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Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection review by from Greater London

You just can't get the staff these days 25 March 2004
... film, released in that year, things very quickly began to get out of hand. Harold Pinter scripts this tale of an upper class businessman Tony (James Fox) who hires a ma... Read customer review

Mansfield Park review by Cirsh from Hebden Bridge

A Feisty Fanny and Harold Pinter 29 September 2009
...apparent to her. And what a treat we have in Sir Thomas Bertram - he played by Harold Pinter. Enter the Crawfords, Mary and Henry. Fanny refuses the charm of Crawford - ... Read customer review

Butley review by from I wish I knew-don't we all!?

Bates pulls it off! 19 December 2004
...ibly witty script is skillfully translated to celluloid by acclaimed playwright Harold Pinter in the director's chair.Bates is ably assisted by excellent supporting preforma... Read customer review

Harold Pinter - filmography

The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer on DVD (2006)
Starring: Peter Cook, John Cleese, Harold Pinter
Director: Kevin Billington
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Cult political satire starring Peter Cook as Michael Rimmer, an opinion poll executive who climbs the ladder until he becomes President of Great Britain.

68% from 408 members

Beckett On Film (4 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: Alan Rickman, Julianne Moore, Michael Gambon
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Neil Jordan, Kieron J Wals
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A 4 DVD box set comprising of 19 film adaptations of plays by Samuel Beckett. Includes: Waiting for Godot (director Michael Lindsay-Hogg), Not I (director Neil Jordan), Rough for Theatre I (director Kieron J Walsh), Ohio Impromptu (director Charles Sturridge), Krapp's Last Tape (director Atom ..read more »

65% from 1,119 member

The Tailor of Panama on DVD (2001)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Geoffrey Rush, Jamie Lee Curtis
Director: John Boorman
Certificate:
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Based on the novel by John LeCarre, this is the story of British spy, Andrew Osnard, who is banished to Panama. Whilst there he meets up with Harry Pendel, a local Tailor, who has connections to all the top politicians in Panama. Osnard persuades Pendel to keep an eye on the comings and going in ..read more »

56% from 2,164 members

Mansfield Park (1999)
Starring: Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola
Director: Patricia Rozema
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This sterling adaptation of Austen's third published novel, set in early 19th century Portsmouth, England, concerns Fanny Price (O'Connor), an intelligent young woman who is sent to live with her mother's wealthy family. Settling into her new life, Fanny is treated poorly by everyone except her ..read more »

65% from 4,573 members
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Butley on DVD (1976)
Starring: Alan Bates, Jessica Tandy, Georgina Hale
Director: Harold Pinter
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This adaptation of Simon Gray's BUTLEY was part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. Alan Bates stars as Ben Butley, a bitter and repressed English literature professor ..read more »

57% from 312 members

Rogue Male (1976)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, John Standing, Alastair Sim
Director: Clive Donner
Certificate:
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In 1939 Sir Robert Thorndyke took aim at Adolph Hitler with a high powered rifle, but the shot missed its mark...

68% from 76 members
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Tempo - Vol.1 (1963)
Starring: Jacques Tati, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Tom Jones
Director: none
Certificate:
Through a decade in the 1960s and 1970s, TEMPO was ITV's seminal arts programme covering subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing and much more. This release contains interviews with Jacques Tati, Stan Tracey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Strasberg, Tom Jones, Orson Welles, ..read more »

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The Servant (1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Sarah Miles
Director: Joseph Losey
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In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey's 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerful undercurrents of class struggle and sexual repression erupt through the very British patina of civility to expose the poisoned undercurrents of a class-based society.

77% from 660 members
Not currently released

Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection (7 discs)
Starring: Harold Pinter, Michael York, Jack Warner
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
A box set of features starring the inimitable Dirk Bogarde. Films Comprise: 1. Accident (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1967) 2. The Servant (Dir. Joseph Losey, 1963) 3. The Blue Lamp (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1950) 4. Victim (Dir. Basil Dearden, 1961) 5. Hunted (Dir. Charles Crichton, 1952) 6. The Spanish ..read more »

66% from 2,024 members
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Harold Pinter: Art, Truth And Politics
Starring: Harold Pinter
Certificate:
In late 2005 Harold Pinter videotaped a lecture on the occasion of him being awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. His speech, delivered directly to camera, is a complex reflection on his own writing and an excoriating attack on the foreign policy of a "brutal, ruthless and scornful" United ..read more »

61% from 15 members
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Harold Pinter facts

5 most recent films

The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer - 3.5 stars
Beckett On Film - 3.5 stars
The Tailor of Panama - 3.0 stars
Mansfield Park - 3.5 stars
Butley - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Servant - 4.0 stars
The Rise And Rise Of Michael Rimmer - 3.5 stars
Rogue Male - 3.5 stars
Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection - 3.5 stars
Beckett On Film - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Tempo - Vol.1 - 3 stars
Harold Pinter: Art, Truth And Politics - 3.0 stars
The Tailor of Panama - 3.0 stars
Butley - 3.0 stars
Mansfield Park - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

John Standing - 2 times - show films
Geoffrey Rush - 2 times - show films
Dirk Bogarde - 2 times - show films
Alastair Sim - 2 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

none - 2 times - show films
Clive Donner - 2 times - show films
John Boorman - 2 times - show films
Patricia Rozema - 1 times - show films
Kevin Billington - 1 times - show films