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The Ghost Train (1931) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
The Ghost Train
director: Walter Forde actor: Jack Hulbert / Cicely Courtneidge …
The story, about the social interaction of a group of railway passengers who have been stranded at a remote rural station overnight who are increasingly threatened by a latent external force. Only five reels of picture and two reels of soundtrack survive.
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The Four Just Men (1939) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Four Just Men
director: Walter Forde actor: Hugh Sinclair / Griffith Jones …
other title: Los cuatro hombres justos / The four just men
The Four Men of the title are British WWI veterans who decide to work secretly against enemies of the country. They aren't above a bit of murder or sabotage to serve their ends, but they consider themselves to be true patriots.
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Busman's Honeymoon (1940) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Busman's Honeymoon
director: Arthur B. Woods actor: Robert Montgomery / Constance Cummings …
other title: Noces de crime
When Lord Peter Wimsey marries Harriet Vane, a crime author, they both promise to give up crime for good. As a wedding present, Peter purchases the old house where Harriet grew up, but when they try to move in the previous owner is nowhere to be found, until they start to clean the house and find his body in the cellar...
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The Captive Heart (1946) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Captive Heart
director: Basil Dearden actor: Michael Redgrave / Rachel Kempson …
other title: Cuore prigioniero / Das gefangene Herz …
A series of stories about the lives and loves of men in a Prisoner of War camp over five years. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis. To do this, he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Other inmates’ stories are also revealed. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability.
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Aventure Malgache (1944) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Aventure Malgache
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Paul Bonifas / Paul Clarus …
other title: Landung auf Madagaskar / Aventure malgache …
Backstage before a performance, a French actor recalls his time in Madagascar during World War II, when he secretly ran a Resistance radio station under the watch of a collaborationist police chief. His story unfolds in flashback, revealing espionage, deception, and divided loyalties within the French ranks. Made for Britain’s Ministry of Information, this 1944 French-language propaganda short satirizes Vichy opportunism and wartime hypocrisy, and was shelved for decades before its release in 1993.
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Bon Voyage (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Bon Voyage
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: John Blythe / Janique Joelle
other title: Gute Reise / Bon voyage
After escaping a Nazi POW camp, a young Scottish RAF gunner recounts his perilous journey through occupied France with the help of the Resistance. During his debriefing in London, French intelligence officers press him for details—especially about one companion whose true loyalties may not be what they seemed.
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Fiddlers Three (1944) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Fiddlers Three
director: Harry Watt actor: Tommy Trinder / Frances Day …
Two British soldiers and a WREN take refuge at Stonehenge during a thunderstorm, they are struck by lightning and transported back to ancient Rome.
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Whisky Galore! (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB TMDB Douban
Whisky Galore!
director: Alexander Mackendrick actor: Basil Radford / Bruce Seton …
other title: Whisky a volontà / Freut euch des Lebens …
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 - during WWII - was S/S Politician. Having left Liverpool two days earlier, heading for Jamaica, it sank outside Eriskay, The Outer Hebrides, Scotland, in bad weather, containing 250,000 bottles of whisky. The locals gathered as many bottles as they could, before the proper authorities arrived, and even today, bottles are found in the sand or in the sea every other year.
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The Halfway House (1944) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
The Halfway House
director: Basil Dearden actor: Mervyn Johns / Glynis Johns …
other title: L'Auberge Fantôme / The Half-Way House …
A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. There is a certain strangeness in the air as they are greeted by the innkeeper and his daughter. Why are all the newspapers a year old? And why doesn't Gwyneth seem to cast a shadow?
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Went the Day Well? (1942) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Went the Day Well?
director: Alberto Cavalcanti actor: Leslie Banks / Elizabeth Allan …
other title: E' andata bene la giornata? / Went the day well? …
The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
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Train of Events (1949) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Train of Events
director: Sidney Cole / Charles Crichton … actor: Jack Warner / Gladys Henson …
other title: Le Train du destin
A train disaster is told in four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.
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The Wrecker (1929) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
The Wrecker
director: Géza von Bolváry actor: Carlyle Blackwell / Benita Hume …
other title: Der Würger
The Wrecker is a British film that tells the story of a crook who organises train crashes to discredit the railway, in favour of a rival bus company. The stunts in this film were groundbreaking for 1920s British cinema A scene wich has been discribed as "the most spectacular rail crash in cinema history" was recorded by 22 cameras.
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Spellbound (1945) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban KevGa-NeoDB Skybridge TMDB WikiData
Spellbound
director: Alfred Hitchcock actor: Ingrid Bergman / Harry Brown …
other title: Io ti salverò / Troldbunden …
When Dr. Anthony Edwardes arrives at a Vermont mental hospital to replace the outgoing hospital director, Dr. Constance Peterson, a psychoanalyst, discovers Edwardes is actually an impostor. The man confesses that the real Dr. Edwardes is dead and fears he may have killed him, but cannot recall anything. Dr. Peterson, however is convinced his impostor is innocent of the man's murder, and joins him on a quest to unravel his amnesia through psychoanalysis.