• Longing for the Sea (Swedish: Längtan till havet) is a 1931 French-Swedish drama film directed by John W. Brunius and starring Edvin Adolphson, Carl Barcklind...
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  • Years of Longing is a 2022 fantasy romantic drama film directed and produced by George Miller. Written by Miller and Augusta Gore, it is based on the 1994...
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    The Mediterranean Sea (/ˌmɛdɪtəˈreɪniən/ MED-ih-tə-RAY-nee-ən) is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost...
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    finds her naked on the sea shore, and compels her to become his wife. But the wife will spend her time in captivity longing for the sea, her true home, and...
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  • Swedish-language version Longing for the Sea by John W. Brunius was also released in 1931 and a German-language version The Golden Anchor, also directed...
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    based on the 1936 short story "The Basement Room", by Graham Greene. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director (Carol Reed) and Best...
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  • Tuor and Idril (category Characters in The Silmarillion)
    reach the estuary of the Mouths of Sirion; Tuor and his people live there for a while, also founding a town on the Isle of Balar. Longing for the Sea, Tuor...
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    wrote a novella as a treatment for the screenplay. Composer Anton Karas' title composition "The Third Man Theme" topped the international music charts in...
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  • wonderful indiscipline of the tearaways and the debauched indifference of the staff had them longing for their own school to be run along similar lines...
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    airplane crash. In 1996, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally...
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  • marquis, which had led to the executions of the marquis and his family. She reveals that the marquis had had her imprisoned for consorting with his son...
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  • the end of the session the digger places wooden boards, cut to fit the aperture, in the hole and fills the space with sandbags and dry sand kept for the...
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  • nominated for Original Music Score, a first for a British film at the Academy Awards. Although this production is a remake of the 1924 version, the two films...
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  • Hobson's Choice (1954 film) (category Films set in the 1880s)
    daughter. The film also features Prunella Scales in one of her first cinematic roles. Hobson's Choice won the British Academy Film Award for Best British...
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    Alexander Korda (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    Pagnol. He followed it with the Swedish and German versions of Marius, respectfully Longing for the Sea (1931), and The Golden Anchor (1932). Korda relocated...
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  • the sea. At sea, Hardt manages to free the German prisoners and they seize the ferry. The Royal Navy pursue them, but before they can catch up, the ferry...
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  • The Deep Blue Sea is a 1955 British drama film directed by Anatole Litvak, starring Vivien Leigh and Kenneth More, and produced by London Films and released...
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  • Lajos Bíró and Arthur Wimperis for London Film Productions, Korda's production company. The film, which focuses on the marriages of King Henry VIII of...
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  • Elephant Boy (film) (category The Jungle Book films)
    a hunter. In the meantime, he helps his mahout (elephant driver) father with Kala Nag, a large elephant that has been in their family for four generations...
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  • test pilots to break the sound barrier. It was David Lean's third and final film with his wife Ann Todd but it was his first for Alexander Korda's London...
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  • Things to Come (category Films set in the 1940s)
    rescue an enemy pilot he has shot down. The war continues into the 1960s, long enough for the people of the world to have forgotten why they are fighting...
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  • of the most popular films of the year in Britain. The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and the Mussolini Cup at the Venice...
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  • 'natural theology'". The "natural religion" of the book is, she argues, based on matters such as the Elves and their longing for the sea, creating a "religious...
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  • Knight Without Armour (category Films set in the 1910s)
    from the 1933 novel by James Hilton. The novel was published in the United States as Without Armour. The music score was by Miklós Rózsa, his first for a...
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  • for the village with as much as they can carry. When they stop for the night, the priest tries to steal the treasure and murders the barber when the barber...
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  • Perfect Strangers (1945 film) (category Films that won the Academy Award for Best Story)
    on sea duty, and in time, he becomes a petty officer. His hands are badly burned when his ship is sunk, but he stoically rows in the lifeboat for five...
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  • Mason as associate producer) for his company, London Films, and distributed in the United States by 20th Century Fox. The screenplay was by Jean Anouilh...
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    mermaids turn to sea foam at death and cease to exist. The Little Mermaid, longing for the prince and an eternal soul, visits the Sea Witch who lives in...
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  • for the two-day journey from Morocco to Gibraltar. Among them is an elderly gentleman, Lawrence St. James, who has come to speak with his nephew, the...
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  • Kent. The Leas Cliff Hall was used as the location for the beauty competition, and The Metropole was the setting for the seaside hotel hosting the Fascination...
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