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Ernest Thesiger, CBE, was an English stage and screen actor. He is best known for his distinctive performance as Dr. Septimus Pretorius in James Whale's 1935 film The Bride of Frankenstein.
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01 December 1948
Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
07 January 1954
An impoverished American sailor is fortunate enough to be passing the house of two rich gentlemen who have conceived the crazy idea of distributing a note worth one million pounds.
12 February 1952
The organising force of a family of musical prodigies, Robert Mansell is a frustrated composer in seach of one thing personal happiness.
08 June 1954
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
13 December 1955
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him.
14 May 1929
A lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
09 September 1955
During the 15th century reign of France's King Louis XI, a young Scottish man is sent by his English Lord to woo a French lady on his behalf.
16 May 2007
Famous Monster takes a fast-paced, colorful look at the life of science fiction's greatest fan - Forrest J.
07 August 1951
The unassuming, nebbishy inventor Sidney Stratton creates a miraculous fabric that will never be dirty or worn out.
23 December 1956
Three London gentlemen take a vacation rowing down the Thames, encountering various mishaps and misadventures along the way.
01 January 1918
A biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.
22 July 1946
A paraplegic baroness mistakes a man's pity for love - and tragedy ensues.
20 April 1935
Dr. Frankenstein and his monster both turn out to be alive after being attacked by an angry mob. The now-chastened scientist attempts to escape his past, but a former mentor forces him to assist with the creation of a new creature.
16 September 1953
Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixion.
30 November 1951
Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a selfish, lonely old man.
18 April 1949
Injured and on his deathbed in Greece, Lord Byron imagines a celestial trial with witnesses to determine the worth of his character.
25 October 1943
An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
13 November 1944
A stray World War Two bomb releases the ghost of the 3rd Earl of Chaunduyt after 400 years. A visiting professor, while wooing the beautiful Lady Mary, daughter of the present Earl, finds him an ally in his fight on behalf of the villagers to protect their ancient rights against a meddling newcomer.
01 June 1921
A henpeck man inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.
24 November 1944
In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France.
09 August 1955
A wealthy young man from Yorkshire visits a London nightclub and meets a performer. She decides to take him for every penny he is worth, and he decides to let her.
20 March 1945
An elderly couple move into an old, supposedly haunted abandoned house. A young girl comes to live with the pair as a companion for the wife.
30 November 1953
A TV set given as a retirement present is sold on to different households causing misery each time.
31 December 1930
Futuristic story about a slow moving cricket match that begins in 1940 (ten years beyond the year when the film was produced) and finally finishes in 2000.
01 August 1933
British Egyptologist Professor Morlant seeks immortality through a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol.
01 January 1967
Bruce Conner’s most celebrated film for a reason: it takes historical moments that were replayed over and over on television—chilling repetition of Kennedy assassination coverage—and repurposes them into a meditation on how the media tries to exert authority and apply a sense of order to the anarchic.
26 October 1948
Somerset Maugham introduces four of his tales in this anthology film: "The Facts of Life," "The Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady.
01 December 1938
“Shorty” Matthews having recently been released from prison visits his girlfriend in London only to discover her murdered.
01 January 1952
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at.
28 December 1961
Critics and the public say Karen Stone is too old -- as she approaches 50 -- for her role in a play she is about to take to Broadway.
02 December 1938
An aristocrat won't economize, then his rich brother in law is found murdered in the grounds of the e
01 November 1921
A club man's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.
01 June 1951
When an eccentric practical joker dies, he divides his fortune among four heirs. But before they can collect the cash they must each do something which goes completely against their nature.
23 June 1960
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
11 December 1945
The aging Julius Caesar finds himself intrigued by the young Egyptian queen Cleopatra.
15 May 1950
George Bird is a salesman of agricultural machinery who finds out that he hasn't long to live. On his doctor's advice, he goes to an exclusive seaside resort to spend his savings on one last holiday.
20 October 1932
In a remote region of Wales, five travelers beset by a relentless storm find shelter in an old mansion.
08 December 1954
A struggling antiques dealer (Peter Finch) thinks he has found the answer to his problems when he stumbles across a precious vase amid a range of other less desirable items.
25 February 1960
Angela Barrows is a man-eating business woman sent by her American employer to investigate their export opportunities in Edinburgh.
23 July 1936
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
16 July 1934
A major newspaper publisher dies in suspicious circumstances during a parlour game at a dinner party.
24 September 1948
In pre-WW1 England, a youngster is expelled from a naval academy over a petty theft, but his parents raise a political furor by demanding a trial.
20 March 1956
This movie debut for saucy British TV comic Benny Hill has Benny leaving his job as a sweeper after winning some money.
17 June 1933
English-language version of Ich und die Kaiserin. 'Germany, 1890. Duke falls in love with voice which is not that of empress, but of hairdresser.
11 November 1958
Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor.
26 March 1957
Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr.
01 October 1957
A man recalls his relationships with the women he loved as he tries to help another man try to understand them as well.
29 November 1943
A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.
08 October 1998
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.
13 August 1947
In 19th century England, Jassy is a young Gypsy girl blessed with the gift of second sight. Pursued by superstitious villagers, she is rescued by the son of the owner of Mordelaine, a vast stately home.
08 March 1916
Satirical silent movie based on the play Macbeth written in 1916 by Peter Pan creator and playwright J.
30 October 1947
The ghosts of two stupid 18th-century officers are doomed to haunt a Berkeley Square mansion until the unlikely event of a reigning monarch paying the house a visit.
11 May 1929
The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger.
01 January 1935
Musical comedy. An opera singer falls for a stowaway on the way to Monte Carlo
03 January 1960
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
