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The Brass Bottle (1914)
Character: N/A
A Jinn's magic helps a poor architect win a professor's daughter. This film is considered lost.
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Make-Up (1937)
Character: Sir Edward Hutton
Make-Up is a 1937 British drama film directed by Alfred Zeisler and starring Nils Asther, June Clyde and Judy Kelly. It was a circus film made by an independent production company at Shepperton Studios.
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Rolling in Money (1934)
Character: Duke of Braceborough
An impoverished duchess arranges a marriage for her daughter to a wealthy working-class London barber.
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Counsel's Opinion (1933)
Character: Lord Rockburn
Divorce barrister Logan arrives back in London from a trip overseas to find the whole city fogbound. Unable to reach his flat, he books into the exclusive Royal Parks Hotel. Leslie sweet-talks Logan into letting her stay in his suite, and although the pair are attracted to each other, the night passes innocently. On arriving at Chambers, Logan is asked to act as counsel for Lord Rockburn, who is seeking a divorce from his wife. Logan accepts the brief, but then discovers to his horror that Lady Rockburn was a guest at the Royal Parks Hotel ball the previous night, and a cornerstone of the case is alleged impropriety after a maid observed a man leaving her room that morning......
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In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes (1996)
Character: N/A
Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and friend, Dr. Watson.
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The Common Cause (1919)
Character: Tommy Atkins
Helene Palmer and her husband Orrin have grown apart, and she becomes infatuated with bachelor Edward Wadsworth. With the outbreak of World War I, Orrin and Edward enlist, while Helene works as a Red Cross nurse in a small French town. Edward is wounded on a dangerous scouting mission near the town and Orrin carries him to safety. The enemy invades during the night, and Orrin rescues Helene as she is about to be overpowered by a German officer. The dying Edward, morally strengthened by his experience as a soldier, encourages the couple to reunite. Soon after, peace is declared.
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The Luck of a Sailor (1934)
Character: Silvius
In this romantic comedy, the king of Ruritania marries an impoverished commoner after he is exiled. Trouble shows up when the king must return to his country and marry an heiress. Fortunately, his first bride has fallen for an army officer and is happy to have her royal marriage annulled.
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The Girl in the Taxi (1937)
Character: Baron des Aubrais
In this British musical, set in Paris, an apparently upstanding husband and father spends his nights fooling around with wild women. His son, wanting to be just like his dad, begins dating a seductive widow--the same widow his father has been seeing. Trouble ensues when the father refuses to let his daughter marry her true love. When the fiancée learns of the father-son shenanigans, he begins blackmailing them into letting him marry the daughter.
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Everything in Life (1936)
Character: Lewis Radford
An opera singer pretends to be poor in order to romantically win over a composer.
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Smash and Grab (1937)
Character: Rankin
John Forrest, an insurance investigator with a weakness for model railways, is on the trail of a gang of smash-and-grab thieves targeting Europe's most prestigious jewellers. As the chase leads him to Ireland, Forrest finds he needs help and who better to call upon than his impossibly elegant, highly capable wife, Alice?
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Tiger Bay (1934)
Character: Whistling Rufus
Michael is a young Englishman abroad who deliberately visits a tough Chinese district of Tiger Bay to test his strength. He falls in love and battles a protection racket.
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Captain Fury (1939)
Character: Governor
An Irish convict sentenced to hard labor in Australia escapes into the outback, and organizes a band of fellow escapees to fight a corrupt landlord.
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Men Are Not Gods (1936)
Character: Stanley
Actor Edmund Davey becomes a star overnight when his wife and co-star teams up with the secretary of a noted stage critic to produce a glowing review of his 'Othello'.
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Sing As We Go (1934)
Character: Sir William Upton
When the textile mill closes, putting her out of work, Gracie finds herself experiencing all of the amusements of Blackpool.
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All Women Have Secrets (1939)
Character: Professor Hewitt
When they decide they might as well be penniless husbands and wives as penniless campus sweethearts, three couples at a Midwestern university, against the advice of their friends, get married. Joe and Susie Tucker prove that two can live as cheap as one by setting up housekeeping in a trailer, and working at whatever odd jobs turn up.
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Cash (1933)
Character: Joseph
A formerly wealthy man and his daughter try to regain wealth by selling a scheme to some investors, when they come upon a huge amount of unclaimed cash that a young electrician has in his tool box.
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The Private Life of Don Juan (1934)
Character: Pedo, Uncle of the Castle Girl, Who Knows Better
What do women want? Don Juan is aging. He's arrived secretly in Seville after a 20 year absence. His wife Dolores, whom he hasn't lived with in five years, still loves him. He refuses to see her; he fears the life of a husband. She has bought his debts and will remand him to jail for two years if he won't come to her. Meanwhile, an impostor is climbing the balconies of Seville claiming to be Don Juan.
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Gaslight (1944)
Character: Lord Dalroy
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
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Silver Blaze (1937)
Character: Sir Henry Baskerville
Holmes takes a vacation and visits his old friend Sir Henry Baskerville. His vacation ends when he suddenly finds himself in the middle of a double-murder mystery. Now he's got to find Professor Moriarty and the horse Silver Blaze before the great cup final horse race.
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Opened by Mistake (1940)
Character: Jarvis Woodruff
A wise-guy reporter and a tippling sportswriter acquire an unclaimed trunk with a corpse inside.
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