Noel Purcell

Filmography

Noel Purcell - filmography

McKenzie Break on DVD (1970)
Starring: Ian Hendry, Helmut Griem, Brian Keith
Director: Lamont Johnson
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A tense, powerful WWII thriller. A British intelligence agent, Capt Jack Connor (Brian Keith) investigates, and attempts to foil, an impending escape by a group of unruly German prisoners-of-war from the Scottish POW Camp McKenzie.

60% from 118 members

Doctor In Clover on DVD (1966)
Starring: Noel Purcell, Leslie Phillips, Joan Sims
Director: Ralph Thomas
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In this comic installment of the DOCTOR series, another young doctor (Leslie Phillips) attempts to improve his career and his love life.

62% from 406 members

Leslie Philips - The Comic Icons Collect... on DVD (1960)
Starring: Kenneth Connor, Leslie Philips, Eric Barker
Director: Gerald Thomas, Ken Annakin
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Hot on the heels of CARRY ON TEACHER, this honorary Carry On is a Naval-gazing farce involving Kenneth Connor's amazing master-of-disguise talents. When his bumbling, not-so-able seaman character destroys unique plans for a top-secret torpedo, he attempts to cover his tracks by embarking on a ..read more »

63% from 379 members

Leslie Philips - The Comic Icons Collect... on DVD (1960)
Starring: Leslie Philips, Geraldine McEwan, Julia Lockwood
Director: Gerald Thomas, Ken Annakin
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A young, married couple inherit an estate and decide to turn it into a summer camp for children.

68% from 73 members

The Millionairess on DVD (1960)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Vittorio De Sica
Director: Anthony Asquith
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Anthony Asquith, more famous for his direction of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, here adapts the lighter, though still socially conscious Shaw play, THE MILLIONAIRESS. Sophia Loren, as the beautiful, statuesque heiress, Epifinia, can't find a man who measures up to her late father's marriage test...read more »

52% from 398 members

Man In The Moon (1960)
Starring: John Glyn-Jones, John Phillips, Kenneth More
Director: Basil Dearden
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Kenneth More was beginning to segue into comedy roles when he took on the character of William in this standard sci-fi parody by director Basil Dearden. William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold when he is soon fired and offered a job by the ..read more »

56% from 3 members
Not available for rental

Ferry To Hong Kong on DVD (1959)
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Orson Welles, Sylvia Syms
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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FERRY TO HONG KONG stars Curt Jurgens as Mark Conrad, an Austrian exile and Orson Welles as blustery ferry-boat captain Cecil Hart. Banned from both Hong Kong and Macao, Conrad is forced to spend his life on Hart's ferry, shuttling endlessly between the two countries and irritating everyone with ..read more »

61% from 16 members

Donald Sinden Icon Collection - Rockets ... on DVD (1958)
Starring: Donald Sinden, Jeannie Carson, Roland Culver
Director: Michael Relph
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The tranquillity of a small Scottish island is shattered by plans to build a missile base. Sequel to the classic comedy Whisky Galore.

73% from 63 members

Jacqueline (1956)
Starring: John Gregson, Kathleen Ryan, Jacqueline Ryan
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Labourer John Gregson, unable to get a job on a farm, is lured by high wages into working in the Belfast shipyards. There, high upon the scaffolding surrounding the ships, he suffers from dangerous attacks of vertigo, causing him to take to drink to the despair of his wife.

83% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

The Seekers on DVD (1954)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Glynis Johns, Noel Purcell
Director: Ken Annakin
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Famous for being the first ever colour film to be made in New Zealand, this Rank 1954 feature is overflowing with beautiful scenery, colour and set pieces. It is 1821 and adventuring seafarer Philip Wayne (Jack Hawkins) and Paddy Clarke (Noel Purcell) have set ashore to explore the Bay of Plenty. ..read more »

46% from 16 members

The Tommy Steele Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Tommy Steele, June Laverick, Michael Medwin
Director: Gerald Thomas, Don Sharp, Gerard Bryant
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This box set features the following films:The Duke Wore Jeans (Dir. Gerald Thomas) (1958): Comedy about a cockney lad who pretends to be a Lord in order to woo a South American princess. It's All Happening (Dir. Don Sharp) (1963): Billy Bowles (Tommy Steele) is an A & R talent co-ordinator who has ..read more »

67% from 151 members

The Seekers - 2.5 stars
Man In The Moon - 3.0 stars
Ferry To Hong Kong - 3.0 stars
Jacqueline - 4.0 stars
The Millionairess - 2.5 stars

Sid James - 2 times - show films
Alfie Bass - 2 times - show films
Leslie Phillips - 2 times - show films
Leslie Philips - 2 times - show films
Joan Sims - 2 times - show films

Gerald Thomas - 3 times - show films
Ken Annakin - 3 times - show films
Ken Annakin - 2 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 1 times - show films
Gerard Bryant - 1 times - show films