Maurice Denham

Maurice Denham

Birthday: 1909-12-23

Place of Birth: Beckenham, Kent, England, UK

Biography: Maurice Denham OBE (23 December 1909 – 24 July 2002) was an English character actor who appeared in over 100 television programmes and films throughout his long career. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movies

Recluse
Recluse

A reconstruction of the possible events that might have led up to the real-life tragic case of the L...

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,0...

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The Day of the Jackal
The Day of the Jackal

An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill P...

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The Alphabet Murders
The Alphabet Murders

The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims...

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Animal Farm
Animal Farm

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

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Malta Story
Malta Story

Malta, 1942, during World War II. While the German air force is relentlessly bombing the island, a B...

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Night of the Demon
Night of the Demon

American professor John Holden arrives in London for a conference on parapsychology only to discover...

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Our Man in Havana
Our Man in Havana

Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter...

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Some Girls Do
Some Girls Do

A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the w...

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The Million Pound Note
The Million Pound Note

An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen wh...

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Torture Garden
Torture Garden

Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful...

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Operation Crossbow
Operation Crossbow

Allied agents infiltrate the Nazi rocket complex at Peenemunde in order to obtain their secrets and ...

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Paranoiac
Paranoiac

A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly g...

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Madness of the Heart
Madness of the Heart

A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly rea...

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The Night Caller
The Night Caller

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They ...

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H.M.S. Defiant
H.M.S. Defiant

Defiant's crew is part of a fleet-wide movement to present a petition of grievances to the Admiralty...

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The End of the River
The End of the River

A South American Indian is taken from his jungle home into the world of the White Man where he is fo...

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Love Song
Love Song

The life of a successful student couple at Cambridge University....

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Edward & Mrs. Simpson
Edward & Mrs. Simpson

While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis...

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84 Charing Cross Road
84 Charing Cross Road

When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literat...

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Barnacle Bill
Barnacle Bill

A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as '...

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Nicholas and Alexandra
Nicholas and Alexandra

Tsar Nicholas II, the inept last monarch of Russia, insensitive to the needs of his people, is overt...

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Sunday Bloody Sunday
Sunday Bloody Sunday

Recently divorced career woman Alex Greville begins a romantic relationship with glamorous mod artis...

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Countess Dracula
Countess Dracula

Hungary, XVII century. After being widowed, the old countess Elizabeth Nádasdy, of the Báthory linea...

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The Nanny
The Nanny

Nanny, a London family's live-in maid, brings morbid 10-year-old Joey back from the psychiatric ward...

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Two-Way Stretch
Two-Way Stretch

Three criminals plan to break out of prison the day before their release in order to carry out a dar...

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Doctor at Sea
Doctor at Sea

The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 a...

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Sink the Bismarck!
Sink the Bismarck!

The story of the breakout of the German battleship Bismarck—accompanied by the heavy cruiser Prinz E...

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23 Paces to Baker Street
23 Paces to Baker Street

Philip Hannon, a blind playwright living in London, overhears part of a conversation , that leads hi...

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Luther
Luther

A 16th-century clergyman's view breaks the Catholic Church apart....

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The Mark
The Mark

A man who served prison time for intent to molest a child tries to build a new life with the help of...

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The Purple Plain
The Purple Plain

An RAF airfield in Burma in 1945, during World War II. Canadian bomber pilot Bill Forrester is a bit...

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The Man Within
The Man Within

A man goes on the run from hardened smugglers....

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Hysteria
Hysteria

An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent ...

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Danger Route
Danger Route

Jonas Wilde, a British secret agent licensed to kill, wants to resign from his murderous work, but h...

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From a Far Country
From a Far Country

This heroic story follows the life of Karol Wojtyla, a Polish Roman catholic who ascends the throne ...

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Easy Money
Easy Money

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhap...

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Eight O'Clock Walk
Eight O'Clock Walk

Only a British cabdriver's (Richard Attenborough) wife (Cathy O'Donnell) and lawyer (Derek Farr) bel...

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Many Waters
Many Waters

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Power to Fly
Power to Fly

A BAFTA award nominated film made for the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company charting the history of aviation...

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All Passion Spent
All Passion Spent

his three-part miniseries begins with elderly Lady Slane (Wendy Hiller) sitting watchfully by the de...

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The History of the Cinema
The History of the Cinema

A humorously semi-factual account of the history of cinema....

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Simon and Laura
Simon and Laura

A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show....

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It's Not Cricket
It's Not Cricket

Kicked out of Army Intelligence, a pair of upper class twits set up as private detectives. The resul...

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The Greengage Summer
The Greengage Summer

Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in Franc...

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Time Bomb
Time Bomb

When a saboteur places an explosive device on a train full of sea mines, the authorities call for bo...

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The Spider and the Fly
The Spider and the Fly

"The Spider and the Fly is set in Paris during the cloud-cuckoo days before WW I. The storyline inte...

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Schalcken the Painter
Schalcken the Painter

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?...

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Midas Run
Midas Run

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold o...

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Bed
Bed

Surreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed, by Jim Cartwright....

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Poet's Pub
Poet's Pub

A loosely structured comedy allowing for a series of vignettes based around an ancient coaching inn....

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Love's Labour's Lost
Love's Labour's Lost

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to ha...

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The Blind Goddess
The Blind Goddess

Justice, the poets have it, is a blind goddess. Eric Portman stars as the lawyer defending a lord, H...

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The Blue Lagoon
The Blue Lagoon

In the Victorian period, two British children survive a shipwreck in the South Pacific. After days a...

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Jassy
Jassy

In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued ...

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Here Come the Huggetts
Here Come the Huggetts

The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Ro...

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Traveller's Joy
Traveller's Joy

A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returni...

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Look Before You Love
Look Before You Love

Romance in Rio for a girl of the embassy staff....

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Captain Boycott
Captain Boycott

Based on real events, this historical drama is set in 19th-century Ireland, when poverty-stricken te...

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Holiday Camp
Holiday Camp

The Huggett family go to a holiday camp, and get involved in crooked card players, a murderer on the...

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Shout at the Devil
Shout at the Devil

During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive...

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Invasion Quartet
Invasion Quartet

This British men-on-a-mission spoof set during World War II finds intrepid officer Bill Travers lead...

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The Captain's Table
The Captain's Table

A captain is promoted by his company from tramp steamers to their flagship passenger liner. Although...

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Scrapbook for 1933
Scrapbook for 1933

A BAFTA nominated documentary reviewing news, sporting and royal events from 1933....

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London Belongs to Me
London Belongs to Me

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 ...

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A Boy, a Girl and a Bike
A Boy, a Girl and a Bike

The lives of the members of a West Yorkshire cycling club are complicated by romantic entanglements ...

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Negatives
Negatives

A couple's bizarre romantic relationship is disrupted by the intrusion of a third person....

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A Desperate Case
A Desperate Case

A cautionary tale of a typical holiday suitcase. Crammed beyond its capacity, imperfectly fastened, ...

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The Trial of Klaus Barbie
The Trial of Klaus Barbie

Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice....

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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington

Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but...

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Mr. Love
Mr. Love

An fifty-year-old mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to roma...

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The Set Up
The Set Up

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situ...

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The Very Edge
The Very Edge

Tracey Lawrence is assautled in her home and is so affected by the traumatic event she now finds all...

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The Last Vampyre
The Last Vampyre

Sherlock Holmes investigates strange and tragic happenings in a village that appear linked to a man ...

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The Best House in London
The Best House in London

In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of street prostitutio...

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The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship
The Fool of the World and the Flying Ship

Based on a Russian folk tale. A proclamation went out through all the land that whosoever could buil...

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Once Upon a Dream
Once Upon a Dream

An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is ...

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Julia
Julia

At the behest of an old and dear friend, playwright Lillian Hellman undertakes a dangerous mission t...

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Daybreak
Daybreak

A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy....

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Long Past Glory
Long Past Glory

Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, includ...

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The Virgin and the Gypsy
The Virgin and the Gypsy

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1...

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The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter

Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue....

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The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer

The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man wh...

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The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue

Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult worl...

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Seeing in the Dark
Seeing in the Dark

Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck ...

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Nona
Nona

British production of Argentinan Roberto Cossa's play, set in Argentina in 1982. Nona is an elderly ...

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Robert Rylands' Last Journey
Robert Rylands' Last Journey

Loosely (and controversial) adaptation of the novel "All Souls" by Javier Marias. It tells the story...

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The Uncle
The Uncle

Gus is a seven-year-old uncle who struggles with the responsibility placed upon him when his nephew ...

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The Dog It Was That Died
The Dog It Was That Died

Rupert Purvis jumps off a bridge onto a dog, causing problems for Blair, his superior at MI5. Blair ...

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Downfall
Downfall

Harold Crossley is a barrister and respected intellectual, but proves no match to his scheming young...

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Ali and the Camel
Ali and the Camel

Eight part serial. When Ali's father, a diver, has to go to hospital, Ali is offered money by a Prof...

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Take My Life
Take My Life

When her husband is wrongly accused of murder, an opera singer sets out to find the real culprit....

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The 7th Dawn
The 7th Dawn

Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Se...

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Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar

The play by William Shakespeare....

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Don't Ever Leave Me
Don't Ever Leave Me

Elderly crook Harry Denton, when challenged to prove he is "not past it," decides to kidnap Sheila F...

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The Long Duel
The Long Duel

An idealistic colonial police officer is sent to capture a rebel leader who threatens the stability ...

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The Heroes of Telemark
The Heroes of Telemark

Set in German-occupied Norway, resistance fighter Knut Straud enlists the reluctant physicist Rolf P...

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Street Corner
Street Corner

A pseudo-documentary focusing on the daily work and routine of women police officers built around th...

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Tears in the Rain
Tears in the Rain

When Casey Cantrell's mother died, her last wish was that her daughter would give a letter to Lord R...

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The Net
The Net

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a gr...

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After the Fox
After the Fox

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold....

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Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...

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Monsignor Quixote
Monsignor Quixote

Sir Alec Guiness stars with Leo McKern in the story of a friendship between a Catholic priest and a ...

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Landfall
Landfall

A British coastal command pilot is charged with neglect when it is thought that he has sunk a Britis...

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A Touch of Love
A Touch of Love

Intellectually driven doctoral student Rosamund Stacey, while undertaking graduate work at the Briti...

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Blanche Fury
Blanche Fury

Penniless governess Blanche Fullerton takes a job at the estate of her rich relations, the Fury fami...

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My Brother's Keeper
My Brother's Keeper

War hero turned villain George Martin escapes from the police, but he is handcuffed to a naive young...

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Fame Is the Spur
Fame Is the Spur

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately beco...

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A Slight Ache
A Slight Ache

In the breakfast room of a country house Flora and Edward are placidly finishing off breakfast, comf...

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They Made Me a Fugitive
They Made Me a Fugitive

After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge....

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The Hope and the Glory
The Hope and the Glory

Sam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but...

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The Upturned Glass
The Upturned Glass

A neurosurgeon relates to his students in medical school a story about an affair he had with a marri...

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Piping Hot
Piping Hot

An animated film about the history and use of hot water....

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Memento Mori
Memento Mori

Several elderly friends and acquaintances in 1950s London are disturbed to receive mysterious teleph...

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The King's Breakfast
The King's Breakfast

A king misses the butter on his slice of bread....

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Martin Luther, Heretic
Martin Luther, Heretic

Martin Luther inspires a breakaway from the Roman Catholic church and is the founder of Protestantis...

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Miranda
Miranda

A young married physician discovers a mermaid, and gives into her request to be taken to see London....

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Checkpoint
Checkpoint

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ens...

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No Highway in the Sky
No Highway in the Sky

James Stewart plays aeronautical engineer Theodore Honey, the quintessential absent-minded professor...

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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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Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to c...

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The Spanish Gardener
The Spanish Gardener

Harrington Brande, a British diplomat who recently broke up with his wife, is stationed in a small c...

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Go as You Please in Britain
Go as You Please in Britain

Traces the development of the Freightliner services and introduces customers with differing freight ...

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The Chain
The Chain

Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving da...

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The Legend of Young Dick Turpin
The Legend of Young Dick Turpin

When a rapacious new landlord threatens to evict him, seize his horse, and leave him penniless, the ...

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For Better, For Worse
For Better, For Worse

Married to your television? This cartoon gives you an opportunity to re-evaluate your relationship w...

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Quartet
Quartet

Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alie...

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I Can Destroy the Sun
I Can Destroy the Sun

Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and u...

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From Chekhov with Love
From Chekhov with Love

Based on Anton Chekhov's short story, "About Love". Starring John Gielgud as Chekhov....

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