James Hayter

James Hayter

James Hayter (23 April 1907 – 27 March 1983) was a British actor. He was born in Lonavala, India, brought up in Scotland and died in Spain. His best remembered film roles include Friar Tuck in the 1952 film The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men and Samuel Pickwick in The Pickwick Papers of the same year. His rotund appearance and fruity voice made him a natural choice for such roles. A pupil of Dollar Academy, he became a graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, his film career began in 1936 in Sensation, but was interrupted by World War II during which he served in the Royal Armoured Corps. His later career included roles in TV series such as The Forsyte Saga (1967), The Onedin Line and Are You Being Served?. His 1946 television series Pinwright's Progress, shown on the BBC, is recognised as the first real example of the half-hour situation comedy format in the history of British television. He was also the original narrator of the UK television advertisements for Mr. Kipling cakes. In fact, these ads led to his departure from Are You Being Served?; the cake company paid him a significant bonus to withdraw from the series, as they felt his reputation lent an air of dignity to their snack advertisements. In the film Oliver!, he played Mr Jessop the book shop owner. He appeared in scenes when Dodger steals a gentleman's wallet outside the book shop and also when Oliver is in court charged with the robbery. Hayter used to have a tree house in his back garden where he would retire of an evening to learn and practise his lines from his current script. Description above from the Wikipedia article James Hayter, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: James Hayter
  • Popularity: 4.903
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1907-04-23
  • Place of Birth: Lonavala, India
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  • Also Known As: Джеймс Хэйтер, Henry James Hayter
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James Hayter Movies

  • 1970
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    The Horror of Frankenstein

    The Horror of Frankenstein

    6 1970 HD

    Young Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments.

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  • 1948
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    The Fallen Idol

    The Fallen Idol

    7.158 1948 HD

    Phillipe, the son of an ambassador in London, idolizes Baines, his father's butler, a kind of hero in the eyes of the child, whose perception changes...

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  • 1952
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    The Crimson Pirate

    The Crimson Pirate

    6.9 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1959
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    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps

    6.21 1959 HD

    In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

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  • 1971
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    The Blood on Satan's Claw

    The Blood on Satan's Claw

    6.1 1971 HD

    The accidental unearthing of Satan’s earthly remains causes the children of a 17th-century English village to slowly convert into a coven of...

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  • 1952
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    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men

    6.1 1952 HD

    Young Robin Hood, in love with Maid Marian, enters an archery contest with his father at the King's palace. On the way home his father is murdered by...

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  • 1972
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    Burke & Hare

    Burke & Hare

    5.5 1972 HD

    Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.

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  • 1954
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    Beau Brummell

    Beau Brummell

    6.47 1954 HD

    Captain George Bryan Brummell is a British soldier who appreciates fine clothing and innovative dress. Although he initially alienates the Prince of...

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  • 1954
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    For Better, for Worse

    For Better, for Worse

    5.6 1954 HD

    In postwar London a young graduate and his girlfriend decide to marry. Her well-to-do parents are not convinced, but they agree once he has got a...

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  • 1951
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    Tom Brown's Schooldays

    Tom Brown's Schooldays

    6.9 1951 HD

    When Tom Brown arrives at Rugby boarding school, he’s mercilessly tormented by the school’s evil bully Flashman. With the help of his...

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  • 1947
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    The End of the River

    The End of the River

    5 1947 HD

    A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is forced to stand trial for murder.

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  • 1958
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    Gideon's Day

    Gideon's Day

    6.3 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1953
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    Royal Review

    Royal Review

    1 1953 HD

    Survey of the Royal Highlights of June in Coronation year; the Coronation, the Derby, Queen's visits to Guildhall and Edinburgh. Made in 3-D.

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  • 1967
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    A Challenge for Robin Hood

    A Challenge for Robin Hood

    6 1967 HD

    After being falsely accused of murder, Sir Robin of Loxley takes refuge in the untamed wilderness of Sherwood Forest where he stumbles across a group...

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  • 1947
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    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

    6.361 1947 HD

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

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  • 1938
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    The Moon in the Yellow River

    The Moon in the Yellow River

    1 1938 HD

    Television broadcast of The Moon in the Yellow River by Denis Johnston.

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  • 1949
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    Once a Jolly Swagman

    Once a Jolly Swagman

    5.4 1949 HD

    A factory worke quits his job to become a motorcycle racer.

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  • 1953
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    Four Sided Triangle

    Four Sided Triangle

    6 1953 HD

    A young man, in love with a woman who can never be his, discovers a way to fulfil his dreams. In their childhood the three were the best of friends,...

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  • 1957
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    Abandon Ship

    Abandon Ship

    7.4 1957 HD

    After a massive luxury liner sinks into the ocean, the ship's officer must command a rickety lifeboat, built for only nine, that is stuffed with over...

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  • 1939
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    Murder in Soho

    Murder in Soho

    5 1939 HD

    A London nightclub hostess pretends to fall for the mobster who killed her husband.

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  • 1950
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    Trio

    Trio

    6.3 1950 HD

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

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  • 1952
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    The Pickwick Papers

    The Pickwick Papers

    6.6 1952 HD

    The Pickwick Club sends Mr. Pickwick and a group of friends to travel across England and to report back on the interesting things they find...

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  • 1953
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    Always a Bride

    Always a Bride

    5.9 1953 HD

    Set against the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera, this comedy follows the misadventures of a father and daughter con artist team (Ronald...

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  • 1958
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    The Big Money

    The Big Money

    6.4 1958 HD

    Petty thief Willie Frith steals a suitcase full of bank notes, only to find out that they have been given all the same serial number. But this is...

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  • 1949
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    Dear Mr. Prohack

    Dear Mr. Prohack

    6 1949 HD

    A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money...

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  • 1949
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    Silent Dust

    Silent Dust

    7.3 1949 HD

    A wealthy blind man is determined to build a cricket pavilion as a memorial to his dead son, who was killed in battle in World War II. Not long...

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  • 1952
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    I'm A Stranger

    I'm A Stranger

    5 1952 HD

    When his grandfather dies, George Westcott (Patrick Doonan) returns home from India to collect his inheritance -- only to find that the will has...

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  • 1962
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    Out of the Fog

    Out of the Fog

    6.3 1962 HD

    Scotland Yard is thrown into an uproar when a mad killer begins knocking off beautiful young blondes.

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  • 1970
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    Song of Norway

    Song of Norway

    4.6 1970 HD

    Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg and his attempts to develop an authentic...

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  • 1953
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    A Day to Remember

    A Day to Remember

    7.125 1953 HD

    A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get...

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  • 1948
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    A Song for Tomorrow

    A Song for Tomorrow

    6 1948 HD

    Derek Wardwell (Shaun Noble) is struck with amnesia, and the last thing he remembers is the beautiful voice of opera singer Helen Maxwell (Evelyn...

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  • 1938
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    Marigold

    Marigold

    1 1938 HD

    Marigold is a 1938 British drama film set in Scotland in the Victorian era. It was filmed in Edinburgh. It was based on a 1914 play of the same title...

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  • 1938
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    Big Fella

    Big Fella

    7 1938 HD

    Singing Marseilles docker Joe is hired by wealthy English couple, the Oliphants, to find their missing son Gerald. When Joe finds him, he learns...

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  • 1949
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    The Blue Lagoon

    The Blue Lagoon

    6 1949 HD

    In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days afloat, they are marooned on a lush tropical...

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  • 1948
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    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    Bonnie Prince Charlie

    4.4 1948 HD

    Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the...

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  • 1949
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    All Over the Town

    All Over the Town

    6.2 1949 HD

    Newspaper reporter Nat Hearn returns home after serving in the Royal Air Force during World War II. When one of the paper's owners dies, the man's...

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  • 1956
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    Port Afrique

    Port Afrique

    5.3 1956 HD

    An army veteran with a shattered leg returns to his home in Port Afrique after war only to find his wife has been murdered. He's determined to find...

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  • 1959
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    The Captain's Table

    The Captain's Table

    5.8 1959 HD

    A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although he is a thoroughly competent sailor ready to...

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  • 1955
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    Touch and Go

    Touch and Go

    6.3 1955 HD

    When Jim Fletcher is told by his firm that his new furniture designs are not in keeping with the firm's image he threatens to resign, and decides to...

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  • 1953
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    The Great Game

    The Great Game

    6 1953 HD

    The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing...

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  • 1956
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    It's a Wonderful World

    It's a Wonderful World

    5.3 1956 HD

    Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusive musical genius. When the tune hits the top of...

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  • 1969
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    David Copperfield

    David Copperfield

    5.4 1969 HD

    A made for TV movie of the Charles Dickens' classic novel, turns Dickens' picaresque tale into an extended flashback, with David Copperfield Robin...

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  • 1971
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    Not Tonight, Darling

    Not Tonight, Darling

    6.2 1971 HD

    A lonely 'Stay-at-Home' Housewife is being watched every night through the bathroom window by a 'Peeping Tom', who is being put up to it by his...

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  • 1939
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    Come on George!

    Come on George!

    5.4 1939 HD

    George Formby, who plays George, a stable boy. He also has the unique ability to soothe an anxious racing horse. Expectedly, George races the horse...

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  • 1948
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    My Brother Jonathan

    My Brother Jonathan

    6.75 1948 HD

    Jonathan Dakers' early ambition was to become a great surgeon and to marry Edie Martyn. But, on the death of his father, he is obliged to start work...

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  • 1949
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    For Them That Trespass

    For Them That Trespass

    5.2 1949 HD

    In this drama, a frustrated upper-class writer decides that he will find real inspiration by examining his subjects first-hand. This leads him to...

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  • 1956
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    Keep It Clean

    Keep It Clean

    4.5 1956 HD

    A man invents a new cleaning machine. His brother in law offers to help him promote it and they get help from the Purity League.

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  • 1940
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    Band Waggon

    Band Waggon

    5 1940 HD

    A gang of spies held up in a haunted castle gives this team of celebrated British wireless comedians plenty of scope for laughs.

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  • 1962
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    Lawrence of Arabia

    Lawrence of Arabia

    8.004 1962 HD

    The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War....

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  • 1950
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    Morning Departure

    Morning Departure

    6.6 1950 HD

    The crew of a submarine is trapped on the sea floor when it sinks. How can they be rescued before they run out of air?

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  • 1936
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    Sensation

    Sensation

    5 1936 HD

    Pat Heaton may be the best crime reporter in town but his fiancée Claire, despairing of the more tawdry aspects of his profession, makes him...

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  • 1937
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    Aren't Men Beasts!

    Aren't Men Beasts!

    1 1937 HD

    Two businessmen have the shock of their lives when a woman appears out of their past bearing a 23 year old son - and one of them may be the father!

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  • 1949
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    Passport to Pimlico

    Passport to Pimlico

    6.8 1949 HD

    When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part...

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  • 1968
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    Oliver!

    Oliver!

    7 1968 HD

    Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys...

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  • 1951
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    Flesh and Blood

    Flesh and Blood

    1 1951 HD

    Based upon the play A Sleeping Clergyman by James Bridie, it tells the story of three generations of the Scottish Cameron family, with its various...

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  • 1971
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    The Firechasers

    The Firechasers

    7.2 1971 HD

    Insurance investigator must find out who is setting fires. Along the way he meets and works with a beautiful newspaper reporter and falls in love.

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  • 1955
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    Land of the Pharaohs

    Land of the Pharaohs

    6.284 1955 HD

    A captured architect designs an ingenious plan to ensure the impregnability of the tomb of a self-absorbed Pharaoh, obsessed with the security of his...

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  • 1948
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    Quartet

    Quartet

    6 1948 HD

    Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady."

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  • 1978
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    The Light Princess

    The Light Princess

    7 1978 HD

    Based on a short story by George MacDonald, a princess experiences constant weightlessness.

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  • 1957
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    Mañana...

    Mañana...

    6.4 1957 HD

    "Tomorrow ..." (mañana...) is the easy exit to deceive themselves of those who feel the impotence and the cowardice to confront face to face...

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  • 1947
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    The October Man

    The October Man

    6.2 1947 HD

    Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is...

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  • 1950
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    Waterfront

    Waterfront

    6.5 1950 HD

    When ship's fireman Peter McCabe walks out on his long-suffering wife, he leaves her impoverished, with two young daughters and a boy born soon after...

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  • 1954
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    The Awakening

    The Awakening

    6 1954 HD

    "The Awakening" is a 1954 short drama film of Douglas Fairbanks Presents anthology series based on Nikolai Gogol's short story "The Overcoat".

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  • 1967
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    Cop-Out

    Cop-Out

    5.3 1967 HD

    John Sawyer, once an eminent barrister, has slid into a life of cynicism and drunkenness since his wife left him. When his daughter's boyfriend is...

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  • 1950
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    Your Witness

    Your Witness

    5.7 1950 HD

    Adam Hayward is a successful New York City defense lawyer. One day he receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach...

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  • 1940
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    Sailors Three

    Sailors Three

    7.2 1940 HD

    Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their...

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  • 1950
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    Night and the City

    Night and the City

    7.5 1950 HD

    Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes...

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  • 1957
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    The Heart Within

    The Heart Within

    8.5 1957 HD

    This is one of David Hemming's earliest performances in the cinema: the star actor was just 15 when he portrayed a teenager who determines to clear a...

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  • 1962
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    Go to Blazes

    Go to Blazes

    6.3 1962 HD

    A gang of aspiring bank robbers involve themselves with arsonists and purchase their very own fire truck in an attempt to create the ultimate...

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  • 1946
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    School for Secrets

    School for Secrets

    6.5 1946 HD

    Wartime tale of a group of British scientists efforts to develop the first radar system. They did it just in time for it to be used in the Battle of...

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  • 1951
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    Calling Bulldog Drummond

    Calling Bulldog Drummond

    5.8 1951 HD

    Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.

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  • 1958
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    I Was Monty's Double

    I Was Monty's Double

    6.8 1958 HD

    The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the Germans about his intentions...

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  • 1949
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    Helter Skelter

    Helter Skelter

    6.2 1949 HD

    A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

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  • 1947
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    Captain Boycott

    Captain Boycott

    6.5 1947 HD

    Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken tenants dispossessed by greedy landowner Capt....

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  • 1953
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    Will Any Gentleman...?

    Will Any Gentleman...?

    5.6 1953 HD

    A trip to the theatre changes a meek bank clerk's life, as he undergoes hypnosis and leaves without being woken up. Suddenly, he believes he is the...

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  • 1958
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    Gideon's Day

    Gideon's Day

    6.3 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1948
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    Woman Hater

    Woman Hater

    7 1948 HD

    A confirmed bachelor and a woman who claims to hate men get together and find romance.

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  • 1948
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    No Room at the Inn

    No Room at the Inn

    7 1948 HD

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

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  • 1949
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    Don't Ever Leave Me

    Don't Ever Leave Me

    7.5 1949 HD

    Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila Farlane, the 16 year old daughter of a famous...

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  • 1946
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    The Laughing Lady

    The Laughing Lady

    7 1946 HD

    A musical set during the French Revolution.

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  • 1949
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    The Spider and the Fly

    The Spider and the Fly

    6.9 1949 HD

    "The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline intertwines the destinies of three people. Guy Rolfe...

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  • 1957
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    Sail Into Danger

    Sail Into Danger

    1 1957 HD

    In this adventure, an American is forced by smugglers to sail his boat from Barcelona to Tangiers. The ruthless fugitives then kill his son, and harm...

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  • 1947
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    The Mark of Cain

    The Mark of Cain

    5.8 1947 HD

    An attractive young French girl instigates rivalry between two brothers when she becomes the bride of the younger one. As the situation festers it...

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  • 1948
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    Vice Versa

    Vice Versa

    6.3 1948 HD

    Businessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young...

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  • 1959
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    The Boy and the Bridge

    The Boy and the Bridge

    5 1959 HD

    A very slight tale based on an original American story by Leon Ware centered on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. This adaptation is set on...

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  • 1972
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    Are You Being Served?

    Are You Being Served?

    7.2 1972 HD

    This comedy series, which follows the exploits of employees at London's fictional "Grace Brothers" department store, is full of sexual innuendo,...

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  • 1961
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    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.7 1961 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left...

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  • 1958
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    Fair Game

    Fair Game

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1974
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    Father Brown

    Father Brown

    6.6 1974 HD

    Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.

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  • 1969
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    The Flaxton Boys

    The Flaxton Boys

    5 1969 HD

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  • 1971
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    The Onedin Line

    The Onedin Line

    6.8 1971 HD

    The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in...

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