Meredith Edwards

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The Cruel Sea review by from Wirral, Merseyside

Rewarding.and a wonderful homage to the WW2 Royal Navy Escort Service 31 March 2012
..., Liam Redmond, Alec McCowen, Virginia McKenna, Bruce Seton, Walter Fitzgerald, Meredith Edwards, Megs Jenkins, Stanley Baker, Moira Lister and Sam Kydd put in such good perfor... Read customer review

Gulliver's Travels on DVD (1976)
Starring: Richard Harris, Catherine Schell, Norman Shelley
Director: Peter R. Hunt
Certificate:
Gulliver's Travels: Starring Richard Harris as Gulliver, this is one of the first films to combine live action and animation.

49% from 119 members

Flame In The Streets on DVD (1961)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
The faces of racism at work and at home provide the focus of this drama. When union members threaten to strike because their new foreman is black, the union boss persuades them not to by reminding them that a man's skin colour has nothing to do with his competence and worth. His words take on a new ..read more »

68% from 24 members

The Long Arm on DVD (1956)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.

73% from 272 members

The Conquest of Everest on DVD (1953)
Starring: Meredith Edwards
Director: George Lowe
Certificate:
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The build-up to the conquering of Everest by the Hunt Expedition. The camera work of Thomas Skobank forms the basis of this film.

61% from 160 members

The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray (1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.

74% from 105 members

The Cruel Sea on DVD (1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.

72% from 3,482 members

The Great Game (1953)
Starring: James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors
Director: Maurice Elvey
Certificate:
The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.

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Gift Horse on DVD (1952)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald
Director: Compton Bennett
Certificate:
Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough star in this famous story of a Royal Navy destroyer and her officers and crew during the early years of the Second World War. H.M.S. Ballantrae is an ex-U.S. Navy destroyer - one of fifty lent by the Americans in 1940 to a desperate Royal Navy fighting to keep ..read more »

70% from 120 members

Where No Vultures Fly on DVD (1951)
Starring: Anthony Steel, Dinah Sheridan, Harold Warrender
Director: Harry Watt
Certificate:
A heartwarming adventure tale of a game warden in East Africa who is so sickened by his orders to kill wildlife that he leaves his job to build his own animal sanctuary in remote jungle country.

58% from 41 members

The Blue Lamp (1950)
Starring: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
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 »

72% from 317 members
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The Magnet on DVD (1950)
Starring: Stephen Murray, William Fox, Kay Walsh
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.

62% from 392 members

A Run for Your Money on DVD (1949)
Starring: Donald Houston, Meredith Edwards, Moira Lister
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
Brothers from a Welsh village take their first trip to London to collect a prize, and meet a con artist and sundry other urban distractions.

68% from 112 members

Gulliver's Travels - 2.5 stars
Flame In The Streets - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars
The Conquest of Everest - 3.0 stars
The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars
The Cruel Sea - 3.5 stars
The Blue Lamp - 3.5 stars
Gift Horse - 3.5 stars

The Great Game - 3 stars
Where No Vultures Fly - 3.0 stars
Flame In The Streets - 3.5 stars
Gulliver's Travels - 2.5 stars
The Conquest of Everest - 3.0 stars

Jack Hawkins - 3 times - show films
John Stratton - 3 times - show films
Moira Lister - 3 times - show films
Donald Sinden - 2 times - show films
Patric Doonan - 2 times - show films

Charles Frend - 5 times - show films
George Lowe - 2 times - show films
Compton Bennett - 1 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 1 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 1 times - show films