Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

Born: September 12, 1917
Died: September 27, 2012
in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary
Herbert Lom (born Herbert Charles Angelo Kuchačevič ze Schluderpacheru; 11 September 1917 – 27 September 2012) was a Czech-born British film and television actor who moved to the United Kingdom in 1939. In a career lasting more than 60 years, he appeared in character roles, often portraying criminals or villains early in his career and professional men in later years.

Lom was noted for his precise, elegant enunciation of English. He is best known for his roles in The Ladykillers, The Pink Panther film series and the television series The Human Jungle.

Movies for Herbert Lom...

Dracula vs. Vampir
Title: Dracula vs. Vampir
Released: October 6, 2012
Type: Movie
In 1970, the iconoclast Jess Franco directs a version of Dracula with Christopher Lee and Klaus Kinski. Making the most of the occasion, Pere Portabella, icon of avantgarde cinema, directs a parallel and totally converse movie during the same shoot. This short film compares both versions.
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Beloved Count
Title: Beloved Count
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 27, 2007
Type: Movie
Cult director Jess Franco recalls the making of his adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula starring Christopher Lee.
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The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
Title: The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau
Character: self
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
DA-DUN DA-DUN DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUN-DA-DUUUUN Henry Mancini’s iconic score, Peter Sellers’ bumbling Inspector Clouseau, and those unforgettable animated opening sequences - delve into the history of the Pink Panther films, the pink diamond hunting comedy-mystery franchise that was a smash hit, made a megastar of Peter Sellers and spawned an empire. Paul Joyce’s typically thorough and entertaining documentary focuses on star Peter Sellers’ creation of a comedy icon and his relationship with director Blake Edwards. Hosted by Burt Kwouk, who played Clousea’s manservant and martial arts sparring partner Cato, and featuring interviews with Mark Kermode, Herbert Lom (Chief Inspector Dreyfus), Graham Stark (Pepi) and more, THE CURIOUS CASE OF INSPECTOR CLOUSEAU is a must-see... if you can catch it!
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Son of the Pink Panther
Title: Son of the Pink Panther
Character: Police Commisioner Charles Dreyfus
Released: August 27, 1993
Type: Movie
The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
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Title: The Detectives
Character: Van der Dyck
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
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The Pope Must Die
Title: The Pope Must Die
Character: Vittorio Corelli
Released: June 21, 1991
Type: Movie
A less-than-qualified and far-from-perfect priest is mistakenly named the new pope. As the pontiff, he must deal with Vatican corruption, the Mob and the reappearance of his old lover.
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The Sect
Title: The Sect
Character: Moebius Kelly
Released: March 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A spree of grisly murders is perpetrated in Frankfurt by a group of Satan worshippers. A lonely schoolteacher almost runs over an elderly man and takes him in, unbeknown to her the man has plans for her – plans that involve a permanent future with the Satanic cult.
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Ten Little Indians
Title: Ten Little Indians
Character: Gen. Brancko Romensky
Released: November 29, 1989
Type: Movie
An unknown judge invites a guilty governess and others to a 1930s safari, for justice one by one.
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The Masque of the Red Death
Title: The Masque of the Red Death
Character: Ludwig
Released: November 9, 1989
Type: Movie
Lovely photographer Rebecca winds up in a Bavarian castle at a "Masque of the Red Death" party hosted by the wealthy Ludwig. Mayhem ensues as assorted Poe story devices start doing away with the guests.
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River of Death
Title: River of Death
Character: Colonel Ricardo Diaz
Released: September 29, 1989
Type: Movie
An adventurer (Hamilton) decides to go in search of the Lost City in the Amazon jungle. A motley crew of other people decide to join him for the wealth of the city, for reasons of their own. But to their horror they find out that they have bitten off more than they can chew, what with a Nazi doctor still using the place for his human experiments.
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Skeleton Coast
Title: Skeleton Coast
Character: Elia
Released: April 14, 1988
Type: Movie
A retired Army colonel attempts to rescue his imprisoned son in this action packed thriller. To save his CIA operative son from terrorists, Col. Smith (Ernest Borgnine) and a group of mercenaries head to war-torn Angola's Skeleton Coast, where they must infiltrate an armed compound run by a sadistic East German officer before Smith's son is tortured to death. Robert Vaughn, Oliver Reed and Herbert Lom costar.
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Going Bananas
Title: Going Bananas
Character: Captain Mackintosh
Released: August 5, 1987
Type: Movie
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.
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Master of Dragonard Hill
Title: Master of Dragonard Hill
Character: Le Farge
Released: May 13, 1987
Type: Movie
In the 18th-century British Caribbean colony of St. Joseph's, decadent and hedonistic aristocrats rule with an iron fist and terrorize slaves and suspected criminals with a painful whip called the "dragonard."
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Whoops Apocalypse
Title: Whoops Apocalypse
Character: Gen. Mosquera
Released: May 6, 1986
Type: Movie
When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
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King Solomon's Mines
Title: King Solomon's Mines
Character: Colonel Bockner
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Ever in search of adventure, explorer Allan Quatermain agrees to join the beautiful Jesse Huston on a mission to locate her archaeologist father, who has been abducted for his knowledge of the legendary mines of King Solomon. As the kidnappers, led by sinister German military officer Bockner, journey into the wilds of Africa, Allan and Jesse track the party and must contend with fierce natives and dangerous creatures, among other perils.
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Cat's Eye
Title: Cat's Eye
Character: Dr. Sam Weizak (archive footage)
Released: April 12, 1985
Type: Movie
Three short stories linked by a stray cat that roams from one tale to the next, in this creepy triptych that begins as Dick tries to quit smoking by any means necessary. Next, we meet Johnny, an adulterous man who's forced by his lover's husband onto a building's hazardous ledge. Finally, Amanda is threatened by an evil gnome who throws suspicion on the family cat.
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Memed My Hawk
Title: Memed My Hawk
Character: Ali Safa Bey
Released: May 10, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1920s Turkey, a young peasant is smitten with a beautiful young girl, who has been promised in marriage to the fat, dullard cousin of the province's powerful and corrupt governor. When an assassination attempt is made against the official, the young man flees his village and joins up with a group of outlaws fighting against the wealthy and powerful landowners who control the lives of the locals and make life miserable for them. The outlaws' successes prompt the governor to call in the Turkish army to capture or kill them.
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Title: Lace
Character: Monsier Chardin
Released: February 26, 1984
Type: TV
A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
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James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Title: James Mason: The Star They Loved to Hate
Character: Archive Footage
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.
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The Dead Zone
Title: The Dead Zone
Character: Dr. Sam Weizak
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Johnny Smith is a schoolteacher with his whole life ahead of him but, after leaving his fiancee's home one night, is involved in a car crash which leaves him in a coma for 5 years. When he wakes, he discovers he has an ability to see into the past, present and future life of anyone with whom he comes into physical contact.
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Title: Curse of the Pink Panther
Character: Chief Insp. Charles LaRousse Dreyfus
Released: August 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Title: Trail of the Pink Panther
Character: Chef Inspektor Charles Dreyfus
Released: December 3, 1982
Type: Movie
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
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Title: Peter and Paul
Character: Barnabas
Released: April 12, 1981
Type: TV
Peter and Paul assume leadership of the Church as they struggle against violent opposition to the teachings of Christ and their own personal conflicts.
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The Man with Bogart's Face
Title: The Man with Bogart's Face
Character: Mr. Zebra
Released: October 3, 1980
Type: Movie
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much that he has his features altered to look exactly like him and then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlow.
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Hopscotch
Title: Hopscotch
Character: Yaskov
Released: September 26, 1980
Type: Movie
When CIA operative Miles Kendig deliberately lets KGB agent Yaskov get away, his boss threatens to retire him. Kendig beats him to it, however, destroying his own records and traveling to Austria where he begins work on a memoir that will expose all his former agency's covert practices. The CIA catches wind of the book and sends other agents after him, initiating a frenetic game of cat and mouse that spans the globe.
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The Lady Vanishes
Title: The Lady Vanishes
Character: Dr. Egon Hartz
Released: April 30, 1979
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II, zany heiress Amanda Kelly travels by train to Switzerland. While passing through Germany, she meets a sweet elderly lady, who suddenly vanishes. Distraught, she questions her fellow passengers who claim that the woman was never there. Unsure if it's all in her mind or if there's a more sinister plot afoot, Amanda teams up with photographer Robert Condon to discover the truth.
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Revenge of the Pink Panther
Title: Revenge of the Pink Panther
Character: Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: Movie
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world—and Charles Dreyfus—believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently and, taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
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Charleston
Title: Charleston
Character: Inspector Watkins
Released: March 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting.
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Title: The Pink Panther Strikes Again
Character: Dreyfus
Released: December 15, 1976
Type: Movie
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: Simon Legree (archive)
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A sadistic plantation owner pushes his slaves to the point of rebellion.
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The Return of the Pink Panther
Title: The Return of the Pink Panther
Character: Chief Inspector Dreyfus
Released: May 21, 1975
Type: Movie
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
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And Then There Were None
Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Dr. Edward Armstrong
Released: September 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
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Dark Places
Title: Dark Places
Character: Prescot
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A scheming couple plot to conceal a hidden cache of stolen money from its rightful owner. The only problem is that the house they plan to hide it in is haunted.
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And Now the Screaming Starts!
Title: And Now the Screaming Starts!
Character: Henry Fengriffen
Released: April 27, 1973
Type: Movie
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of husband Charles Fengriffen. The bride, Catherine, falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and all its descendants.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Byron
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A young psychiatrist applies for a job at a mental asylum, and must pass a test by interviewing four patients. He must figure out which of the patients, is in fact, the doctor that he would be replacing if hired.
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Vampir Cuadecuc
Title: Vampir Cuadecuc
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 1972
Type: Movie
An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality.
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Murders in the Rue Morgue
Title: Murders in the Rue Morgue
Character: Rene Marot
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has dreadful nightmares. When there are several murders by acid of people connected to Cesar, the prime suspect of Inspector Vidocq would be Cesar's former partner Rene Marot. But Marot murdered Madeleine's mother many years ago and committed suicide immediately after.
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Dorian Gray
Title: Dorian Gray
Character: Henry Wotton
Released: April 24, 1970
Type: Movie
London, England. Dorian Gray is a young man who somehow keeps his beauty eternally, while a mysterious portrait of himself gradually reveals his moral decay.
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Count Dracula
Title: Count Dracula
Character: Van Helsing
Released: April 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Jess Franco's version of the Bram Stoker classic has Count Dracula as an old man who grows younger whenever he dines on the blood of young maidens.
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Mister Jerico
Title: Mister Jerico
Character: Victor Russo
Released: March 3, 1970
Type: Movie
Con man Dudley Jerico sets out to rob corrupt millionaire Victor Rosso of his legendary Gemini diamond, but there's another operator in town who is out to con the con.
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Mark of the Devil
Title: Mark of the Devil
Character: Lord Cumberland
Released: February 19, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1700s Austria, a witch-hunter's apprentice has doubts about the righteousness of witch-hunting when he witnesses the brutality, the injustice, the falsehood, the torture and the arbitrary killing that go with the job.
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Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Title: Journey to the Far Side of the Sun
Character: Doctor Hassler
Released: August 27, 1969
Type: Movie
A planet is discovered in the same orbit as Earth's but is located on the exact opposite side of the sun, making it not visible from Earth. The European Space Exploration Council decide to send American astronaut Glenn Ross and British scientist John Kane via spaceship to explore the other planet.
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99 Women
Title: 99 Women
Character: Governor Santos
Released: March 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Female prisoners endure the horrors of drug abuse, prostitution and rampant sadism at an island prison. When an escape attempt goes awry, the fugitives discover that escaping can be as dangerous as remaining in the prison.
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Title: Hawaii Five-O
Character: Mondrago
Released: September 20, 1968
Type: TV
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant Steve McGarrett, the head of a special state police task force which was based on an actual unit that existed under martial law in the 1940s. The theme music composed by Morton Stevens became especially popular. Many episodes would end with McGarrett instructing his subordinate to "Book 'em, Danno!", sometimes specifying a charge such as "murder one".
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Eve
Title: Eve
Character: Diego
Released: July 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Adventurer and treasure hunter Mike Yates is hoping to find a cache of Incan treasure lost in the Amazon jungle. While looking for his missing partner, he stumbles across a beautiful jungle girl named Eve. Later on, he comes across Eve's grandfather, who is being swindled by a man and a young woman who is pretending to be his granddaughter Eve. Will Yates be able to expose the swindle, beat the swindlers to the lost treasure (with the help of the real Eve), and reunite Eve with her grandfather before the final credits roll?
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Villa Rides
Title: Villa Rides
Character: General Huerta
Released: May 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Pulled into the Mexican Revolution by his own greed, Texas gunrunner and pilot Lee Arnold joins bandit-turned-patriot Pancho Villa and his band of dedicated men in a march across Mexico battling the Colorados and stealing women's hearts as they go. But each has a nemesis among his friends: Arnold is tormented by Fierro, Villa's right-hand-man; and Villa must face possible betrayal by his own president's naiveté
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Assignment to Kill
Title: Assignment to Kill
Character: Matt Wilson
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
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The Karate Killers
Title: The Karate Killers
Character: Randolph
Released: April 7, 1967
Type: Movie
International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.
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Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Title: Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
Character: Etzel
Released: February 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibility-cap. Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate, but Hagen's men raid them and kill the child. She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel, king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heir's baptism a few years later, but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brother-in-law behind her surprisingly chivalric husband's back, while Gunther accepts, hoping to avoid a far bloodier war, despite the danger for his party of knights, which materializes...
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Gambit
Title: Gambit
Character: Shahbandar
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Harry Dean is a career burglar set on stealing a piece of priceless art from the world's wealthiest man, Mr. Shahbandar. With the help of exotic showgirl Nicole Chang, he concocts the perfect scheme for how the robbery should go and lays it out point by point. However, when the team tries to execute the plan, perfection and reality don't quite match up, and Harry's vision begins to unravel in this twisty tale of a heist gone wrong.
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Our Man in Marrakesh
Title: Our Man in Marrakesh
Character: Mr. Casimir
Released: May 5, 1966
Type: Movie
One of six travelers who catch the bus from Casablanca airport to Marrakesh is carrying $2 million to pay a local operator to fix United Nations votes. But which one?
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Return from the Ashes
Title: Return from the Ashes
Character: Dr. Charles Bovard
Released: November 16, 1965
Type: Movie
A Jewish woman, Dr. Michele Wolf, interred in a Nazi concentration camp during WWII returns to her Paris home after the war's end. She's unaware that her husband, the handsome gigolo and chess master Stanislaw Pilgrin, has been having an affair with her stepdaughter Fabi in her absence.
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Uncle Tom's Cabin
Title: Uncle Tom's Cabin
Character: Simon Legree
Released: April 13, 1965
Type: Movie
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old slave Tom plays a central role in this tragedy.
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Title: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
Character: Randolph
Released: September 22, 1964
Type: TV
Agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin work for a secret intelligence service working under the auspices of the U.N. Their immediate superior is Mr. Waverly. Together they operate out of a secret base beneath the streets of New York City, and accesses through several cover business such as Del Floria's Tailor Shop and the Masque Club. This secret intelligence service is called U.N.C.L.E. United Network Command for Law and Enforcement.
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A Shot in the Dark
Title: A Shot in the Dark
Character: Charles Dreyfus
Released: June 23, 1964
Type: Movie
Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic series of mishaps, testing the patience of his irritable boss Charles Dreyfus as casualties mount.
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The Horse Without a Head
Title: The Horse Without a Head
Character: Schiapa
Released: March 9, 1964
Type: Movie
Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.
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Title: The Human Jungle
Character: Doctor Roger Corder M. D., D. P. M.
Released: March 30, 1963
Type: TV
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
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Treasure of Silver Lake
Title: Treasure of Silver Lake
Character: Colonel Brinkley
Released: December 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.
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Tiara Tahiti
Title: Tiara Tahiti
Character: Chong Sing
Released: July 1, 1962
Type: Movie
James Mason and John Mills star in this comedy-drama about a tough colonel and a refined captain who clashed during the war, and continue their personal battle in peace-time Tahiti.
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The Phantom of the Opera
Title: The Phantom of the Opera
Character: The Phantom (Prof. L. Petrie)
Released: June 25, 1962
Type: Movie
A London opera house is haunted by tragic events on its opening night, but when its star is kidnapped, a producer tracks down the Phantom who is intent on seeking his revenge.
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Mysterious Island
Title: Mysterious Island
Character: Captain Nemo
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. They must use their ingenuity to survive the dangers, and to devise a way to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' .
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El Cid
Title: El Cid
Character: Ben Yussuf
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
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The Frightened City
Title: The Frightened City
Character: Waldo Zhernikov
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A small time thief is recruited by a mobster to help with the racketeering. He doesn't like the job, but with the mob on his back, a femme fatale in his bed and a sick friend to care for, he will have to keep all his wits about him.
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Mr. Topaze
Title: Mr. Topaze
Character: Castel Benac
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Mr. Topaze (Peter Sellers) is an unassuming school teacher in an unassuming small French town, who is honest to a fault. He is fired when he refuses to give a passing grade to a bad student, the grandson of a wealthy baroness. Castel Benac (Herbert Lom), a government official who runs a crooked financial business on the side, is persuaded by his mistress, Suzy (Nadia Gray), a musical comedy actress, to hire Mr. Topaze as the front man for his business. Gradually, Topaze becomes a rapacious financier who sacrifices his honesty for success and, in a final stroke of business bravado, fires Benac and acquires Suzy in the deal. An old friend and colleague, Tamise (Michael Gough) questions him and tells Topaze that what he now says and practices indicates there are no more honest men.
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Spartacus
Title: Spartacus
Character: Tigranes Levantus
Released: October 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. After weeks of being trained to kill for the arena, Spartacus turns on his owners and leads the other slaves in rebellion. As the rebels move from town to town, their numbers swell as escaped slaves join their ranks. Under the leadership of Spartacus, they make their way to southern Italy, where they will cross the sea and return to their homes.
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I Aim at the Stars
Title: I Aim at the Stars
Character: Anton Reger
Released: August 19, 1960
Type: Movie
The life story of the famed rocket scientist Dr. Werner von Braun, one of the most brilliant and controversial figures of the space age. Dr. von Braun literally pioneered man's adventure into space through his rocket experiments; his was the brain behind the V-2 rockets which blasted London in World War II; his was also the brain which led America into the development and the launching of space satellites.
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Third Man on the Mountain
Title: Third Man on the Mountain
Character: Emil Saxo
Released: November 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Third Man on the Mountain is an American film directed by Ken Annakin and produced by Walt Disney Productions, released in 1959. It is adapted from a novel by James Ramsey Ullman, entitled "Banner In The Sky". In the middle of the 19th century in Switzerland, a famous British mountaineer, Captain John Winter, wanted to climb a difficult summit, the Citadel. He goes to a small village but no guide wants to accompany him. A young man from the village, Rudi Matt, whose father died fifteen years earlier during an attempt to climb the Citadel, is determined to accompany him, with the help of his uncle. Winter also manages to hire a guide from a neighboring village and competitor, Emil Saxo. The roped party of four men then begins the ascent of the still untouched summit.
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Perilous Assignment
Title: Perilous Assignment
Character: Self
Released: November 6, 1959
Type: Movie
"Perilous Assignment" is an episode of ABC's Walt Disney Presents. Disney loved to show viewers behind the scenes of the daring shoots of its theatrically released or TV shows. The theme of the episode is the making of his next film, The Third Man on the Mountain, an adaptation of James Ramsey Ullman's novel Banner in the Sky, based on the true story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn. Walt Disney will not be limited to a simple promotional making-of. He offers to meet exceptional people, including the French mountain guide Gaston Rébuffat. The latter will show climbing techniques and then reveal breathtaking images of his ascents of steep cliffs with a client for the ascent of Mont-Blanc, filmed for the occasion. In 1958, Walt Disney will therefore offer him to be deputy director on the high mountain scenes of the film "The Third Man on the Mountain".
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North West Frontier
Title: North West Frontier
Character: Van Layden
Released: October 13, 1959
Type: Movie
In the rebellious northern frontier province of colonial India, British Army Captain Scott, a young prince and the boy's governess escape by an obsolete train as they are relentlessly pursued by Muslim rebels intent on assassinating the prince.
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The Big Fisherman
Title: The Big Fisherman
Character: Herod Antipas
Released: August 4, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama that focuses on the later life of Peter, one of the closest disciples of Jesus.
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No Trees in the Street
Title: No Trees in the Street
Character: Wilkie
Released: March 3, 1959
Type: Movie
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.
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Passport to Shame
Title: Passport to Shame
Character: Nick Biaggi
Released: December 2, 1958
Type: Movie
British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.
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The Roots of Heaven
Title: The Roots of Heaven
Character: Orsini
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
In Fort Lamy, French Equitorial Africa, idealist Morel launches a one-man campaign to preserve the African elephant from extinction, which he sees as the last remaining "roots of Heaven." At first, he finds only support from Minna, hostess of the town's only night club, who is in love with him, and a derelict ex-British Army Major, Forsythe. His crusade gains momentum and he is soon surrounded by an odd assortment of characters: Cy Sedgewick, an American TV commentator who becomes impressed and rallies world-wide support; a U.S. photographer, Abe Fields, who is sent to do a picture story on Morel and stays on to follow his ideals; Saint Denis, a government aide ordered to stop Morel; Orsini, a professional ivory hunter whose vested interests aren't the same as Morel's; and Waitari, leader of a Pan-African movement who follows Morel only for the personal good it will do his own campaign.
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Intent to Kill
Title: Intent to Kill
Character: Juan Menda
Released: July 16, 1958
Type: Movie
While resisting pressure from his upper-class wife to take a higher-paying job in London, a Montreal physician prepares to carry out brain surgery on a Latin American president. They don't suspect that a trio of assassins is also waiting, for their chance to carry out a political assassination on the operating table.
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I Accuse!
Title: I Accuse!
Character: Maj. DuPaty de Clam
Released: March 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Alfred Dreyfus, a German-Jewish captain serving in the French Army, is falsely accused of treason and made a scapegoat for military espionage in an act of institutional anti-Semitism. Sent to prison, he becomes a cause célèbre for the novelist Émile Zola, who dubs it the "Dreyfus Affair." Eventually, Dreyfus is pardoned when the military cover-up is made public, and he returns to France. But his name is forever tarnished by the accusations of treason.
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Chase a Crooked Shadow
Title: Chase a Crooked Shadow
Character: Police Commissar Vargas
Released: January 16, 1958
Type: Movie
A woman who lives in Spain has trouble convincing anybody that a complete stranger has taken her dead brother's identity.
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Action of the Tiger
Title: Action of the Tiger
Character: Trifon, Albania Bandit
Released: August 22, 1957
Type: Movie
A woman hires soldier-of-fortune Carson to smuggle her into Albania by way of Greece. Their trouble is just beginning when they get there.
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Hell Drivers
Title: Hell Drivers
Character: Gino Rossi
Released: July 23, 1957
Type: Movie
An ex-con trying to go clean ends up working for a crooked trucking company swindling money.
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Fire Down Below
Title: Fire Down Below
Character: Harbour Master
Released: May 30, 1957
Type: Movie
Tony and Felix own a tramp boat, and sail around the Caribbean doing odd jobs and drinking a lot. They agree to ferry the beautiful but passportless Irena to another island. They both fall for her, leading to betrayal and a break-up of their partnership. Tony takes a job on a cargo ship. After a collision he finds himself trapped below deck with time running out (the ship is aflame), and only Felix, whom he hates and has sworn to kill, left to save him.
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War and Peace
Title: War and Peace
Character: Napoleon
Released: August 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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The Ladykillers
Title: The Ladykillers
Character: Louis, alias 'Mr. Harvey'
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Five oddball criminals planning a bank robbery rent rooms on a cul-de-sac from an octogenarian widow under the pretext that they are classical musicians.
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Beautiful Stranger
Title: Beautiful Stranger
Character: Emil Landosh
Released: July 13, 1954
Type: Movie
An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.
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The Love Lottery
Title: The Love Lottery
Character: André Amico
Released: January 30, 1954
Type: Movie
Rex Allerton is a top Hollywood star and an idol of the female population. To get away from the pressure of the fans who won't leave him alone, he relocates to a remote Italian village where unanticipated trouble arises when unwittingly he becomes the prize for an international lottery.
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Star of India
Title: Star of India
Character: Governor Narbonne
Released: January 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his estate confiscated by governor Narbonne, for back taxes, and resold to Katrina, a Dutch Countess. Katrina offers to return Pierre's property if he will help her get possession of the 'Star of India,' a fabulous sapphire, held at the moment by Narbonne.
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Rough Shoot
Title: Rough Shoot
Character: Sandorski
Released: March 30, 1953
Type: Movie
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 hotbed of spies and secret agents.
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The Net
Title: The Net
Character: Dr. Alex Leon
Released: February 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
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The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Title: The Man Who Watched Trains Go By
Character: Julius de Koster, Jr.
Released: December 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A meek teller thinks he's killed his boss. He flees with a box of cash hoping for a new life with his younger mistress.
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The Ringer
Title: The Ringer
Character: Maurice Meister
Released: November 24, 1952
Type: Movie
An underhand solicitor receives threatening notes, and the police are called in to protect him.
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Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Whispering Smith Vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Roger Ford
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Mystery directed by Francis Searle.
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Mr. Denning Drives North
Title: Mr. Denning Drives North
Character: Mados
Released: December 18, 1951
Type: Movie
When well-off aircraft designer Denning finds his daughter's current boyfriend is a nasty character he tries to buy him off, ending up hitting him and causing his death when he falls. Instead of calling the police he dumps the body in a lonely spot on the road to the North, making it look like a hit-and-run accident. Weeks later there is still no report of the body being found, and Denning starts to go to pieces. When he lets his wife into his secret the two start making enquiries, possibly making things worse.
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Two on the Tiles
Title: Two on the Tiles
Character: Ford
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A married couple both face temptations while separated for a few days. The husband meets an attractive female fellow traveler in Paris while the wife accidentally spends a night aboard a Royal Navy ship with a male friend after she is stranded following a party. Despite knowing the essential innocence of both husband and wife, their sinister new butler uses information about their discretions to demand blackmail payments.
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Hell Is Sold Out
Title: Hell Is Sold Out
Character: Dominic Danges
Released: June 1, 1951
Type: Movie
A supposedly dead writer suddenly turns up to confront the young woman who is using his penname.
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Cage of Gold
Title: Cage of Gold
Character: Rahman
Released: October 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The love that Judy, a young painter, feels for Alan, a promising doctor to whom she is engaged, falters when Bill, an old friend, suddenly appears.
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State Secret
Title: State Secret
Character: Karl Theodor
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European country, and discovers the operation he is to perform is on the Vosnian dictator. When the latter dies, he is replaced by a look-alike, but Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit by the secret police of Vosnia since it is vital to Vosnia that the dictator's death does not become known. Fleeing, he seeks help from an actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two are harried across the countryside.
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The Black Rose
Title: The Black Rose
Character: Anthemus
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, Walter of Gurnie, a disinherited Saxon youth, is forced to flee England. With his friend, Tristram, he falls in with the army of the fierce but avuncular General Bayan, and journeys all the way to China, where both men become involved in intrigues in the court of Kublai Khan.
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Night and the City
Title: Night and the City
Character: Kristo
Released: June 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with Harry's schemes, his girlfriend, Mary, becomes fed up when he taps her for yet another loan.
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Golden Salamander
Title: Golden Salamander
Character: Rankl
Released: February 1, 1950
Type: Movie
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
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Portrait from Life
Title: Portrait from Life
Character: Fritz Kottler Hendlemann
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A British army officer becomes fascinated by the portrait of a young woman. He travels to Germany to find her, only to discover that she is suffering from amnesia.
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Brass Monkey
Title: Brass Monkey
Character: Peter Hobart
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Carroll Levis, a radio variety host, gets involved in murder and theft.
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Good-Time Girl
Title: Good-Time Girl
Character: Max Vine
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Good Time Girl stars Jean Kent as incipient juvenile delinquent Gwen Rawlings. Sent to a home for "problem" girls, Gwen receives a crash course in petty crime. Back on the outside, she falls in with the usual bad crowd, and suffers spectacularly as a result.
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Snowbound
Title: Snowbound
Character: Von Kellerman, alias Keramikos
Released: March 23, 1948
Type: Movie
Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps.
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Dual Alibi
Title: Dual Alibi
Character: Jules de Lisle / Georges de Lisle
Released: June 3, 1947
Type: Movie
A French PR man and his girlfriend steal a lottery ticket from twin trapeze artists, prompting murder.
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Appointment with Crime
Title: Appointment with Crime
Character: Gregory Lang
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Small-time jewel thief Leo Martin is deserted by his partners-in-crime, club owner Gus Loman and driver Hatchett, when the robbery they are committing goes wrong. After serving his prison sentence, Leo emerges with an intricate plan for revenge. Leo implicates Loman, as well as his amoral boss, Gregory Lang, for murder -- but Inspector Rogers suspects Leo.
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Night Boat to Dublin
Title: Night Boat to Dublin
Character: Keitel
Released: January 8, 1946
Type: Movie
British intelligence officers head off a Nazi plot to kidnap an atomic scientist.
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The Seventh Veil
Title: The Seventh Veil
Character: Dr. Larsen
Released: October 18, 1945
Type: Movie
A concert pianist with amnesia fights to regain her memory.
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Hotel Reserve
Title: Hotel Reserve
Character: Andre Roux
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
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The Dark Tower
Title: The Dark Tower
Character: Stephen Torg
Released: October 18, 1943
Type: Movie
While working at a circus, a man hypnotizes a trapezist to kill her partner.
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Tomorrow We Live
Title: Tomorrow We Live
Character: Kurtz
Released: April 5, 1943
Type: Movie
British World War II film set in occupied France, portraying the activities of members of the French Resistance and the Nazi tactic of taking and shooting innocent hostages in reprisal for acts of sabotage. The opening credits acknowledge "the official co-operation of General de Gaulle and the French National Committee". It was released as "At Dawn We Die" in the US.
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Secret Mission
Title: Secret Mission
Character: Medical Officer
Released: October 5, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II drama in which a member of the French Resistance and three British agents undertake a hazardous mission to infiltrate a German HQ in search of vital information that could lead to the overthrow of the Nazis.
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The Young Mr. Pitt
Title: The Young Mr. Pitt
Character: Napoleon
Released: September 21, 1942
Type: Movie
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Britain at the age of 24.
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After Mein Kampf
Title: After Mein Kampf
Released: September 13, 1940
Type: Movie
Allied propaganda in the form of cartoons and newsreels shows the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.
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Boží mlýny
Title: Boží mlýny
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
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Žena pod křížem
Title: Žena pod křížem
Character: Gustav
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie