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Emeric Pressburger - what members say

The Red Shoes review by from England

A cinematic wet dream 5 July 2004
... like it should appear in an issue of 'Bunty', but in the hands of scriptwriter Emeric Pressburger it becomes something truly dark and overpowering. Moira Shearer plays a young, ...

Gone To Earth review by Chunkysimon from Falkirk Scotland

aka The Wild Heart 16 August 2004
... in love with the wrong man and marries someone else. It's a Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger film, but I have to say its probably the least favourite of the ones I've seen....

I Know Where I'm Going review by from London

Undervalued gem from Powell and Pressburger 21 May 2004
...The films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger are without equal in British Cinema. 'I know where I'm going' was their fourth collaboration and still stands as a charming and...

Emeric Pressburger - filmography

- our price: £7.93
Ill Met By Moonlight on DVD (1957)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Certificate:
A distinguished British cast, headed by 1950s heart-throb Dirk Bogarde, leads I'll Met By Moonlight--a Powell and Pressburger war film which is based on a true story. British agents conspire with local partisans to kidnap a prominent German General during the occupation of Crete in WWII. They ..read more »

Rate this: 62% from 578 members

Battle Of The River Plate on DVD (1956)
Starring: John Gregson, Anthony Quayle, Peter Finch
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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In 'The Battle Of The River Plate' an account of the trapping, in 1939, of the German battleship 'Graf Spee' in the South Atlantic by three British cruisers is documented. 'In Which We Serve' tells the dramatic story of a British Navy destroyer, dive-bombed in the Battle of Crete, but always ..read more »

Rate this: 68% from 1,359 member

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Tales Of Hoffman on DVD (1951)
Starring: Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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The Powell And Pressburger Collection contains eleven Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell films. Titles in the box set include: 1. A Matter of Life and Death 2. The Red Shoes3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp4. A Canterbury Tale 5. I Know Where I'm Going 6. 49th Parallel 7. Battle of the ..read more »

Rate this: 68% from 126 members

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Gone To Earth on DVD (1950)
Starring: Jennifer Jones, David Farrar, Cyril Cusack
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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In Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's GONE TO EARTH, Hazel (Jennifer Jones), a beautiful young gypsy girl, falls for a local hunter (David Farrar) who wants to kill her pet fox. This simple yet breathtaking film was later re-edited as THE WILD HEART.

Rate this: 61% from 494 members

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The Small Back Room on DVD (1949)
Starring: Michael Gough, Henry Caine, Milton Rosmer
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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As the Germans drop explosive booby-traps on 1943 England, the embittered expert who'll have to disarm them fights a private battle with alcohol.

Rate this: 78% from 25 members

The Small Back Room on DVD (1949)
Starring: David Farrar, Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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From the legendary filmmaking duo Powell and Pressburger [A Matter of Life and Death, The Red Shoes], The Small Back Room is the story of the troubled love affair between a tormented back room scientist and a beautiful secretary, told against a background of ministerial intrigue and empire building...read more »

Rate this: 67% from 392 members

The Red Shoes on DVD (1948)
Starring: Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More ..read more »

Rate this: 69% from 3,525 members

Red Shoes, The - BLU-RAY Version (1948)
Starring: Marius Goring, Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More ..read more »

Rate this: 81% from 7 members

- our price: £13.93
Black Narcissus - BLU-RAY Version (1946)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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Anglo-Catholic nuns on an isolated missionary assignment in the Himalayas face an assortment of worldly challenges including sexual temptations and other intriguing ups and downs. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.

Rate this: 73% from 146 members

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Black Narcissus (1946)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Farrar, Flora Robson
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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Anglo-Catholic nuns on an isolated missionary assignment in the Himalayas face an assortment of worldly challenges including sexual temptations and other intriguing ups and downs. Based on the novel by Rumer Godden.

Rate this: 73% from 2,012 members
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A Matter Of Life And Death on DVD (1946)
Starring: David Niven, Kim Hunter, Marius Goring
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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In the 1946 film A Matter Of Life And Death, David Niven stars as RAF bomber pilot Peter Carter. With his crew either dead or parachuted out, his craft in flames and falling fast, Carter bails out without a chute. His miraculous survival allows him to pursue a fortuitous romance with a radio ..read more »

Rate this: 69% from 9,066 members

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I Know Where I'm Going on DVD (1945)
Starring: Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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Joan has known what she wants since early childhood. Now she's about to marry a millionaire, but a storm strands her on a Hebridean island and the forces of nature conspire to change her mind.

Rate this: 70% from 1,246 member

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A Canterbury Tale on DVD (1944)
Starring: Eric Portman, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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While World War II rages, an American G.I. and three Britons find themselves en route to the hallowed cathedral on the same Pilgrims' way taken by travelers some 600 years before and reported in Chaucer's epic poem.

Rate this: 69% from 1,279 member

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp on DVD (1943)
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Deborah Kerr, Roger Livesey
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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Colonel Blimp, an old, befuddled British military officer, reminisces about his past glories in this witty war satire. Deborah Kerr plays three different women in the Colonel's long, but not particularly well-spent life. A.K.A. "Colonel Blimp."

Rate this: 73% from 2,809 members

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49th Parallel on DVD (1941)
Starring: Eric Portman, Laurence Olivier, Anton Walbrook
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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After being sunk in the Gulf of St. Lawrence by the Canadian Air Force, six German U-boat survivors attempt to escape into the United States.

Rate this: 60% from 681 members

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One Of Our Aircraft Is Missing on DVD (1941)
Starring: Hugh Burden, Eric Portman, Hugh Williams
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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After being shot down over Nazi-occupied Holland, an RAF bomber crew attempt to make their way to England.

Rate this: 67% from 543 members

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Fleet Air Arm At War And Peace on DVD
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
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Compiling rare and previously unseen footage, this programme profiles the Fleet Air Arm between 1943 and 1959. Includes footage directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.

Rate this: 59% from 41 members

Emeric Pressburger facts

5 most recent films

Ill Met By Moonlight - 3.0 stars
Battle Of The River Plate - 3.5 stars
Tales Of Hoffman - 3.5 stars
Gone To Earth - 3.0 stars
The Small Back Room - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp - 3.5 stars
Black Narcissus - 3.5 stars
Black Narcissus - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
I Know Where I'm Going - 3.5 stars
A Matter Of Life And Death - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Fleet Air Arm At War And Peace - 3.0 stars
The Small Back Room - 4.0 stars
Red Shoes, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
49th Parallel - 3.0 stars
Gone To Earth - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Esmond Knight - 8 times - show films
Anton Walbrook - 7 times - show films
Marius Goring - 6 times - show films
Robert Helpmann - 5 times - show films
Leonide Massine - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Powell - 23 times - show films