85% (2) Canyon Passage 92 min, APPROVED, [Drama, Western] [Jacques Tourneur] [17 Jul 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, Rotten Tomatoes: 100%, External Reviews
Actors: Brian Donlevy, Dana Andrews, Patricia Roc, Susan Hayward
Writer: Ernest Haycox (adapted from the Saturday Evening Post novel "Canyon Passage"), Ernest Pascal (screenplay)
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Plot: In 1856, backwoods businessman Logan Stuart escorts Lucy Overmire, his friend's fiancée, back home to remote Jacksonville, Oregon; in the course of the hard journey, Lucy is attracted to Logan, whose heart seems to belong to another. Once arrived in Jacksonville, a welter of subplots involve villains, fair ladies, romantic triangles, gambling fever, murder, a cabin-raising, and vigilantism...culminating with an Indian uprising that threatens all the settlers. No canyon in sight.
Rotten Tomatoes: This galloping western centers on an ex-scout who runs a general mercantile in the Oregon Territory during the mid-19th century. The trouble begins when the fiancee of the town banker, a compulsive gambler who covers his debts with customers' money, falls in love with the store owner.
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48% (2) The Wicked Lady 97 min, [Adventure, Drama] [Leslie Arliss] [21 Dec 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 68%, Rotten Tomatoes: 29%, External Reviews
Actors: Griffith Jones, James Mason, Margaret Lockwood, Patricia Roc
Writer: Magdalen King-Hall (novel), Leslie Arliss (screenplay), Gordon Glennon (additional dialogue), Aimée Stuart (additional dialogue)
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Plot: 17th-century beauty Barbara Worth starts her career of crime by stealing her best friend's bridegroom. Her next exploit is to recover gambling losses by donning mask and cloak and taking to the roads as a highwayman! The thrill of these ventures proves addictive...especially when she meets a male highwayman who becomes her lover. Together, the two desperados lead a gay secret life, pursued by the local magistrate Sir Ralph Skelton...Barbara's husband! To what further crimes will the wicked Lady Skelton descend?
Rotten Tomatoes: In this drama, set during the reign of King Charles II, the aristocratic Lady Skelton (Margaret Lockwood) attempts to relieve the tedium of her day-to-day life by secretly acting as a highway robber. Meeting up with the rogue Captain Jerry Jackson (James Mason), the two begin a relationship. When her private and public lives begin to interfere with one another, however, Lady Skelton finds herself caught up in a tangled web of romance, danger, and jealousy.
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70% (1) So Well Remembered 114 min, PASSED, [Drama, Mystery, Romance] [Edward Dmytryk] [16 Apr 1948]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 70%, External Reviews
Actors: John Mills, Martha Scott, Patricia Roc, Trevor Howard
Writer: James Hilton (novel), John Paxton (screenplay)
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Plot: On the day that World War II ends in Europe, Mayor George Boswell recalls events of the previous 25 years in his home town of Browdley. As councilman and newspaper editor George has fought hard to better working and living conditions in the bleak Lancashire mill town. As a young man he meets and marries Olivia Channing, whose father was jailed in a scandal involving the mill he owned. Olivia is ambitious and manages to guide George within striking distance of a seat in Parliament. But an outbreak of diphtheria changes George's outlook, and his and Olivia's lives change forever.
Rotten Tomatoes: So Well Remembered was the first of a proposed series of Anglo-American co-productions underwritten by Hollywood's RKO Radio Pictures and England's J. Arthur Rank. In one of his better postwar roles, John Mills stars as George Boswell, the editor of the newspaper in the small English mining town of Bowdley. Tirelessly fighting for fairer treatment and better working conditions for the miners, Boswell is sidetracked by his covetous, ambitious wife Olivia (Martha Scott), who hopes to maneuver her husband into Parliament. Eventually, Boswell gets his priorities in order, neglecting his campaign to help local doctor Whiteside (Trevor Howard) combat a diphtheria epidemic. When he loses his own child to the disease, a tragedy caused in part by his wife's selfishness, Boswell withdraws completely from his campaign -- and from life. Years pass before Boswell can find some purpose in his existence again, this time by preventing the still-unregenerate Olivia from destroying the happiness of her son (Richard Carlson), from a second marriage, and the son's sweetheart Julie (Patricia Roc), Dr. Whiteside's daughter. John Mills' 5-year-old daughter Juliet and infant daughter Hayley appear in bit parts. Though director Edward Dmytryk received plaudits from most critics for his work on So Well Remembered, there were those who insisted upon reading Dmytryk's perceived "pro-Red" sentiments in the screenplay -- which was actually adapted by John Paxton from a novel by James Hilton (who also narrates the picture). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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69% (1) Millions Like Us 103 min, Not Rated, [Drama, War] [Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder] [15 Nov 1943]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 69%, External Reviews
Actors: Anne Crawford, Gordon Jackson, Moore Marriott, Patricia Roc
Writer: Frank Launder (an original screenplay written by), Sidney Gilliat (an original screenplay written by)
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Plot: Categorised as a British World War II propaganda film this less known example is a superb work of morale-boosting films from mid World War 2. Well written and directed the film has a simple story line based around the many women conscripted into industrial factory work in support of the home front war effort. It has a cast of many great actresses and actors recognisable to fans of films from this era. With much of the film appearing to be digitally restored this process adds an amazing timeless quality to the faces, fashion, modest hair and make-up styling, which is delightful in itself making the characters appear almost contemporary.
Rotten Tomatoes: During World War II, a young British woman does her part for the war by working in an airplane factory, while she waits for news of her pilot husband.
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68% (1) Circle of Danger 86 min, Approved, [Drama, Mystery, Romance] [Jacques Tourneur] [17 Apr 1951]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Hugh Sinclair, Marius Goring, Patricia Roc, Ray Milland
Writer: Philip MacDonald (original screen play)
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Plot: Clay Douglas an American, comes to England, to find out the truth behind his brothers death during a commando operation in occupied France. After tracking down the surviving members of the raid, he confronts the killer, only to be told the truth about what really happened.
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67% (1) Two Thousand Women 81 min, [Comedy, Drama, War] [Frank Launder] [01 Oct 1951]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 67%, External Reviews
Actors: Flora Robson, Patricia Roc, Phyllis Calvert, Renee Houston
Writer: Michael Pertwee (additional dialogue), Frank Launder
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Plot: Women in a French concentration camp conceal downed British airmen from Nazi soldiers, and try to help them escape. Produced by Edward Black. Written and directed by Frank Launder.
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65% (1) Madonna of the Seven Moons 88 min, [Drama, Mystery] [Arthur Crabtree] [28 Jan 1946]Ratings & Reviews: IMDb Reviews: 65%, External Reviews
Actors: Patricia Roc, Peter Glenville, Phyllis Calvert, Stewart Granger
Writer: Margery Lawrence (novel), Roland Pertwee (screenplay)
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Plot: In the early part of this century, Maddelena a teenage Italian girl, is attacked whilst walking in the woods. The attack leaves her mentally scarred and our story flashes forward to the 1940s where Maddelena is still troubled. She disappears one day and her daughter vows to find her.
Rotten Tomatoes: This off-beat melodama centers on a schizophrenic Italian girl who became mentally ill after she was raped and cursed by a gypsy years before. As an awdult she is married to a successful wine broker who is puzzled when she suddenly disappears for long periods of time. After a little investigation, he learns that in her second personality, she becomes the lover of a gypsy thief.
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