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The Homecoming review by from London

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. ... Read customer review

Vivien Merchant - filmography

The Man In The Iron Mask (1976)
Starring: Louis Jourdan, Ralph Richardson, Patrick McGoohan
Director: Mike Newell
Certificate:
Richard Chamberlain takes the dual roles of the titular hero and his elegant twin brother in this adaptation of Dumas' classic swashbuckler. The evil King Louis XIV of France (Chamberlain) kidnaps his righteous brother and has him hidden away in a hideous iron mask to keep him from the throne - but ..read more »

61% from 459 members
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The Maids on DVD (1974)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Vivien Merchant, Susannah York
Director: Christopher Miles
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Based on the play 'Les Bonnes' by French absurdist writer Jean Genet, this theatre-to-screen adaptation is part of the American Film Theatre series. Glenda Jackson and Susannah York play Solange and Claire, two sisters who work for the formidable 'Madame' (Vivien Merchant). The sisters' ambivalent ..read more »

47% from 158 members

Pinter's Progress And The Homecoming (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
Starring: Paul Rogers, Jonathan Pryce, Ian Holm
Director: Peter Hall
Certificate:
Two films based on the work of playwright Harold Pinter. 'Pinter's Progress' (2009) is a documentary based around a series of interviews with actors, directors and writers who discuss their experiences of working with Pinter. 'The Homecoming' (1973) is a filmed version of the Pinter play. Made as ..read more »

74% from 26 members

The Homecoming (1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Paul Rogers, Ian Holm
Director: Peter Hall
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Part of the American Film Theatre Collection, though British in origin and set in London, this Harold Pinter play is directed for the screen by Peter Hall. Teddy (Michael Jayston) brings his wife Ruth (Vivien Merchant) home to meet his estranged family: his pathetic father Max (Paul Rogers), senile ..read more »

63% from 283 members
Currently unavailable

Offence on DVD (1972)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen, Sean Connery
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Essentially a two-hander play transposed by ex-Z Cars writer John Hopkins to the screen and given a comparitively realistic police setting. Sean Connery is the policeman who has seen too much dying and misery on the force in the past twenty years. Ian Bannen is the prisoner suspected of being a ..read more »

64% from 739 members

Frenzy on DVD (1972)
Starring: Bernard Cribbins, Jon Finch, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock entered the 1970s with his commercial reputation virtually in tatters, a far cry from his stature at the start of the 1960s. Then, he'd been in the middle of the massively successful trio of movies, North by Northwest, Psycho, and The Birds, and was a ubiquitous presence on ..read more »

67% from 2,962 members

Accident - Blu-ray (1967)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Director: Joseph Losey
Certificate:
Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous meetings. It transpires ..read more »

45% from 2 members

Accident (1967)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard
Director: Joseph Losey
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In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous ..read more »

64% from 598 members
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Alfie on DVD (1965)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Julia Foster, Shirley Ann Field
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Alfie (Michael Caine in his first starring role) is a streetwise womaniser in swinging Sixties London. His conquests are numerous, from common-law wife Gilda (Julia Foster) to frustrated housewife Lily (Vivien Merchant), but the chirpy cockney's sexual antics catch up with him faster than he had ..read more »

64% from 8,614 members

Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection (7 discs)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Sarah Miles, Michael York
Director: Basil Dearden
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Box-set featuring classic Dirk Bogarde movies. In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front ..read more »

66% from 2,092 members
Currently unavailable

Vivien Merchant facts

5 most recent films

The Man In The Iron Mask - 3.0 stars
The Maids - 2.5 stars
Pinter's Progress And The Homecoming - 3.5 stars
The Homecoming - 3.0 stars
Offence - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Frenzy - 3.5 stars
Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection - 3.5 stars
Offence - 3.5 stars
Accident - 3.0 stars
Alfie - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Accident - Blu-ray - 2.5 stars
Pinter's Progress And The Homecoming - 3.5 stars
The Maids - 2.5 stars
The Man In The Iron Mask - 3.0 stars
The Homecoming - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Terence Rigby - 5 times - show films
Ian Holm - 5 times - show films
Michael Caine - 4 times - show films
Dirk Bogarde - 4 times - show films
James Fox - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Hall - 4 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 3 times - show films
Lewis Gilbert - 1 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 1 times - show films
Roy Boulting - 1 times - show films

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