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The Garden of Resurrection (1919)
Character: Cruickshank
A rich mixed race woman is abandoned after a mock marriage, has a stillborn baby, and weds the man who helps her.
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Men of Steel (1932)
Character: Charles Paxton
James Harg and his father work in a steelmaking plant which is incompetently run, with scant attention being paid to worker safety. In his own time, Harg works on ideas for a revolutionary new manufacturing process for hard steel. When his father is badly injured in a workplace accident resulting from employer negligence, Harg uses some of the compensation payment to develop his invention to a stage where it can be tested in practice. It is a huge success and Harg patents his process. He rises to a position on the board of the company, before staging a coup to oust his former employer and take over the business himself.
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Called Back (1933)
Character: Dr Jose Manuel
'Spain. Revolutionary doctor foiled by blind man and amnesiac girl.' (British Film Catalogue)
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All At Sea (1940)
Character: Dr. Stolk
Sandy Powell plays a messenger who joins the Navy by accident and has a series of misadventures.
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A Night in Montmartre (1931)
Character: Max Levine
A young couple live under a café in Paris that, unknown to them, is owned by a brutal blackmailer. When he is murdered, they fall under suspicion. However, the husband's father, an amateur detective, believes in their innocence and sets out to find who really killed the blackmailer.
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The Ringer (1931)
Character: Maurice Meister
Scotland Yard detectives hunt for a dangerous criminal who has recently returned to England.
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Alibi (1931)
Character: Sir Roger Ackroyd
Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot investigates a mysterious suicide at a country house.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie (1948)
Character: MacDonald of Keppoch (Morar)
Scotland, 1745. After decades of exile, Prince Charles Edward Stuart secretly lands with the purpose of revolting the Highland chieftains against the German House of Hanover, ruler of Great Britain.
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The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933)
Character: Thomas Cromwell
Renowned for his excess, King Henry VIII goes through a series of wives during his rule. With Anne Boleyn, his second wife, executed on charges of treason, King Henry weds maid Jane Seymour, but that marriage also ends in tragedy. Not one to be single for long, the king picks German-born Anne of Cleves as his bride, but their union lasts only months before an annulment is granted, and King Henry continues his string of spouses.
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Easy Virtue (1928)
Character: Aubrey Filton
Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John's well-to-do family finds out Larita's secret.
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Yellow Canary (1943)
Character: Captain Foster
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
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The Conquest of the Air (1936)
Character: Jerome de Ascoli
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archival footage to trace man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the 1930s.
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Atlantic (1929)
Character: John Rool
English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
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