The Americanization of Emily 1964  N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama / Comedy
Director: Arthur Hiller
Cast: James Garner, Julie Andrews, Melvyn Douglas, James Coburn, Joyce Grenfell, Ed Binns, Keenan Wynn, William Windom, Liz Fraser, Judy Carne
Nominated for Academy Awards for Best Art and Set Decoration and Best Cinematography, this film is a comedy/drama about war widow Emily Barham (Julie Andrews) who falls in love with Lieutenant Charles E. Madison (James Garner). Madison doesn't realize that he will become a participant in the Normandy invasion.
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The Demi-Paradise 1943  N/R, 115 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Adventure for Two
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Marjorie Fielding, Margaret Rutherford, Leslie Henson, Guy Middleton, Felix Aylmer, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Miles Malleson, Joyce Grenfell
Russian inventor Ivan Dimitrievitch Kouzneisoff (Laurence Olivier) travels to England prior to World War II and learns to adjust to a new way of life.
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Genevieve 1953 N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Henry Cornelius
Cast: John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall, Geoffrey Keen, Michael Medwin, Reginald Beckwith, Joyce Grenfell, Arthur Wontner, Leslie Mitchell, Fred Griffiths, Charles Lamb, Michael Balfour, Patrick Westwood, Edie Martin
Two couples–Alan and Wendy McKim (John Gregson and Dinah Sheridan) and Ambrose Claverhouse and Rosalind Peters (Kenneth More and Kay Kendall)–compete in the Vintage Car Club's rally between London and Brighton. As the 50+ mile race ensues, competition between the couples increases, and the men even use sabotage methods to come out ahead in the race. Comedy reigns as problems are encountered during the race in this delightful story. Great performances, excellent writing, and beautiful landscapes make this film worth watching.
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The Happiest Days of Your Life 1950 N/R, 91 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Frank Launder
Cast: Alastair Sim, Margaret Rutherford, Bernadette O'Farrell, John Bentley, Joyce Grenfell, Richard Wattis, Guy Middleton, Muriel Aked, Edward Rigby, Laurence Naismith
When some girls from St. Swithins School are accidentally assigned to the dorm at male-only Nutbourne College, the fun begins. Good English humor.
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Laughter in Paradise 1951  N/R, 94 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Mario Zampi
Cast: Alastair Sim, Guy Middleton, Fay Compton, George Cole, Hugh Griffith, Joyce Grenfell, John Laurie, Beatrice Campbell, Anthony Steel, Audrey Hepburn
Four relatives share a fortune–if they perform the actions designated in a very strange will left by a practical joker. That cigarette girl is Audrey Hepburn in her film debut.
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The Million Pound Note 1954 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Man with a Million
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Gregory Peck, Jane Griffith, Ronald Squire, Joyce Grenfell, Reginald Beckwith, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Ernest Thesiger, A.E. Matthews, Maurice Denham, Bryan Forbes
Based on the Mark Twain fable, this is the story of a poor American in London who receives a million pound note and the problems he encounters during the month he is to keep it in his possession.
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 The Old Dark House 1963  PG, 86 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller / Comedy
Director: William Castle
Cast: Tom Poston, Robert Morley, Janette Scott, Joyce Grenfell, Mervyn Johns, Peter Bull, Danny Green, Fenella Fielding, John Harvey, Amy Dalby
An American car salesman, Tom Penderel (Tom Poston), delivers a car to a spooky, old house where he finds the owner dead. The family members are very strange, and, as a storm rages outside, members of the family are killed one-by-one while Penderel tries to figure out who is responsible.
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A Run for Your Money 1949 N/R, 83 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Charles Frend
Cast: Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister, Alec Guinness, Hugh Griffith, Clive Morton, Leslie Perrins, Joyce Grenfell, Edward Rigby, David Davies, Julie Milton, Desmond Walter-Ellis, Dorothy Bramhall, Andrew Leigh, Mackenzie Ward
Welsh coal-mining brothers "Dai" and "Twim" Jones (Donald Houston and Meredith Edwards) win a day in London along with tickets to the England-Wales Rugby match. Upon arrival in the city, they manage to lose their chaperone Whimple (Alec Guinness) as well as each other, which all leads to one day of excitement–including women and booze–and an entertaining movie.
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 Stage Fright 1950  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Jane Wyman, Marlene Dietrich, Michael Wilding, Richard Todd, Alastair Sim, Kay Walsh, Sybil Thorndike, Miles Malleson, Joyce Grenfell, Andre Morell, Patricia Hitchcock, Ballard Berkeley, Irene Handl, Alfie Bass
Drama student Eve Hill (Jane Wyman) has been told by her boyfriend (Richard Todd) that one of the stars, Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Dietrich), is a murderess. Now Eve spies on Charlotte hoping for proof of the murder.
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce 1965 N/R, 122 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Anthony Asquith
Cast: Rex Harrison, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley MacLaine, Jeanne Moreau, Edmund Purdom, George C. Scott, Omar Sharif, Art Carney, Alain Delon, Wally Cox, Joyce Grenfell, Michael Hordern, Lance Percival, Roland Culver, Moira Lister
This is a clever film made up of a trio of stories linking together subsequent owners of a particular yellow Rolls-Royce Phantom II. Lord Frenton (Rex Harrison) buys the Rolls as an anniversary gift for his wife (Jeanne Moreau) who is later caught in the back seat with John Fane (Edmund Purdom). Later, in the 1930s, gangster Paolo Maltese (George C. Scott) buys the Rolls and tours Italy with hat-check girl Mae Jenkins (Shirley MacLaine). Like her predecessor, Mae also tries out the back seat–she finds "love" with a photographer (Alain Delon) while Paolo is in the U.S. on business. By World War II, socialite Gerda Millett (Ingrid Bergman) owns the car and fights the Nazis by smuggling Davich (Omar Sharif) across the border. In the process, this couple also finds pleasures in the back seat of the Rolls-Royce Phantom II.
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| 1. The Americanization of Emily (1964)
2. The Demi-Paradise (1943)
aka: Adventure for Two
3. Genevieve (1953)
4. The Happiest Days of Your Life (1950)
5. Laughter in Paradise (1951)
6. The Million Pound Note (1954)
aka: Man with a Million
7. The Old Dark House (1963)
8. A Run for Your Money (1949)
9. Stage Fright (1950)
10. The Yellow Rolls-Royce (1965)
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