Leo Genn

Leo Genn

Leo John Genn (9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. Signified by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television, and radio; often playing aristocratic or gentlemanly, sophisticate roles. Born to a Jewish family in London, Genn was educated as a lawyer and was a practicing barrister until after World War II, in which he served in the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant-Colonel. He began his acting career at The Old Vic and made his film debut in 1935, starring in a total of 85 screen roles until his death in 1978. For his portrayal of Petronius in the 1951 Hollywood epic Quo Vadis, he received an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leo Genn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

  • Title: Leo Genn
  • Popularity: 4.642
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1905-08-09
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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  • Also Known As: Leo John Genn
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Leo Genn Movies

  • 1968
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    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    6.1 1968 HD

    In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry Jekyll, a scientist experimenting to reveal the...

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  • 1956
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    Moby Dick

    Moby Dick

    7 1956 HD

    In 1841, young Ishmael signs up for service aboard the Pequod, a whaler sailing out of New Bedford. The ship is under the command of Captain Ahab, a...

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  • 1965
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    Ten Little Indians

    Ten Little Indians

    6.3 1965 HD

    Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion. When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in...

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  • 1951
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    Quo Vadis

    Quo Vadis

    7.078 1951 HD

    After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical...

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  • 1962
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    The Longest Day

    The Longest Day

    7.583 1962 HD

    The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the...

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  • 1963
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    55 Days at Peking

    55 Days at Peking

    7 1963 HD

    Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the International Compound in Peking during the 1900 Boxer...

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  • 1955
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    1 1955 HD

    An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.

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  • 1948
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    The Velvet Touch

    The Velvet Touch

    6.1 1948 HD

    After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.

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  • 1944
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    The Way Ahead

    The Way Ahead

    6.4 1944 HD

    A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and Sergeant Ned Fletcher when they are called up to...

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  • 1946
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    Green for Danger

    Green for Danger

    6.8 1946 HD

    In the midst of Nazi air raids, a postman dies on the operating table at a rural hospital. But was the death accidental?

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  • 1970
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    The Bloody Judge

    The Bloody Judge

    4.9 1970 HD

    Horror icon Christopher Lee, who worked with Jess Franco on several occasions, plays Lord George Jeffreys, the infamous and merciless judge and Lord...

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  • 1966
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    Circus of Fear

    Circus of Fear

    5.2 1966 HD

    A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.

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  • 1948
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    The Snake Pit

    The Snake Pit

    7 1948 HD

    Virginia Cunningham is confused upon finding herself in a mental hospital, with no memory of her arrival at the institution. Tormented by delusions...

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  • 1950
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    The Wooden Horse

    The Wooden Horse

    6.7 1950 HD

    True story of three British POWs and their attempt to escape from Nazi Germany

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  • 1952
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    The Magic Box

    The Magic Box

    6.3 1952 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    The Silent One

    The Silent One

    7.2 1973 HD

    Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another...

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  • 1961
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    Life of Adolf Hitler

    Life of Adolf Hitler

    7.1 1961 HD

    Carefully chronicling in great detail the early years of Hitler's political life until his fall as the leader of Germany, this archive-footage...

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  • 1952
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    Plymouth Adventure

    Plymouth Adventure

    5.4 1952 HD

    During the Mayflower pilgrims' long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on their way to America, Captain Christopher Jones falls in love with William...

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  • 1953
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    The Red Beret

    The Red Beret

    6.9 1953 HD

    Steve MacKendrick resigns from the US Army after causing the needless death of a fellow officer. Wanting to serve in the war, he enlists as a...

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  • 1971
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    Die Screaming Marianne

    Die Screaming Marianne

    6 1971 HD

    After their parents divorce, one daughter lives with her mother in England while the other lives with her father in Portugal. After the untimely...

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  • 1960
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    Escape by Night

    Escape by Night

    6.8 1960 HD

    In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian...

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  • 1958
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    The Steel Bayonet

    The Steel Bayonet

    5.2 1958 HD

    Tunis, 1943. Battle-weary troops of Company C have orders to occupy a derelict Tunisian farmhouse. They are to establish an artillery observation...

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  • 1953
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    Personal Affair

    Personal Affair

    6.2 1953 HD

    A British girl disappears for three days after a frank talk with the wife of a Latin teacher she loves.

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  • 1960
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    Mrs. Miniver

    Mrs. Miniver

    1 1960 HD

    A British housewife faces up to the harsh realities of the Second World War.

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  • 1953
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    The Girls of Pleasure Island

    The Girls of Pleasure Island

    5 1953 HD

    In the spring of 1945, World War II is coming to a close. Roger Halyard, a dignified, strait-laced Englishmen, lives on a South Sea atoll with his...

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  • 1955
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    Lady Chatterley's Lover

    Lady Chatterley's Lover

    5.9 1955 HD

    Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this...

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  • 1954
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    The Green Scarf

    The Green Scarf

    5.3 1954 HD

    A deaf, dumb and blind man, Jacques Vauthier (Kieron Moore), confesses to committing a murder, apparently without motive. He depends on his defense...

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  • 1952
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    24 Hours of a Woman's Life

    24 Hours of a Woman's Life

    4.7 1952 HD

    A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.

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  • 1958
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    I Accuse!

    I Accuse!

    6.1 1958 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Connecting Rooms

    Connecting Rooms

    6 1970 HD

    Explores the relationships shared by the residents of a seedy boarding house in London. Based on the play The Cellist, by Marion Hart.

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  • 1958
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    Tank Force!

    Tank Force!

    6 1958 HD

    During World War II, members of a British tank unit in northern Africa are captured and held prisoners by Germans.

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  • 1937
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    The Rat

    The Rat

    7.5 1937 HD

    Jean Boucheron the cat burglar is the darling of the Montmartre whores--and catches the eye of slumming socialite Zelia de Chaumont, who decides to...

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  • 1944
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    Tunisian Victory

    Tunisian Victory

    6.2 1944 HD

    Documentary made by the U.S. Army Signal Corps after the North African campaign.

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  • 1950
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    The Miniver Story

    The Miniver Story

    6 1950 HD

    The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and...

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  • 1960
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    Too Hot to Handle

    Too Hot to Handle

    4.5 1960 HD

    A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner...

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  • 1975
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    You Are Free, Dr. Korczak

    You Are Free, Dr. Korczak

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1944
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    The Return of the Vikings

    The Return of the Vikings

    1 1944 HD

    British war documentary

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  • 1950
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    No Place for Jennifer

    No Place for Jennifer

    5.8 1950 HD

    A young girl goes through the trauma of her parent's divorce and seperate re-marriages.

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  • 1948
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    London Belongs to Me

    London Belongs to Me

    6.7 1948 HD

    Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his...

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  • 1937
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    When Thief Meets Thief

    When Thief Meets Thief

    5 1937 HD

    A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.

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  • 1938
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    Kate Plus Ten

    Kate Plus Ten

    1 1938 HD

    Kate is secretary to Lord Flamborough. But she is also leader of a criminal gang. Can Mike Pemberton catch her red-handed?

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  • 1972
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    Endless Night

    Endless Night

    6.058 1972 HD

    Shiftless dreamer Michael Rogers fantasizes about a lifestyle above his means and marries a wealthy, young girl who just came of age. They hire a...

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  • 1974
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    Frightmare

    Frightmare

    6.3 1974 HD

    In 1957, Dorothy and Edmund Yates were committed to an institution for the criminally insane, she for acts of murder and cannibalism and he for...

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  • 1973
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    The MacKintosh Man

    The MacKintosh Man

    6.1 1973 HD

    A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate...

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  • 1950
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    I Went Back

    I Went Back

    6 1950 HD

    Leo Genn revisits some of the cities he served in during WWII.

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  • 1953
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    Elizabeth Is Queen

    Elizabeth Is Queen

    7 1953 HD

    This spectacular 1953 documentary, released in cinemas, records the events of Elizabeth II's coronation day in glorious colour.

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  • 1958
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    The Immortal Land

    The Immortal Land

    1 1958 HD

    Ancient Greece, contrasted with modern Greece.

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  • 1950
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    The Undefeated

    The Undefeated

    1 1950 HD

    Looking at how soldiers injured and disabled during WWII would be helped to live as normal a life as possible in the post war years.

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  • 1940
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    Contraband

    Contraband

    6.9 1940 HD

    When a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British wartime contraband control, its captain becomes involved...

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  • 1940
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    Girl in the News

    Girl in the News

    6.5 1940 HD

    An elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later...

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  • 1964
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    The Delhi Way

    The Delhi Way

    5.7 1964 HD

    A documentary about Delhi.

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  • 1940
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    Ten Days in Paris

    Ten Days in Paris

    7.5 1940 HD

    Bob Stevens awakens in a hospital with a gunshot wound to his head, and is told that he has been in Paris for ten days. However, this cannot be true...

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  • 1956
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    Beyond Mombasa

    Beyond Mombasa

    7.1 1956 HD

    An American travels to East Africa, where he tries to find out how his brother died.

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  • 1944
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    Attack: The Battle for New Britain

    Attack: The Battle for New Britain

    6 1944 HD

    War - Documentary film depicting the attack by Allied forces on the Japanese strong-holds of Arawe Beach and Cape Gloucester, New Britain, in the...

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  • 1944
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    Henry V

    Henry V

    6.6 1944 HD

    In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

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  • 1955
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    The Titanic Incident

    The Titanic Incident

    1 1955 HD

    A married pair of gamblers try to fleece a wealthy British nobleman while sailing on the Titanic's fateful cruise, but she begins to have misgivings...

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  • 1936
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    Accused

    Accused

    1 1936 HD

    Tony and his dance partner/wife Gaby headline a Paris musical. Tony becomes the unwilling target for the attentions of performer Yvette. She is later...

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  • 1938
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    Dangerous Medicine

    Dangerous Medicine

    1 1938 HD

    After a young girl is jailed for a murder she didn't commit, a doctor helps her escape to capture the real killer and clear her name.

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  • 1947
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    Mourning Becomes Electra

    Mourning Becomes Electra

    6.3 1947 HD

    Near the end of the Civil War, the proud residents of Mannon Manor await the return of shipping tycoon Ezra Mannon and son Orin. Meanwhile...

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  • 1942
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    The Young Mr. Pitt

    The Young Mr. Pitt

    5.4 1942 HD

    This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.

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  • 1971
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    A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

    A Lizard in a Woman's Skin

    6.5 1971 HD

    Carol Hammond, daughter of a politician, has vivid nightmares involving sex orgies and LSD. In a dream, she murders a neighbor she envies and wakes...

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  • 1936
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    The Dream Doctor

    The Dream Doctor

    6.5 1936 HD

    A British drama film directed by Widgey R. Newman

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  • 1964
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    The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

    The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

    5.8 1964 HD

    The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

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  • 1945
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    Caesar and Cleopatra

    Caesar and Cleopatra

    6.1 1945 HD

    The aging Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen. Adapted by George Bernard Shaw from his own play.

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  • 1945
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    Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2

    Famous Scenes from Shakespeare No. I: Julius Caesar - The Forum Scene - Act III. Scene 2

    1 1945 HD

    The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to...

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  • 1966
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    Khartoum

    Khartoum

    6.2 1966 HD

    English General Charles George Gordon is appointed military governor of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan by the Prime Minister. Ordered to evacuate Egyptians...

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  • 1940
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    French Communique

    French Communique

    1 1940 HD

    Part of BFI collection "If War Should Come."

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  • 1946
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    Theirs Is the Glory

    Theirs Is the Glory

    6.7 1946 HD

    Re-enactment of World War 2 Battle of Arnhem using the survivors from the battle.

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  • 1943
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    The Bells Go Down

    The Bells Go Down

    6.8 1943 HD

    Comedian Tommy Trinder plays it straight in this tribute to the wartime AFS (Auxiliary Fire Service). The dedicated band who kept the fires of London...

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  • 1939
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    Pygmalion

    Pygmalion

    6.993 1939 HD

    When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months'...

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  • 1940
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    Law and Disorder

    Law and Disorder

    1 1940 HD

    On the eve of WWII a young defence lawyer, assisted by his wife, invaigles his way into a gang of foreign saboteurs. Comedy thriller, ably executed...

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  • 1962
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    The Merv Griffin Show

    The Merv Griffin Show

    5.3 1962 HD

    The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC,...

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  • 1971
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    The Persuaders!

    The Persuaders!

    7.633 1971 HD

    An English aristocrat and an American millionaire come together to tackle crime.

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  • 1951
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    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    Hallmark Hall of Fame

    8.8 1951 HD

    Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The...

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  • 1962
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    The Virginian

    The Virginian

    6.429 1962 HD

    The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It...

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  • 1950
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    Your Show of Shows

    Your Show of Shows

    5.5 1950 HD

    Your Show of Shows was a live 90-minute variety show that was broadcast weekly in the United States on NBC, from February 25, 1950, until June 5,...

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  • 1963
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    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre

    5.2 1963 HD

    Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre is an American anthology series, sponsored by Chrysler Corporation, which ran on NBC from 1963 through 1967....

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  • 1968
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    The Expert

    The Expert

    10 1968 HD

    The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a...

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  • 1961
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    The Defenders

    The Defenders

    6.2 1961 HD

    The Defenders is an American courtroom drama series . It starred E. G. Marshall and Robert Reed as father-and-son defense attorneys who specialized...

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  • 1955
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    Screen Director's Playhouse

    Screen Director's Playhouse

    6.5 1955 HD

    Presented by Eastman Kodak, this show was a series of original scripts directed by acclaimed directors and featuring well-known performers. The...

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