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The Puppet Man (1921)
Character: Alcide le Beau
A disfigured man becomes a circus puppeteer and tries to destroy a waif's love.
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I'll Walk Beside You (1943)
Character: Dr. Stevenson
John meets Ann at a music shop where she works. Love blossoms briefly before John is called away to serve on his naval ship. John suffers severe memory loss when his ship is sunk and Ann believing John is dead throws herself into nursing - will they ever meet again?
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Die Stadt der Versuchung (1925)
Character: N/A
While a Russian refugee girl attempts to get work in Constantinople to support herself and her grandfather, a Turkish Bey attempts to make her his mistress.
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Spring Handicap (1937)
Character: Selby
A wife tries to prevent her husband, a miner, from gambling away the money he receives as an inheritance.
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The Divine Spark (1935)
Character: Paganini
Recounting the life and romantic struggles of the celebrated Italian opera composer Vincenzo Bellini. Set in 19th-century Naples, the story follows the young and ambitious Bellini as he struggles to establish himself in the world of classical music. Bellini falls deeply in love with Maddalena Fumaroli, the daughter of a high-ranking official. Her devotion and faith in his talent serve as the "divine spark" that drives him to compose his most famous works, including the opera Norma. Their romance faces stiff opposition from Maddalena’s father, who views a struggling musician as an unsuitable match for his daughter. To ensure Bellini’s success, Maddalena makes significant personal sacrifices, eventually leading to a poignant and tragic conclusion.
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The Vicar of Bray (1937)
Character: King Charles I
The Vicar of Bray is a satirical description of an individual fundamentally changing his principles to remain in ecclesiastical office as external requirements change around him. The religious upheavals in England from 1533 to 1559 and from 1633 to 1715 made it almost impossible for any individual to comply with the successive religious requirements of the state.
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The Prude's Fall (1925)
Character: Marquis de Rocqueville
A French captain persuades a rich widow to become his mistress, but it is a scheme to test her love.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Character: Robert Fraser
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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Claude Duval (1924)
Character: Lord Lionel Malyn
A Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.
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Before I Wake (1955)
Character: Mr. Driscoll
A woman travels to England to attend her parents' funeral. She is told by officials that they died of natural causes together, but she doesn't buy it. She comes to suspect that the nurse who took care of her parents was involved in their deaths, but since the nurse is well thought of in the town, no one believes her. What she doesn't know is that her parents' killer has selected her as the next victim
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The Dominant Sex (1937)
Character: Philip Carson
A mature comedy based on the hit stage play in which a loving but strained marriage is put to the test!
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The Gelignite Gang (1956)
Character: Mr. Crosby
A tense thriller that tears the lid off Soho's underworld and reveals the cunning organization behind a gang of safe-breakers who will stop at nothing, not even murder, to achieve their goals.
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The Rat (1937)
Character: Luis Stets
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 "reform" him. A complication is his lovely young ward Odile... murder and a grand courtoom scene ensue.
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Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
Character: De Calmet
Sir Percy is forced to return to France one last time, to rescue his wife from the clutches of the sinister Robespierre. It's clearly a trap, but nothing will keep the good Pimpernel from carrying out his mission.
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Victoria the Great (1937)
Character: Older Disraeli
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
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Behind the Mask (1958)
Character: Examiner
A newly qualified surgeon takes the blame for his drug addict colleague after the death their patient through neglect.
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The Love of Sunya (1927)
Character: The Outcast
A young woman at life's crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
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Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Character: R.A.M.C. Colonel
During World War I, English officer Thomas Edward 'T.E.' Lawrence sets out to unite and lead the diverse, often warring, Arab tribes to fight the Turks.
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Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
Character: Ivan Kalinsky
Drummond goes up against foreign agents who are trying to steal plans for a top-secret aircraft.
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I Give My Heart (1935)
Character: Choiseul
The Loves of Madame du Barry was the American title of the 1935 British operetta I Give My Heart, based on the stage musical The Du Barry. German actress Gitta Alpar stars as Jeanne, the young 18th century Parisian milliner who sleeps her way to the uppermost rungs of French aristocracy, emerging at last as the glamorous Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV (Owen Nares). Refusing to gloss over du Barry's sexual peccadilloes (as previous films with Norma Talmadge and Dolores del Rio had done), the film presents the "heroine" as a whore, pure and simple-or, on second thought, not so pure and simple! Particularly troublesome for American censors was a scene in which du Barry is depicted as a resident of a bawdy house. Otherwise, The Loves of Madame du Barry is standard historical-drama fare, allowing dozens of top European actors to play "dress-up" for 90 minutes.
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