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Dangerous Comment (1940)
Character: Major Brett
A young pilot, annoyed at not being selected to take part in a raid on an enemy target, moans to his fiancée, who in turn chatters to a friend at a cocktail bar.
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The Shadow of Egypt (1924)
Character: Harold Westcott
A European adventurer tries to steal from an ancient Egyptian tomb, only to become afflicted by a mysterious curse...
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Wuthering Heights (1920)
Character: Heathcliff
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
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The Twelve Pound Look (1920)
Character: Harry Sims
A self-made man divorces his wife who becomes a typist and warns him his second wife may leave him too.
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Torn Sails (1920)
Character: Hugh Morgan
Based on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.
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Belphegor the Mountebank (1921)
Character: Belphegor
A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.
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Little Women (1917)
Character: Theodore Lawrence
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
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The Chinese Puzzle (1919)
Character: Sir Roger de la Haye
A Mandarin takes the blame when the wife of his friend's son steals secret papers.
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Let's Be Famous (1939)
Character: Albert Pinbright
An Irishman sets out to become famous as a singer on the radio. Due to a mix up he is instead entered as a contestant on a quiz show.
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Gas Light (1939)
Character: Inspector Rough
Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if means driving his wife insane.
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Return to Yesterday (1940)
Character: Sambourne
Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
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The W Plan (1930)
Character: President of Court Martial
A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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The Small Back Room (1949)
Character: Prof. Mair
As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 Britain, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.
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John Wesley (1954)
Character: Georgia Trustee
Rescued from a burning house as a child, John Wesley believes the experience marked him for a higher purpose, a 'brand from the burning'. The film follows Wesley's years at Oxford and as a clergyman, his disagreements with the church over the social position of the clergy, his mission to America, the founding of Methodism, and his bringing of the Gospel into the lives of ordinary people.
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The Stars Look Down (1940)
Character: Harry Nugent, MP
Davey Fenwick leaves his mining village on a university scholarship intent on returning to better support the miners against the owners. But he falls in love with Jenny who gets him to marry her and return home as local schoolteacher before finishing his degree.
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Fame Is the Spur (1947)
Character: Magistrate
A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.
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South Riding (1938)
Character: Alderman Snaith
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
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The Monkey's Paw (1948)
Character: Mr. Robert Trelawne
A curio dealer sells a monkey's paw that can grant the possessor three wishes but warns that disaster will follow.
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Character: Chatteris
Over several decades throughout the late 19th-century and early 20th-century, Mr Arthur Chipping rises from a shy, nervous teacher to the beloved, revered headmaster of Brookfield School, with his life and career shaped by his love for his wife and his unwavering dedication to his students.
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High Treason (1929)
Character: Ernest Stratton
The year is 1940 and tension is growing between the empires of United Europe and the Atlantic States. A bloody border incident puts both sides on high alert.
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The Phantom Light (1935)
Character: Dr. Carey
A series of mysterious deaths in a Welsh lighthouse lead locals to believe it is haunted. But the new keeper is sceptical.
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Frieda (1947)
Character: Merrick
An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape.
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The Lion Has Wings (1939)
Character: Head of Observer Corps
This early, influential propaganda film blends documentary and studio footage to show the valiant efforts of the Royal Air Force to defend the British people against the Nazis.
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Daybreak (1948)
Character: Governor
A mysterious barber hides a secret identity that eventually leads to tragedy.
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Atlantic Ferry (1941)
Character: George Burns
The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
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