Nigel Bruce

Nigel Bruce

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia William Nigel Ernle Bruce (4 February 1895 – 8 October 1953), best known as Nigel Bruce, was a British character actor on stage and screen.  He was best known for his portrayal of Doctor Watson in a series of films and in the radio series The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes). Bruce is also remembered for his roles in the Alfred Hitchcock films Rebecca and Suspicion.

  • Title: Nigel Bruce
  • Popularity: 18.467
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1895-02-03
  • Place of Birth: Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
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  • Also Known As: William Nigel Ernle Bruce, Willie Bruce, Найджел Брюс
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Nigel Bruce Movies

  • 1940
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    Rebecca

    Rebecca

    7.921 1940 HD

    Story of a young woman who marries a fascinating widower only to find out that she must live in the shadow of his former wife, Rebecca, who died...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Laurence Olivier

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  • 1943
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    Lassie Come Home

    Lassie Come Home

    6.669 1943 HD

    Hard times come for the Carraclough family and they are forced to sell their dog, Lassie, to the rich Duke of Rudling. Lassie, however, is unwilling...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Roddy McDowall

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  • 1943
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    The Spider Woman

    The Spider Woman

    6.9 1943 HD

    Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1946
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    Dressed to Kill

    Dressed to Kill

    6.5 1946 HD

    A convicted thief in Dartmoor prison hides the location of the stolen Bank of England printing plates inside three music boxes. When the innocent...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1946
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    Terror by Night

    Terror by Night

    6.6 1946 HD

    Holmes and Watson board a passenger train bound from London to Edinburgh, to guard the Star of Rhodesia, an enormous diamond worth a fortune...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1934
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    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    The Scarlet Pimpernel

    6.9 1934 HD

    18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Leslie Howard

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  • 1945
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    The House of Fear

    The House of Fear

    6.794 1945 HD

    The Good Comrades are a collection of varied gentlemen who crave one thing - solitude. They reside at Drearcliff House, ancestral home of their...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1944
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    The Scarlet Claw

    The Scarlet Claw

    6.881 1944 HD

    When a woman is found dead with her throat torn out, the local villagers blame a supernatural monster. But Sherlock Holmes, who gets drawn into the...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1944
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    The Pearl of Death

    The Pearl of Death

    7.039 1944 HD

    The famous Borgia Pearl, a valuable gem with a history of bringing murder and misfortune to its owner since the days of the Borgias, is brought to...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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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...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1939
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    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    The Hound of the Baskervilles

    7.099 1939 HD

    On his uncle's death Sir Henry Baskerville returns from Canada to take charge of his ancestral hall on the desolate moors of Devonshire, and finds...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Richard Greene

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  • 1947
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    The Two Mrs. Carrolls

    The Two Mrs. Carrolls

    6.507 1947 HD

    Struggling artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally while on holiday in the country. A romance develops, but he doesn't tell her he's already married....

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Humphrey Bogart

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  • 1945
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    The Woman in Green

    The Woman in Green

    6.4 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...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1954
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    World for Ransom

    World for Ransom

    5 1954 HD

    In Singapore, a private detective and the British authorities are on the trail of a crime syndicate that kidnaps a nuclear physicist with the aim of...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dan Duryea

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  • 1952
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    Limelight

    Limelight

    7.934 1952 HD

    A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Charlie Chaplin

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  • 1943
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    Crazy House

    Crazy House

    3.5 1943 HD

    Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson are Broadway stars who return to Universal Studios to make another movie. The mere mention of Olsen and Johnson's names...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Ole Olsen

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  • 1940
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    The Blue Bird

    The Blue Bird

    5.73 1940 HD

    An ungrateful girl and her little brother are transported in their dreams by a fairy to a wonderland, tasked with finding the mythical blue bird of...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Shirley Temple

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  • 1935
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    She

    She

    5.4 1935 HD

    Leo Vincey, told by his dying uncle of a lost land visited 500 years ago by his ancestor, heads out with family friend Horace Holly to try to...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Helen Gahagan

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  • 1945
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    Son of Lassie

    Son of Lassie

    5.9 1945 HD

    Laddie (Son of Lassie) and his master are trapped in Norway during WW2 - has he inherited his mothers famous courage?

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Peter Lawford

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  • 1945
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    The Corn Is Green

    The Corn Is Green

    7.076 1945 HD

    When a teacher reads an essay written by Morgan Evans, one of the boys, moved by his rough poetry she decides to hold classes in her house and...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Bette Davis

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  • 1942
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    Journey for Margaret

    Journey for Margaret

    6.6 1942 HD

    An American newspaperman and his wife, end up in London after several retreats in the opening days of WWII. After a shrapnel wound and loss of her...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Robert Young

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  • 1934
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    Treasure Island

    Treasure Island

    6.5 1934 HD

    In this early film adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis Stevenson, young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Wallace Beery

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  • 1935
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    Becky Sharp

    Becky Sharp

    5.529 1935 HD

    The first feature length film to use three-strip Technicolor film. Adapted from a play that was adapted from William Makepeace Thackeray's book...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Miriam Hopkins

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  • 1936
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    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    The Charge of the Light Brigade

    6.5 1936 HD

    In 1853, as the British and Russian empires compete to gain and maintain their place in the dreadful Great Game of political intrigues and alliances...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Errol Flynn

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  • 1943
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    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    Sherlock Holmes in Washington

    6.8 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...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1934
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    Stand Up and Cheer!

    Stand Up and Cheer!

    4.8 1934 HD

    President Franklin Roosevelt appoints a theatrical producer as the new Secretary of Amusement in order to cheer up an American public still suffering...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Warner Baxter

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  • 1939
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    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

    6.867 1939 HD

    Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off” his last major nemesis,...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1942
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    Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

    Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon

    6.3 1942 HD

    In the midst of World War II, Sherlock Holmes rescues the Swiss inventor of a new bomb-sight from the Gestapo and brings him to England, where he...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1945
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    Pursuit to Algiers

    Pursuit to Algiers

    6.7 1945 HD

    After the King of Ruthenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to Europe via Algiers, aboard a transatlantic ocean...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1948
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    Julia Misbehaves

    Julia Misbehaves

    6.5 1948 HD

    Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Greer Garson

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  • 1943
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    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

    Sherlock Holmes Faces Death

    6.9 1943 HD

    During WWII several murders occur at a convalescent home where Dr. Watson has volunteered his services. He summons Holmes for help and the master...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Basil Rathbone

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  • 1937
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    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

    6 1937 HD

    A chic American jewel thief falls in love with one of her marks, an English lord.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 1938
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    The Baroness and the Butler

    The Baroness and the Butler

    5 1938 HD

    A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: William Powell

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  • 1936
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    Under Two Flags

    Under Two Flags

    6 1936 HD

    Sergeant Victor comes to the French Foreign Legion after taking the blame for his brother's crime. Cigarette falls in love with him though Major...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Ronald Colman

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  • 1936
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    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

    The Trail of the Lonesome Pine

    6.3 1936 HD

    A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Fred MacMurray

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  • 1942
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    Roxie Hart

    Roxie Hart

    6.9 1942 HD

    A café in Chicago, 1942. On a rainy night, veteran reporter Homer Howard tells an increasing audience the story of Roxie Hart and the crime...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ginger Rogers

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  • 1941
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    The Chocolate Soldier

    The Chocolate Soldier

    6.6 1941 HD

    Maria and Karl Lang are the singing duo of Vienna. Maria is very flirtatious and Karl very jealous. Karl decides to masquerade as a Russian guardsman...

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Nelson Eddy

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  • 1937
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    Thunder in the City

    Thunder in the City

    5.4 1937 HD

    A visiting American engages in a bold business promotion, the likes of which the British have not seen.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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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...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Douglas Fairbanks Jr.

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  • 1941
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    Hudson's Bay

    Hudson's Bay

    6.2 1941 HD

    Highly fictionalized early history of Canada. Trapper/explorer Radisson imagines an empire around Hudson's Bay. He befriends the Indians, fights the...

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Paul Muni

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  • 1938
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    Kidnapped

    Kidnapped

    6 1938 HD

    Robert Louis Stevenson's hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Warner Baxter

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  • 1940
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    A Dispatch from Reuters

    A Dispatch from Reuters

    5.7 1940 HD

    German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Edward G. Robinson

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  • 1942
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    This Above All

    This Above All

    6.6 1942 HD

    In 1940 England, aristocratic Prudence Cathaway alarms her snobbish parents by joining the WAF service branch. She soon meets and falls in love with...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tyrone Power

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  • 1941
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    Play Girl

    Play Girl

    6.3 1941 HD

    When a gold digger starts to get a little old to ply her trade, she teaches a younger woman all her tricks.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Kay Francis

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  • 1939
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    The Rains Came

    The Rains Came

    5.9 1939 HD

    Indian aristocrat Rama Safti returns from medical training in the U.S. to give his life to the poor folk of Ranchipur. Lady Edwina and her drunken...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Myrna Loy

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  • 1950
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    Vendetta

    Vendetta

    1 1950 HD

    The daughter of a slain man pushes her brother toward vengeance in 19th-century Corsica.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Faith Domergue

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  • 1944
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    Frenchman's Creek

    Frenchman's Creek

    4.9 1944 HD

    An English lady falls in love with a French pirate after he kidnaps her from her ancestral home on the coast of Cornwall and sweeps her off her feet...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Joan Fontaine

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  • 1934
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    Springtime for Henry

    Springtime for Henry

    1 1934 HD

    A rakish fellow involves himself with a married woman. Later his secretary endeavors to win him away with the promise of a more stable relationship....

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Otto Kruger

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  • 1940
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    Adventure in Diamonds

    Adventure in Diamonds

    5.2 1940 HD

    A government pilot (George Brent) falls for a woman (Isa Miranda) helping her partner (John Loder) smuggle diamonds out of South Africa.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: George Brent

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  • 1952
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    Hong Kong

    Hong Kong

    4.6 1952 HD

    American adventurer Jeff Williams is fleeing the communist advance in China when he becomes entangled with a young Chinese orphan, Wei Lin, and a...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Ronald Reagan

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  • 1940
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    Lillian Russell

    Lillian Russell

    5.9 1940 HD

    Alice Faye plays the title role in this 1940 film biography of the early-20th-century stage star.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Alice Faye

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  • 1935
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    The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

    The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo

    6.3 1935 HD

    A Russian prince goes to Monte Carlo just after World War I with money supplied to him by Parisian Russians. He wins but the casino operators want...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Ronald Colman

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  • 1933
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    I Was A Spy

    I Was A Spy

    5.5 1933 HD

    During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British. Complicating...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Herbert Marshall

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  • 1936
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    Follow Your Heart

    Follow Your Heart

    1 1936 HD

    An eccentric musical family is kept in order by a talented daughter with modest ambitions.

    Genre: Music

    Cast: Marion Talley

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  • 1944
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    Gypsy Wildcat

    Gypsy Wildcat

    5.7 1944 HD

    In an unspecified Renaissance kingdom, no sooner has Anube's gypsy tribe encamped near Baron Tovar's village when Count Orso is found murdered. The...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Maria Montez

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  • 1938
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    Suez

    Suez

    5.4 1938 HD

    Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Tyrone Power

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  • 1930
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    Birds of Prey

    Birds of Prey

    6 1930 HD

    At a reception given by Arthur Hilton at his Sussex home the conversation turns to the subject of danger, with Hilton recalling a case in which he...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Dorothy Boyd

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  • 1940
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    Susan and God

    Susan and God

    6.5 1940 HD

    A flighty socialite neglects her family to promote a new religious group.

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Joan Crawford

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  • 1930
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    Escape!

    Escape!

    6.3 1930 HD

    When Matt Denant (Gerald de Maurier) finds himself wrongly imprisoned for manslaughter, he takes an opportunity to escape from jail during a foggy...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Gerald du Maurier

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  • 1936
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    The Man I Marry

    The Man I Marry

    1 1936 HD

    A wealthy young man writes a play under a different name to prove to his overbearing mother that he can succeed on his own.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Doris Nolan

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  • 1932
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    Lord Camber's Ladies

    Lord Camber's Ladies

    6 1932 HD

    In this drama the owner of a flower shop falls in love with one of her patrons. Unfortunately, he is married to a shrewish actress and cannot get out...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Gerald du Maurier

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  • 1932
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    The Midshipmaid

    The Midshipmaid

    1 1932 HD

    Sir Percy Newbiggin visits the fleet to find ways to economize Naval expenditures. Daughter Celia tags along and organizes a morale-boosting show...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Jessie Matthews

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  • 1936
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    The White Angel

    The White Angel

    8 1936 HD

    In mid-nineteenth century England the medical establishment does not recognize the value of skilled nurses, cleanliness, nutrition and kindness....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kay Francis

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  • 1934
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    The Lady Is Willing

    The Lady Is Willing

    6 1934 HD

    In this comedy-mystery, a private detective helps three businessmen get even with the man who misused their investments. The detective plans to...

    Genre: Comedy

    Cast: Leslie Howard

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  • 1941
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    Suspicion

    Suspicion

    7.131 1941 HD

    Wealthy, sheltered Lina McLaidlaw is swept off her feet by charming ne'er-do-well Johnnie Aysgarth. Though warned that Johnnie is little more than a...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Cary Grant

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  • 1935
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    Jalna

    Jalna

    4.8 1935 HD

    A young poet, accompanied by his new bride, returns home to his large family at their Canadian farm.

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kay Johnson

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  • 1942
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    Eagle Squadron

    Eagle Squadron

    1 1942 HD

    An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Robert Stack

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  • 1941
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    Free and Easy

    Free and Easy

    5.5 1941 HD

    This MGM B-picture was adapted from Ivor Novello's play The Truth Game. Max and Florian Clemington pretend to be members of the landed gentry. Max...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Robert Cummings

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  • 1952
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    Bwana Devil

    Bwana Devil

    4.7 1952 HD

    British railway workers in Kenya are becoming the favorite snack of two man-eating lions. Head engineer Bob Hayward becomes obsessed with trying to...

    Genre: Action

    Cast: Robert Stack

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  • 1933
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    Channel Crossing

    Channel Crossing

    1 1933 HD

    Money isn't everything. Tycoon races against time to cross the English Channel in order to save a business deal, but along the way his whole value...

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Matheson Lang

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  • 1943
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    Forever and a Day

    Forever and a Day

    7.2 1943 HD

    In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble,...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Kent Smith

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  • 1941
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    This Woman Is Mine

    This Woman Is Mine

    3.2 1941 HD

    Three seafaring fur traders fall in love with a female stowaway they discover aboard their ship. Many adventures follow.

    Genre: Adventure

    Cast: Franchot Tone

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  • 1931
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    The Calendar

    The Calendar

    1 1931 HD

    Racehorse owner Anson is swindled by a woman named Wenda and goes up in front of the Jockey Club where he is disqualified on race fixing allegations....

    Genre: Drama

    Cast: Herbert Marshall

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  • 1934
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    Murder in Trinidad

    Murder in Trinidad

    1 1934 HD

    Author/explorer John W. Vandercook conceived the character of Bertram Lynch as an investigator for the League of Nations. He is Trinidad's Port o'...

    Genre: Mystery

    Cast: Nigel Bruce

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  • 1930
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    Red Aces

    Red Aces

    1 1930 HD

    A gambler frames a banker for killing the man whose name he forged.

    Genre: Crime

    Cast: Janice Adair

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    The Squeaker

    The Squeaker

    1 1930 HD

    A detective poses as an ex-convict to expose the head of a benevolent society as a fence.

    Genre: Thriller

    Cast: Percy Marmont

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  • 1985
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    The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

    The Many Faces of Sherlock Holmes

    7 1985 HD

    This documentary examines the making of the Sherlock Holmes cinematic dynasty and includes interviews and archival film clips featuring the original...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Christopher Lee

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  • 1936
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    Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1)

    6 1936 HD

    Viewers are provided a visit to Ken Maynard's private circus; Bette Davis poses for her portrait; Frank McHugh plays with his children; a visit to...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Bette Davis

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  • 1934
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    Coming Out Party

    Coming Out Party

    5 1934 HD

    In this romance, a lovely young debutante falls in love with a jazz violinist. Her mother wants her to marry a wealthy young man, but the...

    Genre: Romance

    Cast: Frances Dee

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  • 1996
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    In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

    In the Footsteps of Sherlock Holmes

    1 1996 HD

    Actor Patrick Macnee leads the viewer through London in the footsteps of the genius private investigator Sherlock Holmes and his assistant and...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Jean Haynes

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  • 1972
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    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    Hollywood: The Dream Factory

    6 1972 HD

    A documentary about the glorious history of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and its decline leading to the sale of its back lot and props. By extension...

    Genre: Documentary

    Cast: Dick Cavett

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  • 1956
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    Four Star Playhouse

    Four Star Playhouse

    5.667 1956 HD

    Four Star Playhouse is an American television anthology series that ran from 1952 to 1956, sponsored in its first bi-weekly season by The Singer...

    Genre: Drama

    Cast:

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