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Mandy (1952)

Cast: Jack Hawkins Godfrey Tearle Alexander MacKendrick Phyllis Calvert Terence Morgan   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 93min

Released in Britain as Crash of Silence, Mandy is a straightforward story about a handicapped child's efforts to adapt to a normal world. Born deaf, Mandy is mute for most of her childhood. Her desperate parents enroll her in special education...

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The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)

Cast: Stanley Holloway Georges Auric Godfrey Tearle John Gregson Naunton Wayne   

Tags: Satire Comedy of Manners Comedy 

Length: 84min

The first Ealing Studios comedy shot in color, Titfield Thunderbolt takes place in a tiny British village serviced by a branch railway line. When the government plans to close the line down, the locals are in a panic--except for a group intending to...

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White Corridors (1951)

Cast: Googie Withers James Donald Barry Jones Bernard Lee Patrick Troughton   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 102min

White Corridors was based on Yeoman Hospital, a novel by Helen Ashton. Told episodically, the story concentrates on the day-to-day activities in a busy hospital, where research pathologist Neil Marriner (James Donald) conducts experiments in the hopes...

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Notorious Gentleman (1945)

Cast: Rex Harrison Godfrey Tearle Lilli Palmer Jean Kent Sidney Gilliat   

Tags: War Drama Drama War 

Length: 109min

Rex Harrison stars in this stylish British drama that caused problems with U.S. censors, who forced the film to be trimmed due to what was considered graphically amoral and sexual content for its time. Harrison is Vivian Kenway, an unrepentant cad who...

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A Medal for the General (1944)

Cast: Maurice Elvey Godfrey Tearle John Laurie Thorley Walters Janette Scott   

Tags: Psychological Drama War Drama Drama War 

Length: 99min

A proud but aging WW I war-horse is deeply offended when his offer to lead during WW II is rejected by the government that once lauded his bravery with a series of medals. Embittered and despondent over their callousness, he heads back to his isolated...

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Private Angelo (1949)

Cast: Peter Ustinov Michael Anderson James Robertson Justice Godfrey Tearle Erwin Hillier   

Tags: War Drama Comedy War 

Length: 106min

Peter Ustinov co-produced, wrote and co-directed the quietly effective Private Angelo. Set during WW II, the film stars Ustinov as a tremulous Italian army private who does his best to avoid getting shot at. Trouble is, the more he tries to run away...

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The Lamp Still Burns (1943)

Cast: Maurice Elvey Leslie Howard Robert Krasker Godfrey Tearle Stewart Granger   

Tags: War Drama Drama War 

Length: 90min

Monica Dickens' novel One Pair of Feet was the source of the sociological drama The Lamp Still Burns. Like the original novel, the film is a plea for better conditions in English hospitals-and, more specifically, for better treatment of England's...

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Undercover (1943)

Cast: Tom Walls Stanley Baker Finlay Currie Godfrey Tearle Michael Balcon   

Tags: War Drama Drama War 

Length: 82min

Undercover is a British-made WWII picture glorifying the efforts of a small group of Yugoslavian resistance fighters who struggled against the Nazis. In the tradition of Hollywood, virtually all the Slavic characters are played by such doggedly...

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At Dawn We Die (1943)

Cast: Hugh Sinclair Anatole de Grunwald Otto Heller Godfrey Tearle Greta Gynt   

Tags: Spy Film Melodrama Action Drama 

Length: 85min

Tomorrow we Live is the more upbeat American title of the British war drama At Dawn we Die. When his village is overtaken by Nazis, Frenchman Jean Baptiste (John Clements) tries to go to England. Armed with secret information about a German submarine...

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