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The W Plan (1930)
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A tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.

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Kitty (1929)
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Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....

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It's Love Again (1936)
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other title: Es el amor / 君と踊れば …
Elaine Bradford is a young singer and dancer, looking for her big break. Peter Carlton is a gossip columnist facing a deadline and a blank page. So, Peter invents "Mrs. Smythe-Smythe", a mysterious Englishwoman who spends her days hunting tigers in India, jumping out of airplanes, and generally driving men mad with her beauty. Since no one in London has ever seen Mrs. Smythe-Smythe, Elaine decides to impersonate the lady, in hopes that the publicity will land her the big break she's been looking for.

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Evergreen (1934)
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other title: Siempre viva / 春色無涯 …
Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.

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Friday the Thirteenth (1933)
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other title: Vendredi 13
It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.

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绿海豚街 (1947)
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other title: Green Dolphin Street / 新西兰地震记
Sophie loved Edmund, but he left town when her parents forced her to marry wealthy Octavius. Years later, Edmund returns with his son, William. Sophie's daughter, Marguerite, and William fall in love. Marguerite's sister, Marianne, also loves William. Timothy, a lowly carpenter, secretly loves Marianne. He kills a man in a fight, and flees to New Zealand. William deserts inadvertently from the navy, and also flees in disgrace to New Zealand, where he and Timothy start a profitable business. One night, drunk, William writes Octavius, demanding his daughter's hand; but, being drunk, he asks for the wrong sister.

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The Green Years (1946)
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维克多·萨维勒 actor: 查尔斯·科本 / 汤姆·德雷克 …
other title: 黛绿年华 / A.J. Cronin's The Green Years …
When young Robert Shannon is orphaned he leaves his home in Ireland and travels to Langford, Scotland, home of his maternal grandparents. Growing up in the home of his penny-pinching grandfather is made bearable by his doting but irresponsible great-grandfather, loving grandmother and kind aunt and uncle. After a rocky start in his new school Robbie adjusts and is befriended by Gavin and Allison, whom he grows to love as the years pass. As he matures into a young man Robbie's dreams turn to medicine and becoming a doctor. Supported by everyone in the family except his grandfather, he studies for a scholarship as a way to escape life toiling in the local boiler-works.

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My Gun Is Quick (1957)
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Phil Victor / George White actor: 罗伯特布雷 / 惠特尼·布莱克 …
other title: 快枪手 / 枪下无情 …
A private detective helps a prostitute being assaulted, and notices that she is wearing a very unique ring. She is later found murdered and there is no trace of the ring, which turns out to be part of a cache of jewelry stolen by the Nazis during World War II and smuggled out of France after the wary by an American army colonel. The private eye decides to try to find the ring, is hired by the former colonel to find the rest of the jewels, and runs up against a murderous French gang that is also looking for the jewels.

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Dark Journey (1937)
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other title: 黑暗的旅程
第一次世界大战,瑞典是中立国,法、英、德等国在这个国家都有他们的谍报组织。玛德琳以做服装生意为名穿梭于巴黎和斯德哥尔摩之间,她将绣有法国军事情报的高档女装带给斯德哥尔摩的德国情报组织、德国发现玛德琳的情报有假,开始怀疑她的身份,玛德琳从容面对一切,但她的生命已受到威胁。法国情报部门以她出卖法国假军事情报为由要求瑞典警方将玛德琳驱逐。玛德琳在瑞典警方的严密监视下视下踏上回法国的旅途,德国情报组织将在船上暗杀她,麦里维其上校将她带离商船,原来她是个优秀的法国谍报人员,而一直暗中帮她的麦里维其上校则是德国和法国情报组织的双重间谍,玛德琳成功逃脱,上校却生死难料……