Sheila Sim

West of Zanzibar (1954)

Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama 

Length: 84min

No relation to the 1928 Lon Chaney vehicle of the same name, the British West of Zanzibar was filmed on location in East Africa. Game ranger Bob Payton (Anthony Steel) makes it his mission in life to capture the head of a vicious ivory-smuggling...

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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

Cast: James Mason Ava Gardner Nigel Patrick Albert Lewin   

Tags: Fantasy Romance Romantic Fantasy 

Length: 123min

Many cineastes consider Pandora and the Flying Dutchman as the masterpiece of filmmaker Albert Lewin, while others write the film off as a pretentious bore. Ava Gardner stars as Pandora Reynolds, a predatory creature who destroys the lives of all men...

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Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)

Cast: Denholm Elliott Ian Dalrymple Glynis Johns   

Tags: Comedy 

Length: 91min

Cecil Parker is the whole show in Dear Mr. Prohack, just as he'd been in the stage version by Edward Knoblock. The eponymous Prohack is a Royal Treasury official who is an expert at managing other people's money. Alas, when he himself inherits a...

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The Guinea Pig (1948)

Cast: Richard Attenborough Roy Boulting Anthony Newley   

Tags: Drama 

Length: 97min

Not a film about scientific research, The Guinea Pig (US title: The Outsider) is the story of an incipient "affirmative action" program. An impoverished young British boy wins a scholarship. As part of a sociological experiment, he becomes the first...

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Dancing with Crime (1947)

Cast: Dirk Bogarde John Paddy Carstairs   

Tags: Crime Thriller Crime 

Length: 83min

Hollywood films were linking up dance halls with criminal activities long before the British-made Dancing with Crime, which does not mean that this 1949 melodrama is any less worthwhile. Adding a contemporary twist, the criminals operating within the...

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Great Day (1946)

Cast: Flora Robson   

Tags: War Drama Drama War 

Length: 62min

American first lady Eleanor Roosevelt's impending visit to a tiny English country village is the motivation of the Anglo-American coproduction Great Day. As the villagers prepare for their prestigious guest, all sorts of internal squabbles and...

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A Canterbury Tale (1944)

Cast: Michael Powell Emeric Pressburger   

Tags: Road Movie Buddy Film Comedy Drama 

Length: 124min

Set not in the 14th century milieu of Geoffrey Chaucer but in wartime Britain, A Canterbury Tale begins with rural justice of the peace Eric Portman adopting a "lock up your daughters" policy when the American soldiers are stationed nearby. To escape...

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