John Stuart
John Stuart (John Alfred Louden Croall; 18 July 1898 – 17 October 1979) was born to Scottish parents, and was a very popular leading man in British silent films in the 1920s. He successfully made the transition to talking pictures in the 1930s and his film career went on to span almost six decades. He appeared in 172 films (including shorts), 123 stage plays, and 103 television plays and series.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.447 |
| Birthday | 1898-07-17 |
| Place of Birth | Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK |
| Also Known As | John Alfred Louden Croall, |
1958
The Revenge of Frankenstein
6.6/148
Rescued from the guillotine by his devoted dwarf Fritz, the Baron relocates to Carlsbruck, where he continues his gruesome experiments.
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The Revenge of Frankenstein
1933
The Wandering Jew
7.429/7
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His retur...
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The Wandering Jew
1955
Alias John Preston
5.789/9
A mysterious young man settles in a rural English town and immediately starts making a good impression. Before long he has insinuated himself into loc...
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Alias John Preston
1963
The Scarlet Blade
5.675/20
A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathizers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love trian...
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The Scarlet Blade
1952
To the Rescue
7/2
Comedy of the theft of a poodle by a villain and the chase after him.
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To the Rescue
1937
Pearls Bring Tears
6.667/3
About a businessman (H.F.Maltby) who borrows his wife's pearls to cover a business loan, only for the pearls to then go missing.
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Pearls Bring Tears
1933
Love's Old Sweet Song
9/1
'Farmer loves singer whom his half-brother marries and abandons with baby.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Love's Old Sweet Song
1936
Reasonable Doubt
0/0
A lawyer's love for a young girl causes him to defend the man he thinks to be her lover. During the trial the lawyer finds out that the man is his own...
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Reasonable Doubt
1955
The Gilded Cage
6.833/3
Steve and Harry become involved in an art theft. Harry is framed by the crooks, and arrested by the police. Steve has to prove his brother's innocence...
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The Gilded Cage
1963
Paranoiac
6.628/82
Eleven years ago, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide...
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Paranoiac
1932
Number Seventeen
5.484/122
A gang of jewel thieves hides out in an abandoned London house after a robbery, unaware that a detective is among them in disguise.
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Number Seventeen
1925
The Pleasure Garden
5.388/85
Two chorus girls at the Pleasure Garden Theatre follow different paths in love and fortune.
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The Pleasure Garden
1960
Sink the Bismarck!
6.853/119
The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen—during the early days of World War II. The Bi...
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Sink the Bismarck!
1934
The Blue Squadron
7/1
Two young officers in the Italian Royal Air Force (Knight and Stuart) compete for the hand of the attractive Elena (Greta Hansen) and find their comra...
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The Blue Squadron
1945
Madonna of the Seven Moons
6.333/15
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 a...
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Madonna of the Seven Moons
1954
The Men of Sherwood Forest
6.9/13
Robin Hood is persuaded by two nobles whom he believes to be loyal to King Richard to recover secret plans attaining to the rescue of the king from ca...
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The Men of Sherwood Forest
1927
Hindle Wakes
7.111/9
A young working-class girl causes a stir when she sneaks off for a romantic getaway with the wealthy heir of the mill where she works.
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Hindle Wakes
1927
A Woman in Pawn
8/1
'Ruined stockbroker blamed for killing crooking financier who lured his wife.' (British Film Catalogue)
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A Woman in Pawn
1928
Sailors Don't Care
9/1
'1914. Knight poses as rating aboard son's cruiser and helps Q-ship sink U-boat.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Sailors Don't Care
1927
The Glad Eye
10/1
'The story concerns the misadventures of two flighty husbands in Paris on the spree. They find an excuse for their absence from home by pretending tha...
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The Glad Eye
1943
Headline
7/5
A crime reporter begins to investigate the disappearance of his bosses wife who had witnessed a murder.
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Headline
1932
The Mistress of Atlantis
5.3/7
In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former...
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The Mistress of Atlantis
1931
The Hound of the Baskervilles
7.333/3
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from abroad and opens up the ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire. Holmes uncovers a...
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The Hound of the Baskervilles
1925
We Women
8/1
A sacked skater falls into the clutches of an actor who abandoned a girl and her baby.
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We Women
1928
Yacht of the Seven Sins
7/2
The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner "Yoshiwara". Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also crimin...
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Yacht of the Seven Sins
1935
Abdul the Damned
6.5/4
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the le...
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Abdul the Damned
1933
The Pointing Finger
5.4/5
A man plots to murder his half-brother so he claim his earldom and an inheritance.
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The Pointing Finger
1941
Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
7/3
Old Mother Riley gets involved in a plot to steal an invention
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Old Mother Riley's Ghosts
1942
Hard Steel
8/1
A steelworker rises through the ranks to become manager of three steel mills, but ruthless ambition overwhelms him.
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Hard Steel
1948
House of Darkness
5.75/4
In this psychological thriller, an avaricious man covets his stepbrother's home. The greedy fellow knows that his stepbrother has a heart condition an...
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House of Darkness
1933
This Week of Grace
5.25/4
Grace Milroy loses her job working at a factory. However, through a strange set of circumstances, she is taken on as housekeeper at the nearby Swinfor...
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This Week of Grace
1933
The House of Trent
7/1
It follows a doctor who faces both a scandal and a moral dilemma when a patient of his dies while he is making love to a press magnate's daughter.
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The House of Trent
1937
The Show Goes On
6.5/2
A mill worker with show biz dreams catches a big break when she's discovered by an ailing composer who's seeking the right singer for his songs.
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The Show Goes On
1956
Johnny, You're Wanted
7/2
Returning late to London, Johnny gives a lift to an attractive female hitch-hiker. Some distance on, he stops to make a phone call and buy a coffee, b...
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Johnny, You're Wanted
1937
Talking Feet
8/2
An east London fishmonger's young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident that s...
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Talking Feet
1935
Lend Me Your Husband
6/2
A dapper Englishman has an affair with his wife’s best friend. A risque and very British marital farce.
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Lend Me Your Husband
1978
Superman
7.162/4239
Mild-mannered Clark Kent works as a reporter at the Daily Planet alongside his crush, Lois Lane. Clark must summon his superhero alter-ego when the ne...
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Superman
1960
Village of the Damned
7.188/491
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children h...
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Village of the Damned
1952
The Ringer
6/7
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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The Ringer
1942
The Missing Million
5.625/4
Rex Walton, millionaire man-about-town, mysteriously disappears on the eve of his wedding after an attempt at blackmail by infamous criminal The Panda...
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The Missing Million
1934
The Black Abbot
6.25/4
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.
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The Black Abbot
1958
Further Up the Creek
6.571/7
The sequel to 'Up The Creek' sees David Tomlinson return as bumbling navy boffin Lieutenant Humphrey Fairweather. This time he is skipper of the ship...
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Further Up the Creek
1926
Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler
9/1
Part of a series known as “Haunted Castles”.
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Baddesley Manor: The Phantom Gambler
1948
Escape from Broadmoor
6.833/3
A maniac killer returns to the scene of a ten-year-old crime, only to find the ghost of a murdered servant girl waiting to exact her revenge.
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Escape from Broadmoor
1947
Mine Own Executioner
7.031/16
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
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Mine Own Executioner
1931
Hindle Wakes
10/1
A Lancashire mill girl has an illicit adventure with the owner's son while on holiday. Based on the once notorious Houghton play.
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Hindle Wakes
1930
High Seas
10/1
'Press lord ruins sailor father of son's fiancée.' (British Film Catalogue)
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High Seas
1929
Taxi for Two
10/1
'Lady's son poses as chauffeur to woo girl who buys taxi.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Taxi for Two
1943
Women Aren't Angels
7/1
Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the...
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Women Aren't Angels
1944
Candles at Nine
5.4/5
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...
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Candles at Nine
1933
The Lost Chord
7/1
'Musician kills count in duel for wife, and later falls in love with daughter.' (British Film Catalogue)
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The Lost Chord
1949
Ten Little Indians
9/1
Ten people are invited to a summer party on an island oft the Devon coast. They are an extremely varied group from a blustering major to a frigid spin...
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Ten Little Indians
1920
The Great Gay Road
7/1
A knight hires a tramp to pose as his lost son and wed his niece, who loves a younger man.
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The Great Gay Road
1932
Verdict of the Sea
7/2
When 'Gentleman' Burton boards the Capri his aura of mystery makes the crew curious about his origins and makes him especially attractive to the Capta...
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Verdict of the Sea
1923
The Mistletoe Bough
7/1
British horror short from 1923.
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The Mistletoe Bough
1926
The Tower of London
9/1
In the surviving fragment of this film, over a game of chess, a man tells his wife the story of the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey, who reluctantly accepts...
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The Tower of London
1933
Mayfair Girl
9/1
An American girl is framed for killing a cad while drunk.
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Mayfair Girl
1932
In a Monastery Garden
8/1
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
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In a Monastery Garden
1924
His Grace Gives Notice
7/1
A butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
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His Grace Gives Notice
1938
The Claydon Treasure Mystery
10/1
"The Claydon Treasure Mystery" stars reliable John Stuart as an engineer (Peter Kerrigan) interested in solving mysteries, who becomes involved in inv...
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The Claydon Treasure Mystery
1924
The Alley of Golden Hearts
10/1
A lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.
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The Alley of Golden Hearts
1941
Ships with Wings
6/4
Before the war, a Fleet Air Arm pilot is dismissed for causing the death of a colleague. Working for a small Greek airline when the Germans invade Gre...
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Ships with Wings
1975
Royal Flash
5.948/29
Cowardly rogue Harry Flashman's (Malcolm McDowell) schemes to gain entry to the royal circles of 19th-century Europe go nowhere until he meets a pair...
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Royal Flash
1957
Quatermass 2
6.434/144
In England, a group of space scientists led by Bernard Quatermass, who have developed plans for the first Moon colony, learn that a secret, ostensibly...
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Quatermass 2
1942
The Seventh Survivor
6.333/6
During the Second World War, a German spy goes on the run, carrying important news about a U-Boat campaign. The ship he is traveling aboard is hit by...
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The Seventh Survivor
1940
Old Mother Riley in Society
7.667/3
Old Mother Riley does the laundry for the dancers in the pantomime "Aladdin", where her daughter Kitty works as a chorus girl. Sneaking a peek at the...
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Old Mother Riley in Society
1930
Elstree Calling
5.114/22
A series of 19 musical and comedy "vaudeville" sketches presented in the form of a live television broadcast hosted by Tommy Handley (as himself).
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Elstree Calling
1930
Kissing Cup's Race
9/1
A drama film directed by Castleton Knight .
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Kissing Cup's Race
1930
Children of Chance
9/1
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
1930
Eve's Fall
8/1
A girl with amnesia believes she is a bachelor's wife.
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Eve's Fall
1942
Banana Ridge
6.2/5
When Susie Long appears, together with her 20 year old son, Pink and Pound are thrown into confusion that one of them could be his father.
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Banana Ridge
1956
Tons of Trouble
5.5/6
An apartment handyman is unusually attached to a pair of boilers he names "Mavis" and "Ethel."
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Tons of Trouble
1930
The Nipper
8/1
A producer makes a star of the cockney waif who tried to rob him.
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The Nipper
1930
No Exit
8/1
A romantic comedy directed by Charles Saunders. A publisher's daughter mistakes a poor author for a rich novelist.
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No Exit
1935
Once a Thief
6.667/3
Down on his luck inventor Roger (John Stuart) "borrows" some money from a handbag he finds but things go wrong when a necklace from the bag goes missi...
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Once a Thief
1931
The Wrong Mr. Perkins
7/1
An impoverished man Jimmy Perkins is mistaken by a banker for a wealthy man with a similar name...
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The Wrong Mr. Perkins
1932
Men of Steel
7/1
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, H...
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Men of Steel
1929
Atlantic
5.25/12
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic"....
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Atlantic
1958
The Secret Man
6.5/4
A physicist finds himself drawn into an investigation to track down a spy at his research station.
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The Secret Man
1948
R.U.R.
5.8/3
A story of robots leading a revolution against their human creators. It explored dehumanization through technology and the failure of a technologicall...
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R.U.R.
1934
Bella Donna
3.75/4
That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Con...
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Bella Donna
1956
The Last Man to Hang
6.25/8
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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The Last Man to Hang
1956
Eyewitness
7/8
Lucy Church, the sole witness to a fatal robbery, is struck by a passing bus and her life lies in the balance as the thieves wait for a chance to fini...
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Eyewitness
1923
The School for Scandal
8/1
An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
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The School for Scandal
1951
Mr. Denning Drives North
6.444/9
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and...
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Mr. Denning Drives North
1953
Street Corner
5.538/13
A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around three different storylines.
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Street Corner
1960
Bottoms Up!
6.611/9
An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save hi...
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Bottoms Up!
1949
Third Time Lucky
7.5/2
A gambler falls in love with a naive young girl. He thinks she is bringing him good luck. Then his main gambling rival arrives and he desires the girl...
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Third Time Lucky
1952
The Magic Box
6.478/23
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
1949
The Man from Yesterday
9/1
A psychic goes to the home of a woman who wants him to contact her dead fiancée, even though she has already remarried. Later, she ends up murdered! S...
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The Man from Yesterday
1958
Chain of Events
6.346/13
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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Chain of Events
1935
Blind Justice
7/1
When Peggy wants to break off her engagement to Dick in order to marry Gilbert, Dick threatens to reveal that Peggy's brother Ralph was shot for cowar...
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Blind Justice
1928
Smashing Through
9/1
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Smashing Through
1942
Penn of Pennsylvania
6.5/4
Penn of Pennsylvania is a 1941 British historical drama film directed by Lance Comfort and starring Deborah Kerr, Clifford Evans, Dennis Arundell, Hen...
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Penn of Pennsylvania
1924
The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
10/1
The Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
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The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
1935
D’Ye Ken John Peel?
6/3
Major John Peel returns to England, following Napoleon's Waterloo defeat, and renews his acquaintance with Lucy Merrall, but she tells him she is enga...
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D’Ye Ken John Peel?
1934
The Green Pack
9/1
A wealthy investor in a South African mine is murdered.
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The Green Pack
1947
The Phantom Shot
7/2
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as...
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The Phantom Shot
1955
It's a Great Day
6.417/6
Big screen spin off from the BBC TV series The Grove Family, ostensibly the first British soap opera. Bob Grove, a builder has problems with the counc...
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It's a Great Day
1929
Kitty
6/2
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two...
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Kitty
1957
The Naked Truth
6.806/31
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
1949
Man on the Run
6.706/17
An Army deserter, still a fugitive in Post-War Britain, wanders into a pawn-shop robbery and finds himself wanted for murder. He meets a war widow who...
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Man on the Run
1959
The Mummy
6.733/260
One by one the archaeologists who discover the 4,000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka are brutally murdered. Kharis, high priest in Egypt 40 centuries...
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The Mummy
1959
Too Many Crooks
7.391/23
Accident-prone Fingers runs a pretty unsuccessful gang. They try and rob wealthy but tricky Billy Gordon - who distrusts banks and fears the Inland Re...
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Too Many Crooks
1927
Roses of Picardy
0/0
In France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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Roses of Picardy
1947
Mrs. Fitzherbert
6.667/3
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between t...
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
1933
Little Fella
7/1
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Little Fella
1923
Little Miss Nobody
10/1
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Little Miss Nobody
1925
A Daughter of Love
10/1
A Lord objects to his son's love for a bastard until a society doctor is revealed as her father.
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A Daughter of Love
1927
London Love
0/1
A rich man's chauffeur kills his mistress and frames his daughter's fiancé.
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London Love
1933
Enemy of the Police
9/1
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Enemy of the Police
1928
The Flight Commander
10/1
In China, a pilot saves British residents from a Bolshevik's massacre plot.
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The Flight Commander
1928
Mademoiselle Parley Voo
7/1
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Mademoiselle Parley Voo
1927
Mademoiselle from Armentieres
9/1
A French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.
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Mademoiselle from Armentieres
1955
John and Julie
4.938/8
The adventures of two children who runaway to London to see the coronation of Queen Elizabeth.
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John and Julie
1962
Danger by My Side
5.75/6
A girl tracks down the gang who had her detective brother killed.
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Danger by My Side
1957
The Betrayal
6.333/3
Fourteen years after he was blinded in a WWII concentration camp, a Canadian perfume executive travels to London on business and recognizes the voice...
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The Betrayal
1942
The Big Blockade
6.667/6
Wartime propaganda piece reporting on the success of the economic blockade of Germany in the early years of the war.
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