Joan Hickson
Joan Bogle Hickson OBE (5 August 1906 – 17 October 1998) was an English actress of theatre, film and television. She was known for her role as Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in the television series Miss Marple. As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books.
Born in Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Hickson was a daughter of Edith Mary (née Bogle) and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. Boarding at Oldfield School at Swanage in Dorset she went on to train at RADA in London. Making her stage debut in 1927, she worked for several years throughout the United Kingdom and achieved success playing comedic, often eccentric characters in London's West End, including the role of the cockney maid Ida in the original production of See How They Run, at the Q Theatre in 1944, and then at the Comedy Theatre in January 1945.
She made her first film appearance in 1934. The numerous supporting roles of her career included several Carry On films including Sister in Carry On Nurse and Mrs May in Carry On Constable.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.2338 |
| Birthday | 1906-08-05 |
| Place of Birth | Kingsthorpe, Northampton, Northamptonshire, England, UK |
| Also Known As | Джоан Хиксон, Miss M, Joan Bogle Hickson, |
1961
Murder She Said
7.333/242
Miss Marple believes she's seen a murder in a passing-by train, yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own.
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Murder She Said
1971
Friends
5.931/29
Paul, a rich English boy, and Michelle, an orphaned French girl, run away from home to a remote beach. Living on their own, their friendship grows int...
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Friends
1960
Carry On Constable
6.29/62
With a flu epidemic running rife, three new bumbling recruits are assigned to Inspector Mills police station. With help from Special Constable Gorse,...
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Carry On Constable
1979
Yanks
5.9/67
During WWII, the United States set up army bases in Great Britain as part of the war effort. Against their proper sensibilities, many of the Brits don...
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Yanks
1940
Sailors Don't Care
5/4
Boat building father and son join the river patrol service and get caught-up in a spy ring.
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Sailors Don't Care
1961
Carry On Regardless
6.228/57
After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying...
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Carry On Regardless
1973
Carry On Girls
5.7/65
Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidabl...
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Carry On Girls
1954
The House Across the Lake
5.534/29
Sensuous and desirable, Carol Forrest has always attracted the attention of men. Expert in the art of manipulation and control she married an older ma...
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The House Across the Lake
1946
I See a Dark Stranger
6.5/26
Proud Irishwoman Bridie Quilty journeys to Dublin while World War II rages across Europe. During her travels, she encounters J. Miller, who recruits h...
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I See a Dark Stranger
1973
Theatre of Blood
6.743/257
A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.
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Theatre of Blood
1938
Second Thoughts
0/0
A chemist is left unhinged following a laboratory explosion and begins to plot a murder.
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Second Thoughts
1952
The Card
7/42
A charming and ambitious young man finds many ways to raise himself through the ranks in business and social standing - some honest, some not quite so...
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The Card
1958
Happy Is the Bride
7/5
In a quiet summer corner of Wiltshire that is forever England, David and Janet decide to tie the knot. Unfortunately this is the cue for everyone else...
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Happy Is the Bride
1961
Raising the Wind
6.318/11
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth...
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Raising the Wind
1950
Seven Days to Noon
6.807/44
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven...
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Seven Days to Noon
1977
That's Carry On!
5.8/25
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film s...
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That's Carry On!
1950
The Magnet
6.4/24
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
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The Magnet
1980
The Taming of the Shrew
8/7
Baptista has two daughters: Kate and Bianca. Everyone wants to wed the fair Bianca, but nobody's much interested in problem child, Kate. Baptista decl...
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The Taming of the Shrew
1959
Please Turn Over
6.281/16
The orderly suburban life of a 1950's English town is turned on its head when the teenaged daughter of one of the residents writes a steamy bestseller...
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Please Turn Over
1947
So Well Remembered
5.233/15
A mill-owner's ambitious daughter almost ruins her husband's political career.
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So Well Remembered
1968
Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
5.143/7
Herman inherits a greyhound and decides to make his fortune by dog racing. After traveling from Manchester to London in the hope of entering a nationa...
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Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter
1968
Dracula
10/2
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master." Moments later he insists he does not know the...
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Dracula
1960
No Kidding
6.111/9
A young couple, David and Catherine Robinson, has to turn their large country house into a money-making proposition. Their solution is to invite the k...
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No Kidding
1938
I See Ice
6.5/7
George Bright is a props man in an ice ballet company, and a keen amateur photographer who accidentally snaps crooks at work. Comic complications ensu...
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I See Ice
1962
I Thank a Fool
6.143/7
After mercifully killing her terminally ill lover, Dr. Christine Allison loses her medical license and spends two years in prison. Once she has comple...
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I Thank a Fool
1951
High Treason
5.727/11
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.
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High Treason
1945
The Rake's Progress
6.8/13
Vivian Kenway, a young Englishman from an aristocratic background, flunks out of Oxford, and decides to use his considerable charm to achieve his goal...
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The Rake's Progress
1963
Nurse on Wheels
6.1/16
Quietly competent young Joanna moves with her scatterbrain mother to a country village to take up her first job as District Nurse. She soon overcomes...
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Nurse on Wheels
1955
Value for Money
6.9/8
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 decide...
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Value for Money
1955
Doctor at Sea
5.8/25
A youthful doctor tires of general practice and signs up to be a ship's doctor in an effort to bring some excitement into his life. Unfortunately, the...
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Doctor at Sea
1953
Deadly Nightshade
6.833/6
Escapee switches identities but finds the new one quite a handful.
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Deadly Nightshade
1980
Bedroom Farce
6/1
Trevor and Susannah, whose marraige is on the rocks, inflict their miseries on their nearest and dearest: three couples whose own relationships are te...
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Bedroom Farce
1956
The Extra Day
7.1/5
Director William Fairchild's 1956 British comedy takes a peek into the private lives of various performers employed as extras in a new film that's cur...
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The Extra Day
Not At All
0/0
Two male layout artists from a London advertising agency head off on holiday to the Isle of Wight in the hope of finding romance.
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Not At All
1952
Hindle Wakes
5.429/7
During a holiday to the beach Jenny meets Alan and agrees to spend the week with him. Wanting to keep this a secret from her parents Jenny gets help...
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Hindle Wakes
1944
Don't Take It to Heart
6.3/5
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...
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Don't Take It to Heart
1959
Carry On Nurse
6.4/65
In Haven Hospital, a certain men's ward is causing more havoc than the whole hospital altogether. The formidable Matron's debut gives everyone a chill...
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Carry On Nurse
1961
His and Hers
5.3/10
Author-explorer Reggie Blake takes an unorthodox approach to his craft, apparently finding inspiration in the adventures suggested by his agent Charle...
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His and Hers
1986
Daylight Robbery
0/0
Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimate...
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Daylight Robbery
1993
Century
5.125/8
Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
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Century
1986
Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
6.686/59
Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slac...
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Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage
1957
Barnacle Bill
6.563/24
A seasick sea captain commands an amusement pier despite local opposition. Released in the U.S. as 'All at Sea'
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Barnacle Bill
1983
The Wicked Lady
4.9/26
Caroline is to be wed to Sir Ralph and invites her sister Barbara to be her bridesmaid. Barbara seduces Ralph, however, and she becomes the new Lady,...
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The Wicked Lady
1941
Freedom Radio
7/4
Hitler's doctor is gradually realising that the Nazi regime isn't as good as it pretends to be when his friends start to "disappear" into the camps. H...
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Freedom Radio
1975
One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
5.802/53
Escaping from China with a microfilm of the formula for the mysterious "Lotus X", Lord Southmere, a Queen's Messenger, is chased by a group of Chinese...
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One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing
1954
Dance Little Lady
7.8/5
When a ballerina's career is ended after she's injured in a traffic accident, her husband decides to try and turn their young daughter into a ballet s...
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Dance Little Lady
1955
As Long as They're Happy
7.5/4
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Co...
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As Long as They're Happy
1958
The Horse's Mouth
6.77/50
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...
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The Horse's Mouth
1936
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
5.952/31
An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.
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The Man Who Could Work Miracles
1953
Rough Shoot
6.7/6
An American military officer and his wife move to a cottage in what they think is the peaceful English countryside, only to discover the area is a hot...
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Rough Shoot
1947
Just William's Luck
7.8/4
Comic adventures of an 11-year-old boy and his neighborhood pals.
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Just William's Luck
1981
A Ferry Ride Away
0/0
Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some...
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A Ferry Ride Away
1986
Clockwise
6.242/225
School headmaster Brian Stimpson is obsessed with timeliness, order, and discipline. Brian misses his train after meticulously preparing a speech for...
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Clockwise
1974
South Riding
0/0
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
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South Riding
1959
The 39 Steps
6.311/37
In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
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The 39 Steps
1958
Law and Disorder
6.444/9
When Percy Brand, a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin, does not find out abo...
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Law and Disorder
1960
Doctor in Love
5.472/18
Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-c...
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Doctor in Love
1957
No Time for Tears
6/4
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's...
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No Time for Tears
1954
Doctor in the House
6.516/31
The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical...
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Doctor in the House
1956
Port of Escape
6/6
Two sailors dock in London in search of a good time. But when one of them fatally stabs a man during a scuffle in a bar, the pair flee the scene, comm...
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Port of Escape
1954
What Every Woman Wants
6.6/5
Young couple Mark and Jane are forced to thrash out marital problems in a borrowed room in Jane’s parents’ tiny house. Meanwhile, Jane’s cousin, Jim -...
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What Every Woman Wants
1963
Heavens Above!
6.571/28
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioner...
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Heavens Above!
1956
Lost
6.833/6
U.S. Embassy employee Lee Cochrane and his wife, Sue, receive a shock when they discover that their 18-month-old son, Simon, has disappeared in London...
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Lost
1991
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
6.933/45
At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', th...
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Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
1976
Wedding Bells
0/0
'Alice' and the children try to foil the attempt of thieves to steal the presents from a wedding reception, with hilarious results.
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Wedding Bells
1976
Double Trouble
0/0
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Double Trouble
1976
The Big Kick
0/0
The exploits of Judy, Joey and Josh and a chimpanzee called Alice.
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The Big Kick
1976
Baby Sitters
0/0
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Baby Sitters
1976
On the Tiles
0/0
Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof....
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On the Tiles
1976
Monkey Tricks
0/0
'Alice's' attempts to help with house decorating result in disaster. She is banished to the tree-house but a violent storm drives her indoors, to the...
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Monkey Tricks
1992
Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
7.425/40
A town busybody is poisoned at a busy reception in the home of famous film star Marina Gregg. The poisoned drink seemed intended for Marina, but Miss...
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Miss Marple: The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side
1957
Carry On Admiral
6.444/9
Two friends get drunk and decide to switch identities. One is a Parliamentary Secretary, and the other is the captain of a ship. The former's lack of...
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Carry On Admiral
1956
Child in the House
6.6/5
A lonely child must stay with her uncaring aunt and uncle after her mother is hospitalized. Her estranged father is a fugitive. For love and companion...
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Child in the House
1970
Carry On Loving
5.7/50
The Wedded Bliss computer dating agency aims to bring together the lonely hearts of Much-Snoggin-in-the-Green. Its owner, Sidney Bliss, has enough com...
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Carry On Loving
1952
Tall Headlines
6.833/2
A family is torn apart when their eldest son is hanged for the murder of a young girl.
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Tall Headlines
1959
Upstairs and Downstairs
5.778/9
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-...
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Upstairs and Downstairs
1949
Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
7/2
An actress, urged by her detective boyfriend, takes a job as housekeeper for a wealthy elderly woman. The woman's new young husband claims she's ill a...
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Celia: The Sinister Affair of Poor Aunt Nora
1962
In the Doghouse
6.357/7
After 10 years of failure a bumbling vet finally graduates and takes on his own practice.
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In the Doghouse
1952
The Magic Box
6.52/25
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once young and handsome William Green. He changed his name to include his first w...
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The Magic Box
1949
Marry Me
5.75/4
The stories of several individuals who consult a marriage bureau, including a peer of the realm, his butler, a lonely school teacher, a French girl on...
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Marry Me
1980
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
6.722/18
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the myst...
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Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
1937
Love from a Stranger
6.3/13
Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basi...
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Love from a Stranger
1972
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
4.438/16
A couple uses extremely black comedy to survive taking care of a daughter who is nearly completely brain dead. They take turns doing the daughter's vo...
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
1987
Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
7.52/49
Travelling on the 4.50 from Paddington, Mrs McGillicuddy witnesses a murder on a passing train - but where is the body?
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Miss Marple: 4.50 from Paddington
1974
Confessions of a Window Cleaner
5/39
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Youn...
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner
1948
The Guinea Pig
7.088/17
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes tog...
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The Guinea Pig
1956
The Last Man to Hang
6.2/8
A man is tried for the murder of his neurotic wife by means of a sedative overdose.
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The Last Man to Hang
1954
The Million Pound Note
7/84
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...
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The Million Pound Note
1954
Mad About Men
6.476/21
Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.
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Mad About Men
1976
Tiptoe Through the Tulips
8/1
Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.
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Tiptoe Through the Tulips
1955
A Time to Kill
7.667/3
A man and a woman are poisoned. The woman dies, but the man survives. The finger of blame begins to point at the man. A policeman and a newspaper jour...
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A Time to Kill
1954
To Dorothy, a Son
5.778/9
Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets...
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To Dorothy, a Son
1989
Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
6.651/43
While on vacation at a resort hotel in the West Indies, Miss Marple correctly suspects that the apparently natural death of a retired British major is...
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Miss Marple: A Caribbean Mystery
1952
Curtain Up
7.167/6
In a small town in the 1950s a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing writte...
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Curtain Up
1948
Bond Street
6.875/4
Charts the events occurring during a typical 24-hour period on London’s thoroughfare Bond Street. Linking the four stories together is the impending w...
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Bond Street
1958
Chain of Events
6.393/14
When a clerk tries to dodge paying a bus fare, it sparks a series of unforseen consequences
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Chain of Events
1953
Love in Pawn
7.2/5
A British comedy about a struggling artist and his wife living on a houseboat. To raise money she pawns him! His new family takes a liking to him part...
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Love in Pawn
1962
Crooks Anonymous
6.1/25
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a depart...
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Crooks Anonymous
1955
Simon and Laura
5.857/14
A couple of bickering, married performers agree to star in a "Mr. and Mrs." TV show.
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Simon and Laura
1954
The Crowded Day
5.8/9
One day in the lives and loves of the staff in a large department store.
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The Crowded Day
1945
I Live in Grosvenor Square
7.333/9
The WW II romance set in Grosvenor square aka Eisenhower's home where the GIs stayed in London. Neagle loves Harrison. There arrives patriot GI Dean J...
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I Live in Grosvenor Square
1946
The Trojan Brothers
6.5/2
Opposing ends of a pantomime horse where the 'head' dates a society lady while the 'tail' is unhappily married.
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The Trojan Brothers
1956
Jumping for Joy
6.667/3
At the racetrack, cleaner, Willy Joy is tricked into buying Lindy Lou, a useless greyhound, who's not too healthy either. While getting the dog back i...
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Jumping for Joy
1956
The Man Who Never Was
7.021/95
The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a Britis...
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The Man Who Never Was
1952
Come Back Peter
8/2
There's pandemonium in a country house when various relatives come to stay.
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Come Back Peter
1955
An Alligator Named Daisy
6.429/7
Returning from a cricket match in Ireland, Peter Weston gains a pet alligator from another passenger who abandons it with him. He is horrified and wh...
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An Alligator Named Daisy
1990
King of the Wind
7/6
In 1727, an Arab colt is born with the signs of the wheat ear and the white spot on his heel: evil and good. And thus begins the life of Sham. He is a...
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King of the Wind
1952
Angels One Five
6.129/35
The year is 1940 and Pilot Officer T.B. Baird arrives straight out of flight school to join a front line RAF squadron at the height of the Battle of B...
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Angels One Five
1949
When We Are Married
0/0
The Helliwells, the Soppitts, and the Parkers, old friends gathered to celebrate their common silver anniversaries. To their dismay they learn that th...
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When We Are Married
1948
This Was a Woman
5.667/9
The woman here is Sylvia Russell: power mad with set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able...
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This Was a Woman
1964
Maggie
0/0
East-End housewife Maggie Proud (Vanessa Redgrave) has two demanding children, a selfish mother-in-law, and an amiable but uncomprehending husband in...
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Maggie
1990
Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
0/0
Profile celebrating the centenary of the famous author Agatha Christie’s birth. Looking at her life, her character and the key moments in her childhoo...
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Agatha Christie - Unfinished Portrait
1951
Hell Is Sold Out
6/4
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
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Hell Is Sold Out
1935
Widow's Might
10/1
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Widow's Might
1998
What's a Carry On?
7.667/6
Documentary commemorating the 40th anniversary of the 'Carry On' comedy film series. Archive clips and out-takes are mixed with interviews with the ca...
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What's a Carry On?
1973
After Loch Lomond
0/0
Mickey Grant is the life and soul of the many coach trips he has taken. After his latest journey, he meets his travelling companions in a London stati...
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After Loch Lomond
1960
Tunes of Glory
7.037/68
Following World War II in peacetime Scotland, brigade headquarters replaces commanding officer Major Jock Sinclair, a boisterous battalion leader, wit...
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Tunes of Glory
1972
Just in Time for Christmas
0/0
43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet nex...
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Just in Time for Christmas
1963
For King and Country: Out There
0/0
1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many se...
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For King and Country: Out There
1948
It's Hard to be Good
5.75/4
A do-gooder ex-army officer finds his attempts to improve the world leads invariably to disasters.
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