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  • The Night of the Hunter
  • The Night of the Hunter review by Lighthouse from EAST SUSSEX
    Rated - 5.0 stars Night At The Wrong Time 17 January 2005
    ... 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. For th...   Read customer review
  • Lolita
  • Lolita review by from North London
    Rated - 3.0 stars Flawed Adaptation 13 December 2005
    ...abokov novel. James Mason is compelling but too sympathetic as Humbert Humbert. Shelley Winters as Lo's predatory mother is suitably comi-tragic and Sellers is watchable but h...   Read customer review
  • The Poseidon Adventure
  • The Poseidon Adventure review by FilmFlanuer from London
    Rated - 4.0 stars Excellent hokum afloat 19 February 2006
    ...Linda (Stella Stevens), an elderly Jewish couple the Rosens (Jack Albertson and Shelley Winters), a teenage girl and her young brother (Pamela Sue Martin and Eric Shea, a juve...   Read customer review

Shelley Winters - filmography


  • Portrait Of A Lady on DVD (1996)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  Martin Donovan,  Richard E. Grant
    Director: Jane Campion
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 2,492 members
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  • The Delta Force on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Robert Forster,  David Menahem,  Geor
    Director: Menahem Golan
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Chuck Norris and Lee Marvin form a special military task force to rescue hostages from a hijacked plane. This leads - quite naturally - to chases, stunts, and a healthy dose of martial arts action. Based on a real event, the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jet in Athens, but adapted to include Chuck Norris'..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 1,334 member
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  • Fanny Hill on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Wilfrid Hyde-White,  Barry Stokes,  Oliver Reed
    Director: Gerry O'Hara
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Steamy romps galore in this erotic story of a nubile country girl forced into the oldest profession in the world. Fanny throws herself wholeheartedly into her new line of work, deliriously happy at the joy that she can bring about in her clients, but she still longs for her first innocent love.
    2.5 stars out of 5 50% from 421 members
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  • Alice In Wonderland on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Sammy Davis Jr.,  Patrick Duffy,  Scott Baio
    Director: Harry Harris
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Irwin Allen's two-part television film based on the books by Lewis Carroll. Natalie Gregory stars as Alice, the little girl who finds her way into the fantastical world of Wonderland, first through a rabbit hole and later through a mirror. As she tries to get back home, she encounters one colourful ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 64 members
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  • Pete's Dragon on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Sean Marshall,  Red Buttons,  Jim Backus
    Director: Don Chaffey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A Disney production mixing animation with live action. Lonely orphan boy Pete (Sean Marshall) finds a new friend in a surprising form: Elliott, a 12-foot tall dragon that has the power to make itself invisible. Together they innocently cause chaos in their sleepy hometown, but their partnership is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 4,096 members
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  • Pete's Dragon - Blu-ray (1977)
    Starring: Sean Marshall,  Red Buttons,  Jim Backus
    Director: Don Chaffey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A Disney production mixing animation with live action. Lonely orphan boy Pete (Sean Marshall) finds a new friend in a surprising form: Elliott, a 12-foot tall dragon that has the power to make itself invisible. Together they innocently cause chaos in their sleepy hometown, but their partnership is ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 3 members
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  • The Tenant on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Melvyn Douglas,  Isabelle Adjani,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 2,344 members
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  • Cleopatra Jones (1973)
    Starring: Bernie Casey,  Brenda Sykes,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Jack Starrett
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Cleopatra Jones is a six foot tall Amazonian-esque woman with a great line in high-kicking and gun-toting, not to mention her top 1970s fashion gear. She is enlisted by the US Government to combat the international drugs trade, in particular her arch enemy Mommy, who eventually draws Cleopatra into ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 53% from 234 members
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  • The Poseidon Adventure on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Carol Lynley,  Eric Shea,  Jack Albertson
    Director: Ronald Neame
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When a luxury liner is upturned by a tidal wave on New Year's Eve, ten survivors struggle to stay alive as they seek a means of escape. Resourceful man of the cloth Reverend Frank Scott (Gene Hackman) assumes responsibility for his fellow passengers, who include a pop singer, an elderly Jewish ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 4,658 members
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  • Bloody Mama on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Shelley Winters,  Pat Hingle,  Robert DeNiro
    Director: Roger Corman
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Roger Corman directs this cult gangster shocker loosely based on the story of the infamous Ma Baker and her band of demented, gun-toting criminal sons. Set in Depression-era America, the film tells the no-holds-barred story of a family for whom rape, murder, kidnapping, robbery, drug abuse, incest, ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 458 members
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  • The Scalphunters on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Ossie Davis,  Nick Cravat
    Director: Sydney Pollack
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A comic western following the exploits of Joe Bass (Burt Lancaster), an old fur trader who is hell bent on taking revenge on bountyhunters who have embezzled his trade from him. Along the trail, he runs into Joseph (Ossie Davis), a slave determined to win back his freedom.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 361 members
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  • Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell (1968)
    Starring: Gina Lollobrigida,  Lee Grant,  Naomi Stevens
    Director: Melvin Frank
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 6 members
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  • Wild in the Streets (1968)
    Starring: Shelley Winters,  Christopher Jones,  Diane Varsi
    Director: Barry Shear
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    1 star out of 5 16% from 5 members
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  • The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
    Starring: Pat Boone,  David McCallum,  Van Heflin
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    George Stevens' epic retelling of the Bible substitutes Utah for the Middle East and features a host of big names in cameo roles. Concentrating on the birth, life, execution and resurrection of Christ (Max von Sydow), Stevens was helped by fellow directors David Lean and Jean Negulesco in the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 690 members
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  • A Patch of Blue (1965)
    Starring: Sidney Poitier,  Shelley Winters,  Elizabeth Hartman
    Director: Guy Green
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 16 members
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  • The Balcony on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Peter Falk,  Lee Grant,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Joseph Strick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    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 »
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 118 members
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  • Lolita on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Sue Lyon,  Lois Maxwell,  James Mason
    Director: Stanley Kubrick
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 5,191 members
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  • The Young Savages on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Burt Lancaster,  Dina Merrill,  John Davis Chandler
    Director: John Frankenheimer
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Drama based on the novel by Evan Hunter. Assistant District Attorney Hank Bell (Burt Lancaster) investigates the gangland murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy. Three Italian teenagers from the notorious Thunderbird gang stand trial for the murder, but Bell determines to uncover the motivation behind ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 47 members
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  • The Diary Of Anne Frank (1959)
    Starring: Lou Jacobi,  Richard Beymer,  Ed Wynn
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This is the autobiographical drama of a young Dutch Jewish girl hiding from the invading Nazis during World War II. Anne and her family share a claustrophobic attic with another family. Tension is often unbearable, as the people hiding know that their discovery by the enemy could lead to almost ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 660 members
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  • Odds Against Tomorrow on DVD (1959)
    Starring: Gloria Grahame,  Robert Ryan,  Richard Bright
    Director: Robert Wise
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Harry Belafonte was both producer and star of this hard-edged film noir crime drama. Dave Burke (Ed Begley, Sr.) is an ex-cop who has been kicked off the force for refusing to inform on his colleagues to the State Crime Committee. Short on money, the former policeman jumps to the other side of the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 164 members
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  • I Am A Camera on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Ron Randell,  Anton Diffring,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: Henry Cornelius
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Berlin, the 1930s. A young English writer (Laurence Harvey) arrives in the city and takes to sharing a flat with vivacious nightclub singer Sally Bowles (Julie Harris). Together they experience the mad swirl of bohemian life and dream of the successes that will be theirs in the future, but as the ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 54% from 157 members
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  • The Night of the Hunter on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Robert Mitchum,  Don Beddoe,  Evelyn Varden
    Director: Charles Laughton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 7,883 members
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  • Saskatchewan on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Alan Ladd,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Raoul Walsh
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 14 members
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  • To Dorothy A Son on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White,  Peggy Cummins,  John Gregson
    Director: Muriel Box
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    1950s comedy starring Shelley Winters, John Gregson and Peggy Cummins. Myrtle La Mar (Winters) is due to inherit two million dollars but will only receive the money if her ex-husband, Tony Rapallo (Gregson), does not produce an heir with new wife Dorothy (Cummins). Myrtle travels to England to make ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 13 members
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  • Meet Danny Wilson on DVD (1952)
    Starring: Frank Sinatra,  Alex Nicol,  Shelley Winters
    Director: Joseph Pevney
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 38 members
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  • A Place In The Sun on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Elizabeth Taylor,  Montgomery Clift,  Raymond Burr
    Director: George Stevens
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,681 member
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  • He Ran All The Way Home on DVD (1951)
    Starring: John Garfield,  Shelley Winters,  Wallace Ford
    Director: John Berry
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    John Garfield, Shelley Winters and Norman Lloyd star in this film noir classic. Nick (Garfield) and Al (Lloyd) are involved in a payroll heist that goes wrong, resulting in a policeman being shot. Al is caught while Nick gets away, hiding out at the local swimming pool. There, he meets and charms ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 50 members
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  • Behave Yourself! on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Farley Granger,  William Demarest,  Lon Chaney Jr.
    Director: George Beck
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Young couple, Kate and William Denny, get caught up in the criminal underworld after adopting a stray pooch, which just so happens to to carry the key element to a criminal plan to hijack a million dollar shipment.
    2 stars out of 5 42% from 50 members
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  • Winchester 73 on DVD (1950)
    Starring: Charles Drake,  James Stewart,  Will Geer
    Director: Anthony Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Dodge City, 1873. Cowboy Lin McAdam (James Stewart) wins a Winchester rifle in a shooting competition, only for it to be stolen by his opponent, his arch-enemy Dutch Henry Mann (Stephen McNally). McAdam sets off in pursuit of his adversary, determined to settle a feud that dates back many years.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 1,143 member
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  • Cry Of The City (1948)
    Starring: Richard Conte,  Shelley Winters,  Victor Mature
    Director: Robert Sidomak
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Classic film-noir in which petty crook and cop-killer Martin Rome (Richard Conte), in bad shape from wounds in the hospital prison ward, refuses to help slimy lawyer Niles (Berry Kroeger) clear his client by confessing to another crime. Police Lt. Candella (Victor Mature) must check Niles' ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 162 members
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  • A Double Life (1947)
    Starring: Ronald Coleman,  Signe Hasso,  Shelley Winters
    Director: George Cukor
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 52% from 9 members
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Shelley Winters facts

5 most recent films

Portrait Of A Lady - 2.5 stars
Raging Angels - 2.0 stars
Heavy - 4.0 stars
Mary Higgins Clark - Weep No More My Lady - 2.0 stars
The Delta Force - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Elvis - A John Carpenter Film - 4.0 stars
The Night of the Hunter - 3.5 stars
Winchester 73 - 3.5 stars
Odds Against Tomorrow - 3.5 stars
A Place In The Sun - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Whoever Slew Auntie Roo? - 3 stars
Wild in the Streets - 1.0 stars
Mambo - 1.0 stars
What's the Matter with Helen? - 1.5 stars
Saskatchewan - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Red Buttons - 5 times - show films
Roddy McDowall - 5 times - show films
Telly Savalas - 4 times - show films
Pamela Sue Martin - 3 times - show films
Eric Shea - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

George Stevens - 4 times - show films
Ronald Neame - 3 times - show films
Don Chaffey - 3 times - show films
John Carpenter - 2 times - show films
Charles Laughton - 2 times - show films