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Heart's Desire (1935)
Character: Oliver Desmond
Richard Tauber, the great Austrian tenor, features in the story of a singing peasant from a Vienna beer-garden who conquers London, but at a cost...
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Such Is the Law (1930)
Character: Vivian Fairfax
British drama centered on a mother's desperate attempts to save her daughter's failing marriage as the film explores family loyalty, domestic conflict, and the social pressures surrounding divorce during the early 1930s.
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The American Prisoner (1929)
Character: Lieutenant Burnham
Devon, 1815. In the dying days of the Napoleonic Wars, a Danish-American lieutenant, Cecil Stark, is captured attempting to run supplies to the French. Imprisoned at Dartmoor, he and his fellow captives make a desperate escape attempt, in which Stark is shot. He is found by Grace Malherb, and the two fall in love while he convalesces on her family estate. But Grace's father is heavily indebted to the boorish Peter Norcot, whose price for forgiving the loan is Grace's hand in marriage....
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18 Minutes (1935)
Character: Jacques
A lion-tamer's partly innate and partly acquired attitude to other living beings - that they shall submit without question to his will - is applied with unseeing kindness to an orphan girl whom the lion tamer adopts.
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Love at Sea (1936)
Character: Richard 'Dick' Holmes
A comedy of mistaken identities aboard a cruise ship, in which several people are thrown together by the matrimonial magazine Get Together: Dick Holmes, a reporter looking for a story good enough to save his job; Betty Foster, hoping to investigate the man interested in marrying her aunt Emily; and Horace Godwin, the magazine's editor, who is trying to avoid becoming engaged to Penelope Hackworth-Pratt.
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The Hate Ship (1929)
Character: Arthur Wardell
A police captain poses as the valet of a friend who has been invited on a yacht cruise by a notorious schemer, whom the friend is afraid wants to murder him.
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Bolibar (1928)
Character: Lt. Gunther
Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.
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Dressed to Kill (1946)
Character: Inspector Hopkins
A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent purchasers of the boxes start to be murdered, Holmes and Watson investigate.
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The Macomber Affair (1947)
Character: Coroner
A big-game hunter takes a rich American couple on an African safari. Film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber".
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Eagle Squadron (1942)
Character: Lubbock
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Fascination (1931)
Character: Larry Maitland
Story of a vampish actress who comes between a happily married couple in this light-hearted melodrama.
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A Woman's Vengeance (1948)
Character: Leslie Blake
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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Sahara (1943)
Character: Marty Williams
In Libya, an American tank commander, along with a handful of Allied soldiers, tries to defend an isolated well with a limited supply of water from a German Afrika Korps battalion during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.
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Strictly Business (1931)
Character: David Plummet
The daughter of an American leather magnate is sent on a series of sightseeing tours in London with her father's business associate, but finds herself targeted by an opportunistic blackmailer.
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Tell England (1931)
Character: Edgar Gray Doe
In England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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London Blackout Murders (1943)
Character: George Sandleigh
A young girl, Mary Tillet, is forced to find a new place to live due to her London home being bombed during World War II. Her tobacconist landlord, Jack Rawling, tries to help her turn her new apartment into a home. Meanwhile the newspapers are reporting news of the "London Blackout Murders," a murder spree being committed against a ring of suspected Nazi spies, and Mary must determine if her kind landlord is an assassin.
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Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back (1947)
Character: Inspector Sanderson
Captain Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond investigates the murder of the C.I.D. man who had been tracing validity of rival claims to a large estate.
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Christmas Eve (1947)
Character: Dr. Doremus
The greedy nephew of eccentric Matilda Reid seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth, but she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion. Separate stories reveal Michael as a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann; Mario as a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America; Jonathan as a hard-drinking rodeo rider intent on a flirtatious social worker. Is there hope for Matilda?
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The Informer (1929)
Character: Francis McPhillip
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
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Dance Pretty Lady (1931)
Character: Maurice Avery
During the Edwardian era, a working-class ballet dancer begins a romance with a wealthy artist against a background of sharp disapproval.
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