Stanley Holloway
2) My fair lady
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Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, cockney flower girl, Eliza Doolittle, meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins. Higgins, in turn, bets with his companion, Colonel Pickering, that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, ready and willing to be turned into a lady.
3) My fair lady
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Winner of three Tony Awards including Best Musical.
4) My fair lady
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A professor takes a wager to turn a London flower girl into someone presentable in high society.
Special features: British premiere featurette; Rex Harison BFI honor; More loverly than ever: The making of My Fair Lady then & now; photo galleries; Comments on a lady; Rex harrison Golden Globe acceptance speech; Academy Awards highlights; interview Martin Scorsese; alternate Audrey Heopburn vocals; production tests; Los Angeles premiere; 1963 production...
5) My fair lady
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A Covent Garden flower girl becomes a lady, entering elite London society under the tutelage of an arrogant professor.
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Henry Holland, a meek clerk who devises an ingenious plan to rob a fortune in gold bullion from his own bank. But when Henry and his odd accomplice melt the gold into souvenir Eiffel Towers to smuggle into France, their perfect crime becomes a disastrous caper of Cockney crooks, customs chaos and an ill-timed group of schoolgirls, all leading to some of the most hilarious and unexpected surprises in criminal history.
13) The way ahead
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The metamorphosis of a cross-section group of Britons from squabbling individuals into a top fighting unit in the final phase of the African campaign against Rommel.
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Ten people--eight strangers and two married domestics--attend a posh weekend at a remote castle. Each has unwittingly been invited to his or her own murder. A familiar nursery rhyme of ten Indian figurines is affixed to a serving plate at the castle. After the fatal poisoning of a guest, one figurine goes missing. One down, nine to go.
15) Target: Harry
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Freelance pilot Harry Black finds both the Monte Carlo police and the underworld on his tail when he becomes caught up with one of his passenger's plot to break the bank of England with forged currency. The tension mounts as mysterious beauty Diane Reed and local gangster Mosul Rashi are hot on Harry's trail believing that he has the priceless plates used to print the counterfeit money.
16) Brief encounter
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Criterion collection volume 76
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Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
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Corregidor: Doctors on Corregidor sort out a love triangle while fighting the invading Japanese forces. (1943) with Otto Kruger & Donald Woods.
The immortal battalion: An army officer shapes a unit of British recruits into a crack battalion to face Rommel's North Africa Korps. (1944) with David Niven, Stanley Holloway & Peter Ustinov. Directed by Carol Reed.
The big lift: When the Russians blockade Berlin, British and American airmen receive supplies...
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This exclusive collection brings together five of Ealing Studios' greatest comedies. Each classic film has been newly remastered from pristine vault materials, many available for the first time ever in America.
The Maggie. In order to get the money he needs to repair his boat, MacTaggart tricks a U.S. businessman into using it to transport his precious cargo. When the American learns of the deception he tries to chase down the Maggie and overtake...
19) British noir
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They met in the dark: During WW2, a Royal Navy Commander stumbles upon a murdered woman and discovers a network of Nazi spies and Fifth-Columnists.
The October man: Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash, is the chief suspect in a murder hunt after a young woman that he has just recently met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed.
Snowbound: A British Army vet exposes a plot...