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Shelley Winters
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Shelley Winters - what members say
review by Lighthouse from EAST SUSSEX
Night At The Wrong Time 17 January 2005
review by from North London
Flawed Adaptation 13 December 2005
review by from London
Excellent hokum afloat 19 February 2006
Shelley Winters - filmography
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Portrait Of A Lady
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Nicole Kidman, John Malkovich, Barbara Hershey
Director: Jane Campion
Certificate: 
Jane Campion directed this expressive adaptation of the classic novel by Henry James. Isabel Archer (Nicole Kidman) is a young American woman who, after the death of her parents, has been sent to England to visit relatives. While her family's tragedy has left her penniless, Isabel's beauty has ..read more »
 
54%
from 2,401 members
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Raging Angels
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Sean Patrick Flanery, Monet Mazur, Diane Ladd
Director: Alan Smithee
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Chris and Lila are two struggling rock musicians in Los Angeles who, one day, meet up with superstar Colin Grammercy. Colin chooses Lila to be a singer in his band but little does she or Chris realise the supernatural battle they are about to face...
38%
from 50 members
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The Delta Force
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, Robert Forster
Director: Menahem Golan
Certificate:
When a band of ruthless terrorists hijack an airliner full of American passengers, the U.S. enlists the aid of an elite strike force (Chuck Norris, Lee Marvin, and others) to rescue the hostages.
63%
from 1,269 member
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Fanny Hill
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Lisa Foster, Oliver Reed, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: Gerry O'Hara
Certificate: 
An adaptation of John Cleland's infamous erotic novel, this is the sensual story of nubile, virginal country girl Fanny Hill forced into the oldest profession in the world. Throwing herself body and soul into her new work, Fanny comes to derive enormous pleasure from her new-found ability to please,..read more »
50%
from 405 members
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Alice In Wonderland
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Patrick Duffy
Director: Harry Harris
Certificate: 
This lavish 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton, and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world ..read more »
61%
from 60 members
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Pete's Dragon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Helen Reddy, Mickey Rooney, Sean Marshall
Director: Don Chaffey
Certificate: 
This heartwarming musical blends live action, animation, and music to highlight the story of Pete (Sean Marshall), a young boy who is befriended by a delightful dragon named Elliot (voiced by Charlie Callas). The film features charming performances from Mickey Rooney, Helen Reddy, Jim Dale, Shelley ..read more »
66%
from 3,931 members
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The Tenant
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Roman Polanski
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Director Roman Polanski casts himself in the lead of the psychological thriller The Tenant. Trelkovsky (Polanski) rents an apartment in a spooky old residential building, where his neighbors -- mostly old recluses -- eye him with suspicious contempt. Upon discovering that the apartment's previous ..read more »
65%
from 2,180 members
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That Lucky Touch
(1975)
Starring: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters
Director: Christopher Miles
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A European arms dealer (Roger Moore) meets a liberated woman journalist (Susannah York), who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting. Needless to say, the two meet and make sparks.
50%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Cleopatra Jones
(1973)
Starring: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Shelley Winters
Director: Jack Starrett
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A buxom beauty, undercover narcotics agent Cleo Jones (Tamara Dobson) is the principal operative in a covert scheme to eradicate an international drug trade. But she's pulled away from important business when a phony raid on her boyfriend's ghetto halfway house puts the rehabilitation centre in ..read more »
53%
from 228 members
Not currently released
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The Poseidon Adventure
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Carol Lynley
Director: Ronald Neame
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On New Year's Eve, the luxury ocean liner Poseidon is on a magnificent voyage from New York to Athens, Greece. Unfortunately, disaster befalls passengers and crew when the cruise ship is capsized by a huge tidal wave brought on by a submarine-induced earthquake. Though the casualties are many, 10 ..read more »
64%
from 4,551 members
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Bloody Mama
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Robert DeNiro
Director: Roger Corman
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Director Roger Corman pulls no punches in this sordid (and true) saga of Kate "Ma" Barker and her sons, brutal criminals who terrorized America in the 1920s and '30s. At Ma's command they rob and murder, but when they kidnap a local politician (Pat Hingle), he turns into the father figure they ..read more »
47%
from 427 members
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Shelley Winters, Telly Savalas
Director: Sydney Pollack
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Sydney Pollack directs this amiable comic Western in which fur trapper Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster) is returning from a successful expedition only to find himself ambushed by a small group of Indians. The Indians force Joe to trade his pelts for Joseph, an educated runaway slave, played brilliantly by ..read more »
64%
from 342 members
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Wild in the Streets
(1968)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Diane Varsi
Director: Barry Shear
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Max Flatow is a precocious, social miscreant who has a way with home-made explosives. When he tires of these, he runs away from home only to emerge seven years later as Max Frost, the world's most popular entertainer. When Congressman John Fergus uses Frost as a political ploy to gain the youth ..read more »
16%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell
(1968)
Starring: Gina Lollobrigida, Lee Grant, Naomi Stevens
Director: Melvin Frank
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Twenty years after their initial war-time visit three U.S. servicemen hold a reunion at an Italian village. They all have fond memories, especially of local girl Carla. But she has been telling each of them that they are the father of her daughter Gia, so they have all been paying well for her ..read more »
63%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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A Patch of Blue
(1965)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Hartman
Director: Guy Green
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When Gordon Ralfe, a handsome, hard-working black man encounters Selina, a blind white girl, he befriends the lonely woman. Her only true friend, Gordon introduces Selina to a whole world beyond the confines of her deprived home life. But given the current racial climate, Gordon's afraid to tell ..read more »
78%
from 14 members
Currently unavailable
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, John Wayne
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.00
George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
64%
from 674 members
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The Balcony
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Peter Falk, Shelley Winters, Leonard Nimoy
Director: Joseph Strick
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The denizens of a sordid brothel become embroiled in a bloody coup in this arty political satire adapted from the Jean Genet play. Shelley Winters stars as the cathouse's madam, a stern woman who supervises the fantasy role-playing of her beautiful employees and their well-heeled customers, ..read more »
39%
from 109 members
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Lolita
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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How did they make a movie out of Lolita? teased the print ads of this Stanley Kubrick production. The answer: by adding three years to the title character's age. The original Vladimir Nabokov novel caused no end of scandal by detailing the romance between a middle-aged intellectual and a 12-year-..read more »
67%
from 4,947 members
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The Young Savages
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Burt Lancaster, Telly Savalas
Director: John Frankenheimer
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John Frankenheimer (The Birdman Of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate) is one of the most innovative filmmakers of the twentieth century, whose groundbreaking techniques and definitive, cinematic style has rippled through the history of movies to leave an indelible mark. Renowned actor Burt ..read more »
66%
from 35 members
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Odds Against Tomorrow
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Bright, Robert Ryan, Gloria Grahame
Director: Robert Wise
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A classic noir thriller, produced and directed by ROBERT WISE (West Side Story), ODDS AGAINST TOMORROW stars HARRY BELAFONTE (Carmen Jones), ED BEGLEY (Sweet Bird of Youth) and ROBERT RYAN (The Dirty Dozen).
Dave Burke (BEGLEY ) is an embittered ex – policeman whose career was shattered when he ..read more »
69%
from 137 members
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I Am A Camera
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Julie Harris, Shelley Winters
Director: Henry Cornelius
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Based on Christopher Isherwood's short stories about decadent pre-Nazi Berlin, this film chronicles the adventures of a struggling writer and his wild female friend Sally Bowles. The basis for the later musical and movie CABARET. A young English writer, exploring the hedonism of 1930's Berlin, ..read more »
55%
from 145 members
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The Night of the Hunter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
Certificate:
Watch now: £2.49
Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with good represented by a couple of farm kids ..read more »
72%
from 7,504 members
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Saskatchewan
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Alan Ladd, Shelley Winters
Director: Raoul Walsh
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On their return from a hunting trip in the Canadian mountains, Mountie Thomas O'Rourke (Alan Ladd) and his Cree half brother Cajou (Jay Silverheels) stumble upon a burned out wagon train and its sole survivor, Grace Markey (Shelley Winters). Indian tensions are running high as the warring American ..read more »
28%
from 6 members
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Meet Danny Wilson
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Frank Sinatra, Alex Nicol, Shelley Winters
Director: Joseph Pevney
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Frank Sinatra shines as a gifted, but quick tempered, up and coming lounge singer Danny Wilson who makes a meagre living singing in dive bars and hustling pool with best friend Mike Ryan (Alex Nicol). Even with a set of golden tonsils, "Easy Street" isn't so easy for Danny to find. One night, by ..read more »
60%
from 32 members
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He Ran All The Way Home
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford, John Garfield
Director: John Berry
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Nick Robey and his partner in crime Al Molin hold up a payroll with disasterous results. With his partner dead and the police hot on his heels Nick meets Peggy Dobbs and forces her and her family to hide him from the law.
60%
from 41 members
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Behave Yourself!
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
Director: George Beck
Certificate:
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Bill and Kate Denny, a young married couple find themselves on the run after the dog that they adopted is actually a trained crime dog... now the villains want him back...
40%
from 44 members
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A Place In The Sun
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters
Director: George Stevens
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Previously filmed in 1931 under its original title, Theodore Dreiser's bulky but brilliant novel An American Tragedy was remade in 1951 by George Stevens as A Place in the Sun. Montgomery Clift stars as George Eastman, a handsome and charming but basically aimless young man who goes to work in a ..read more »
67%
from 1,509 member
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Winchester 73
(1950)
Starring: James Stewart, Shelley Winters, Dan Duryea
Director: Anthony Mann
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Lin McAdam rides into town on the trail of Dutch Henry Brown, only to find himself in a shooting competition against him. McAdam wins the prize, a one-in-a-thousand Winchester rifle, but Dutch steals it and leaves town. McAdam follows, intent on settling his old quarrel, while the rifle keeps ..read more »
70%
from 1,081 member
Not currently released
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Cry Of The City
(1948)
Starring: Victor Mature, Shelley Winters, Richard Conte
Director: Robert Sidomak
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Two boyhood pals from New York's Lower East side diverge in their paths through life - Marty becomes a criminal, a killer without remorse, while Candella rises to chief of the homicide bureau. Richard Conte and Victor Mature take the leads in this film noir that is perhaps the most perfectly ..read more »
66%
from 154 members
Currently unavailable
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A Double Life
(1947)
Starring: Ronald Coleman, Signe Hasso, Shelley Winters
Director: George Cukor
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The exploration of the personality of Anthony John (Ronald Colman), a brilliant but schizoid actor who is a specialist in classic drama but whose personality changes when he portrays Othello on stage. His outgoing character endears him to all - but his wife is terrified that one day his cruel ..read more »
52%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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Shelley Winters facts
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... distorted. The same can be said for the characters. The acting is superb, even Shelley Winters fits perfectly. So a film that is full of style and is a masterpiece.
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