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The Sound Barrier
The Sound Barrier is a British 1952 film directed by David Lean. It is a fictional story about attempts by aircraft designers and test pilots to break the sound barrier. In the US it was retitled Breaking the Sound Barrier. The story was written...
Carrie
Carrie is a 1952 feature film based on the novel Sister Carrie by Theodore Dreiser.
Directed by William Wyler, the film stars Jennifer Jones in the title role and Laurence Olivier as Hurstwood. Carrie received two Academy Award Nominations: Costume...
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Mandy
Mandy was a 1952 Ealing Studios film, based on the book The Day Is Ours by Hilda Lewis, with screenplay by Nigel Balchin and Jack Whittingham, and direction by Alexander Mackendrick and Fred Sears. Another title for the film was Crash of Silence....
The Pickwick Papers
The Pickwick Papers is a 1952 UK production from George Minter of the Charles Dickens classic. Both screenplay and direction were by Noel Langley.
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Folly to Be Wise
Folly to be Wise is a 1953 British comedy film directed by Frank Launder and based on a play by James Bridie. It stars Alastair Sim, Elizabeth Allan, Roland Culver, Colin Gordon, Marita Hunt and Edward Chapman. The film follows a British Army...
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The Cruel Sea
The Cruel Sea is a 1953 British film from Ealing Studios. It was directed by Charles Frend and starred Jack Hawkins and (in his first film) Donald Sinden, with Denholm Elliott, Stanley Baker, Virginia McKenna and Moira Lister.
It was based on the...
The Heart of the Matter
The Heart of the Matter is a 1953 British film based on the book of the same name by Graham Greene. It was directed by George More O'Ferrall for London Films. It was entered into the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Trevor Howard plays Scobie, a policeman...
The Little Kidnappers
The Little Kidnappers, billed as The Kidnappers in the UK, is a 1953 British film, directed by Philip Leacock and written by Neil Paterson. Two young boys living with their stern grandfather are not allowed to have a dog. Then they find an abandoned...
Carrington V.C.
Carrington VC is a 1955 legal drama released by Kingsley-International Pictures starring David Niven and Margaret Leighton. Others in the cast include Noelle Middleton, Allan Cuthbertson, Victor Maddern, Raymond Francis, Michael Bates, Laurence...
Genevieve
Genevieve is a 1953 British film directed by Henry Cornelius and starring John Gregson, Dinah Sheridan, Kenneth More and Kay Kendall as two couples in a car race. The musical score was composed and performed by Larry Adler with dance numbers by Eric...
Doctor in the House
Doctor in the House is a 1954 British comedy film, directed by Ralph Thomas and produced by Betty Box. The screenplay, by Nicholas Phipps, Richard Gordon and Ronald Wilkinson, is based on the novel by Gordon, and follows a group of students through...
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Hobson's Choice
Hobson's Choice is a 1954 film directed by David Lean, based on the play of the same name by Harold Brighouse. It stars Charles Laughton in the title role of Victorian bootmaker Henry Hobson, Brenda De Banzie as his eldest daughter Maggie and John...
The Purple Plain
The Purple Plain was a 1954 motion picture based on the 1947 novel The Purple Plain by H. E. Bates. Produced with a relatively modest budget by J.Arthur Rank Studios, the production was directed by Robert Parrish, with screen writing by novelist...
Lease of Life
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Svengali
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The Deep Blue Sea
The Deep Blue Sea (1955) is a film, directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More, and released by Twentieth Century Fox. It was based on the play of the same name by Terence Rattigan.
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The Night My Number Came Up
The Night My Number Came Up (1955) is a film, directed by Les Norman at Ealing Studios. The screenplay was written by R. C. Sherriff based on a real incident in the life of British Air Marshal Sir Victor Goddard.
A senior Royal Air Force officer ...
The Bespoke Overcoat
The Bespoke Overcoat (1956) is a British film short directed by Jack Clayton, based on a 1953 play of the same name by Wolf Mankowitz. The story is an adaptation of Gogol's short story The Overcoat with the action relocated from Russia to the East...
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The Prisoner
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Reach for the Sky
Reach for the Sky is a 1956 British biographical film of aviator Douglas Bader, based on the 1954 biography of the same name by Paul Brickhill. The film stars Kenneth More and was directed by Lewis Gilbert. It won the BAFTA Award for Best British...
Richard III
Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play Richard III, including elements of Henry VI, Part 3. It was directed and produced by Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role. The cast includes many noted...
The Long Arm
The Long Arm is a 1956 British crime film directed by Charles Frend, and starring Jack Hawkins. It concerned a group of Scotland Yard police officers trying to solve a spate of burglaries in London. It is notable for using a more documentary style...
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
The Bridge on the River Kwai is a 1957 British World War II film by David Lean based on the novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by French writer Pierre Boulle. The film is a work of fiction but borrows the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942...
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The Prince and the Showgirl
The Prince and the Showgirl is a 1957 film produced at Pinewood Studios starring Marilyn Monroe and co-starring Laurence Olivier who also directed and produced it. The film was released on 13 June 1957.
It was written by Terrence Rattigan who based...
Time Without Pity
Time Without Pity is a 1957 thriller film about a father trying to save his son from execution for murder. It starred Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd and Leo McKern.
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Manuela
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Ice-Cold in Alex
Ice-Cold in Alex (1958) is a British film based on the novel of the same name by British author Christopher Landon. Directed by J. Lee Thompson and starring John Mills, the film was a prizewinner at the Berlin International Film Festival. It is...
Sea of Sand
Sea of Sand is a 1958 war film starring Michael Craig, John Gregson and Richard Attenborough. Other actors featured include Barry Foster, Vincent Ball, Harold Goodwin, Ray McAnally and Percy Herbert.
Directed by Guy Green and written by Robert...
Tom thumb
tom thumb is a 1958 US-made fantasy-musical film directed by George Pal and released by MGM. It was based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm. The lower-case lettering in the title was deliberate. The film is about a tiny man...
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Harry Black
Harry Black is a 1958 British film adaptation of the novel Harry Black by David Walker, released by 20th Century Fox.
The film stars Stewart Granger, Barbara Rush and I. S. Johar in a BAFTA nominated role. The film was shot in India.
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The Key
The Key is a 1958 war film set in 1940 during the World War II Battle of the Atlantic. It was based on the novel Stella by Jan de Hartog.
American David Ross (William Holden), a sergeant in the Canadian army, is hastily promoted and assigned to...
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Room at the Top
Room at the Top is a 1959 British film based on the novel of the same name by John Braine. The novel was adapted by Neil Paterson with uncredited work by Mordecai Richler. It was directed by Jack Clayton and produced by James Woolf and John Woolf....
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I'm All Right Jack
I'm All Right Jack is a British comedy film directed and produced by John and Roy Boulting released in 1959 as a sequel to their 1956 film Private's Progress. Ian Carmichael, Dennis Price, Richard Attenborough, Terry-Thomas and Miles Malleson all...
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The Nun's Story
The Nun's Story is the title of a dramatic film that was released by Warner Bros. in 1959.
Based upon the 1956 novel of the same title by Kathryn Hulme, the story tells of the life of Sister Luke (played by Audrey Hepburn), a young Belgian woman who...
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Expresso Bongo
Expresso Bongo, a 1958 West End musical and a 1959 film, was a satire of the music industry. It was first produced on the stage at the Saville Theatre, London on 23 April 1958. Its book was written by Wolf Mankowitz and Julian More, with music by...
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Look Back in Anger
Look Back in Anger is a 1958 British film starring Richard Burton, Claire Bloom and Mary Ure and directed by Tony Richardson. It is based on John Osborne's play of the same name about a love triangle involving an intelligent but disaffected young...
The Devil's Disciple
The Devil's Disciple is a 1959 film adaptation of the George Bernard Shaw play of the same title. The Anglo-American film was directed by Guy Hamilton and starred Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, and Laurence Olivier.
Lancaster and Douglas made several...
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Yesterday's Enemy
Yesterday's Enemy is a 1959 British war film directed by Val Guest and starring Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern and Gordon Jackson. It is set in Burma during the Second World War.
The Trials of Oscar Wilde
The Trials of Oscar Wilde also known as The Man with the Green Carnation and The Green Carnation, is a 1960 British film based on the libel and subsequent criminal cases involving Oscar Wilde and the Marquess of Queensberry. It was produced by...
Tunes of Glory
Tunes of Glory is a 1960 film directed by Ronald Neame, based on the novel by James Kennaway, who also wrote the screenplay, centering on events in a Scottish Highland military barracks in the period following World War II. It stars Alec Guinness...
The Entertainer
The Entertainer is a 1960 film adaptation of the stage play of the same name by John Osborne, which told the story of a failing third-rate music hall stage performer who tried to keep his career going even as his personal life fell apart.
The story...
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The Angry Silence
The Angry Silence is a 1960 British drama film directed by Guy Green and starring Richard Attenborough. Screenwriter Bryan Forbes won a BAFTA Award and an Oscar nomination for his contribution.
The story is about a factory worker who refuses to take...
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is a 1960 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Alan Sillitoe. Sillitoe wrote the screenplay adaptation and the film was directed by Karel Reisz.
Arthur Seaton, a young machinist at a Nottingham factory,...
Victim
Victim is a 1961 British film directed by Basil Dearden, starring Dirk Bogarde and Sylvia Syms. It is notable in film history for being the first English language film to use the word "homosexual". On its release in Britain it proved highly...
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No Love for Johnnie
'''No Love for Johnnie''' is a 1961 British drama film directed by Ralph Thomas. It was based on the book by the Member of Parliament Wilfred Fienburgh and stars Peter Finch.
Peter Finch won two film awards for this performance - one a BAFTA and the...
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Lawrence of Arabia
Lawrence of Arabia is a 1962 British epic film based on the life of T. E. Lawrence. It was directed by David Lean and produced by Austrian Sam Spiegel (through his British company, Horizon Pictures), from a script by Robert Bolt and Michael Wilson. ...
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Lolita
Lolita (1962) is an influential comedy-drama film by Stanley Kubrick based on the classic novel of the same title by Vladimir Nabokov. The film stars James Mason as Humbert Humbert, Sue Lyon as Dolores Haze (Lolita) and Shelley Winters as Charlotte...
A Kind of Loving
A Kind of Loving is a 1962 British drama film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow. It stars Alan Bates and June Ritchie as two lovers in 1960s Lancashire. The photography was by Denys Coop, and the...
Only Two Can Play
Only Two Can Play is a 1962 comedy film based on the novel That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis. Sidney Gilliat directed the film from a screenplay by Bryan Forbes.
The film is set in the fictional South Wales town of Aberdarcy, and largely...
Term of Trial
Term of Trial is a 1962 British drama film made by Romulus Films Ltd. and distributed by Warner-Pathé. It was written and directed by Peter Glenville and produced by James Woolf with James H. Ware as associate producer from a screenplay based on the...
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Birdman of Alcatraz
Birdman of Alcatraz is a 1962 film starring Burt Lancaster and directed by John Frankenheimer. It is a fictionalized version of the life of Robert Stroud, a federal prison inmate known as the "Birdman of Alcatraz" because of his life with birds.
In...
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The Dock Brief
The Dock Brief (released as Trial and Error in the United States) was a 1962 British comedy film starring Peter Sellers and Richard Attenborough. Sellers starred as a barrister and Attenborough the accused murderer who he attempts to get off.
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Tom Jones
Tom Jones is a 1963 British comedy film. It is an adaptation of Henry Fielding's classic novel The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1749), starring Albert Finney as the titular hero. It was one of the most critically acclaimed and popular comedies...
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This Sporting Life
This Sporting Life is a 1963 British film based on a novel of the same name by David Storey which won the 1960 Macmillan Fiction Award. It tells the story of a rugby league player, Frank Machin, in Wakefield, a mining area of Yorkshire whose...
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The Servant
The Servant is Harold Pinter's 1963 film adaptation of the 1948 novel by Robin Maugham. A British production directed by Joseph Losey, it stars Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, and James Fox.
The first of Pinter's three film collaborations...
Billy Liar
Billy Liar is a 1963 film based on the novel by Keith Waterhouse. It was directed by John Schlesinger and stars Tom Courtenay (who had understudied Albert Finney in the West End theatre adaptation of the novel) as Billy and Julie Christie as Liz,...
