Ralph Thomas

Ralph Thomas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ralph Thomas (born Ralph Philip Thomas 10 August 1915 — 17 March 2001) was an English film director, born in Hull. He is perhaps best known for directing the Doctor series of films. His brother, Gerald Thomas, was also a film director. His son, Jeremy Thomas, is a film producer. He cast the actor James Robertson Justice in many of his films. He often worked with the producer Betty E. Box who was married to Carry On producer, Peter Rogers. He was a nephew of producer Victor Saville. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ralph Thomas, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.​

  • Title: Ralph Thomas
  • Popularity: 2.7381
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1915-08-10
  • Place of Birth: Hull, Yorkshire, England, UK
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Ralph Thomas Movies

  • 1964
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    Hot Enough for June

    Hot Enough for June

    5.646 1964 HD

    A young man travels to Prague to join his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.

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  • 1958
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    A Tale of Two Cities

    A Tale of Two Cities

    6.7 1958 HD

    Set against the conditions leading up to the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror, French doctor Alexandre Manette serves an 18-year imprisonment in the Bastille in Paris, followed by his release to live in London with the daughter he has never met.

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  • 1967
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    Deadlier Than the Male

    Deadlier Than the Male

    5.8 1967 HD

    British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.

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  • 1961
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    Carry On Regardless

    Carry On Regardless

    6.2 1961 HD

    After a bunch of no-hopers approaches an employment agency, the anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimp's tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting… and demolishing a house.

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  • 1959
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    The 39 Steps

    The 39 Steps

    6.243 1959 HD

    In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.

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  • 1969
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    Some Girls Do

    Some Girls Do

    5.7 1969 HD

    A series of unexplainable accidents befall the people and companies responsible for developing the world's first supersonic airliner. A British agent is sent to investigate and with the help of another agent uncovers a plot masterminded by Carl Petersen who stands to gain eight million pounds if the aircraft is not ready by a certain date.

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  • 1956
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    The Iron Petticoat

    The Iron Petticoat

    5.8 1956 HD

    Captain Vinka Kovalenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman. Captain Chuck Lockwood gets the order to show her the bright side of capitalism, while she tries to convince him of the superiority of communism. Naturally, they fall in love, but there's still the KGB, which doesn't like the idea of having a defected Russian officer running around in London.

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  • 1955
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    Above Us the Waves

    Above Us the Waves

    6.2 1955 HD

    In World War II, the greatest threat to the British navy is the German battleship Tirpitz. While anchored in a Norwegian fjord, it is impossible to attack by conventional means, so a plan is hatched for a special commando unit to attack it, using midget submarines to plant underwater explosives.

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  • 1950
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    The Clouded Yellow

    The Clouded Yellow

    6.2 1950 HD

    After leaving the British Secret Service, David Somers finds work catalouging butterflies at the country house of Nicholas and Jess Fenton. After the murder of a local gamekeeper, suspicion falls on their niece, Sophie Malraux. Somers helps Sophie to escape arrest and they go on the run together.

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  • 1958
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    The Wind Cannot Read

    The Wind Cannot Read

    6.208 1958 HD

    A British officer falls in love with his Japanese instructor at a military language school. They start a romance, but she is regarded as the enemy and is not accepted by his countrymen.

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  • 1954
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    Doctor in the House

    Doctor in the House

    6.5 1954 HD

    The first of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. Simon Sparrow is a newly arrived medical student at St Swithin's hospital in London. Falling in with three longer-serving hopefuls he is soon immersed in the wooing, imbibing and fast sports-car driving that constitute 1950s medical training. There is, however, always the looming and formidable figure of chief surgeon Sir Lancelot Spratt to remind them of their real purpose.

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  • 1970
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    Doctor in Trouble

    Doctor in Trouble

    4.6 1970 HD

    Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

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  • 1963
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    Doctor in Distress

    Doctor in Distress

    6.2 1963 HD

    "Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lancelot Spratt, Simon Sparrow's old teacher and sometimes nemesis. When the eternal bachelor Sir Lancelot injures his back and falls in love with his physiotherapist Iris Marchant, he becomes very distressed and turns to Simon for help. Simon, who now is a senior doctor at fictional Hampden Cross Hospital and hopelessly in love with aspiring actress Delia, sends him to a nature cure clinic in a vain attempt to help him lose weight, but Sir Lancelot can't get Iris off his mind and has her followed, first by a private investigator and eventually by himself. When he finally proposes, she rejects him and marries an old army major, which distresses Sir Lancelot even more.

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  • 1966
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    Doctor in Clover

    Doctor in Clover

    5.6 1966 HD

    Doctor in Clover is another 'Doctor' movie, but this time Leslie Phillips is the main doctor in the story, looking for love and romance from the hospital nurses, much to the annoyance of the main Administrator (James Robertson Justice) who wants his doctors to be 100% focussed on the job. Numerous antics follow, with Phillips getting Justice fixed up with the new prim-and-proper Matron (Joan Sims) and his attempted failures to lure the hospital's beauty, the physiotherapist.

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  • 1960
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    Doctor in Love

    Doctor in Love

    5.206 1960 HD

    Doctors Burke and Hare leave the confines of St Swithins for the world of general practice, stopping off on the way as patients at the Foulness Anti-cold Unit. Hare then takes up a position as junior in a well-healed G.P.'s surgery while Burke continues to sow his doctorial wild oats.

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  • 1955
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    Doctor at Sea

    Doctor at Sea

    5.6 1955 HD

    The second of the seven "Doctor" films, based on Richard Gordon's novels and released between 1954 and 1970. A bachelor doctor goes to sea to escape the boredom of shore practice, but studies the nurses more than medicine, and Brigitte Bardot is around.

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  • 1957
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    Doctor at Large

    Doctor at Large

    5.6 1957 HD

    Losing out to Dr. Bingham (Michael Medwin) in a competition for house surgeon when he offends a member of the board, young Dr. Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) finds himself going from post to post, filling in for other physicians. At one distant country post, he is taken aback when he works with a patient whose husband died after Simon treated the man years before. In another hospital, Simon examines a surprisingly mature teen and also tries courting devoted nurse Nan McPherson (Shirley Eaton).

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  • 1968
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    Nobody Runs Forever

    Nobody Runs Forever

    6 1968 HD

    Detective Scobie Malone accepts a mission to fly to London to arrest Sir James Quentin, a high-level commissioner wanted down under for murder. But when Malone arrives, he finds that the amiable Quentin is not only the key in groundbreaking peace negotiations, but also the target of an assassin himself.

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  • 1960
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    Conspiracy of Hearts

    Conspiracy of Hearts

    6.7 1960 HD

    In wartime Italy nuns in a convent regularly smuggle Jewish children out of a nearby internment camp. The Italian army officer in charge suspects what may be going on but deliberately turns a blind eye. When the Germans take over the camp security the nuns' activities become far more dangerous.

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  • 1952
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    Venetian Bird

    Venetian Bird

    5.9 1952 HD

    Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.

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  • 1957
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    Campbell's Kingdom

    Campbell's Kingdom

    5.912 1957 HD

    Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.

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  • 1971
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    Percy

    Percy

    3.833 1971 HD

    Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...

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  • 1974
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    Percy's Progress

    Percy's Progress

    3.5 1974 HD

    Percy, the man with the world's first penis transplant, discovers that there is a chemical in the world's water that makes men impotent.

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  • 1980
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    A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

    A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

    6.1 1980 HD

    An American ex-con who is trying to go straight is persuaded to be the inside man for an audacious bank job in central London.

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  • 1951
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    Appointment with Venus

    Appointment with Venus

    5.1 1951 HD

    At the outbreak of WWII the British realise they can't prevent the invasion of the Channel Islands. However, someone realises that a prize cow is on the islands and the Nazis mustn't get hold of her. This is the intrepid story of the cow-napping from under the noses of the Nazis.

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  • 1954
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    Mad About Men

    Mad About Men

    6.4 1954 HD

    Flirtatious mermaid Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

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  • 1971
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    Quest for Love

    Quest for Love

    6.6 1971 HD

    After a scientific experiment goes horribly wrong during a demonstration, a scientist finds himself trapped in an alternate reality that bears some similarities to our own, but also has some striking differences. In this other reality the Second World War had never occurred, mankind had not yet traveled into Space and Mt. Everest had not yet been conquered, just to name a few things. Also in this other reality he is no longer a scientist but rather a well known author. After a personal tragedy in this alternate world, he finds himself back in his own world and desperately trying to locate the woman he fell in love with in the other world. Little does she know, however, that her life depends on him finding her.

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  • 1949
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    Helter Skelter

    Helter Skelter

    6.2 1949 HD

    A detective gets involved with a wealthy socialite who can't seem to stop hiccuping.

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  • 1964
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    The High Bright Sun

    The High Bright Sun

    5.4 1964 HD

    This story of love and espionage focuses on political turmoil as a small nation struggles to free itself from colonial rule, and one man tries to serve both justice and his own heart.

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  • 1956
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    Checkpoint

    Checkpoint

    5.3 1956 HD

    Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.

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  • 1959
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    Upstairs and Downstairs

    Upstairs and Downstairs

    5.6 1959 HD

    On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic. He soon finds good help is hard to come by. Run-ins follow with dipsomaniacs, bank robbers, a Welsh lass who takes one look at London and runs, and an Italian charmer who turns the place into a bawdy house. Then when Ingrid arrives from Sweden things actually start to get complicated.

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  • 1961
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    No Love for Johnnie

    No Love for Johnnie

    6.2 1961 HD

    Johnnie Byrne is a member of the British Parliament. In his 40s, he's feeling frustrated with his life and his personal as well as professional problems tower up over him. His desires to win the next election are endangered by his constant looking for love and he is faced with the choice of giving up a career in politics or giving up the woman he loves.

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  • 1953
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    A Day to Remember

    A Day to Remember

    6.9 1953 HD

    A group of men from a London pub are going on a darts team outing to Boulogne. Various members of the party have different reasons for going and get involved in various adventures.

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  • 1961
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    No, My Darling Daughter

    No, My Darling Daughter

    6.3 1961 HD

    A British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.

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  • 1962
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    The Wild and the Willing

    The Wild and the Willing

    5.8 1962 HD

    Harry Brown is a somewhat rough and wild university student, who has the ability to win friends, especially the underdogs like Phil who doesn't play 'rugger' and can't sink a whole pint of beer, and African student Reggie. He also has a way with the girls....

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  • 1950
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    Traveller's Joy

    Traveller's Joy

    5.7 1950 HD

    A divorced couple, living hand-to-mouth in Stockholm, must first pay their hotel bill before returning to England. To raise the necessary funds, they must pretend that they're still married.

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  • 1953
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    The Dog and the Diamonds

    The Dog and the Diamonds

    5.5 1953 HD

    A group of children establish their own zoo in the garden of a disused house, which proves to be the headquarters of a gang of crooks.

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  • 1949
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    Once Upon a Dream

    Once Upon a Dream

    6 1949 HD

    An officer's wife has a romantic dream about her husband's man (servant) and comes to believe it is true. Meanwhile the husband has asked his servant to help him, after the war, to suggest ways to ignite the romance he and his wife had before the war, as well as find a way to make money in a post-war economy.

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  • 1973
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    The Love Ban

    The Love Ban

    2.833 1973 HD

    In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

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  • 1962
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    A Pair of Briefs

    A Pair of Briefs

    5.7 1962 HD

    She's new in chambers, and he's a troublemaker. But what 'is' the true status of the old lady's wartime marriage, and can the two young legal minds find the answer?

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  • 1984
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    Pop Pirates

    Pop Pirates

    4.8 1984 HD

    A story of adventure in the pop music world. A schoolboy pop group who call themselves The Pirates find themselves involved with a different sort of piracy when they discover a secret video tape-copying factory

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  • 1953
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    The Real Thing

    The Real Thing

    1 1953 HD

    The World's First Three Dimensional Advertising Film In Colour for Capstan cigarettes.

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  • 1973
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    The Love Ban

    The Love Ban

    2.833 1973 HD

    In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.

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  • 1962
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    Carry On Cruising

    Carry On Cruising

    6.1 1962 HD

    Captain Crowther's lot is not a happy one! Five of his crew have to be replaced and at such short notice before the voyage begins there isn't much to choose from. Not only does he get the five most incompetent shipmates ever to sail the seven seas, but the passengers turn out to be a rather strange bunch too. The SS Happy Wanderer will never be the same.

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  • 1937
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    Return of a Stranger

    Return of a Stranger

    5.5 1937 HD

    James Martin and Carol Wall have plans to elope, but a fight with her father's solicitor ends in murder committed by an unknown third-party, and Martin is hunted for the crime, knowing the solicitor was alive when he left him. Carol refuses to speak to him, and he escapes on a ship to South Africa. There, he is the victim of an accident that disfigures his face, and he returns to England to clear his name, believing he won't be recognized. Other than by everybody who knew him, it turns out.

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  • 1970
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    Doctor in Trouble

    Doctor in Trouble

    4.6 1970 HD

    Dr. Burke is in love with Ophelia but doesn't have time to propose to her as she leaves for a cruise to the Mediterranean. Also on board the cruise ship is an old school chum of Burke's who plays 'Dr.Dare' in a very popular TV series and who women flock to. Burke decides to join the cruise, but is first apprehended as a stowaway, and then becomes the captain's steward. For Burke, trying to talk to Ophelia is a hard enough task, but he meets some funny characters on board, such as a pools winner and a very stubborn captain.

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  • 1977
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    Henry Ford's America

    Henry Ford's America

    1 1977 HD

    A study of the automobile and its pervasive effect on the history of North America. Focusing on the Ford dynasty, from the original Henry car through to Henry II, the film demonstrates how society has adapted to fit the needs of the automobile.

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