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1) My fair lady
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A Cockney waif is transformed by Professor Henry Higgins into an elegant lady.
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"Much of the action takes place on an almost clinically bare stage, and the fear and violence in the usurping Duke's court, where everyone wears formal black Elizabethan dress, is chilling. With his lame eye and air of festering resentment, Sandy Neilson's Duke Frederick has a touch of the psychotic about him ... Boyd ... shows us the bloody reality of rural life as the shepherd Corin (excellent Geoffrey Freshwater) slowly skins and beheads a dead...
5) My fair lady
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A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere featurette; Rex Harison BFI honor; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now; photo galleries; Comments on a lady; Rex harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech; Academy Awards highlights; interview Martin Scorsese; alternate Audrey Heopburn vocals; production tests; Los Angeles premiere; 1963 production...
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
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Sir Alec Guinness as Henry Holland, a meek clerk, devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But their ingenious idea to melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers and smuggle them to France turns their perfect crime into a disastrous caper and unexpected surprises.
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Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2000
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
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Kino Lorber Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
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Freelance pilot Harry Black finds both the Monte Carlo police and the underworld on his tail when he becomes caught up with one of his passenger's plot to break the bank of England with forged currency. The tension mounts as mysterious beauty Diane Reed and local gangster Mosul Rashi are hot on Harry's trail believing that he has the priceless plates used to print the counterfeit money.
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Marathon Music & Video
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Corregidor: Doctors on Corregidor sort out a love triangle while fighting the invading Japanese forces. (1943) with Otto Kruger & Donald Woods.
The immortal battalion: An army officer shapes a unit of British recruits into a crack battalion to face Rommel's North Africa Korps. (1944) with David Niven, Stanley Holloway & Peter Ustinov. Directed by Carol Reed.
The big lift: When the Russians blockade Berlin, British and American airmen receive supplies...
11) Brief encounter
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Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2012
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After a chance meeting on a train station, a married doctor and a suburban housewife enter into a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
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Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
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Detonation of an unexploded bomb left from WWII German bombings uncovers an ancient document which reveals that London's Pimlico district really belongs to France. The community, eager to abandon post-war constraints, establish their independence as a ration-free state, but soon find that their action has consequences.
14) Brief encounter
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Criterion collection volume 76
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
15) British noir
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Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2015], ©2015
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They met in the dark:discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career.
The october man: after a traumatic brain injury, a young engineer tries to repair his life. But his recovery is thwarted when a woman is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect.
Snowbound: a British Army vet exposes a plot by ex-Nazis to reclaim a stash of gold bullion hidden at a ski resort.
The golden...
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Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Kind hearts and coronets: Following his mother's death, an Edwardian gentleman plots to avenge her by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family.
The Lavender Hill mob: A bank clerk devises a plot to steal a fortune in gold from his own bank.
The man in the white suit: An eccentric chemist one day invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out or gets dirty.
The captain's paradise: The captain of an international ferryboat secretly...
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Studio Canal
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
This exclusive collection brings together five of Ealing Studios' greatest comedies. Each classic film has been newly remastered from pristine vault materials, many available for the first time ever in America.
The Maggie. In order to get the money he needs to repair his boat, MacTaggart tricks a U.S. businessman into using it to transport his precious cargo. When the American learns of the deception he tries to chase down the Maggie and overtake...
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Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Featuring a lineup of big Hollywood stars, these light-hearted productions feature the witty dialogue, slapstick humor and crazy antics from the golden age of cinema. Cherish the wisecracks, pratfalls and playful plot twists that lead to hilarious results in this one-of-a-kind collection that will make you say, 'They just don't make them like they used to ... '
