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Three Men in a Boat
1956 British film by Ken Annakin
Overview: Three Men in a Boat is a 1956 British CinemaScope colour comedy film directed by Ken Annakin, starring Laurence Harvey, Jimmy Edwards, David Tomlinson and Shirley Eaton. It was written by Hubert Gregg ...
Release date: 25 December 1956Genre: Comedy, Animation, RomanceDirector: Ken AnnakinProducer: Jack Clayton, John WoolfWriter: Jerome K. Jerome, Hubert GreggThree London gentlemen take vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
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The Prince and the Showgirl
1957 film by Laurence Olivier
Overview: The Prince and the Showgirl (originally titled The Sleeping Prince) is a 1957 British romantic comedy film starring Marilyn Monroe and Laurence Olivier, who also served as director and producer. The s ...
Release date: 13 June 1957Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Laurence OlivierCast: Richard Wattis, David Horne, Jeremy Spenser, Sybil Thorndike, Laurence Olivier, Harold GoodwinProducer: Milton H. Greene, Marilyn MonroeWriter: Terence RattiganAn American showgirl becomes entangled in political intrigue when the Prince Regent of a foreign country attempts to seduce her. 0
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Moby Dick
1956 film by John Huston
Overview: Moby Dick is a 1956 American color adventure film directed and produced by John Huston, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ray Bradbury. A film adaptation of Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick, the film ...
Release date: 27 June 1956Genre: Adventure, DramaDirector: John HustonCast: Gregory Peck, Richard Basehart, Leo Genn, James Robertson Justice, Harry Andrews, Bernard MilesProducer: Jack Clayton, Vaughan N. DeanWriter: Ray Bradbury, John HustonThe sole survivor of a lost whaling ship relates the tale of his captain's self-destructive obsession to hunt the white whale, Moby Dick. 0
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Carry on Nurse
1959 film
Overview: Carry On Nurse is a 1959 British comedy film, the second in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). Of the regular team, it featured Joan Sims (in her Carry On film debut), Kenneth Williams, Kenneth ...
Release date: 10 March 1959Genre: Comedy, RomanceDirector: Gerald ThomasProducer: Nat Cohen, Stuart LevyWriter: Patrick Cargill, Jack BealeAn idiosyncratic group of patients wreak havoc in the men's surgical ward of Haven Hospital. They decide to take their revenge on the frosty Matron, and ... 0
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A Christmas Carol
1951 film by Brian Desmond Hurst
Overview: Scrooge (released as A Christmas Carol in the United States) is a 1951 British Christmas fantasy drama film and an adaptation of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol (1843). It stars Alastair Sim as Ebenezer ...
Release date: 31 October 1951Genre: Drama, FantasyDirector: Brian Desmond HurstCast: Alastair Sim, Kathleen Harrison, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley, Michael Hordern, George ColeProducer: Stanley Haynes, Brian Desmond HurstWriter: Charles Dickens, Noel LangleyEbenezer Scrooge, a curmudgeonly, miserly businessman, has no time for sentimentality and largely views Christmas as a waste of time. However, this Ch ... 0
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The Dam Busters
1955 film directed by Michael Anderson
Overview: The Dam Busters is a 1955 British epic docudrama war film starring Richard Todd and Michael Redgrave, that was directed by Michael Anderson. Adapted by R. C. Sherriff from the books The Dam Busters (1951) ...
Release date: 16 May 1955Genre: Drama, War, History, ActionDirector: Michael AndersonWriter: Paul Brickhill, Guy GibsonThe story of how the British attacked German dams in World War II by using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. 0
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The Cruel Sea
1953 film by Charles Frend
Overview: The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British war film based on the best-selling 1951 novel of the same name by former naval officer Nicholas Monsarrat, though the screenplay by Eric Ambler omits some of the novel's ...
Release date: 24 March 1953Genre: Drama, WarDirector: Charles FrendProducer: Michael Balcon, Leslie NormanWriter: Nicholas Monsarrat, Eric AmblerThe World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers. 0
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
1957 World War II film directed by David Lean
Overview: The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Boulle's novel and the film's screenplay are almost entirely fictional ...
Release date: 2 October 1957Genre: Adventure, Drama, WarDirector: David LeanProducer: Sam SpiegelWriter: Pierre Boulle, Carl ForemanBritish POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces ... 0
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The Belles of St. Trinian's
1954 British comedy film by Frank Launder
Overview: The Belles of St Trinian's is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder, co-written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley ...
Release date: 28 September 1954Genre: ComedyDirector: Frank LaunderProducer: Sidney Gilliat, Frank LaunderWriter: Frank Launder, Sidney GilliatThese schoolgirls are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the head-mistress' brother, played ... 0
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The African Queen
1951 film by John Huston
Overview: The African Queen is a 1951 adventure film adapted from the 1935 novel of the same name by C. S. Forester. The film was directed by John Huston and produced by Sam Spiegel and John Woolf. The screenplay ...
Release date: 23 December 1951Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, WarDirector: John HustonProducer: Sam Spiegel, James WoolfWriter: C.S. Forester, James AgeeIn WWI East Africa, a gin-swilling Canadian riverboat captain is persuaded by a strait-laced English missionary to undertake a trip up a treacherous river ... 0
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Dunkirk
1958 war film by Leslie Norman
Overview: Dunkirk is a 1958 British war film directed by Leslie Norman that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II, and starring John Mills, Richard Attenborough, and Bernard Lee. The film is based on the ...
Release date: 20 March 1958Genre: Drama, War, HistoryDirector: Leslie NormanProducer: Michael Balcon, Michael ForlongWriter: Trevor Dudley Smith, Ewan ButlerA dramatization of the British Expeditionary Force's 1940 retreat to the beaches of France and the extraordinary seaborne evacuation that saved it from ... 0
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Carry on Teacher
1959 film
Overview: Carry On Teacher is a 1959 British comedy film, the third in the series of 31 Carry On films (1958–1992). It was released at the Plaza Cinema in London on 3 September 1959. It features Ted Ray in his only ...
Release date: 25 August 1959Genre: ComedyDirector: Gerald ThomasProducer: Peter RogersWriter: Norman HudisPupils run amok at Maudlin Street School in an attempt to hang on to their headmaster. He has applied for a new job, but the students like him and don't ... 0
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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's
1957 British film
Overview: Blue Murder at St Trinian's is a 1957 British comedy film, directed by Frank Launder, co-written by Launder and Sidney Gilliat, and starring Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Joyce Grenfell, Lionel Jeffries and ...
Release date: 1 December 1957Genre: ComedyDirector: Frank LaunderProducer: Leslie Gilliat, Sidney GilliatWriter: Sidney Gilliat, Frank LaunderThe girls of St. Trinian's School go on a bus tour of Italy chaperoned by a diamond-thief disguised as a woman to elude the police. 0
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A Night to Remember
1958 British film by Roy Ward Baker
Overview: A Night to Remember is a 1958 British historical disaster docudrama film based on the eponymous 1955 book by Walter Lord. The film and book recount the final night of RMS Titanic, which sank on her maiden ...
Release date: 1 July 1958Genre: History, Drama, ActionDirector: Roy Ward BakerProducer: William MacQuitty, Earl St. JohnWriter: Walter Lord, Eric AmblerOn her maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. 0
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Pacific Destiny
1956 British film
Overview: Pacific Destiny is a 1956 British drama film directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen and Michael Hordern. The screenplay concerns a young British couple who win the respect of ...Release date: 5 June 1956Genre: Drama, RomanceDirector: Wolf RillaCast: Denholm Elliott, Susan Stephen, Felix Felton, Peter Bathurst, Clifford Buckton, Michael HordernProducer: James Lawrie, Eric WilliamsWriter: Richard Mason, Jack LeeLife is strange and worrying for a cadet who arrives in the Pacific in the colonial service. And the testy resident commissioner, who had been expecting ... 0
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Town on Trial
1957 British film
Overview: Town on Trial is a 1957 British mystery film directed by John Guillermin and starring John Mills, Charles Coburn, Barbara Bates and Derek Farr. A whole town comes under suspicion when two grisly murders ...Release date: 22 January 1957Genre: Mystery, Crime, DramaDirector: John GuillerminProducer: Ken Hughes, Robert WesterbyWhen an attractive young girl is murdered, suspicion falls on several members of the local tennis club... 0
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The Love Lottery
1954 film
Overview: The Love Lottery is a 1954 British comedy film directed by Charles Crichton and starring David Niven, Peggy Cummins, Anne Vernon and Herbert Lom. Produced by Ealing Studios it was one of several Ealing ...
Release date: 1 January 1954Genre: Comedy, Musical, RomanceDirector: Charles CrichtonProducer: Michael Balcon, Monja DanischewskyWriter: Charles Neilson-Terry, Zelma Bramley MooreRex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone... 0
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The Golden Mask
1953 film by Jack Lee
Overview: South of Algiers (U.S. The Golden Mask; also known as Mask of Pharaoh) is a 1953 British travel adventure film, directed by Jack Lee and starring Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix and Eric Portman. It was written ...
Release date: 17 March 1953Genre: Drama, Adventure, CrimeDirector: Jack LeeCast: Van Heflin, Wanda Hendrix, Eric Portman, Charles Goldner, Jacques François, Jacques B. BruniusProducer: Aubrey Baring, Maxwell SettonWriter: Robert WesterbyA British Museum archaeologist is searching for an ancient golden mask buried in a Roman tomb in Algeria but tomb robbers follow the academic in the hope ... 0
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Now and Forever
1956 British film
Overview: Now and Forever is a 1956 British drama film directed by Mario Zampi and starring Janette Scott, Vernon Gray and Kay Walsh. It was written by R.F. Delderfield and Michael Pertwee based on the 1953 play ...Release date: 21 February 1956Genre: Thriller, Drama, CrimeDirector: Mario ZampiProducer: R.F. Delderfield, Michael PertweeA rich young society girl falls in love with a car mechanic. Her family is appalled and stops her seeing him... 0
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Let's Be Happy
1957 film by Henry Levin
Overview: Let's Be Happy is a Technicolor 1957 British musical film starring Tony Martin, Vera-Ellen and Robert Flemyng and directed by Henry Levin. It was written by Dorothy Cooper and Diana Morgan in CinemaScope ...Release date: 8 May 1957Genre: Musical, ComedyDirector: Henry LevinProducer: Dorothy Cooper, Diana Morgan 0
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