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Peter Finch
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Peter Finch - what members say
review by McClennan from St Helens, home of the challenge cup holders
Astonishingly perceptive and intelligent 23 April 2005
review by A customer from GLASGOW
TOP MOVIE !!! 4 March 2006
review by A customer from Buckinghamshire
Excellent 11 January 2005
Peter Finch - filmography
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Network
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, William Holden
Director: Sidney Lumet
Certificate: 
A trenchant satire of trash TV, Network seems to grow only more relevant with each passing year. Howard Beale (Peter Finch), the dean of newscasters at the United Broadcasting System, is put out to pasture because he skews old. Network executive Max Schumacher (William Holden), Howard's best friend,..read more »
 
70%
from 8,201 members
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The Red Tent
(1969)
Starring: Sean Connery, Claudia Cardinale, Hardy Kruger
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov
Certificate: 
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.
53%
from 8 members
Currently unavailable
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Far from the Madding Crowd
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp
Director: John Schlesinger
Certificate: 
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In rural Victorian England, circa 1865, a headstrong young woman inherits her dead uncle's farm in Wessex. Soon after her arrival, three very different men begin to pursue her: a failed sheep farmer; a wealthy landowner; and the one she falls in love with, a reckless military sergeant whose ..read more »
71%
from 2,025 members
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10:30 P.M. Summer
(1966)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Peter Finch
Director: Jules Dassin
Certificate:
Passion, whether sex or violence, is the root of conflict in this film which follows as the alcoholic Mercouri and her husband Finch travel with their daughter and Schneider across Spain. Being married does not stop Finch from fooling around with other women, however, and an affair flares up ..read more »
20%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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The Flight Of The Phoenix
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch
Director: Robert Aldrich
Certificate: 
In Robert Aldrich's 'The Flight Of The Phoenix', based on Elleston Trevor's novel, a small plane carrying oil workers and military personnel crashes, stranding a group of survivors in the Sahara Desert. As the lethal heat and grating sand begin to take a toll on the group, the conscientious pilot, ..read more »
70%
from 2,024 members
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Pumpkin Eater
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Anne Bancroft, Peter Finch
Director: Jack Clayton
Certificate:
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.
69%
from 77 members
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No Love For Johnnie
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate: 
Based on a novel by Wilfred Fienburgh, this is the story of a British Member of Parliament whose public and private lives are in a shambles. Portrayed by Peter Finch, but supported by an eclectic cast of stereotypical politicians, the protagonist has his hands full trying to keep the important ..read more »
68%
from 33 members
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Kidnapped
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, James MacArthur
Director: Robert Stevenson
Certificate:
Kidnapped and cheated of his inheritance, David Balfour joins forces with a Jacobite adventurer. When they are falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands.
54%
from 195 members
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The Nun's Story
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Certificate:
Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one point she is nearly killed by a mental patient (Colleen Dewhurst) -- Sister Luke perseveres. Sent as a nurse to the Belgian ..read more »
74%
from 296 members
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Operation Amsterdam
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Peter Finch, Eva Bartok, Tony Britton
Director: Michael McCarthy
Certificate:
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.
64%
from 49 members
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Windom's Way -
(1957)
Starring: Peter Finch, Mary Ure, Natasha Parry
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
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 »
42%
from 5 members
Not available for rental
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A Town Like Alice
(1956)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Jean Anderson
Director: Jack Lee
Certificate:
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 »
69%
from 468 members
Not available for rental
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Elephant Walk
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Dana Andrews, Peter Finch
Director: William Dieterle
Certificate:
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...
57%
from 138 members
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Father Brown
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Gerard Oury, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Director: Robert Hamer
Certificate:
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 »
68%
from 259 members
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Simon And Laura
Starring: Peter Finch, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow
Director: Muriel Box
Certificate:
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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...
72%
from 27 members
Not available for rental
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Peter Finch facts
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...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...
