Henry Daniell

Henry Daniell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Charles Henry Daniell (5 March 1894 – 31 October 1963) was an English actor who had a long and prestigious career on stage as well as in films. He is perhaps best known for his villainous roles in films like The Great Dictator, The Philadelphia Story and The Sea Hawk. Daniell was given few opportunities to play a 'good guy', including a supporting part as Franz Liszt in the biographical film Song of Love (1947). His last name is sometimes spelled "Daniel". Daniell's film debut came in 1929 in Jealousy. He appeared as Professor Moriarty in the Basil Rathbone-Nigel Bruce Sherlock Holmes film The Woman in Green (1945). He appeared in other films such as Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator (1940) (playing Garbitsch, to sound like "garbage", a parody of Joseph Goebbels), and The Body Snatcher (1945, with Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi) – as well as two other films in the Sherlock Holmes/Basil Rathbone series: The Voice of Terror (1942) and Sherlock Holmes in Washington (1943) with fellow Moriarty George Zucco. Daniell played the sleazy Baron de Varville opposite Greta Garbo in Camille (1936). Another early triumph was his portrayal of Cecil in The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939). He also played the treacherous Lord Wolfingham (no relation to Francis Walsingham) in The Sea Hawk (1940), fighting Errol Flynn in what is often considered one of the most spectacular sword fighting duels ever filmed. When Michael Curtiz cast him in this film, Henry Daniell initially refused because he couldn't fence. Curtiz accomplished the climactic duel through the use of shadows and over-shoulder shots, with a double fencing Flynn with ingenious inter-cutting of their faces. Towards the end of the Second World War, he appeared in one of his most memorable film roles, as the cruel Mr. Brocklehurst in Jane Eyre (1944), opposite Joan Fontaine who played Eyre. That same year he appeared in The Suspect as Charles Laughton's blackmailing next-door neighbour. In the 1950s and 1960s, he did much television, and also appeared as the malevolent Dr. Emil Zurich in Edward L. Cahn's The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake (1959), and in an episode of Maverick, "Pappy" opposite James Garner the same year. An absolute professional, he was always on the set when needed, and impatient when delays in filming took place. Much in demand for his dry, sardonic delivery, Daniell moved easily from big-budget films, such as (uncredited) Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), to television without difficulty. In 1957, Daniell appeared as King Charles II of England in the NBC anthology series The Joseph Cotten Show in the episode "The Trial of Colonel Blood", with Michael Wilding in the title role. In the same year he played the instructing solicitor to Charles Laughton's leading counsel barrister in Witness for the Prosecution (1957). The actor claimed one of his favourite roles was as Tony Curtis' supervisor in the acclaimed Blake Edwards film Mister Cory (1957) at a time when the actor's career was clearly slowing down, but Daniell retained some of the best and most memorable lines in the movie, "A gentleman never grabs. Manners, Mister Cory. I find them a prerequisite in any circumstance."

  • Popularity : 6.964
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1894-03-04
  • Place of Birth : Barnes, Surrey, UK
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Henry Daniell Movies

  • 1940
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    The Great Dictator

    The Great Dictator

    8.3 1940 HD

    Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.

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  • 1940
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    The Philadelphia Story

    The Philadelphia Story

    7.615 1940 HD

    When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.

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  • 1961
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    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea

    5.7 1961 HD

    The crew of an atomic submarine battle to save the world from global destruction.

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  • 1949
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    Siren of Atlantis

    Siren of Atlantis

    5.2 1949 HD

    Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis....

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  • 1945
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    The Body Snatcher

    The Body Snatcher

    7 1945 HD

    Edinburgh, 1831. Among those who undertake the illegal trade of grave robbery is Gray, ostensibly a cab driver. Formerly a medical student convicted...

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  • 1961
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    The Comancheros

    The Comancheros

    6.7 1961 HD

    Texas Ranger Jake Cutter arrests gambler Paul Regret, but soon finds himself teamed with his prisoner in an undercover effort to defeat a band of...

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  • 1943
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    Jane Eyre

    Jane Eyre

    6.878 1943 HD

    After a harsh childhood, orphan Jane Eyre is hired by Edward Rochester, the brooding lord of a mysterious manor house to care for his young daughter.

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  • 1957
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    The Sun Also Rises

    The Sun Also Rises

    5.9 1957 HD

    A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

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  • 1942
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

    Sherlock Holmes and the Voice of Terror

    6.5 1942 HD

    England, at the start of World War Two. Mysterious wireless broadcasts, apparently from Nazi Germany are heard over the BBC. They warn of acts of...

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  • 1940
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    The Sea Hawk

    The Sea Hawk

    7.1 1940 HD

    Dashing pirate Geoffrey Thorpe plunders Spanish ships for Queen Elizabeth I and falls in love with Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal he captures.

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  • 1941
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    A Woman's Face

    A Woman's Face

    6.992 1941 HD

    A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.

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  • 1945
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    The Woman in Green

    The Woman in Green

    6.421 1945 HD

    Sherlock Holmes investigates when young women around London turn up murdered, each with a finger severed. Scotland Yard suspects a madman, but Holmes...

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  • 1956
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    The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

    The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit

    6.8 1956 HD

    Tom Rath is a suburban father and husband haunted by his memories of World War II, including a wartime romance with Italian village girl Maria, which...

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  • 1948
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    Wake of the Red Witch

    Wake of the Red Witch

    5.5 1948 HD

    Captain Ralls fights Dutch shipping magnate Mayrant Sidneye for the woman he loves, Angelique Desaix, and for a fortune in gold aboard the Red Witch.

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  • 1956
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    Lust for Life

    Lust for Life

    7.1 1956 HD

    An intense and imaginative artist, revered Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh possesses undeniable talent, but he is plagued by mental problems and...

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  • 1942
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    Castle in the Desert

    Castle in the Desert

    6.8 1942 HD

    Charlie Chan, with son Jimmy on a week's pass from the Army, takes up a request for help at a castle-home, miles from anywhere in the American desert...

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  • 1957
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    Witness for the Prosecution

    Witness for the Prosecution

    8.213 1957 HD

    An ailing famous barrister agrees to defend a man in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife's unconvincing testimony confuses him.

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  • 1957
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    The Story of Mankind

    The Story of Mankind

    4.636 1957 HD

    The devil and the spirit of mankind argue as to whether or not humanity is ultimately good or evil.

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  • 1957
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    Les Girls

    Les Girls

    6.4 1957 HD

    After writing a tell-all book about her days in the dance troupe "Barry Nichols and Les Girls", Sybil Wren is sued for libeling her fellow dancer...

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  • 1940
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    All This, and Heaven Too

    All This, and Heaven Too

    7.1 1940 HD

    When lovely and virtuous governess Henriette Deluzy comes to educate the children of the debonair Duc de Praslin, a royal subject to King...

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  • 1943
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    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    6.7 1943 HD

    In World War II, a British secret agent carrying a vitally important document is kidnapped en route to Washington. The British government calls on...

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  • 1938
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    Marie Antoinette

    Marie Antoinette

    6.3 1938 HD

    The young Austrian princess Marie Antoinette is arranged to marry Louis XVI, future king of France, in a politically advantageous marriage for the...

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  • 1937
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    Madame X

    Madame X

    6.2 1937 HD

    An alcoholic woman was charged and tried for murder and a young defense attorney, unaware that she is his mother, takes the assignment to defend her...

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  • 1937
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    The Firefly

    The Firefly

    6.4 1937 HD

    Nina Maria Azara is the beautiful and alluring singing spy for Spain during the Napoleonic Wars. Her mission is to seduce French officers, in order...

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  • 1936
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    Camille

    Camille

    7 1936 HD

    Life in 1847 Paris is as spirited as champagne and as unforgiving as the gray morning after. In gambling dens and lavish soirees, men of means exert...

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  • 1958
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    From the Earth to the Moon

    From the Earth to the Moon

    5.2 1958 HD

    Set just after the American civil war, businessman and inventor Victor Barbicane invents a new source of power called Power X. He plans to use it to...

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  • 1938
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    Holiday

    Holiday

    7.3 1938 HD

    Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent...

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  • 1929
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    The Awful Truth

    The Awful Truth

    1 1929 HD

    Story of a wealthy couple whose individual infidelities lead inexorably to the divorce court.

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  • 1950
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    Buccaneer's Girl

    Buccaneer's Girl

    5.6 1950 HD

    A New Orleans performer loves a pirate who robs only from the shipowner who ruined his father.

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  • 1939
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    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

    6.2 1939 HD

    This period drama frames the tumultuous affair between Queen Elizabeth I and the man who would be King of England.

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    Hitler: The Comedy Years

    Hitler: The Comedy Years

    5 2007 HD

    A documentary about the portrayal of Adolf Hitler in popular culture.

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  • 1962
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    The Notorious Landlady

    The Notorious Landlady

    6.7 1962 HD

    An American junior diplomat in London rents a house from, and falls in love with, a woman suspected of murder.

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  • 1961
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    Madison Avenue

    Madison Avenue

    6 1961 HD

    An adman and an adwoman put a dangerous milk tycoon in line for the White House.

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  • 1959
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    The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

    The Four Skulls of Jonathan Drake

    5.9 1959 HD

    Jonathan Drake, while attending his brother's funeral, is shocked to find the head of the deceased is missing. When his brother's skull shows up...

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  • 1941
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    The Feminine Touch

    The Feminine Touch

    5.1 1941 HD

    A college professor who believes there's no place for jealousy in modern marriage, John Hathaway (Don Ameche) moves with his wife, Julie (Rosalind...

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  • 1947
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    The Exile

    The Exile

    6.1 1947 HD

    In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver...

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  • 1937
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    Under Cover of Night

    Under Cover of Night

    5.7 1937 HD

    A detective (Edmund Lowe) trails a professor (Henry Daniell) who stole credit for his wife's research, then killed her.

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  • 1949
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    The Secret Of St. Ives

    The Secret Of St. Ives

    6 1949 HD

    A French soldier in the Napoleonic Wars plots his escape after he's captured and imprisoned in a castle fortress in Edinburgh, Scotland. Director...

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  • 1947
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    Song of Love

    Song of Love

    6.7 1947 HD

    Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their...

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  • 1962
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    The Chapman Report

    The Chapman Report

    5.3 1962 HD

    A research psychologist gets involved in the personal lives of four women.

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  • 1957
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    Mister Cory

    Mister Cory

    5.5 1957 HD

    An opportunistic young man from the slums gambles his way to wealth, power and high society.

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  • 1945
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    Hotel Berlin

    Hotel Berlin

    6.1 1945 HD

    An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.

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  • 1937
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    The Thirteenth Chair

    The Thirteenth Chair

    5.8 1937 HD

    A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

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  • 1939
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    We Are Not Alone

    We Are Not Alone

    6.2 1939 HD

    A British doctor and his son's Austrian governess have an affair and are accused of killing his wife.

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  • 1956
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    Diane

    Diane

    5.7 1956 HD

    Asked by Francis I to tutor his son, Diane de Poitiers becomes the future King Henry II's mistress in 1500s France.

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  • 1936
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    The Unguarded Hour

    The Unguarded Hour

    6.2 1936 HD

    A blackmailer tries to stop a woman from revealing evidence that could save a condemned man.

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  • 1946
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    Angel Street

    Angel Street

    1 1946 HD

    NBC adaptation of Patrick Hamilton's play Gaslight

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  • 1942
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    Four Jacks and a Jill

    Four Jacks and a Jill

    6 1942 HD

    Karanina "Nina" Novak, is befriended by Nifty, the leader of a four-piece orchestra, and in return, secures an engagement for them at the Little...

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  • 1945
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    The Suspect

    The Suspect

    6.7 1945 HD

    Genial shopkeeper Philip has to endure the constant nagging of a shrewish wife while he secretly yearns for a pretty young stenographer. When the...

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  • 1943
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    Watch on the Rhine

    Watch on the Rhine

    6.8 1943 HD

    On the eve of World War II, the German Kurt Müller, his American-born wife Sara, and their three children, having lived in Europe for years,...

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  • 1954
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    The Egyptian

    The Egyptian

    6.375 1954 HD

    In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new...

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  • 1941
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    Dressed to Kill

    Dressed to Kill

    6.357 1941 HD

    A detective's wedding is postponed when gunshots are heard nearby.

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  • 1930
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    The Last of the Lone Wolf

    The Last of the Lone Wolf

    6 1930 HD

    In this entry in the Lone Wolf series, the first to have a soundtrack, the jealousies of the King and the coquettish Queen are chronicled. When His...

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  • 1934
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    The Path of Glory

    The Path of Glory

    1 1934 HD

    Comedy about two Ruritanian countries who declare war on each other with the mutual intention of losing. Political satire that might have been...

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  • 1956
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    The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    The Barretts of Wimpole Street

    1 1956 HD

    Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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  • 1942
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    The Great Impersonation

    The Great Impersonation

    5.8 1942 HD

    An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.

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  • 1945
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    Captain Kidd

    Captain Kidd

    6 1945 HD

    Cutthroat pirate William Kidd captures Admiral Blayne's treasure ship and hides the bounty in a cave. Three years later, Kidd, posing as a...

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  • 1943
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    Mission to Moscow

    Mission to Moscow

    5.2 1943 HD

    Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to the US as an advocate of socialism.

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  • 1942
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    Nightmare

    Nightmare

    4 1942 HD

    An ex-gambler helps a beautiful widow, and becomes involved with a murder, secret agents, and saboteurs.

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  • 1942
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    Reunion in France

    Reunion in France

    6.6 1942 HD

    Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get...

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  • 1946
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    The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

    The Bandit of Sherwood Forest

    4.9 1946 HD

    Robin Hood's swashbuckling son comes to the rescue when England's boy-king is captured by the evil, power-hungry William of Pembroke.

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  • 1962
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    Five Weeks in a Balloon

    Five Weeks in a Balloon

    5.4 1962 HD

    Professor Fergusson plans to make aviation history by making his way across Africa by balloon. He plans to claim uncharted territories in West Africa...

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  • 1955
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    The Prodigal

    The Prodigal

    4 1955 HD

    A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the...

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  • 1964
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    My Fair Lady

    My Fair Lady

    7.498 1964 HD

    A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.

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  • 1962
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    Mutiny on the Bounty

    Mutiny on the Bounty

    7 1962 HD

    The Bounty leaves Portsmouth in 1787. Its destination: to sail to Tahiti and load bread-fruit. Captain Bligh will do anything to get there as fast as...

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  • 1929
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    Jealousy

    Jealousy

    1 1929 HD

    Yvonne, proprietor of a Paris gown shop, marries Pierre, a poor artist, concealing from him an affair she had with Rigaud, an elderly boulevardier...

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  • 1958
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    77 Sunset Strip

    77 Sunset Strip

    6.7 1958 HD

    Stu Bailey and Jeff Spencer are the wisecracking, womanizing private-detective heroes of this Warner Brothers drama. They work out of an office...

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    4.727 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One,...

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  • 1962
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    Combat!

    Combat!

    7.6 1962 HD

    Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American...

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  • 1960
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    The Islanders

    The Islanders

    8 1960 HD

    The Islanders is an American adventure television series which aired on ABC from 1960 to 1961, starring William Reynolds, James Philbrook, and Diane...

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  • 1958
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    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    5.25 1958 HD

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.406 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1958
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    Peter Gunn

    Peter Gunn

    6.5 1958 HD

    Peter Gunn is an American private eye television series. Filmed in a film noir atmosphere and featuring Henry Mancini music that could tell you the...

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original...

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  • 1951
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    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars

    7 1951 HD

    Schlitz Playhouse of Stars is an anthology series that was telecast from 1951 until 1959 on CBS. Offering both comedies and drama, the series was...

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  • 1955
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    Matinee Theater

    Matinee Theater

    4.6 1955 HD

    Matinee Theater is an American anthology series that aired on NBC during the Golden Age of Television, from 1955 to 1958. The series, which ran daily...

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  • 1948
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    The Philco Television Playhouse

    The Philco Television Playhouse

    6 1948 HD

    The Philco Television Playhouse is an American anthology series that was broadcast live on NBC from 1948 to 1955. Produced by Fred Coe, the series...

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  • 1954
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    Producers' Showcase

    Producers' Showcase

    6.333 1954 HD

    Producers' Showcase is an American anthology television series that was telecast live during the 1950s in compatible color by NBC. With top talent,...

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  • 1959
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    Riverboat

    Riverboat

    6.2 1959 HD

    Riverboat is a 44-episode western television series starring Darren McGavin and Burt Reynolds broadcast on the NBC television network from September...

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  • 1949
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    Lights Out

    Lights Out

    5.3 1949 HD

    Lights Out was an extremely popular American old-time radio program, an early example of a network series devoted mostly to horror and the...

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  • 1956
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    Telephone Time

    Telephone Time

    6.3 1956 HD

    Telephone Time is an American anthology drama series that aired on CBS in 1956, and on ABC from 1957 to 1958. The series features plays by John...

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  • 1957
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    Maverick

    Maverick

    6.8 1957 HD

    The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.406 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.406 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.406 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1960
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    Thriller

    Thriller

    6.406 1960 HD

    Thriller is an American anthology television series that aired during the 1960–61 and 1961–62 seasons on NBC. The show featured host...

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  • 1957
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    Wagon Train

    Wagon Train

    6.4 1957 HD

    The series initially starred veteran movie supporting actor Ward Bond as the wagon master, later replaced upon his death by John McIntire, and Robert...

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