David Niven

David Niven

Birthday: 1910-03-01

Place of Birth: London, England, UK

Biography: James David Graham Niven (1 March 1910 – 29 July 1983), known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther. He was awarded the 1958 Academy Award for Best Actor in Separate Tables.

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The Pink Panther
The Pink Panther

The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Ins...

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Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers
Hollywood's Funniest All-Star Bloopers

William Shatner, Liz Taylor and many more stars blow lines, lose their pants and more in this hilari...

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Eye of the Devil
Eye of the Devil

A French nobleman deserts his wife because of an ancient family secret....

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Wuthering Heights
Wuthering Heights

The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns fro...

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Bonjour Tristesse
Bonjour Tristesse

A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, b...

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Around the World in 80 Days
Around the World in 80 Days

Based on the famous book by Jules Verne the movie follows Phileas Fogg on his journey around the wor...

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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
Sir John Mills' Moving Memories

A film biography with a difference, Sir John Mills' Moving Memories charts the life of one of Britai...

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Death on the Nile
Death on the Nile

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on b...

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The Guns of Navarone
The Guns of Navarone

A team of allied saboteurs are assigned an impossible mission: infiltrate an impregnable Nazi-held i...

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Where the Spies Are
Where the Spies Are

A local doctor is recruited as a cold war spy to fulfill a very important secret mission in the Midd...

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No Deposit, No Return
No Deposit, No Return

Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for...

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Murder by Death
Murder by Death

Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a b...

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Dodsworth
Dodsworth

A retired auto manufacturer and his wife take a long-planned European vacation only to find that the...

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The Road to Hong Kong
The Road to Hong Kong

When Chester accidentally memorises and destroys the only copy of a secret Russian formula for a new...

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Bluebeard's 8th Wife
Bluebeard's 8th Wife

American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broke ...

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Casino Royale
Casino Royale

Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thin...

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Enchantment
Enchantment

Roland Dane finally retires to the house he was brought up in. Lost in thoughts of his lost love Lar...

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The Impossible Years
The Impossible Years

The eldest daughter of a professor of psychology at a large conservative university causes havoc, an...

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The Brain
The Brain

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a speci...

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Trail of the Pink Panther
Trail of the Pink Panther

The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspecto...

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55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking

Diplomats, soldiers and other representatives of a dozen nations fend off the siege of the Internati...

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A Matter of Life and Death
A Matter of Life and Death

A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping ...

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Bedtime Story
Bedtime Story

Benson is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content wi...

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The Way Ahead
The Way Ahead

A mismatched collection of conscripted civilians find training tough under Lieutenant Jim Perry and...

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Bachelor Mother
Bachelor Mother

Polly Parrish, a clerk at Merlin's Department Store, is mistakenly presumed to be the mother of a fo...

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Escape to Athena
Escape to Athena

During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They...

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Curse of the Pink Panther
Curse of the Pink Panther

Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for hi...

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Candleshoe
Candleshoe

When ex-con artist Harry claims that a secret treasure is hidden inside Candleshoe, an English estat...

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The Love Lottery
The Love Lottery

Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pres...

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Separate Tables
Separate Tables

The lives of a disparate group of unfulfilled people converge at a small, seaside English hotel in t...

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Carrington V.C.
Carrington V.C.

Major Charles Carrington (David Niven) is arrested for taking £125 from the base safe. He also faces...

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The Perfect Marriage
The Perfect Marriage

A couple celebrate their tenth anniversary by quarreling their way to divorce court....

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United States
United States

Military training film, narrated by David Niven during his time away from Hollywood to serve in the ...

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The Prisoner of Zenda
The Prisoner of Zenda

A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who take...

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Beloved Enemy
Beloved Enemy

In 1921, British Lord Athleigh arrives in Dublin with his daughter, Helen, to engage in peace talks....

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The Charge of the Light Brigade
The Charge of the Light Brigade

In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful...

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Rose Marie
Rose Marie

An incognito opera singer falls for a policeman who has been assigned to track down her fugitive bro...

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The First of the Few
The First of the Few

This 1942 fictionalized biopic chronicles the true story of how two of the most remarkable men in av...

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The Dawn Patrol
The Dawn Patrol

In 1915 France, Major Brand commands the 39th Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. The young airmen g...

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The Best of Enemies
The Best of Enemies

During World War II, a plane full of RAF fighter crashes in the Ethiopian desert and they are met up...

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Rough Cut
Rough Cut

Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels....

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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Drama critic Larry Mackay, his wife Kate and their four sons move from their crowded Manhattan apart...

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The Bishop's Wife
The Bishop's Wife

An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new c...

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My Man Godfrey
My Man Godfrey

The eccentric Bullock household again need a new butler. Daughter Irene encounters bedraggled Godfre...

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The Sea Wolves
The Sea Wolves

A German spy is passing on information about the location of Allied ships in the neutral harbor of G...

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Dinner at the Ritz
Dinner at the Ritz

The daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's co...

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The Toast of New Orleans
The Toast of New Orleans

Snooty opera singer meets a rough-and-tumble fisherman in the Louisiana bayous, but this fisherman c...

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Thank You, Jeeves!
Thank You, Jeeves!

Jeeves tries to keep his young master out of trouble....

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The Moon Is Blue
The Moon Is Blue

Two aging playboys are both after the same attractive young woman, but she fends them off by claimin...

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Lady L
Lady L

Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and ...

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Ask Any Girl
Ask Any Girl

Meg is a young wide-eyed girl who is endures many calamities in her search for a husband in modern-d...

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Eternally Yours
Eternally Yours

Anita, engaged to solid Don Barnes, is swept off her feet by magician Arturo. Before you can say pre...

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Prudence and the Pill
Prudence and the Pill

Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin f...

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Happy Anniversary
Happy Anniversary

An accidental slip reveals that a happily married couple were intimate before marriage....

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Vampira
Vampira

In order to revive his long hibernating bride, Vampira, Count Dracula takes blood samples from sever...

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The King's Thief
The King's Thief

An ex-soldier turned highwayman uncovers a plot to take control of England from King Charles II....

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The Extraordinary Seaman
The Extraordinary Seaman

Marooned sailors discover a World War II ship haunted by its late captain....

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Oh, Men! Oh, Women!
Oh, Men! Oh, Women!

Arthur Turner's bored housewife Mildred seeks psychiatric help from Dr. Alan Coles who also has his ...

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Appointment with Venus
Appointment with Venus

At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. ...

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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious b...

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The Lady Says No
The Lady Says No

The feminist author of a national best-seller titled The Lady Says No meets a sexist magazine photog...

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Paper Tiger
Paper Tiger

A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. H...

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The Other Love
The Other Love

Seriously ill, concert pianist Karen Duncan is admitted to a Swiss sanitorium. Despite being attract...

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The Adventures of Errol Flynn
The Adventures of Errol Flynn

A documentary about the life of Errol Flynn, with recollections from friends and family....

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Happy Go Lovely
Happy Go Lovely

Rich bachelor B.G. Bruno, the head of a successful greeting-card company in Scotland, is essentially...

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The Real Glory
The Real Glory

Fort Mysang, southern Philippine Islands, under US rule, 1906. A small group of army officers and na...

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Four Men and a Prayer
Four Men and a Prayer

The sons of a disgraced British officer try to clear his name....

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The Many Faces of Dracula
The Many Faces of Dracula

Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula...

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The Birds and the Bees
The Birds and the Bees

On an ocean voyage, a card shark and her father cheat a naive man out of his money. Things take a tw...

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The Little Hut
The Little Hut

Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best frie...

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The Statue
The Statue

Bolt, a British linguist, develops a universal language, so he's a sudden sensation and receives a N...

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Raffles
Raffles

Man about town and First Class cricketer A.J. Raffles keeps himself solvent with daring robberies. M...

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The Elusive Pimpernel
The Elusive Pimpernel

A British aristocrat goes in disguise to France to rescue people from The Terror of the guillotine....

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Soldiers Three
Soldiers Three

Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India....

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Before Winter Comes
Before Winter Comes

Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual in...

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A Kiss for Corliss
A Kiss for Corliss

After a brief encounter with the romantic and thrice divorced Kenneth Marquis, Corliss Archer decide...

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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Bonnie Prince Charlie

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

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A Kiss in the Dark
A Kiss in the Dark

Eric Phillips's manager buys him a building with tenants, one of whom catches his eye....

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Magnificent Doll
Magnificent Doll

While packing her belongings in preparation of evacuating the White House because of the impending B...

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A Feather in Her Hat
A Feather in Her Hat

After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identit...

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We Have Our Moments
We Have Our Moments

A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen ...

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Three Blind Mice
Three Blind Mice

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husb...

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Happy Ever After
Happy Ever After

The whole village mourns when General O'Leary, owner of a hunting estate in South Ireland, is killed...

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Guns of Darkness
Guns of Darkness

Committed pacifist Tom Jordan's decision to help former President Rivera escape a military coup is a...

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King, Queen, Knave
King, Queen, Knave

Based on a novel by Vladimir Nabokov, this English-language satirical drama details the experiences ...

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Without Regret
Without Regret

In order to save herself while in China, a woman marries a young drifter and is able to return to En...

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Palm Springs
Palm Springs

A gambler in need of cash plots a romance between his daughter and a wealthy Englishman. The daughte...

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Conquered City
Conquered City

Filmed in 1962 but not released in the US until 1966 (with 20 of its 108 minutes removed), Conquered...

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ABBA in Switzerland
ABBA in Switzerland

ABBA star in their first European TV special, recorded on location in the Swiss Alps. Also featuring...

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Splendor
Splendor

When Brighton Lorrimore returns home with his new bride, Phyllis, his family makes their disappointm...

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Barbary Coast
Barbary Coast

Mary Rutledge arrives from the east, finds her fiancé dead, and goes to work at the roulette wheel o...

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Better Late Than Never
Better Late Than Never

Two men show up claiming to be the grandfather of a child heiress....

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Rat Pack
Rat Pack

In the 1950s, a small group of artists monopolized the attention of the cameras and the public. Fran...

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There Goes the Bride
There Goes the Bride

A businessman's daughter runs away from an arranged marriage, only to find herself penniless and sus...

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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger

Martin Scorsese presents this very personal and insightful new feature-length documentary about Brit...

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Roger Moore: A Matter of Class
Roger Moore: A Matter of Class

The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews wit...

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Scotland Yard - the Golden Thread
Scotland Yard - the Golden Thread

1971 NBC documentary by Frank Cvitanovich profiling the various elements of the Metropolitan Police,...

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Gregory Peck: His Own Man
Gregory Peck: His Own Man

Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled ...

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Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty

Fletcher Christian successfully leads a revolt against the ruthless Captain Bligh on the HMS Bounty....

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The Canterville Ghost
The Canterville Ghost

The ghost of Sir Simon Canterville has been roaming his castle searching in vain for a descendant wh...

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Breakdowns of 1949
Breakdowns of 1949

Flubs and bloopers that occurred on the set of some of the major Warner Bros. pictures of 1949....

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Bogart: The Untold Story
Bogart: The Untold Story

Stephen H. Bogart narrates the rise to fame of his father, Humphrey Bogart through the use of film c...

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Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)
Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Fr...

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Formula 1 - Speed fever
Formula 1 - Speed fever

Interspersed with interviews that the actress Sydne Rome gives to some of the most famous "Formula 1...

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The Silken Affair
The Silken Affair

An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree....

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Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker

This documentary, hosted by actor Burgess Meredith, explores the life and career of movie director O...

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The Remarkable Rocket
The Remarkable Rocket

An animated version of the Oscar Wilde story about a conceited firework rocket, whose pride hides hi...

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All Eyes on Sharon Tate
All Eyes on Sharon Tate

Promotional short film on an aspiring young actress Sharon Tate and her first film Eye of the Devil ...

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The Shortest Day
The Shortest Day

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...

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Cleopatra
Cleopatra

The queen of Egypt barges the Nile and flirts with Mark Antony and Julius Caesar....

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Gorilla
Gorilla

This fascinating film tells the story of one man's struggle to protect a small population of gorilla...

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The All-Star Christmas Show
The All-Star Christmas Show

This 1958 Christmas spectacular was produced by the USO for the entertainment of troops stationed ov...

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Lionpower from MGM
Lionpower from MGM

"Lionpower from MGM" (1967) is an exciting 60's promotional short subject, which showcases MGM's rel...

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