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The Three Maxims (1936)
Character: Val
The Three Maxims are trapeze artists Pat (Anna Neagle), Toni (Tuilio Carminati) and Mac (Leslie Banks). After spending most of their careers in the small time, the threesome finally get their big chance in Paris, at which point Mac realizes he's in love with Pat.
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Called Back (1933)
Character: Anthony March
'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Sweet Devil (1938)
Character: Senor Florez
Two business partners are having woman trouble. One wants to marry his secretary and the other is set to marry a wealthy aristocrat. When the partner who wants to marry his secretary lets her go before he proposes to her, the woman confused woman tries to commit suicide by jumping into a river. Complications ensue.
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White Ensign (1934)
Character: N/A
'Santa Barbara. British battleship quells rebellion promoted by big business.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Anastasia (1953)
Character: Prince Bounine
Set 16 years after the execution of the Tsar and his family by the Bolsheviks. Exiles Prince Bounine and his friends come up with a scheme to con money by claiming an imposter to be Princess Anastasia who escaped the shootings. They find a poor woman who is close to suicide and both looks the part and speaks Russian. All they need to do is train her for her role, enough to convince other members of the ex-Royal household and family also in exile.
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Mrs Pym of Scotland Yard (1940)
Character: Henry Mencken
An eccentric woman detective investigates the murders of several people who visited the same medium.
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Julius Caesar (1938)
Character: Cassius
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 assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony
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The Prime Minister (1941)
Character: Count D'Orsay
A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and confidante of Queen Victoria.
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The Gambler and the Lady (1952)
Character: Richard Farning
A greedy but successful professional gambler wants to join the British Establishment when he falls in love with a blue-blooded lady. But first he must mend his ways and then dump his nightclub singer girl friend. She's not so easy to get rid of, neither is his past.
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The Water Gipsies (1932)
Character: Moss
Jane Bell has lived on an old barge moored in the Thames with her feckless father and sister ever since their mother died, but she would prefer her life to be more like the movies
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Jump for Glory (1937)
Character: Sir Timothy Haddon
A London cat burglar falls for the girlfriend of a stockbroker who used to be his partner.
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I Accuse! (1958)
Character: Judge at First Dreyfus Trial
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 act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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Spaceways (1953)
Character: General Hayes
A rocket engineer, responsible for sending a satellite into space, is accused of committing the most extraordinary crime.
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Juggernaut (1936)
Character: Capt. Arthur Halliday
An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
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