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Geordie (1955)
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other title: 若い河
Concerned about his small stature, a young Scottish boy applies for a mail-order body building course, successfully gaining both height and strength. The film was released as "Wee Geordie" in the USA.

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The Rake's Progress (1945)
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other title: Der letzte Sündenfall / 風流公子 …
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal of, apparently, making dissipation his career. His derelictions include seduction, betrayals of sweethearts, family and friends, and Marriage for money. All this with no signs of remorse or redemption, since his life as a completely unprincipled rake is quite enjoyable...for him, at least. Then, World War II breaks out and he is given a chance to die a heroic death for flag and country. Maybe.

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Millions Like Us (1943)
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other title: Millones como nosotros / 百万同胞 …
When Celia Crowson is called up for war service, she hopes for a glamorous job in one of the services, but as a single girl, she is directed into a factory making aircraft parts. Here she meets other girls from all different walks of life and begins a relationship with a young airman.

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London Belongs to Me (1948)
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other title: Londres appartient à moi / Londres me pertenece …
Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

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State Secret (1950)
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other title: Staatsgeheimnis / Secret d'état …
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.

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The Pure Hell of St Trinian's (1960)
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other title: 特里安的纯真地狱 / 烏龍女校 …
The fourth form monsters' latest trick is their best yet – they have burned down the school! As the girls stand trial, police breathe a sigh of relief, but miraculously the judge's infatuation with a student means the school is freed. For the authorities, it means a new reign of terror as the girls of St Trinian’s regroup with gleeful anticipation.

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The Man Who Changed His Mind (1936)
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other title: Der Mann, der sein Gehirn austauschte / Cerveaux de rechange …
Dr. Laurence, a once-respectable scientist, begins to research the origin of the mind and the soul. The science community rejects him, and he risks losing everything for which he has worked. He begins to use his discoveries to save his research and further his own causes, thereby becoming ... a mad scientist, almost unstoppable.

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Rome Express (1932)
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沃尔特·福德 actor: 康拉德·韦特 / 艾斯特·罗尔斯顿 …
other title: 罗马快车 / 로마행 특급열차 …
A sinister character boards the Rome Express on the trail of a valuable Van Dyke painting, recently stolen from a Paris gallery. Much to his annoyance he finds the train populated with a motley assortment of passengers. including adulterous lovers, a very annoying golf fanatic, a French police chief and an American silent film star any one of whom could have the painting he desperately seeks..

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The Lady Vanishes (1980)
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other title: 迷离列车 / 傻妹大闹列车 …
1938年8月的一天,赶往伦敦结婚的美国人凯莉小姐;生活杂志社的摄影记者康德先生;给一名德国将军做过保姆,现今辞职回老家的芙瑞夫人;前往伦敦看国际板球比赛的查特兹和考特先生;以及一副学者派头的哈里兹医生在巴伐利亚一个叫多萨的小站上,登上了开往巴塞尔的列车。 上车后,凯莉小姐和芙瑞夫人有幸和自称是德国男爵夫人的一行坐在同一个包厢。列车开出不久,奇怪的事情就发生了。当凯莉小憩一会儿后再次睁开眼睛时,发现坐在对面的芙瑞夫人竟然不见了。在问遍包括男爵夫人在内的、列车上所有的人并得到根本就没有见过芙瑞这样一个人的结果后,凯莉觉得这其中一定有鬼。 列车经过一个小站时,哈里兹医生下车将一个面部紧缠纱带的病人抬上了自己的包厢。就在凯莉为找不到芙瑞显得有些急躁而让其他人误认为凯莉是酒后神情恍惚时,车窗外一张从前面飘过来的商标图案让康德意识到凯莉所说的一切都是真的。和康德一起继续寻找芙瑞的过程中,负责给哈里兹医生看护病人的修女脚上穿的一双高跟鞋引起了凯莉对哈里兹和被纱带蒙面的病人的疑虑。而此时,当凯莉和康德喝下哈里兹下过迷药的红酒后,哈里兹承认了病人就是芙瑞的事实。 原来,哈里兹是一个顽固的纳粹分子,而芙瑞此行回伦敦带着一个关乎国家存亡的重大秘密。经过一场生死攸关、惊心动魄的较量后,凯莉和康德救下了芙瑞,并将德国纳粹包围的列车成功地开到了中立国瑞士的领土。等共坠爱河的凯莉和康德赶到伦敦政府转达芙瑞临下车前交代的秘密口信时,让她们意想不到的是,在伦敦政府的办公大楼里又见到了在列车上曾神秘失踪的芙瑞夫人。 精彩视点: 该片是1979年由英国GB公司出品的一部影片。本片导演安东尼·佩吉曾获得纽约影评人协会颁发的最佳导演奖。男主角埃里奥特·吉尔德1971在因主演《风流医生俏护士》获得了英国学院奖最佳男演员奖。后来又在影片《魔鬼陷阱》、《诺亚奇遇记》等片中有不错的表现。

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Bulldog Jack (1935)
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other title: Alias Bulldog Drummond
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.

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Kipps (1941)
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other title: 情重金轻 / 情重金輕 …
Kipps the draper's apprentice falls in love with a girl above his station. When he unexpectedly inherits a fortune, he thinks his dream has come true. But money can't make him a gentleman, or bring him the girl he really wants...

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I See a Dark Stranger (1946)
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other title: 红粉间谍 / 我看见了一个黑色的陌生人 …
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits her as a Nazi spy. She acquires the necessary information that leads to the breakout of a German spy who holds key information about the Allies' newest offensive plans. However, the arrival of British officer David Baynes and his romancing of Bridie lead to unexpected consequences.

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The Belles of St. Trinian's (1954)
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other title: 乌龙女校
These 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 by Alastair Sim, who also plays the head-mistress.

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The Green Man (1956)
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罗伯特·戴 / 巴兹尔·迪尔登 actor: 阿拉斯塔尔·西姆 / 乔治·科尔 …
other title: 绿人 / 谋杀博士
Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.

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A Yank at Oxford (1938)
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other title: 牛津风云 / 美国佬在牛津
本片描述一个美国大学生在驰名四海的大学生城——牛津遇到的厄运。而这一切都归咎于这位美国人在一个注重传统而又保守的国家中仍然保持天真无邪。当然,对于老英国的讽刺是一点也不尖锐的,虽然主人公利·谢里登由于误会而被迫离开了大学。影片结束时,真相大白,谢里登在仇人的情夫受到其丈夫的追踪时,叫她躲在自己的住所。后来他又参加了四对桨划船比赛,帮助牛津的选手战胜了来自剑桥的对手。 这部片子使费雯丽摆脱了天真少女的角色框框,扮演了一位有性格的人物,对这种人物来说,外貌并没有多大意义。满头卷发、浓妆艳抹的她,此番不是以美丽取胜,而是以一个轻浮的小市民的鲜艳形象引人注目。这个女人活泼自然,热爱生活,厚颜无耻之中又带有天真无邪。

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Jamaica Inn (1939)
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Alfred Hitchcock actor: Charles Laughton / 海·皮特里 …
other title: 牙买加旅店 / 黑海人妖 …
In coastal Cornwall, England, during the early 19th Century, a young woman who's come there to visit her aunt, discovers that she's married an innkeeper who's a member of a gang of criminals who arrange shipwrecking and murder for profit.