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Robin Hood: The Movie (1955)
Character: Robin Hood
A classic Robin Hood tale, starring Richard Greene as Robin Hood and Bernadette O'Farrell as Maid Marian. Released in 1991 by ITC, it was edited together (quite seamlessly) from episodes of the ITC 1955 TV series "The Adventures of Robin Hood".
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Now Barabbas (1949)
Character: Tufnell
A prison governor deals with a variety of different prisoners, including a charming murderer.
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The Fighting O'Flynn (1949)
Character: Lord Philip Sedgemonth
A swashbuckling Irishman opposes French agents during the Napoleonic wars.
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Island of the Lost (1967)
Character: Josh MacRae
An anthropologist is shipwrecked with his family while on an expedition in search of an uncharted South Pacific island.
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Flying Fortress (1942)
Character: James 'Jim' Spence Jr.
Drama written in flames and told with the staccato of canon-fire!
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Rogue's March (1953)
Character: Capt. Thomas Garron
After being unjustly accused of spying, a British officer tries to redeem himself in India.
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Yellow Canary (1943)
Character: Lieutenant Commander Jim Garrick
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
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My Daughter Joy (1950)
Character: Larry
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
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Little Old New York (1940)
Character: Robert Fulton
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize his dream of a high-powered steamboat.
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The Black Castle (1952)
Character: Sir Ronald Burton / Richard Beckett
A Man investigates the disappearance of two of his friends who were the guests of a sinister Austrian count.
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Beyond the Curtain (1960)
Character: Captain Jim Kyle
A British flight officer plans to rescue an airline stewardess who is trapped in East Germany.
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Stanley and Livingstone (1939)
Character: Gareth Tyce
When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.
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Unpublished Story (1942)
Character: Bob Randall
Morale-boosting story released in the middle of World War II. A journalist uncovers a peace organisation at the centre of disreputable dealings.
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The Castle of Fu Manchu (1969)
Character: Nayland Smith
The evil mastermind Fu Manchu plots his latest scheme to basically freeze over the Earth's oceans with his diabolical new device. Opposing him is his arch-nemesis, Interpol's very British Nayland Smith.
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Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
Character: Count Alexei Orloff
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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Submarine Patrol (1938)
Character: Perry Townsend III
A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.
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The Bandits of Corsica (1953)
Character: Mario / Carlos
Siamese twins separated at birth retain a psychic link; each feels the other's pain and happiness.
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Forever Amber (1947)
Character: Lord Harry Almsbury
Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.
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The Desert Hawk (1950)
Character: Omar
A desert guerilla, with flashing scimitar, opposes a tyrannical prince and marries the caliph's daughter.
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I Was an Adventuress (1940)
Character: Paul Vernay
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists! They mingle with Europe's high society, always looking for the next wealthy victim to fleece with their fake jewellery scam... Then Tanya meets the dashing young Paul Vernay. At first she wants to rob him. Then she decides she wants to marry him and to leave her criminal past behind her. Her accomplices agree but only if she'll join them in one last, big swindle...
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The Movie Orgy (1968)
Character: Robin Hood (archive footage)
Clips from assorted television programs, B-movies, commercials, music performances, newsreels, bloopers, satirical short films and promotional and government films of the 1950s and 1960s are intercut together to tell a single story of various creatures and societal ills attacking American cities.
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The Little Princess (1939)
Character: Geoffrey Hamilton
A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.
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Gaiety George (1946)
Character: George Howard
The life of Irishman George Howard who buys an English theatre and strives to improve the standard of musical entertainment. Set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and loosely based on fact.
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Lorna Doone (1951)
Character: John Ridd
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
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Sword of Sherwood Forest (1960)
Character: Robin Hood
Robin of Loxley and his men stumble on a plot to overthrow Hubert Walter, King's Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury. The plotters, the Sheriff of Nottingham and the Earl of Newark, have set an ambush for Walter and Lady Marian Fitzwater. Will Robin get to them before it is too late?
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Tales from the Crypt (1972)
Character: Ralph Jason
Five people find themselves in a tomb. The Crypt keeper explains why they are there through a series of frightening stories. Based on the classic comic book.
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Character: Sir Henry Baskerville
On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds that Sherlock Holmes is there to investigate the local belief that his uncle was killed by a monster hound that has roamed the moors since 1650, and is likely to strike again at Sir Henry.
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That Dangerous Age (1949)
Character: Michael Barcleigh
The lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. In hopes of avoiding a scene, she passes her beau along to her stepdaughter, Monica.
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Contraband Spain (1955)
Character: Agente del Tesoro Lee Scott
An FBI agent goes to the French-Spanish border to round up some smugglers and counterfeiters after his brother is murdered.
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Captain Scarlett (1953)
Character: Capt. Carlos Scarlett
Captain Scarlett rescues Princess Maria from being abducted while travelling. She's not exactly grateful. He finds out that she is to be married to a man she doesn't like, so Captain Scarlet attempts to help her but winds up in prison for his efforts. He escapes and finally helps the reluctant bride who winds up joining Captain Scarlett and his sidekick and they become something along the lines of the three musketeers.
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My Lucky Star (1938)
Character: Larry Taylor
George Cabot Jr., the son of a department store owner, enrolls Kristina Nielsen, the store's sports clerk, at a university to use her as an advertisement for their fashion department. She falls for Larry Taylor, a teacher, and gets expelled.
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The Fan (1949)
Character: Lord Arthur Windermere
Lord Windermere appears to all – including his young wife Margaret – to be the perfect husband. The couple's happy marriage is placed at risk when he starts paying visits to a mysterious beautiful newcomer, Mrs. Erylnne, who is determined to make her entry into London's high society. Worse, the secret gets back to Margaret that Windermere has been giving Mrs. Erylnne large sums of money.
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Don't Take It to Heart (1944)
Character: Peter Hayward
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
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Kentucky (1938)
Character: Jack Dillon
Young lovers Jack and Sally are from families that compete to send horses to the 1938 Kentucky Derby, but during the Civil War, her family sided with the South while his sided with the North--and her Uncle Peter will have nothing to do with Jack's family.
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