
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.098 |
Birthday | 1888-05-24 |
Place of Birth | Croydon, Surrey, England |
Also Known As | Майлс Моллесон, William Miles Malleson, |

1964

Murder Ahoy
7/136
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
6.8/331
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
7.2/109
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
7.4/814
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
Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Rur...
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The Queen's Affair

1960

The Brides of Dracula
6.7/233
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
6.7/341
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
7.3/965
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
7.1/273
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
7.427/336
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
6.3/128
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
6.7/73
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
7.2/277
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
6.4/26
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
5.5/18
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
6.4/95
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
6/14
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
6.5/52
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
5.9/17
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
6/6
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

1936

Rhodes of Africa
6/1
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Rhodes of Africa

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

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
6.3/7
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

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

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

1958

Happy Is the Bride
6.2/4
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
5.625/8
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
6.4/21
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
6.4/25
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
7.7/556
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
6.8/29
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
5.936/39
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!
6.261/23
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
6.7/20
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
6.3/21
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
7.265/625
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
2/1
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
6.856/187
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
7/11
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
6.1/17
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
7.063/8
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

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

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

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
5.938/16
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
7/87
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
6.5/26
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
5.6/15
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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Children of Chance

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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