Eliot Makeham Movie Rankings
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Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge learns the error of his ways through the intervention of the ghost of his former partner and of three spirits in this faithful adaptation of the Dickens classic. ... more about Scrooge
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Burt Lancaster plays a pirate with a taste for intrigue and acrobatics who involves himself in the goings on of a revolution in the Caribbean in the late 1700s. ... more about Crimson Pirate
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A 'Land Girl', an American GI, and a British soldier find themselves together in a small Kent town on the road to Canterbury. The town is being plagued by a mysterious "glue-man", who pours glue on the hair of girls dating soldiers after dark. ... more about Canterbury Tale
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When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. ... more about Night Train to Munich
Not Available on DVD
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Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950's medical training. ... more about Doctor in the House
Not Available on DVD
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In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. ... more about Madonna of the Seven Moons
Not Available on DVD
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Nineteenth century England. When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. ... more about Nicholas Nickleby
Not Available on DVD
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An RAF pilot who was shot down during WWII returns home to his English village with his new bride. The trouble is that she is the German lady who helped him escape. Then her brother arrives. ... more about Frieda
Not Available on DVD
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A group of travellers, each with a personal problem that they want to hide, arrive at a mysterious Welsh country inn. ... more about Halfway House
Not Available on DVD
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A bankrupt publisher thinks all his troubles are over when he stumbles across a Brown Wallet containing 200 pounds. But he is implicated in the murder of his wealthy aunt ... ... more about Brown Wallet
Not Available on DVD
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Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they realize how much they resented their old mundane life together. ... more about Perfect Strangers
Not Available on DVD
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Olivia Harwood, missionary's widow, meets charming Mark Bellis, artist and rogue, on the ship taking them both back to 1890s London. When Olivia opens a lodging house Mark becomes her lodger, then her lover. ... more about So Evil My Love
Not Available on DVD
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Leigh stars as a Stockholm-dwelling British double agent who delivers bogus Allied information to German intelligence headquarters in Paris, only to fall in love with a suave baron who just happens to be heading up the German intelligence-gathering efforts. ... more about Dark Journey
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Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie Graves is not guilty of the murder for which he is due to be hanged in ... more about Saloon Bar
Not Available on DVD
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When a landlady finds one of her tenants murdered, Inspector Hornleigh is sent to investigate. Hornleigh's assistant, Sergeant Bingham, soon finds an attaché case that had been stolen from the murdered man. ... more about Inspector Hornleigh
Not Available on DVD
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Bob Holt's last journey as a Railway engine driver before his retirement, a journey disturbed by his distress at leaving the Railway, and his suspicions of the relationship between his wife and his fireman. ... more about Last Journey
Not Available on DVD
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1.6438
A brave wartime copper (policeman) becomes a hero when he thwarts a plot to destroy a battleship. But then the rest of the police get the idea that he is one of the enemy agents. ... more about Spare a Copper
Not Available on DVD
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1.5981
On the death of his father, an eighteen-year old lad leaves school to take over the family firm in the City of London. ... more about Common Touch
Not Available on DVD
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1.5898
Frank "women in prison" story that sympathetically tracks several inmates through their imprisonment and subsequent return to society. Some are successfully rehabilitated; some are not. ... more about Weak and the Wicked
Not Available on DVD
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1.5715
One of two young boys accidentally falls to his death when playing in a bombed-out London neighborhood. Frankie, the survivor feels guilty about his friend's death. ... more about Yellow Balloon
Not Available on DVD
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This film is based on the true story of Pastor Martin Neimuller, who was sent to Dachau concentration camp for criticising the Nazi party. ... more about Pastor Hall
Not Available on DVD
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Lord Peter Wimsey is an amateur detective. He is to be married to Harriet Vane, who writes crime novels, at a big Society wedding. Harriet has little charms made so that they both promise not to get involved with any more crimes as they are 'retired'. ... more about Busman's Honeymoon
Not Available on DVD
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A hangman conceals his true identity when he falls in love, and sets up home with his girl on a barge in the river Thames. Tragedy strikes when the hangman's assistant tries to seduce his boss's wife — after a fight, the hangman is presumed drowned. ... more about Daybreak
Not Available on DVD
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An American has to guard da Vinci's "Madonna and Child" when it is being shown in Britain. When it arrives he suspects it is not the real painting. ... more about Fake
Not Available on DVD
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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. ... more about Four Just Men
Not Available on DVD
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Set just after the end of WWII (but filmed in the middle of it) in a time of general euphoria at having won the war, with full employment and general happiness for all (or nearly all). ... more about Give Us the Moon
Not Available on DVD
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A group of enterprising smugglers make use of an ancient charter to smuggle brandy into the southern coast of England. When their ship is seized it looks like they are in trouble until the Customs Officers try & find out where the brandy went. ... more about Green Grow the Rushes
Not Available on DVD
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In London a young lady meets a homeless and apparently penniless Russian prince. She introduces him to her middle-class Fulham family and he moves in. ... more about I Lived with You
Not Available on DVD
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A young girl has an ambition to dance with the famous Sadlers Wells troupe but first she must win a scholarship. Includes a performance of Les Sylphides by 'Margot Fonteyn' (qv). ... more about Little Ballerina
Not Available on DVD
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High drama, set in the English moorland of the 1600's. John Ridd wants revenge on the criminal Doone family, but falls in love with the daughter of the family, Lorna. ... more about Lorna Doone
Not Available on DVD
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A man watching a musical show at the Windmill theatre is shot apparently from the stage. The cast continues the performance so that the detective can solve the murder. ... more about Murder at the Windmill
Not Available on DVD
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The Nazis kidnap a simple farm labourer when they think he is one of their spies. He escapes, only to be nearly shot by a British spy who also thinks he's a Nazi. ... more about Spy for a Day
Not Available on DVD
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Frank Burdon is a new reporter on a small-town Scottish paper. He's told to interview local politician William Gow, then left in charge of the paper overnight. ... more about Storm in a Teacup
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