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Call Of The Blood (1948)
Character: David Erskine
A young man's passions are stirred by a beautiful Sicilian after his physician-wife is called away on an emergency.
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Sie fanden eine Heimat (1953)
Character: Allan Manning
At the end of the Second World War, orphans of various nationalities come together at the Pestalozzi Children's Village in Trogen. When the order arrives from Poland that the Polish children must return to their country, it comes as a shock to 13-year-old Andrzey: he doesn't want to leave Anja, for whom he has developed a strong affection. The two children decide to flee and go into hiding...
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Guilty? (1956)
Character: Nap Rumbold
Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge, Nap Rumbold, a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name.
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Les hommes veulent vivre (1961)
Character: Carter
Professor Chardin has just killed a man. Before calling the police to turn himself in, he burns some leaves and a notebook in the fireplace. Secret agents in the street with listening devices flee when the police arrive. The professor refuses to be defended by a lawyer and to explain himself, but his friend Professor Carter and his wife come to his support and he agrees to explain his crime of inventing the H-bomb, the secret of which was stolen from him by his collaborator Rossi at the very moment when he had given up his research, convinced by Albert Einstein's pacifist plea and other personal circumstances.
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La salamandre d'or (1962)
Character: Vandoeuvre
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
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Hot Ice (1953)
Character: Jim Henderson
An eccentric jewel-thief invites an assortment of people for a country house week-end, then keeps them prisoner after his plans to steal their jewels have been discovered.
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Melba (1953)
Character: Eric Walton
Rural Australian Nellie Melba becomes an opera star in 1900s Europe and the United States.
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Timon of Athens (1981)
Character: Second Senator
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1958)
Character: Oberon
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
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The Spider's Web (1960)
Character: Henry Hailsham-Brown
Mystery film based on an Agatha Christie play. An ambassador's wife must hide the corpse of her stepdaughter's unlikeable stepfather from her husband, who is bringing important visitors to their country home.
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The Gentle Sex (1943)
Character: Flying Officer David Sheridan
During the War seven women from very different backgrounds find themselves together in the Auxiliary Territorial Services. They are soon drilling, driving lorries, and manning ack-ack batteries.
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Untamed (1955)
Character: Shawn Kildare
When the great potato famine hits Ireland, the diaspora begins as thousands emigrate. Among those leaving the Emerald Isle is Katie O'Neill and her husband, who decide that the promised land is South Africa and make their way there. Once there, they discover the hardships that are the reality of the homesteader experience.
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Lisztomania (1975)
Character: Count d'Agoult
In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.
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Savage Messiah (1972)
Character: Lionel Shaw
In the Paris of the 1910s, brash young sculptor Henri Gaudier begins a creative partnership with an older writer, Sophie Brzeska. Though the couple is 20 years apart in age, Gaudier finds that his untamed work is complemented by the older woman's cultural refinement. He then moves to London with Brzeska, where he falls in with a group of avant-garde artists. There, Gaudier encounters yet another artistic muse in passionate suffragette Gosh Boyle.
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The Angel with the Trumpet (1950)
Character: Paul Alt
Sad tale of a woman who marries the man her family wishes her to wed, not Wooland, the man she truly loves. Years after her lover's suicide, Herlie joins him before the Gestapo can get to her because of her Jewish ancestry.
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The Teckman Mystery (1954)
Character: Philip Chance
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
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Schalcken the Painter (1979)
Character: Vanderhausen
Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
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King of the Khyber Rifles (1953)
Character: Lt. Geoffrey Heath
Freshly arrived Sandhurst-trained Captain Alan King, better versed in Pashtun then any of the veterans and born locally as army brat, survives an attack on his escort to his Northwest Frontier province garrison near the Khyber pass because of Ahmed, a native Afridi deserter from the Muslim fanatic rebel Karram Khan's forces. As soon as his fellow officers learn his mother was a native Muslim which got his parents disowned even by their own families, he falls prey to stubborn prejudiced discrimination, Lieutenant Geoffrey Heath even moves out of their quarters, except from half-Irish Lt. Ben Baird.
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The Man Who Loved Redheads (1955)
Character: Lord Binfield
Framed in flashback, The Man Who Loved Redheads is an anecdotal comedy about a man (John Justin) whose life is defined by his first romantic experience. That liaison occurred in Justin's youth, when the young man matures and enters the diplomatic world, he spends the rest of his career searching for his first love.
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Journey Together (1945)
Character: Flying Instructor, Flying Grading School
Two Englishmen train with the Royal Air Force, ending with a bombing raid on Berlin.
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Valentino (1977)
Character: Sidney Olcott
The untimely death of silent screen star Rudolph Valentino prompts the many women in his past to reminisce about his troubled rise to superstardom.
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Candidate for Murder (1962)
Character: Robert Vaughan
Professional killer Kersten arrives in England and is hired by Donald Edwards to murder his wife Helene. But Helene's lover Robert Vaughan discovers the plot and he trails Kersten and Edwards to a country cottage.
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The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Character: Ahmad
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
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Safari (1956)
Character: Brian Sinden
Wealthy eccentric Sir Vincent Brampton and his fiancée Linda Latham hire Ken Duffield to lead them on a jungle hunt. Duffield is looking for the murderer of his son; he gets the killer and Linda.
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The Sound Barrier (1952)
Character: Philip Peel
A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.
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The Big Sleep (1978)
Character: Arthur Geiger
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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Seagulls Over Sorrento (1954)
Character: Lieutenant Wharton
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.
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Island in the Sun (1957)
Character: Denis Archer
A scandalous tale of politics, social inequality, interracial romance, and murder set on a fictitious British-owned Caribbean island.
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