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Peter Finch - what members say


  • Network
  • Network review by McClennan from St Helens, home of the challenge cup holders
    Rated - 5 stars Astonishingly perceptive and intelligent 23 April 2005
    ...film is far more insightful and relevant than that. The speech by Ned Beatty to Peter Finch is one of the best I've seen put on film. If you like The Corporation, you'll l...  
  • Battle Of The River Plate
  • Battle Of The River Plate review by A customer from GLASGOW
    Rated - 4 stars TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
    ...ed by the Uruguayan government. Eventually, however, German captain Langsdorff (Peter Finch) is faced with a difficult decision: either stand his ground and fight a losing...  
  • Far From The Madding Crowd
  • Far From The Madding Crowd review by A customer from Buckinghamshire
    Rated - 5 stars Excellent 11 January 2005
    ...0 years older than her characture, but the other parts played by Terence Stamp, Peter Finch and Alan Bates are brilliant. The film captures Hardys love of the area and sh...  

Peter Finch - filmography


  • Network on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Faye Dunaway,  William Holden
    Director: Sidney Lumet
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    With stunning prescience, Sidney Lumet's searing satire of television and the contemporary moment chronicles the media's imminent corruption and the public's wholesale purchase into the myths that it creates. With a verbose and visceral script from Paddy Chayefsky, NETWORK follows the doomed path ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 6,025 members
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  • The Red Tent (1969)
    Starring: Sean Connery,  Claudia Cardinale,  Hardy Kruger
    Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    An explorer who was one of the few to survive a zeppelin crash in the frigid Arctic landscape, remains haunted by horrible dreams and memories of the disaster - and the circumstances surrounding his rescue.
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 4 members
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  • Pumpkin Eater (1964)
    Starring: Anne Bancroft,  Peter Finch
    Director: Jack Clayton
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    In her fourth marriage, Jo (Anne Bancroft) finds out that her husband (Peter Finch) is having an affair. When he explains that he finds nothing wrong with his behaviour, Jo must decide whether to keep the marriage for the sake of her children, or strike out on her own.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Operation Amsterdam (1958)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Eva Bartok,  Tony Britton
    Director: Michael McCarthy
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    This high adventure tale is a dramatization of an event which actually occured in Amsterdam in 1940 just prior to the German invasion. Four heroic Dutch agents struggled to keep millions of dollars worth of diamonds from falling into Nazi hands.
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 10 members
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  • Windom's Way - (1957)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Mary Ure,  Natasha Parry
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The brittle marriage of Alec and Lee Windom is on the verge of breakdown. With Alec working in a remote Asian village as a doctor and Lee back home in England the strain cannot continue. So Lee decides she will move to be with her estranged husband, hoping to re-kindle their affections. However, on ..read more »
    Rate this: 1.5 stars out of 5 33% from 3 members
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  • A Town Like Alice (1956)
    Starring: Virginia McKenna,  Peter Finch,  Jean Anderson
    Director: Jack Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A TOWN LIKE ALICE sees female prisoners of war at the mercy of the notoriously sadistic Japanese Army. A man and woman find hope and love in each other as they are forced at bayonet point on a long march of death. Based on Nevil Shute's best-seller, this film saw Best Actor and Best Actress BAFTAs ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 439 members
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  • Elephant Walk on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Dana Andrews,  Peter Finch
    Director: William Dieterle
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    When Ruth agrees to marry plantation owner John, she is filled with excitement. The excitement is short lived, however, as she soon begins to feel trapped within her banal life. When Dick Carver visits the plantation, she immediately falls in love, but it's not long before tragedy strikes...
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 101 members
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  • Father Brown
    Starring: Gerard Oury,  Joan Greenwood,  Alice Krige
    Director: Robert Hamer
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Alec Guinness stars as G.K. Chesterton's legendary detective Father Brown in this splendid comedy thriller directed by Robert Hamer (Kind Hearts and Coronets). When Father Brown hears that Flambeau (Peter Finch), an international art thief, is planning to steal a priceless cross once owned by ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 10 members
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  • Simon And Laura
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Kay Kendall,  Muriel Pavlow
    Director: Muriel Box
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    A television producer decides to base a drama series on a happily married couple of actors. However, their marriage isn't as happy as it seems...
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 54% from 7 members
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Peter Finch - watch online


  • Robbery Under Arms to Watch Now (1957)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Ronald Lewis,  Maureen Swanson
    Director: Jack Lee
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC (TBC)
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    Run time: 99 minutes
    MANY of Britain's top players and technicians travelled half-way across the world to film this Australian classic of daring adventure in its authentic locales. The result is an outdoor film of rare sweep and power which stirringly and convincingly recreates the roaring pioneer days when life was ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 40% from 3 members
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  • Simon and Laura to Watch Now (1955)
    Starring: Peter Finch,  Kay Kendall,  Muriel Pavlow
    Director: Muriel Box
    Certificate: Certificate: PG (TBC)
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    Run time: 88 minutes
    In the 1950's days of only BBC television, a wet-behind-the-ears producer has the idea of basing a family drama series on a real-life happily married actor couple. Unfortunately he chooses the Fosters, who need the money and so do the show. Actors they may be, but happily married they most surely ..read more »
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Peter Finch facts

5 most recent films

Raid On Entebbe - 3.0 stars
Network - 3.5 stars
Sunday Bloody Sunday - 3.0 stars
The Red Tent - 2.5 stars
Far From The Madding Crowd - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Nun's Story - 3.5 stars
Far From The Madding Crowd - 3.5 stars
The Flight Of The Phoenix - 3.5 stars
A Town Like Alice - 3.5 stars
Network - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Windom's Way - - 1.5 stars
The Red Tent - 2.5 stars
Father Brown - 3.0 stars
Operation Amsterdam - 3.0 stars
Simon And Laura - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Virginia McKenna - 3 times - show films
Bernard Lee - 3 times - show films
Hardy Kruger - 2 times - show films
Hubert Gregg - 2 times - show films
Ian Carmichael - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Jack Lee - 3 times - show films
Muriel Box - 2 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 2 times - show films
Fred Zinnemann - 1 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 1 times - show films