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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 FilmFlanuer from London
Excellent hokum afloat 19 February 2006
Shelley Winters - filmography
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Portrait Of A Lady
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Barbara Hershey, Martin Donovan, Richard E. Grant
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 2,492 members
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The Delta Force
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Robert Forster, David Menahem, Geor
Director: Menahem Golan
Certificate:
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 »
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: 
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.
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: 
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 »
60%
from 64 members
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Elvis - A John Carpenter Film
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Pat Hingle, Melody Anderson, Ed Begley Jr.
Director: John Carpenter
Certificate: 
Director John Carpenter teams up for the first time with his favourite actor, Kurt Russell, in this biography of Elvis Aaron Presley. Beginning with his humble beginnings as a country boy without a father. The film chronicles Elvis's journey to the height fame, his Las Vegas comeback, and his ..read more »
76%
from 197 members
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Pete's Dragon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Sean Marshall, Red Buttons, Jim Backus
Director: Don Chaffey
Certificate:
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 »
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:
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 »
70%
from 3 members
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The Tenant
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Melvyn Douglas, Isabelle Adjani, Shelley Winters
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 2,344 members
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Cleopatra Jones
(1973)
Starring: Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes, Shelley Winters
Director: Jack Starrett
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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 »
53%
from 234 members
Currently unavailable
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The Poseidon Adventure
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Carol Lynley, Eric Shea, Jack Albertson
Director: Ronald Neame
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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 »
64%
from 4,658 members
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Bloody Mama
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Shelley Winters, Pat Hingle, Robert DeNiro
Director: Roger Corman
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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 »
47%
from 458 members
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The Scalphunters
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Ossie Davis, Nick Cravat
Director: Sydney Pollack
Certificate:
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.
63%
from 361 members
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Buona Sera Mrs. Campbell
(1968)
Starring: Gina Lollobrigida, Lee Grant, Naomi Stevens
Director: Melvin Frank
Certificate: 
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 »
70%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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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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The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965)
Starring: Pat Boone, David McCallum, Van Heflin
Director: George Stevens
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
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 »
64%
from 690 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 16 members
Currently unavailable
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The Balcony
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Shelley Winters
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 »
40%
from 118 members
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Lolita
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Sue Lyon, Lois Maxwell, James Mason
Director: Stanley Kubrick
Certificate:
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 »
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: 
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 »
67%
from 47 members
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The Diary Of Anne Frank
(1959)
Starring: Lou Jacobi, Richard Beymer, Ed Wynn
Director: George Stevens
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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 »
63%
from 660 members
Currently unavailable
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Odds Against Tomorrow
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Gloria Grahame, Robert Ryan, Richard Bright
Director: Robert Wise
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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 »
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
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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 »
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:
Watch now: Unavailable
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 7,883 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 »
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
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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 »
60%
from 13 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 »
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
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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 1,681 member
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He Ran All The Way Home
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
Director: John Berry
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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 »
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:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
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.
42%
from 50 members
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Winchester 73
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Charles Drake, James Stewart, Will Geer
Director: Anthony Mann
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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.
70%
from 1,143 member
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Cry Of The City
(1948)
Starring: Richard Conte, Shelley Winters, Victor Mature
Director: Robert Sidomak
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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 »
66%
from 162 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
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