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The Go-Between on DVD (1970)
Starring: Margaret Leighton, Alan Bates, Julie Christie
Director: Joseph Losey
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel about Leo Colston, a middle-aged man (Michael ..read more »

68% from 1,372 member

The Go-Between - Blu-ray (1970)
Starring: Margaret Leighton, Alan Bates, Julie Christie
Director: Joseph Losey
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The delicate story of a young boy's adoration for a beautiful young woman, and of his involvement in her love affair with one of her father's tenant farmers. Based on the novel by L.P. Hartley.

62% from 95 members

Best Man on DVD (1964)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Edie Adams
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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When intellectual William Russell (Henry Fonda) and down-to-earth Joe Cantwell (Cliff Robertson) run for the Presidency at the White House they find that neither have the majority. They must decide how much they want the job - and what they are willing to do to get it.

73% from 87 members

Waltz Of The Toreadors on DVD (1962)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Dany Robin, John Fraser
Director: John Guillermin
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Fans of Peter Sellers will love the antics of the lecherous General Fitzjohn (Sellers) who is determined to get close to sexy Ghislaine (Dany Robin)...without his nagging wife (Margaret Leighton) finding out!

51% from 106 members

Constant Husband on DVD (1955)
Starring: Rex Harrison, Margaret Leighton, Kay Kendall
Director: Sidney Gilliat
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A man wakes up in Wales with no recollection of how he got there. He eventually traces his life back to his wife in London and everything seems rosy... until further investigation reveals a string of other wives.

61% from 58 members

Carrington V.C. on DVD (1954)
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Noelle Middleton
Director: Anthony Asquith
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A court-martial attempts to find out why, and if, an officer embezzled his unit's funds.

65% from 68 members

The Good Die Young on DVD (1954)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Gloria Grahame, Stanley Baker
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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A fallen aristocrat with a mountainous gambling debt enlists three men with similar financial instabilities to assist him in a mail van robbery.

60% from 164 members

The Holly And The Ivy on DVD (1952)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott
Director: George More O'Ferrall
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The Holly And The Ivy is the heart-warming tale set in post-war Britain. Ralph Richardson (Dr.Zhivago, Richard III) plays Reverend Martin Gregory, a recently widowed minister who is reunited with his family one Christmas. Martin is torn between his roles of Clergyman and father. His zeal for ..read more »

69% from 182 members

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - Happ... on DVD (1951)
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Vera-Ellen
Director: Bruce Humberstone, Anthony Kimmins, Charles Crichton
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A chorus girl is cast in the lead role in an Edinburgh production of 'Frolics To You' as it is the penniless producer's plan that her millionaire boyfriend will invest in her career.

50% from 86 members

The Astonished Heart on DVD (1950)
Starring: Noel Coward, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton
Director: Terence Fisher, Antony Darnborough
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Director Terence Fisher brings Noel Coward's THE ASTONISHED HEART to the screen. Fisher and his stars--Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, and Coward himself--vividly convey the playwright's brittle, sophisticated view of the world. Coward stars as Christian Faber, a psychiatrist who falls in love ..read more »

67% from 18 members

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - Bonn... on DVD (1948)
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Charles Crichton, Mario Zampi
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An exiled prince determined to free his native Scotland from the yoke of English oppression, in this grand and sweeping British film epic. Niven is at his swashbuckling best as he reunites the great Scottish Clans and sweeps into England, carrying all before him. London - and victory - beckons. But ..read more »

56% from 47 members

The Winslow Boy on DVD (1948)
Starring: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
Director: Anthony Asquith
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A moving drama in which a young naval cadet is expelled from school for stealing a postal order. When the case comes to court his defence lawyer unravels a mysterious and surprising chain of events.

73% from 337 members

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - Eter... on DVD (1939)
Starring: David Niven, Loretta Young, Margaret Leighton
Director: Tay Garnett, Anthony Kimmins, Charles Crichton
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A magician's flirtations and dangerous stunts begin to bother his wife.

54% from 116 members

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - Happ... on DVD
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Mario Zampi, Charles Crichton
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'Happy Ever After' (1954) tells the tale of the caddish Jasper O'Leary (Niven), who inherits a hunting estate in Ireland following the death of his uncle. He soon arouses the ire of all the villagers, with the exception of the scheming Serena McGluskey (Yvonne De Carlo). The villagers use the ..read more »

68% from 40 members

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Charles Crichton, Mario Zampi
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Includes the following films: Bonnie Prince Charlie; The Love Lottery; Happy Ever After; Eternally Yours; Happy Go Lovely.

57% from 37 members

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - The ... on DVD
Starring: David Niven, Margaret Leighton, Judy Campbell
Director: Charles Crichton, Anthony Kimmins, Mario Zampi
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In 'The Love Lottery' (1954), Niven plays Rex Allerton, a celebrity who agrees to be the star prize in a lottery where the winner gets to spend a week in his company. Sensing the daftness of the whole enterprise, Rex promises publicly to marry the winner - and that's where besotted fan, Sally (..read more »

61% from 28 members

The Oscar Wilde Collection (3 discs) on DVD
Starring: John Gielgud, Joan Plowright, Margaret Leighton
Director: Stuart Burge, John Gorrie, Rudolph Cartier
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Dramatic adaptations of four of Oscar Wilde's works. In 'The Importance Of Being Earnest', Algernon Moncrieff and Jack Worthing are a pair of bachelors who both have alter egos in order to increase their opportunities for having fun. If they are to win the hearts of the girls of their dreams, ..read more »

62% from 318 members

Margaret Leighton facts

5 most recent films

The Go-Between - 3.5 stars
The Go-Between - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Best Man - 3.5 stars
Waltz Of The Toreadors - 2.5 stars
Constant Husband - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Winslow Boy - 3.5 stars
Best Man - 3.5 stars
The Holly And The Ivy - 3.5 stars
The Go-Between - 3.5 stars
Carrington V.C. - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - Bonnie Prince Charlie - 3.0 stars
David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - 3.0 stars
David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - The Love Lottery - 3.0 stars
The Astonished Heart - 3.5 stars
David Niven Boxset - Screen Icons - Happy Ever After - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

David Niven - 8 times - show films
George Cole - 7 times - show films
Vera-Ellen - 6 times - show films
Hugh Herbert - 6 times - show films
C. Aubrey Smith - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Anthony Kimmins - 6 times - show films
Charles Crichton - 6 times - show films
Mario Zampi - 4 times - show films
Stuart Burge - 4 times - show films
Rudolph Cartier - 4 times - show films