John Dighton
출생 : 1909-12-08, London, England, UK
사망 : 1989-04-16
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Two Australian sugarcane cutters spend their annual five-month vacations in Sydney with their mistresses.
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In a small New England town during the American War of Independence, Dick Dudgeon, a revolutionary American Puritan, is mistaken for local minister Rev. Anthony Anderson and arrested by the British. Dick discovers himself incapable of accusing another human to suffer and continues to masquerade as the reverend.
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Director Sidney Franklin's 1957 remake of his own 1934 film, about the romance of poets Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning.
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Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant cousin when he pays a surprise visit to their palace. Prince Albert has searched all over Europe for a bride and he's bored by the whole courtship routine. He is more interested in the estate's dairy than Alexandra's rose garden. And then he starts playing football with the tutor and Alexandra's brothers. Invite the tutor to the ball that night and watch how gracefully Alexandra dances with him.
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앤 공주는 왕실의 제약과 정해진 스케줄에 싫증이 나 로마를 여행하던 중 왕실을 몰래 빠져 나간다. 그녀는 한 신사의 도움으로 서민의 생활을 즐기게 되지만, 그 신사는 특종을 찾아다니는 신문 기자였고 특종을 잡기 위해 앤 공주와 로마의 거리를 다니며 여러가지 해프닝을 겪는다. 이 사실을 모르는 앤 공주는 친절한 그에게 정이 들기 시작하고, 단지 특종만을 위해서 그녀와 함께 했던 기자 조 역시 순수한 앤 공주에게 끌리기 시작한다. 드디어 앤은 궁전으로 다시 돌아가고 조가 신문 기자였던 것을 알게 된 앤은 그에게 실망한다. 그러나 조는 앤 공주의 사진을 기사로 쓰지 않고 그녀에게 선물이라며 전해주는데...
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A newly-arrived army chaplain is put in charge of camp entertainment and has the idea of putting on a Brains Trust with local notables. Unfortunately for him, it emerges from a question on the rights and wrongs of marriage that there is more going on between three of the panelists than he wants to know about - though the audience obviously thinks differently.
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When Miles Cornwall returns suddenly to the home he shares with his father and sister in a grace-and-favour house at St. James's Palace, he's amazed to find a pretty Irish girl in his favorite armchair. Intrigued, he turns on the charm but, as she explains her situation, he finds himself unaccountably falling in love with this pretty interloper.
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A young couple get involved with a smuggler
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영국 북부의 공업지대. 직물업계의 대부인 벌리는 최근 업계에 들이닥친 심각한 위기를 감지한다. 그는 예비 사위의 방적공장을 둘러보다가 한 연구실에서 호기심을 끄는 이상한 장치를 발견하지만 누구도 그것이 무엇인지 설명하지 못한다. 조사 결과 그 장치에는 4천 파운드가 소요되었고 시드니 스트래튼이라는 연구원이 허락도 없이 주문을 했다는 사실이 밝혀진다. (1947)에 이은 알렉산더 맥켄드릭의 두 번째 영화로 일링 코미디 중 가장 냉소적인 영화로 꼽힌다. 진보가 보수에 발목을 잡히고, 과거로부터 헤어나지 못하고 있던 당시 영국의 현실을 신랄하게 비꼬고 있다. (Naver 영화)
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Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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Nutbourne College, an old established, all-boys, boarding school is told that another school is to be billeted with due to wartime restrictions. The shock is that it's an all-girls school that has been sent. The two head teachers are soon battling for the upper hand with each other and the Ministry. But a crisis (or two) forces them to work together.
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루이스 마치니(데니스 프라이스 분)는 다스코인 공작의 딸과 무일푼의 오페라 가수 사이에서 태어난 서출이다. 하지만 그는 작위를 물려받겠다는 생각으로 자신의 길에 방해가 되는 사람들을 모두 제거하기로 결심한다. 루이스는 다양한 방법으로 친척들을 제거해 나가기 시작한다. 사고로 죽은 두 사람을 제외하고, 여섯 사람이나 죽인 루이스는 드디어 작위를 차지한다. 하지만 그는 엉뚱하게도 어린 시절 친구이자 결혼 후에도 계속 관계를 가져온 시벨라(조안 그린우드 분)의 남편을 죽인 것으로 체포되어 사형될 위기에 처한다. 다행히 시벨라의 남편은 자살한 것으로 밝혀지고 루이스는 석방된다. 하지만 그는 감옥 안에서 시간을 보내기 위해 썼던 회고록을 감옥 안에 두고 나온다. 그리고 발견된 그의 회고록을 읽은 한 출판 업자가 루이스에게 접근해 그 회고록을 인쇄할 권리를 요구하는데...
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Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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A fatherless boy tries to make his fortune despite interference from his rich uncle.
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A man from the countryside becomes London’s newest music hall sensation, and competes with a rival music hall performer for the audience’s attention.
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An insane murderer is on the loose, and gunning for the men who put him away. Will Hay is on the list, and co-opts Claude Hulbert to try and stop him from meeting a grisly end.
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1941년, 전쟁을 앞둔 유고슬라비아의 봄. 페트로비치 집안의 큰아들인 군인 밀로슈와 작은아들인 의사 스테판은 부모님의 결혼기념일을 맞아 집에 모여 행복한 나날을 보낸다. 국경과 병원으로 떠난 밀로슈와 스테판은 각자의 전쟁을 겪고, 유고슬라비아 군대가 패배하자 밀로슈는 스테판을 찾아와 게릴라의 위장 연락책이 되어 달라고 부탁한다. 스테판은 겉으로는 독일에 협력하는 병원장이지만 뒤로는 형과 게릴라를 돕는다. 작전을 수행하다가 붙잡힌 형제의 아버지와 함께 스테판은 터널을 폭파하며 죽고, 밀로슈는 전쟁의 승리를 위해 마지막 그날까지 싸울 것을 다짐한다.
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The quiet village of Bramley End is taken over by German troops posing as Royal Engineers. Their task is to disrupt England's radar network in preparation for a full scale German invasion. Once the villagers discover the true identity of the troops, they do whatever they can to thwart the Nazis plans.
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Schoolteacher William Potts is the double of a captured German spy, so he is sent to Germany by British Intelligence to obtain the plans of a new secret weapon, causing chaos in a Hitler Youth school in the process.
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Based on the true story of Melbourne Johns, an aircraft factory foreman sent to France to prevent the Nazis getting hold of some vital equipment.
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Wartime propaganda piece giving the warning "Be like Dad, Keep Mum". A gossipy housewife is overheard talking about what her son is doing by a Nazi spy.
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A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.
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Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.
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A bookmaker with a fancy for detective work attempts to prevent the execution of a potentially innocent man.
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During the Second World War, a special constable and former solicitor is called upon to defend his son who is accused of the theft of a car
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Shortly after the start of World War II, a ukelele player (George) takes the wrong boat and finds himself in (still uninvaded) Norway. He is mistaken for a fellow British intelligence agent by a woman (Mary), and becomes involved in trying to defeat Nazi agents.
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An English comedian is infuriated by a Scottish comedienne's impersonation of him
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An impoverished racetrack tout discovers that a crooked trainer is about to throw a race involving a nobleman's horse.