted by the Germans to take the place of a spy about to be executed whom he closely resembles. ...

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Return to Yesterday (1940)

Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England. ...

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Food for Thought (1940)

In this film collaboration between the famous Ealing Film Studios and the Ministry of Food, we have a 'ringside seat' at a meeting of the 'Hillside Road Food Club', whose members are gathered around a table in a front parlour room. The leader of the group ...

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The Four Just Men (1939)

The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots. ...

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Inspector Hornleigh (1939)

When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Inspector Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. When Hornleigh examines the case, insi ...

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The Nursemaid Who Disappeared (1939)

An overheard conversation leads to clues that a kidnapping plot is afoot. ...

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Anything to Declare? (1938)

John Loder and Elliot Makeham star in Redd Davis's British topical crime thriller. Professor Grayson is working on an anti-gas experiment and Dr. Klee, whose quiet advertising covers other welfares, means to find it. ...

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It's in the Air (1938)

George Brown is rejected as an Air Raid Warden and in doing so sees his potential to join the Royal Air Force. His dreams could soon come true as he realises that in fact his friend has left behind some very important papers, he dons a his Royal Air Force ...

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The Citadel (1938)

Andrew Manson, a young, idealistic, newly qualified Scottish doctor arrives in Wales takes his first job in a mining town, and begins to wonder at the persistent cough many of the miners have. When his attempts to prove its cause are thwarted, he moves to ...

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What Men Live By (1938)

A film based on a story by Leo Tolstoy about a cabinet maker, his wife and an angel punished by God. ...

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Vessel of Wrath (1938)

Ginger Ted, AKA Edward Claude Wilson, a drunkard and womanizer, and Miss Jones, a missionary, live in the Alas Islands. During a cholera epidemic, Ginger Ted and Miss Jones are sent to an outlying part of the islands to run a hospital; on their return, the ...

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Darts Are Trumps (1938)

Steven Sims is a diamond merchant who bullies his kindly hard-working clerk and disappoints his expectations when he takes into partnership an aristocratic ne'er-do-well. ...

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East of Ludgate Hill (1937)

When the City stockbroker firm of Macintyre & Son records a substantial yearly profit, its senior staff are each promised a £50 bonus. But their hasty plans for spending their windfalls are put in jeopardy the following morning, as a set of negotiable bo ...

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Racing Romance (1937)

Garage owner Harry Stone buys a racehorse, Brownie, from Peggy Lanstone and, according to formula, hires Peggy as the steed's trainer. When the filly finishes a mere second in the Oaks, Harry's snooty fiancee, Muriel, who never liked the setup anyway, dis ...

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Dark Journey (1937)

Madeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron Karl Von Marwitz during World War I. This tale of espionage blends high adventure and romance making perfect order from wartime chaos and growing in faith from ...

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Storm in a Teacup (1937)

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter. ...

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Head Over Heels (1937)

Legendary British musical-comedy favorite Jessie Matthews chalks up another winner with Head Over Heels in Love. The ever-charming Matthews plays Jeanne, a Parisian entertainer who manages to get herself in hot water with the French version of Actors' Equi ...

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The Mill on the Floss (1937)

Romeo and Juliet in 1930s England. The owner of the mill and the local lord are in conflict over water rights. The lord wins threatening the mill owner with financial ruin. ...

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Farewell Again (1937)

Farewell Again is a multiplotted British comedy/drama about soldiers on leave and the people they've left. Given a six-hour pass after a tour of duty in India, several British Tommies (among them Robert Newton, Sebastian Shaw and Anthony Bushell) try to un ...

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Take My Tip (1937)

Lord and Lady Pilkington get tricked out of their money by a con man. They later run into the swindler in a hotel - which happens to be owned by their butler - and they devise a plan to scam the con man and get both revenge and their money back. ...

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Tomorrow We Live (1936)

Financier Sir Charles Hendra, on the brink of ruin, contemplates ending his own life. After pondering the difficult decision, Charles decides to invite twelve similarly desperate individuals to dinner so they can all discuss their problems. Will his genero ...

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Someone at the Door (1936)

When Sally inherits a country house, her young brother Ronald, an aspiring journalist, hits on a sensational way to make his first big scoop: Sally will 'disappear', and he will be arrested for her murder! At his trial she will reappear, his acquittal will ...

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Born That Way (1936)

A Scottish woman tries to take her brother-in-law's wild living children in hand. ...

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The Brown Wallet (1936)

Publisher John Gillespie faces a financial crisis after his business partner skips town with all the firm's assets. Facing ruin, he reluctantly approaches a wealthy aunt for assistance but is met with a stony-faced refusal. ...

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Calling the Tune (1936)

Calling the Tune offers a fascinating look at the fledgeling gramophone industry as it tries to solve the problems of reliable recording and production methods. 'I predict that the gramophone will be the democratic entertainment of the future' states unscr ...

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A Star Fell from Heaven (1936)

In this comedy, a talented singer is hired to dub the voice of a star who has lost his own. During the film's premiere, news that he sang the songs slips out and suddenly he finds that he himself has become a star. Unfortunately he soon encounters unantici ...

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Mr. Cohen Takes a Walk (1935)

Old Mr. Cohen (Paul Graetz) simply walks away from his London department store, leaving his sons to run it. ...

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Her Last Affaire (1935)

Desperate to prove his father innocent of treason, a secretary arranges a clandestine assignation with his employer's wife in order to get the proof he needs. But the plan goes awry when he becomes implicated in her sudden death. ...

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The Last Journey (1935)

Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. Aboard the train are a pair of pickpockets, a hon ...

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Peg of Old Drury (1935)

a biopic of eighteenth-century Irish actress Peg Woffington. It was based on the play Masks and Faces. ...

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Once in a New Moon (1935)

When a small English town is dragged out into space by the force of a 'dead star' passing Earth, the populace try to organise a local government based on equal rights for all, but conflicts arise between the local aristocracy and the villagers. ...

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Lorna Doone (1934)

High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600s. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. ...

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Unfinished Symphony (1934)

Composer Franz Schubert--broke, struggling and unhappy--gets a break when a wealthy friend wangles him an invitation to a command performance in front of a princess of the royal family. Schubert performs a version of his new work, "Symphony in B Minor", fo ...

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Friday the Thirteenth (1933)

It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into t ...

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I Lived with You (1933)

In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. It turns out he still has a number of diamonds given him by the last czar, and he is persuaded to start s ...

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The Lost Chord (1933)

'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter. ...

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The Roof (1933)

Inspector Darrow investigates the death of a wealthy man. ...

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Rome Express (1932)

The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome. ...

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