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Vivien Merchant
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The Maids
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Susannah York, Vivien Merchant
Director: Christopher Miles
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This adaptation of Jean Genet's THE MAIDS was part of the American Film Theatre series. The film stars Glenda Jackson and Susannah York as two sisters named Solange and Claire who work as maids for their strict Madame. However, when Madame leaves the house, the two sisters dress up as their masters ..read more »
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The Homecoming
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Ian Holm, Michael Jayston
Director: Peter Hall
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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 »
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Frenzy
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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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 »
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from 2,270 members
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Offence
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Vivien Merchant
Director: Sidney Lumet
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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.
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63%
from 508 members
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Alfie
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Michael Caine, Millicent Martin, Julia Foster
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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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 »
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The Servant
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Chris Sarandon, Harold Pinter
Director: Joseph Losey, Basil Dearden
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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.
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76%
from 277 members
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The Blue Lamp
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Harold Pinter, Jack Warner, Sylvia Sims
Director: Basil Dearden
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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 »
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72%
from 148 members
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Accident
on DVD
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Chris Sarandon, Harold Pinter
Director: Basil Dearden, Joseph Losey, Roy Boulting
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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 »
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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. ...
