Robert Coote

Robert Coote

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Coote (4 February 1909 – 26 November 1982) was an English actor. He played aristocrats or British military types in many films, and created the role of Colonel Hugh Pickering in the long-running original Broadway production of My Fair Lady. Coote was born in London and educated at Hurstpierpoint College in Sussex. He began his stage career at the age of 16, performing in Britain, South Africa, and Australia before arriving in Hollywood in the late 1930s. He played a succession of pompous British types in supporting roles, including a brief but memorable turn as Sgt. Bertie Higginbotham in Gunga Din (1939). His acting career was interrupted by his service as a squadron leader in the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. He played Bob Trubshawe in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death (1946), chosen for the first-ever Royal Film Performance on 1 November 1946, before he returned to Hollywood, where his films included The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), Forever Amber (1947), The Three Musketeers (1948), and Orson Welles' Othello (1952). In 1956, Coote created the role of Colonel Pickering in the original Broadway production of My Fair Lady (1956–62), which he reprised in the musical's 1976–77 Broadway revival. He also originated the role of King Pellinore in the Broadway production of Camelot (1960–63). He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his performance as Timmy St. Clair in the NBC TV series The Rogues (1964–65). In 1966, Coote appeared with Jackie Gleason and Art Carney in an episode of The Honeymooners entitled "The Honeymooners in England", broadcast on CBS-TV from Miami. In his last feature film performance, Coote portrayed one of the critics dispatched by Vincent Price in Theatre of Blood (1973). His final role was on television, playing orchid nurse Theodore Horstmann in the 1981 NBC-TV series Nero Wolfe, starring William Conrad in the title role. In most film and TV adaptations of Nero Wolfe mysteries, before and since, Horstmann has been a very minor character, but Coote's Horstmann got considerable screen time in the series. The veteran British character actor died in his sleep at the New York Athletic Club in November 1982, at the age of 73. Coote was a close friend of actor David Niven, sharing a house with Niven for a time in the late 1930s and living in a flat over Niven's garage for several years after the Second World War.

  • Title: Robert Coote
  • Popularity: 0.8256
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1909-02-04
  • Place of Birth: London, England, UK
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Robert Coote Movies

  • 1947
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    Lured

    Lured

    6.3 1947 HD

    Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached by Harley Temple, a police investigator who believes her friend has been murdered by a serial killer who uses personal ads to find his victims. Temple hatches a plan to catch the killer using Sandra as bait, and Sandra agrees to help.

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  • 1947
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    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

    7.5 1947 HD

    In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

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  • 1939
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    Gunga Din

    Gunga Din

    6.5 1939 HD

    British army sergeants Ballantine, Cutter and MacChesney serve in India during the 1880s, along with their native water-bearer, Gunga Din. While completing a dangerous telegraph-repair mission, they unearth evidence of the suppressed Thuggee cult. When Gunga Din tells the sergeants about a secret temple made of gold, the fortune-hunting Cutter is captured by the Thuggees, and it's up to his friends to rescue him.

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  • 1946
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    A Matter of Life and Death

    A Matter of Life and Death

    7.8 1946 HD

    A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.

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  • 1952
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    The Prisoner of Zenda

    The Prisoner of Zenda

    6.9 1952 HD

    A kingdom's ascending heir, marked for assassination, switches identities with a lookalike, who takes his place at the coronation. When the real king is kidnapped, his followers try to find him, while the stand-in falls in love with the king's intended bride, the beautiful Princess Flavia.

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  • 1973
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    Theatre of Blood

    Theatre of Blood

    6.7 1973 HD

    A Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

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  • 1948
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    The Three Musketeers

    The Three Musketeers

    6.7 1948 HD

    In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

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  • 1948
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    Berlin Express

    Berlin Express

    6.2 1948 HD

    In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.

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  • 1949
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    The Red Danube

    The Red Danube

    6.3 1949 HD

    A Russian ballerina in Vienna tries to flee KGB agents and defect.

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  • 1958
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    The Horse's Mouth

    The Horse's Mouth

    6.7 1958 HD

    Gulley Jimson is a boorish aging artist recently released from prison. A swindler in search of his next art project, he hunkers down in the penthouse of would-be patrons the Beeders while they go on an extended vacation; he paints a mural on their wall, pawns their valuables and, along with the sculptor Abel, inadvertently smashes a large hole in their floor. Jimson's next project is an even larger wall in an abandoned church.

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  • 1963
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    The V.I.P.s

    The V.I.P.s

    6.1 1963 HD

    Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.

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  • 1960
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    The League of Gentlemen

    The League of Gentlemen

    7 1960 HD

    Involuntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.

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  • 1951
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    Othello

    Othello

    7.4 1951 HD

    Manipulated by his jealous ensign Iago, the Moorish general Othello is driven to believe that his new wife Desdemona is unfaithful, setting in motion a chain of deception, jealousy, and violence that leads to tragedy.

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  • 1939
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    Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    Mr. Moto's Last Warning

    5.5 1939 HD

    A Japanese man claiming to be Mr. Moto, of the International Police, is abducted and murdered soon after disembarking from a ship at Port Said in Egypt. The real Mr. Moto is already in Port Said, investigating a conspiracy against the British and French governments.

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  • 1958
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    Merry Andrew

    Merry Andrew

    6 1958 HD

    When eccentric English teacher Andrew Larabee needs a raise in order for his fiancée to marry him, his interest in archaeology leads him to an ancient statue's burial site. But when he finds a traveling circus directly above the statue's location, he accidentally becomes part of the act. With a newfound passion for performance and an attraction to the beautiful acrobat Selena, Andrew must decide what is truly important to him.

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  • 1968
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    Prudence and the Pill

    Prudence and the Pill

    5.4 1968 HD

    Prudence Hardcastle is on the pill. So is her sister-in-law, but someone has been swapping aspirin for their pills. Is it the teenage niece, the maid, the chauffeur, a lover, Prudence's husband Gerald, or all of the above?

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  • 1966
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    The Swinger

    The Swinger

    5.2 1966 HD

    An authoress writes a steaming sex-novel and proceeds to live out her heroine's adventures.

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  • 1942
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    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    Commandos Strike at Dawn

    5.4 1942 HD

    A gentle widower with a small daughter finds his peaceful small rural village suddenly invaded by Nazis and, enraged in short order by their atrocities, becomes the leader of an aggressive underground movement.

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  • 1938
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    A Yank at Oxford

    A Yank at Oxford

    6.7 1938 HD

    A brash young American aristocrat attending Oxford University gets a chance to prove himself and win the heart of his antagonist's sister.

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  • 1947
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    Forever Amber

    Forever Amber

    6 1947 HD

    Amber St Clair, orphaned during the English Civil War and raised by a family of farmers, aspires to be a lady of high society; when a group of cavaliers ride into town, she sneaks away with them to London to achieve her dreams.

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  • 1979
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    Filming Othello

    Filming Othello

    7.3 1979 HD

    Filming Othello is a 1978 documentary film directed by and starring Orson Welles about the making of his award-winning 1952 production Othello. The film, which was produced for West German television, was the last completed feature film directed by Welles.

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  • 1940
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    Vigil in the Night

    Vigil in the Night

    5.5 1940 HD

    A good nurse ruins her career by covering up for her sister's careless mistake.

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  • 1937
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    The Thirteenth Chair

    The Thirteenth Chair

    6.1 1937 HD

    A phony psychic tries to solve a murder that took place during her seance.

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  • 1952
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    The Merry Widow

    The Merry Widow

    6.2 1952 HD

    Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if the wealthy American Crystal Radek, widow of a Marshovian, can be convinced to part with her money and marry the king's nephew count Danilo. Arriving to Marshovia on a visit, Crystal Radek change places with her secretary Kitty. Following them to Paris, Danilo has a hard time wooing the widow after meeting an attractive young woman at a nightclub, the same Crystal Radek who presents herself as Fifi the chorus girl. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.

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  • 1967
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    The Cool Ones

    The Cool Ones

    4.9 1967 HD

    A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?

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  • 1966
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    A Man Could Get Killed

    A Man Could Get Killed

    3.8 1966 HD

    An American businessman visiting Lisbon gets mistaken for a British secret agent who stole some diamonds. As a result, he has everybody in Lisbon after him.

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  • 1938
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    The Girl Downstairs

    The Girl Downstairs

    4.1 1938 HD

    A wealthy playboy surreptitiously romances a scullery maid to gain access to her mistress with whom he is in love, but doesn't count on the maid falling in love with him.

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  • 1966
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    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    Alice Through the Looking Glass

    6 1966 HD

    Alice returns to Wonderland through the looking glass in this TV musical.

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  • 1939
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    Bad Lands

    Bad Lands

    3.7 1939 HD

    A sheriff and his posse set out to catch a murderer, but their mission proves more dangerous than anyone suspected after they become stranded in the desert and attacked by Apaches.

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  • 1940
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    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    You Can't Fool Your Wife

    4.5 1940 HD

    Longtime school sweethearts discover married life, thanks to a disagreeable live-in mother-in-law and pressing business obligations, is more rocky than idyllic.

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  • 1964
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    The Golden Head

    The Golden Head

    5.3 1964 HD

    Stevenson, the famous English criminal expert visits Hungary with his family. While he is chairing a conference on criminology, infamous art treasure robbers steal the golden herm of Saint László. Suspicion is cast on the Stevenson children.

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  • 1968
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    Kenner

    Kenner

    1 1968 HD

    Roy Kenner arrives in Bombay hot on the heels of dope smuggler Tom Jordan, the man who murdered his partner. Combing the city for clues to Jordan's whereabouts, Kenner crosses paths with 9-year-old Saji. Saji soon helps save Kenner from the lethal drug dealers, and takes Kenner to his home. Love soon blossoms between Kenner and Anasuya, Saji's mother, and Saji comes to see him as a father. But Kenner's obsession with vengeance threatens to engulf this accidental family in tragedy.

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  • 1938
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    Blond Cheat

    Blond Cheat

    6 1938 HD

    Socially prominent Michael Ashburn, chief assistant for a London loan broker makes a large loan during a closing time to a man for a pair of earrings. He is unaware that the collateral can not be removed from the ears in which they reside, so then Julie becomes part of the collateral.

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  • 1952
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    Scaramouche

    Scaramouche

    7 1952 HD

    In 18th-century France, a young man masquerades as an actor to avenge his friend's murder.

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  • 1947
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    The Exile

    The Exile

    6.1 1947 HD

    In 17th-century England, Charles II, the rightful heir to the kingdom, is driven from his country by militants working for rogue leader Oliver Cromwell. Charles ends up in the Netherlands, where he falls for local beauty Katie and spends his days happily in the quiet countryside. Unfortunately, Cromwell's associate Col. Ingram and his men track Charles down, and the would-be monarch must resort to swashbuckling his way to freedom.

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  • 1951
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    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel

    6.7 1951 HD

    The life and career of Erwin Rommel and his involvement in the plot to assassinate Hitler.

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  • 1931
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    Sally in Our Alley

    Sally in Our Alley

    4.5 1931 HD

    A woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her

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  • 1939
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    The House of Fear

    The House of Fear

    6.5 1939 HD

    A detective goes undercover as a producer to investigate an actor's murder, which occurred during the performance of a play...

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  • 1939
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    Nurse Edith Cavell

    Nurse Edith Cavell

    6.4 1939 HD

    British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans

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  • 1951
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    Soldiers Three

    Soldiers Three

    3.8 1951 HD

    Kiplingesque tale of British forces in 19th-century India.

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  • 1969
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    Charley's Aunt

    Charley's Aunt

    1 1969 HD

    Adaptation of the play by Brandon Thomas.

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  • 1937
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    The Sheik Steps Out

    The Sheik Steps Out

    4 1937 HD

    In this comedy, a wealthy sheik kidnaps and falls for a snobby socialite.

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  • 1936
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    Rangle River

    Rangle River

    5.5 1936 HD

    Marion Hastings returns to her father Dan's cattle property in western Queensland after being away in Europe for fifteen years. She is treated with hostility by her father's foreman, Dick Drake, and her father's neighbour, Don Lawton.

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  • 1960
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    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

    1 1960 HD

    Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.

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  • 1933
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    Loyalties

    Loyalties

    6 1933 HD

    A houseguest at an upper-class gathering, wealthy Jew Ferdinand de Levis, is robbed of £1,000 with evidence pointing towards the guilt of another guest, Captain Dancy. Instead of supporting De Levis, the host attempts to hush the matter up and when this fails, he sides with Dancy and subtly tries to destroy de Levis' reputation. When Dancy is later exposed, and commits suicide, de Levis is blamed for his demise.

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  • 1955
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    The Constant Husband

    The Constant Husband

    6.9 1955 HD

    Charles Hathaway wakes up in West Wales with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. With the help of a Cardiff specialist he traces his life back to his gorgeous wife and their large London house, so all seems well with the world. But more detective work starts to uncover an alarming chain of further stunning wives and a way of going on that the new Charles finds pretty unacceptable.

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  • 1943
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    Forever and a Day

    Forever and a Day

    7.4 1943 HD

    In World War II, American Gates Trimble Pomfret is in London during the Blitz to sell the ancestral family house. The current tenant, Leslie Trimble, tries to dissuade him from selling by telling him the 140-year history of the place and the connections between the Trimble and Pomfret families.

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  • 1956
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    The Swan

    The Swan

    6.8 1956 HD

    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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  • 1946
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    Cloak and Dagger

    Cloak and Dagger

    6.4 1946 HD

    Italian partisans help a professor sent by the OSS to find an atomic scientist held by Nazis.

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  • 1979
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    Institute for Revenge

    Institute for Revenge

    5 1979 HD

    A sophisticated computer named IFR (the film's title is its nickname) supervises an organization dedicated to correcting wrongs against the defenseless and assigns human operatives to track down the evildoers and bring them to justice non-violently.

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  • 1950
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    The Elusive Pimpernel

    The Elusive Pimpernel

    5.9 1950 HD

    Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.

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  • 1972
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    Up the Front

    Up the Front

    4.2 1972 HD

    In Frankie Howerd's third Up... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow streak gone Lurk is down that army office before you can say "titter ye not." Off to war he goes, mingling with sexy spies like Zsa Zsa Gabor and before long, the spellbound recruit is heading hot-foot back to Blighty with the Germans' plan of attack tattooed on his bum, and the Germans are bringing up the rear...! Full of sauce, knowing real-life references and witty remarks to camera, this is a cheeky incorrigible final instalment.

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  • 1948
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    Studio One

    Studio One

    5 1948 HD

    An American radio–television anthology series, created in 1947 by Canadian director Fletcher Markle, who came to CBS from the CBC. Studio One, presented by Westinghouse, was one of the first of the anthology TV programs. The episodes were often abridged remakes of movies from years gone by and many future well-known television and movie actors appeared in the productions.

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  • 1958
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    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

    5.8 1958 HD

    Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960. Two of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.

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  • 1959
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    Rawhide

    Rawhide

    7.2 1959 HD

    The tale of trail boss Gil Favor and his trusty foreman Rowdy Yates as they drives cattle across the old west. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1964
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    The Rogues

    The Rogues

    7.2 1964 HD

    The Rogues is an American television series that appeared on NBC from September 13, 1964, to April 18, 1965, starring David Niven, Charles Boyer, and Gig Young as a related trio of former conmen who could, for the right price, be persuaded to trick a very wealthy and heinously unscrupulous mark. Although it won the 1964 Golden Globe award for Best Television Series, the show was cancelled after one season consisting of thirty episodes.

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    5.6 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.

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  • 1981
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    Nero Wolfe

    Nero Wolfe

    7.4 1981 HD

    Nero Wolfe is a television series based on the characters in Rex Stout's classic series of detective stories that aired January 16 – August 25, 1981, on NBC. William Conrad fills the role of the detective genius Nero Wolfe, and Lee Horsley is his assistant Archie Goodwin. Produced by Paramount Television, the series updates the world of Nero Wolfe to contemporary New York City and draws few of its stories from the Stout originals.

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  • 1970
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    Best Of Enemies

    Best Of Enemies

    8.3 1970 HD

    A documentary about the legendary series of nationally televised debates in 1968 between two great public intellectuals, the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F. Buckley Jr. Intended as commentary on the issues of their day, these vitriolic and explosive encounters came to define the modern era of public discourse in the media, marking the big bang moment of our contemporary media landscape when spectacle trumped content and argument replaced substance. Best of Enemies delves into the entangled biographies of these two great thinkers and luxuriates in the language and the theater of their debates, begging the question, 'What has television done to the way we discuss politics in our democracy today?'

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  • 1967
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    The Whitehall Worrier

    The Whitehall Worrier

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1950
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    Lux Video Theatre

    Lux Video Theatre

    6.3 1950 HD

    Lux Video Theatre is an American anthology series that was produced from 1950 until 1959. The series presented both comedy and drama in original teleplays, as well as abridged adaptations of films and plays.

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  • 1950
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    Robert Montgomery Presents

    Robert Montgomery Presents

    5.6 1950 HD

    Robert Montgomery Presents is an American dramatic television series which was produced by NBC from January 30, 1950 until June 24, 1957. The live show had several sponsors during its seven-year run, and the title was altered to feature the sponsor, usually Lucky Strike cigarettes, for example, Robert Montgomery Presents Your Lucky Strike Theater, ....The Johnson's Wax Program, and so on.

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  • 1962
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    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

    7.4 1962 HD

    The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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  • 1965
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    BBC Play of the Month

    BBC Play of the Month

    5 1965 HD

    A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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  • 1979
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    $weepstake$

    $weepstake$

    1 1979 HD

    An anthology depicting the lives of people who hope to win a large amount of money in a sweepstakes and what happens after they win — or do not win — the money.

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