Laurence Naismith
Laurence Naismith (14 December 1908 – 5 June 1992) was an English actor.
Naismith appeared in films such as Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Richard III (1955), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Carrington VC (1954) and as Captain Edward Smith of the RMS Titanic in A Night to Remember (1958). He appeared on Broadway in the musical Here's Love in 1963 and played the non-singing role of Merlin in the 1967 film version of the musical Camelot.
In 1965 he guest-starred as barber Gilly Bright in episode 25, "The Threat" of 12 O-Clock High (TV series). He was Judge Fulton in the TV series The Persuaders! (1971), with Tony Curtis and Roger Moore. He also starred in a children's ghost film The Amazing Mr Blunden (1972). He portrayed Emperor of Austria Franz Joseph in the BBC production Fall of Eagles (1974). Naismith played the Prince of Verona in the BBC Television Shakespeare version of Romeo & Juliet.
Outside of acting he was the landlord of the Rowbarge pub at Woolhampton, Berkshire and a keen cricket fan. Naismith married, in 1939, Vera Bocca of Horden, County Durham.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.7391 |
| Birthday | 1908-12-14 |
| Place of Birth | Thames Ditton, Surrey, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Lawrence Naismith, Lawrence Johnson, |
1971
Diamonds Are Forever
6.402/2356
Diamonds are stolen only to be sold again in the international market. James Bond infiltrates a smuggling mission to find out who's guilty. The missio...
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Diamonds Are Forever
1967
Deadlier Than the Male
5.85/50
British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
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Deadlier Than the Male
1963
Jason and the Argonauts
7.162/682
Jason, a fearless sailor and explorer, returns to his home land of Thessaly after a long voyage to claim his rightful throne. He learns, however, that...
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Jason and the Argonauts
1960
The Criminal
6.427/41
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stas...
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The Criminal
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
1953
Mogambo
6.439/173
On a Kenyan safari, white hunter Victor Marswell has a love triangle with seductive American socialite Eloise Kelly and anthropologist Donald Nordley'...
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Mogambo
1970
Scrooge
6.816/163
A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.
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Scrooge
1954
The Black Knight
6.409/11
John, a blacksmith and swordsmith, is tutored at Camelot. As a commoner, he can't hope to win the hand of Lady Linet, daughter of the Earl of Yeonilan...
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The Black Knight
1956
Lust for Life
7.174/204
An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and frustr...
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Lust for Life
1956
The Weapon
6.026/19
A boy accidentally shoots a friend with a gun he found in the rubble of a destroyed building. The gun turns out to be a clue in a ten-year-old murder...
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The Weapon
1969
The Valley of Gwangi
7.123/159
A turn of the century wild west show struggling to make a living in Mexico comes into the possession of a tiny prehistoric horse. This leads to an exp...
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The Valley of Gwangi
1963
The Three Lives of Thomasina
6.806/49
Thomasina the cat brings a family together through her mysterious death and reappearance.
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The Three Lives of Thomasina
1956
The Man Who Never Was
7.011/94
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
1957
Boy on a Dolphin
5.708/36
Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolph...
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Boy on a Dolphin
1974
Mission: Monte Carlo
6.486/7
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys investigate crimes along the French Riviera.
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Mission: Monte Carlo
1953
Cosh Boy
5.464/14
Roy Walsh is a brash and enterprising thug who bullies his friends into subservience. He and his gang assault and rob people on the street, but things...
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Cosh Boy
1959
Third Man on the Mountain
6.733/30
Famous British mountaineer Winter wants to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A yo...
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Third Man on the Mountain
1961
Greyfriars Bobby
6.891/64
In Scotland 1865, An old shepherd and his little Skye terrier go to Edinburgh. But when the shepherd dies of pneumonia, the dog remains faithful to hi...
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Greyfriars Bobby
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!
1956
Tiger in the Smoke
6.688/8
In wartime, a young officer is killed during a raid to kill a German general at the house that used to belong to his grandmother. Before he dies he ta...
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Tiger in the Smoke
1967
Camelot
6.217/76
The plot of his illegitimate son Mordred to gain the throne, and Guinevere's growing attachment to Sir Lancelot, threatens to topple King Arthur and d...
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Camelot
1962
The Prince and the Pauper
7.2/36
In the London of 1537, two boys resembling each other exactly meet accidentally and exchange "roles" for a short while. After many adventures, the pri...
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The Prince and the Pauper
1972
The Amazing Mr. Blunden
6.659/22
Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she canno...
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
1960
The Angry Silence
7.229/35
When the union in his factory walks out on strike, a family man refuses to participate, risking the wrath — and retaliation — of his fellow workers.
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The Angry Silence
1962
I Thank a Fool
6.143/7
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
1961
The Singer Not the Song
6.421/19
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
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The Singer Not the Song
1971
Quest for Love
6.786/14
After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some si...
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Quest for Love
1952
A Killer Walks
6.5/2
Psychological thriller about an odd family with Harvey playing the older domineering son, who resents both his overbearing grandmother and his younger...
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A Killer Walks
1977
The Last Appointment!
10/1
Two jet-setting playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes. Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie.
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The Last Appointment!
1973
The Persuaders!
8.2/4
Two episodes of the TV series "The Persuaders" joined into a movie. Two playboys, Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde, investigate crimes along the French...
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The Persuaders!
1959
Perilous Assignment
10/1
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatric...
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Perilous Assignment
1969
The Bushbaby
6.5/2
The young daughter of a park ranger in Tanzania is distressed to learn that she and her father must permanently return to England, thus separating her...
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The Bushbaby
1966
Sky West and Crooked
5.625/12
A young, lonely, emotionally challenged teenage girl finds solace in burying dead animals after the sudden traumatic death of a childhood friend 10 ye...
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Sky West and Crooked
1953
The Flanagan Boy
6/19
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fight...
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The Flanagan Boy
1969
The File on Devlin
8/1
A young woman finds herself engulfed in Cold War intrigue when her father, a Nobel Prize-winning author, vanishes while travelling near the Russian bo...
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The File on Devlin
1958
The Gypsy and the Gentleman
5.778/9
A lusty Gypsy gold digger marries a Regency aristocrat, then learns he has no money.
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The Gypsy and the Gentleman
1956
The Extra Day
7.1/5
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's cur...
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The Extra Day
1948
A Piece of Cake
5.25/4
Set in the austere post–World War II British world of rationing, Cyril dreams up an ode to an imaginary character named Merlin Mound who can provide a...
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A Piece of Cake
1962
The Valiant
8.333/3
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniatu...
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The Valiant
1957
Robbery Under Arms
5.222/9
During the mid 1860s, brothers Dick and Jim Marston are drawn into a life of crime by their ex-convict father Ben and his friend, infamous cattlethief...
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Robbery Under Arms
1967
The Scorpio Letters
5/4
A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackm...
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The Scorpio Letters
1953
The Long Memory
6.7/20
An innocent man is released from prison after 12 years and tracks down the witnesses who lied about him in court.
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The Long Memory
1951
Pool of London
6.543/35
Jewel thieves, murder, and a manhunt swirl around a sailor off a cargo ship in post-war London.
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Pool of London
1949
The Chiltern Hundreds
6/5
Young Viscount Tony Pym wangles National Service leave on the pretext of standing as a Tory candidate for a local seat held by his family for generati...
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The Chiltern Hundreds
1951
High Treason
5.727/11
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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High Treason
1962
The 300 Spartans
6.438/146
The 300 Spartans is an account of the 480 B.C. Battle of Thermopylae, in which the Greek Spartan King Leonidis, played by Richard Egan, led a remarkab...
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The 300 Spartans
1960
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
6.333/30
England, 1890s. The brutal and embittered Marquis of Queensberry, who believes that his youngest son, Bosie, has an inappropriate relationship with th...
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The Trials of Oscar Wilde
1953
Rough Shoot
6.667/6
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hot...
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Rough Shoot
1957
Seven Waves Away
7.54/25
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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Seven Waves Away
1958
Tempest
6.5/8
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he c...
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Tempest
1969
Run a Crooked Mile
7.667/3
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wa...
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Run a Crooked Mile
1968
The Admirable Crichton
6.5/2
A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs aground on a South Pacific island. The usual hierarchy in an upper-class British family breaks...
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The Admirable Crichton
1969
Eye of the Cat
5.488/41
A man and his girlfriend plan to rob the mansion of the man's eccentric but wealthy aunt. However, the aunt keeps dozens of cats in her home, and the...
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Eye of the Cat
1972
Young Winston
6.231/52
This historical drama is an account of the early life of British politician Winston Churchill, including his childhood years, his time as a war corres...
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Young Winston
1967
Fitzwilly
6.132/34
When Miss Vicki's father dies, she becomes the world's greatest philanthropist. Unfortunately, she is flat broke! Her loyal butler, Claude Fitzwilliam...
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Fitzwilly
1950
Room to Let
7.5/2
In 1904 London, neighbors begin to suspect that a very strange man calling himself Dr. Fell may indeed be the famous Jack the Ripper.
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Room to Let
1949
Kind Hearts and Coronets
7.638/600
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
1967
The Long Duel
5.205/22
An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability of the Raj's north-west frontier. Despite his offi...
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The Long Duel
1950
The Happiest Days of Your Life
6.714/42
Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The s...
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The Happiest Days of Your Life
1952
The Happy Family
7.8/5
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
1948
Trouble in the Air
8/2
A radio commentator is sent to a village to broadcast a bell-ringing team. Meanwhile a property speculator tries to buy a plot of land for less than i...
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Trouble in the Air
1952
Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard
6.5/4
In this contemporary update of Frank H. Spearman's Western hero, Whispering Smith is now a sleuth who arrives in London on holiday, but is soon called...
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Whispering Smith vs. Scotland Yard
1982
I Remember Nelson
0/0
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story...
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I Remember Nelson
1978
Romeo and Juliet
7.571/7
Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil ha...
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Romeo and Juliet
1951
There Is Another Sun
6.5/2
Story of romance between a young boxer in fairground boxing booth and a chorus girl, and how 'Racer', a 'Wall of Death' rider in the same fairground,...
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There Is Another Sun
1954
The Million Pound Note
6.868/78
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...
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The Million Pound Note
1960
The World of Suzie Wong
6.593/43
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
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The World of Suzie Wong
1955
The Dam Busters
6.955/156
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 S...
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The Dam Busters
1958
The Naked Earth
10/1
Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested w...
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The Naked Earth
1949
Train of Events
6.273/11
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
1958
A Night to Remember
7.654/289
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. The disaster is portrayed largely from the perspect...
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A Night to Remember
1963
We Joined the Navy
6/10
Lt Commander Badger, RN: an exceptionally likeable fellow, the Artful Bodger has one besetting sin a shining honesty which compels him to say the righ...
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We Joined the Navy
1953
Love in Pawn
7.2/5
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him part...
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Love in Pawn
1955
Josephine and Men
6.4/5
The trouble with Josephine is that her ever-loving and over-sympathetic nature leads her to switch from needful men to even more needful men...
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Josephine and Men
1958
I Accuse!
6.643/7
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an ac...
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I Accuse!
1974
London Conspiracy
8.5/2
Life is never dull where Lord Brett Sinclair and Danny Wilde are concerned. But who would expect dire danger, hilarious though it may be, to face them...
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London Conspiracy
1951
Calling Bulldog Drummond
6.5/6
Bulldog Drummond leaves retirement to help a Scotland Yard Sergeant catch thieves armed with radar.
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Calling Bulldog Drummond
1958
Gideon's Day
6.4/31
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
1976
The Switch
0/0
Our heroes find themselves at the famed Cannes Film Festival to help foil a plot to murder a former American union boss cum government witness, Kyle S...
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The Switch
1954
Carrington V.C.
6.095/21
Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces two other charges that could finish his distingui...
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Carrington V.C.
1953
The Beggar's Opera
5.1/6
Adaptation of John Gay's 18th century opera, featuring Laurence Olivier as MacHeath and Hugh Griffith as the Beggar.
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The Beggar's Opera
1959
Solomon and Sheba
6.427/103
Near death, King David has a vision that his poet son, Solomon, should succeed him, rather than hot-headed Adonijah. Furious, Adonijah departs the cou...
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Solomon and Sheba
1953
Time Bomb
5.31/21
When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bomb expert Peter Lyncort to diffuse the situation,...
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Time Bomb
1958
The Two-Headed Spy
6.262/21
Wartime thriller with film noir elements based on a true story as written in A.P. Scotland's autobiography "The London Cage". The plot has greatly exa...
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The Two-Headed Spy
1952
His Excellency
7/4
A trade union official becomes governor of a British island colony.
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His Excellency
1952
I Believe in You
6.8/10
A drama about parole officers to follow the successful Ealing police story of "The Blue Lamp"(1950) . Various sub-plots follow the parole officers an...
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I Believe in You
1963
Cleopatra
7.049/842
Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar is murdered, she redirects her attentions to his g...
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Cleopatra
1952
Penny Princess
6.667/6
A tiny European country which for years has survived financially only through evading its bills and smuggling is finally facing bankruptcy, when a ric...
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Penny Princess
1993
The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
6/2
A sixty-minute documentary featuring William MacQuitty’s rare behind-the-scenes footage
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The Making of 'A Night to Remember'
1952
Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
4.318/22
The legendary Bela Lugosi as "the Vampire" teams up with Britain's much-loved "Mother Riley" in this hilarious comedy adventure. The Vampire plans to...
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Mother Riley Meets the Vampire
1951
Hell Is Sold Out
6/4
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
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Hell Is Sold Out
1951
Chelsea Story
7/1
Fletcher Gilchrist offers £100 to anyone who will break into a house. Journalist Mike Harvey accepts the bet but he and another man are caught when th...
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Chelsea Story
1949
Badger's Green
10/1
A company plans a massive development in the quiet village of Badger's Green, angering the existing inhabitants. It is eventually agreed that the outc...
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