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Cowboys (1980) [TV] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Cowboys
director: Peter Learmouth actor: Roy Kinnear / David Kelly …
Cowboys is a British sitcom that aired on the ITV network during the early 1980s.

The show was created by Peter Learmouth whom would go on to create Granada television sitcom Surgical Spirit and starred Lancastrian Character-actor Roy Kinnear as Joe Jones "whose small building firm hardly seems to do anything right at all" with co-stars David Kelly as 'Wobbly' Ron, "Oscar-Winning Writer" Colin Welland as Geyser and James Wardroper with Debbie Linden and Janine Duvitski.

The show is based on the British colloquial use of "cowboy" to describe a workman of doubtful professionalism e.g. a "cowboy builder".
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The Amorous Milkman (1975) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Amorous Milkman
director: Derren Nesbitt actor: Julie Ege / Diana Dors …
other title: El lechero amoroso / 處男艷遇
Davey's milk delivery job offers him scant excitement. But when a few of the lonely housewives, including the alluring Rita, want him to deliver a little more than just pints of milk, Davey launches into a series of sexcapades that quickly get out of hand. Soon, he finds himself engaged to two women, dodging a local gangster who doesn't appreciate his "service" and fighting false rape charges in court.
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Mr. H Is Late (1988) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Mr. H Is Late
director: Eric Sykes actor: John Alderton / Bobby Ball …
A team of inept undertakers attempt to get a coffin to a funeral on time. An undertaker is in charge of moving a coffin from a home to the church. The home is on the 26th floor of a skyscraper; the stairs are narrow; the lift is small and prone to stop working. Chaos ensues.
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The Alf Garnett Saga (1972) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Alf Garnett Saga
director: Bob Kellett actor: Warren Mitchell / Dandy Nichols …
other title: 風流何價
Alf and his family have been moved from their East End home into a high-rise council estate. Alf is not only having trouble coping with his new 'home', but also with the long commute to work, the long walk to the corner pub, his long-suffering wife Else, rebellious daughter Rita, and her philandering, constantly unemployed husband Mike.
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The Informers (1963) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Informers
director: Ken Annakin actor: Nigel Patrick / Katherine Woodville …
other title: 线人 / Imperio de violencia …
When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
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The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Last Remake of Beau Geste
director: 马蒂·费德曼 actor: 安-玛格丽特 / 马蒂·费德曼 …
other title: Drei Fremdenlegionäre / Mon 'beau' légionnaire …
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
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If You Go Down in the Woods Today (1981) [Movie] IMDb Douban
If You Go Down in the Woods Today
director: 埃里克·赛克斯 actor: 埃里克·赛克斯 / Robin Bailey …
other title: Im Wald, da sind…
A Boy Scout troupe led by their scoutmaster (Sykes) is on a field trip to a seemingly-peaceful English woodland. However, the woods are actually teeming with strange characters, some of whom turn out to be disguised police officers and others criminals. The police are searching for £2,000,000 in stolen banknotes and hope that the criminals will lead them to them. The criminals, on the other hand, are aware that the police are looking for them and doing their best to avoid betraying the location of their stash.
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Return of the Ewok (1982) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB TMDB
Return of the Ewok
director: David Tomblin actor: Warwick Davis / Ashley Davis …
other title: 伊沃克人归来
A mockumentary starring Warwick Davis, the actor who played the Ewok, Wicket W. Warrick in Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi and the Ewok spin-off films. Davis and David Tomblin, Return of the Jedi's first assistant director, created it, with Tomblin directing. Lucasfilm planned to use the movie as a promotional film for Return of the Jedi, but post-production on the film was never completed.
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The Hill (1965) [Movie] Min reol
The Hill
director: Sidney Lumet actor: Sean Connery / Harry Andrews …
other title: La Colline des hommes perdus / Ein Haufen toller Hunde …
North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a manmade instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun. And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-at-arms.
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Hamlet at Elsinore (1964) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Hamlet at Elsinore
director: Philip Saville actor: Christopher Plummer / Robert Shaw …
other title: 埃尔西诺的哈姆雷特
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
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That Was The Week That Was (1962) [Movie] Douban
actor: David Frost / Millicent Martin …
A ground-breaking, late-night, live satire show which launched a host of careers and kick-started the '60s satire boom. The brilliant, incisive scripts, taking topical pot-shots at the establishment, made it possible to fulfil the show's intention to 'prick the pomposity of those in power'.
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Sparrows Can't Sing (1963) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Sparrows Can't Sing
director: Joan Littlewood actor: 詹姆斯·布斯 / Barbara Windsor …
other title: 麻雀不唱歌 / Sparrers Can't Sing
Charlie returns to the East End after two years at sea to find his house demolished and wife Maggie gone. Everyone else knows she is now shacked up with married bus driver Bert and a toddler, and they all watch with more than a little interest at the trail of mayhem Charlie leaves as he goes about sorting things out.