The Brain Machine 1956  N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Ken Hughes
Cast: Maxwell Reed, Elizabeth Allan, Patrick Barr, Russell Napier, Gibb McLaughlin, Edwin Richfield, Neil Hallett, Mark Bellamy, Bill Nagy, Vanda Godsell, John Horsley, Thomas Gallagher
While searching for kidnapped Dr. Phillipa Roberts (Elizabeth Allan), police uncover a gang of drug smugglers.
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 Camille 1936  N/R, 108 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Greta Garbo, Robert Taylor, Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Jessie Ralph, Henry Daniell, Laura Hope Crews, E.E. Clive, Joan Leslie, Fritz Leiber Jr., Lenore Ulric, Rex O'Malley, Eily Malyon, Olaf Hytten, Gwendolyn Logan
In one of Greta Garbo's most famous roles, she plays the Parisian prostitute, Camille, who has been supported by her consort, the wealthy Baron de Varville (Henry Daniell). Love does not enter the picture until Camille meets French nobleman Armand Duvall (Robert Taylor), and he becomes the love of her life. Camille decides to leave the baron and then finds that Armand's father (Lionel Barrymore) disapproves of her past and wants her to leave his son alone. Camille tries to leave Armand, but Armand pursues and supports Camille even as she lies dying from tuberculosis. Based on Alexandre Dumas' novel, this is also the story that Verdi used for "La Traviata."
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David Copperfield 1935  N/R, 133 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor
Cast: W.C. Fields, Freddie Bartholomew, Frank Lawton, Elizabeth Allan, Basil Rathbone, Roland Young, Lionel Barrymore, Maureen O'Sullivan, Madge Evans, Edna May Oliver
Mr. Mudstone (Basil Rathbone), Wikins Micawber (W.C. Fields), and Uriah Heap (Roland Young) are all there as David Copperfield starts out as a poor boy and grows up to be a wealthy man in London. The young David is played by Freddie Bartholomew, while Frank Lawton plays the older David.
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 Mark of the Vampire 1935 N/R, 60 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Elizabeth Allan, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill, Jean Hersholt, Donald Meek, Carol Borland, Holmes Herbert, Ivan F. Simpson, Zeffie Tilbury
In this remake of 1927's "London After Midnight," a gloomy mansion is haunted by the "undead" Count Mora (Bela Lugosi) and his daughter (Carol Borland).
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Men in White 1934  N/R, 72 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Boleslawski
Cast: Clark Gable, Myrna Loy, Jean Hersholt, Elizabeth Allan, Otto Kruger, Henry B. Walthall, Wallace Ford, Samuel S. Hinds, Frank Puglia, Russell Hopton
This film led to a number of Hollywood stories about personal lives of doctors. This story is about a surgeon (Clark Gable) who is devoted to medicine but has problems in his love life.
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No Highway in the Sky 1951 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: No Highway
Director: Henry Koster
Cast: James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Glynis Johns, Janette Scott, Jack Hawkins, Ronald Squire, Niall MacGinnis, Elizabeth Allan, Kenneth More, David Hutcheson
While on a flight, an engineer (James Stewart) becomes concerned that the tail of the aircraft is about to fall off due to metal fatigue. Now, he must convince those in control of the impending disaster.
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Slave Ship 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Tay Garnett
Cast: Warner Baxter, Wallace Beery, Elizabeth Allan, Mickey Rooney, George Sanders, Jane Darwell, Joseph Schildkraut, Miles Mander, Arthur Hohl, Minna Gombell
It's adventure on the high seas as Captain Lovett (Warner Baxter) wants to get out of the slave trade, get rid of the crew, and start over in respectable shipping. But–the crew won't have anything to do with that idea, and the rebellion is underway.
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A Tale of Two Cities 1935  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Ronald Colman, Elizabeth Allan, Edna May Oliver, Reginald Owen, Basil Rathbone, Blanche Yurka, Henry B. Walthall, Donald Woods, Walter Catlett, Fritz Leiber, H.B. Warner, Mitchell Lewis, Claude Gillingwater, Billy Bevan, Lucille La Verne
This is the best film version of Charles Dickens' story of love and death during the Reign of Terror following the French Revolution. Ronald Colman takes on the role of weary London lawyer Sydney Carton who selflessly saves Charles Darnay (Donald Woods) from the guillotine by taking his place and allowing him to return to Lucie (Elizabeth Allan)–the woman who both men love. An Academy Award nomination was received for Best Picture.
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That Dangerous Age 1949 N/R, 98 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
aka: If This Be Sin
Director: Gregory Ratoff
Cast: Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey, Peggy Cummins, Richard Greene, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Elizabeth Allan, George Curzon, Barry Jones, William Mervyn, Patrick Waddington
An illicit affair between Lady Cathy Brooke (Myrna Loy) and Michael Barclaigh (Richard Greene) becomes the subject of rumormongers when her husband (Roger Livesey) becomes ill.
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Went the Day Well? 1942 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
aka: 48 Hours
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast: Leslie Banks, Frank Lawton, Basil Sydney, Valerie Taylor, Elizabeth Allan, C.V. France, Mervyn Johns, Marie Lohr, David Farrar, Harry Fowler, Edward Rigby, Thora Hird, Norman Pierce, Johnnie Schofield, Patricia Hayes
During World War II, German paratroopers, led by Nazi officer Ortier (Basil Sydney), disguise themselves as British soldiers and make contact with Fifth Columnist Oliver Wileford (Leslie Banks). They are welcomed into a British hamlet. Their plan is to disrupt Britain's radar network. However, the village residents catch onto the ruse, fight back gallantly, and the mission fails.
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A Woman Rebels 1936 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Mark Sandrich
Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Crisp, Elizabeth Allan, Lucile Watson, Van Heflin, David Manners, Doris Dudley, Eily Malyon, Margaret Seddon
Pamela Thistlewait (Katharine Hepburn) is a 19th-century feminist who overcomes the fact that she is an unwed mother and fights for women's rights.
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| 1. The Brain Machine (1956)
2. Camille (1936)
3. David Copperfield (1935)
4. Mark of the Vampire (1935)
5. Men in White (1934)
6. No Highway in the Sky (1951)
aka: No Highway
7. Slave Ship (1937)
8. A Tale of Two Cities (1935)
9. That Dangerous Age (1949)
aka: If This Be Sin
10. Went the Day Well? (1942)
aka: 48 Hours
11. A Woman Rebels (1936)
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