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  • The Homecoming
  • The Homecoming review by from London
    Rated - 4 stars you'll drown in your own blood 5 January 2006
    ...Servant, but still well worth watching. Full marks to Paul Rodgers, Ian Hom and Vivien Merchant. ...  

Vivien Merchant - filmography


  • The Homecoming (1973)
    Starring: Cyril Cusack,  Ian Holm,  Michael Jayston
    Director: Peter Hall
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Possibly the best of the universally excellent films produced by the American Film Theatre, producer Ely Landau's programme that allowed moviegoers to subscribe to film versions of classic plays, Peter Hall's THE HOMECOMING is a magnificent adaptation of Harold Pinter's play. In it, a successful ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 250 members
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  • Frenzy on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Jon Finch,  Alec McCowen,  Barry Foster
    Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,270 members
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  • Offence on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Trevor Howard,  Vivien Merchant
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Detective Sergeant Johnson (Sean Connery, in a career-defining role) has been on the Force for twenty years. He has seen too much dying, too much lying and too much maiming. When confronted with a suspect in a child-molesting case, he can no longer contain his fury.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 508 members
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  • Alfie on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Michael Caine,  Millicent Martin,  Julia Foster
    Director: Lewis Gilbert
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    In ALFIE, Michael Caine stars as the title character, a guiltless London lothario whose only pleasure in life seems to be a good time--he has a date with a different woman for each day of the week. After accidentally impregnating his live-in girlfriend, Gilda (Julia Foster), Alfie takes a vacation ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 7,164 members
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  • The Blue Lamp on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Harold Pinter,  Jack Warner,  Sylvia Sims
    Director: Basil Dearden
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 148 members
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Vivien Merchant facts

5 most recent films

The Man In The Iron Mask - 3.0 stars
The Maids - 2.5 stars
The Homecoming - 3.0 stars
Frenzy - 3.5 stars
Offence - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Servant - 4.0 stars
Hunted - 3.5 stars
The Blue Lamp - 3.5 stars
Victim - 3.5 stars
The Family Way - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Sleeping Tiger - 3.0 stars
The Maids - 2.5 stars
The Man In The Iron Mask - 3.0 stars
The Homecoming - 3.0 stars
Alfie - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Stanley Baker - 9 times - show films
Michael York - 9 times - show films
Dirk Bogarde - 9 times - show films
Sarah Miles - 9 times - show films
James Fox - 8 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Basil Dearden - 8 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 4 times - show films
Roy Boulting - 2 times - show films
Mike Newell - 1 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 1 times - show films