Cavalcade 1933  N/R, 110 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Frank Lloyd
Cast: Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Ursula Jeans, Herbert Mundin, Una O'Connor, Beryl Mercer, Irene Browne, Frank Lawton, Margaret Lindsay, Billy Bevan
This film, an Oscar winner for Best Picture, is Noel Coward's story of the effects of World War I on the British Marryot family (Diana Wynyard and Clive Brook) over a 30 year period–before, during, and after the war. Frank Lloyd also won an Oscar for Best Director. A third Oscar was received for Art Direction.
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The Dam Busters 1954  N/R, 125 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans, Richard Todd, Raymond Huntley, Frank Phillips, Basil Sydney, Derek Farr, Robert Shaw, Colin Tapley, Nigel Stock
During World War II, a plan was formulated to bomb German dams along the Ruhr River. This is the story of how the R.A.F. carried out the mission.
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Dark Journey 1937 N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Joan Gardner, Anthony Bushell, Ursula Jeans, Robert Newton, William Dewhurst, Cecil Parker, Austin Trevor, Eliot Makeham
A meeting between spies–Von Marwitz (Conrad Veidt) and Madeleine (Vivien Leigh)–in Stockholm accelerates into a love affair, which complicates matters.
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 Friday the Thirteenth 1933  N/R, 65 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama
aka: Friday the 13th
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Edmund Gwenn, Gordon Harker, Muriel Aked, Martita Hunt, Cyril Smith, Richard Hulton, Max Miller, Alfred Drayton, Hartley Power, Percy Parsons, Ursula Jeans, Eliot Makeham, Ralph Richardson
At one minute before midnight on Friday the 13th, lightning strikes, and a crane falls onto a London bus. Now, Big Ben winds backwards, and the past lives and events of six of the passengers are shown in separate sequences. Two passengers are killed, and two are injured; but those who suffered are not revealed until the story's end.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp 1943 N/R, 163 min.
Genre: Drama / Romance
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Cast: Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook, James McKechnie, Roland Culver, David Hutcheson, Ursula Jeans, John Laurie, Felix Aylmer, Albert Lieven, Neville Mapp, Spencer Trevor, David Ward, Jan Van Loewen, Valentine Dyall
This story is told through flashbacks to relate experiences of British army officer Clive Candy (Roger Livesey) as he participates in the Boer War, World War I, and World War II and fights propaganda used in the wars. Over several decades, with each war Clive becomes involved with different women (each played by Deborah Kerr). "Colonel Blimp" is adapted from a comic strip about upper-crust members of the military created by cartoonist David Low.
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Storm in a Teacup 1937 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Rex Harrison, Cecil Parker, Sara Allgood, Ursula Jeans, Gus McNaughton, Eliot Makeham, Ivor Barnard, Cyril Smith, Edgar K. Bruce
When reporter Frank Burdon (Rex Harrison) takes on the cause of Mrs. Hegarty (Sara Allgood) who refuses to pay for a dog license, the result is mayhem.
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| 1. Cavalcade (1933)
2. The Dam Busters (1954)
3. Dark Journey (1937)
4. Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
aka: Friday the 13th
5. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
6. Storm in a Teacup (1937)
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