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review by A customer from Hertfordshire
Some things don't change 5 June 2004
review by from Cheltenham
A fine period piece 25 November 2007
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Three hander 26 February 2004
Alan Bates - filmography
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Never Apologize
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Christine Noonan
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
Certificate: 
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Actor Malcolm McDowell in a one-man show dedicated to the life and work of his friend, the late film director, Lindsay Anderson. In this warm tribute, McDowell runs through his reminiscences of his time working with the director on such films as 'If' and 'O Lucky Man', as well as providing an ..read more »
 
60%
from 301 members
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Spartacus
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Goran Visnjic, James Frain, Angus Macfadyen
Director: Robert Dornhelm, Robert Dornhelm
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This American TV mini-series is a remake of the classic 1960 film directed by Stanley Kubrick, based on the novel by Howard Fast. Goran Visnjic stars as the eponymous hero, a Thracian slave who is sentenced to spend the rest of his life labouring in the scorching Egyptian desert. Inspired by the ..read more »
51%
from 3,450 members
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The Statement
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Jeremy Northam, Tilda Swinton, Michael Caine
Director: Norman Jewison
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Political thriller starring Michael Caine as Pierre Brossard, a known World War 2 criminal who has never been brought to trial, and has until now been leading a peaceful, anonymous life sheltered by the Catholic church. Now, nearly fifty years after committing the atrocities he has tried so hard to ..read more »
53%
from 1,895 member
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The Sum Of All Fears
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Philip Baker Hall, Liev Schreiber, Morgan Freeman
Director: Phil Alden Robinson
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America's security community is on edge. The Russian premier has just died and been replaced by President Zorkin (Richard Marner) a man whose international ambitions are something of an unknown quantity. Fortunately seasoned CIA agent Jack Ryan (Ben Affleck) is on hand to profile the man in the hot ..read more »
63%
from 13,955 members
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Bertie And Elizabeth
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Corin Redgrave, James Wilby, Robert Hardy
Director: Giles Foster
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Dramatic portrait of the young life of Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, starring Juliet Aubrey as Elizabeth and James Wilby as George VI. Focusing on the royal couple's courtship and on the subsequent birth of their daughters, Elizabeth and Margaret, the film also looks at the abdication of ..read more »
64%
from 317 members
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Evelyn
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Julianna Margulies, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea
Director: Bruce Beresford
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Poignant family drama set in 1950s Ireland and based on a true story. Pierce Brosnan stars as Desmond Doyle, a painter/decorator whose wife walks out on the marriage and their three children, leaving him to bring them up himself and earn money to support the family. But his erratic employment leads ..read more »
64%
from 4,842 members
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Gosford Park
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kristin Scott-Thomas, Emily Watson, Sophie Thompson
Director: Robert Altman
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It is November 1932. Gosford Park is the magnificent country estate to which Sir William McCordle and his wife, Lady Sylvia, gather relations and friends for a weekend shooting party. They have invited an eclectic group including a countess, a World War I hero, the British matinee idol Ivor Novello ..read more »
65%
from 16,932 members
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Prince And The Pauper
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Jonathan Timmins, Robert Timmins
Director: Giles Foster
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This production beautifully adapts Mark Twain's 1881 novel to the screen. A magical story about two boys--one is a royal prince and the other is a poor, mistreated urchin--who switch social positions by merely exchanging clothes, THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER is both a fantastic adventure and a ..read more »
57%
from 308 members
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Arabian Nights
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Vanessa-Mae, Jason Scott Lee, Rufus Sewell
Director: Steve Barron
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An all-star cast retells the epic story of the Arabian Nights, based on Sir Richard Burton's translation. The beautiful Scheherazade narrates the various tales, spinning yarns to save her life and her kingdom. Amongst the magical tales which she recounts are those of 'Aladdin and the Magic Lamp' ..read more »
63%
from 484 members
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Varsity Blues
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Amy Smart, Richard Lineback, Paul Walker
Director: Peter O'Brian, Brian Robbins
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Mox Moxon (James Van der Beek) is happy staying on the bench and out of the limelight when he plays for his high-school football team. However, when the star quarterback is injured, he is thrust onto the pitch and into direct conflict with the all-or-nothing attitude of the coach (Jon Voight). He ..read more »
65%
from 1,769 member
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Nicholas' Gift
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Gene Wexler, Alan Bates
Director: Robert Markowitz
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A family holiday in Sicily turns into a nightmare when seven-year-old Nicholas is shot. The parents (Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates), keeping vigil at their dying son's bedside, are asked to make an almost impossible decision: to sanction the use of Nicholas' organs so that other children may be ..read more »
59%
from 141 members
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Oliver's Travels
(1995)
Starring: Alan Bates, Bill Paterson, Miles Anderson
Director: Giles Foster
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Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found ..read more »
49%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Silent Tongue
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Richard Harris, Sheila Tousey, Alan Bates
Director: Sam Shepard
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Silent Tongue was the last River Phoenix film to be released - a year after his premature death - and has never been out before on UK DVD. Written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner Sam Shepard, the film is a haunting Western about a plainsman who will do anything to help his son get over the ..read more »
43%
from 700 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Glenn Close, Ian Holm, Paul Scofield
Director: Franco Zeffirelli
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Franco Zeffirelli directs his third Shakespeare adaptation (after Romeo and Juliet and Otello) with this film version of the tragedy Hamlet. The titular prince of Denmark (Mel Gibson), returns home to his family's castle of Elsinore after years of attending school in Germany to find out his father ..read more »
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from 1,424 member
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Dr. M
(1990)
Starring: Alan Bates, Jennifer Beals, Jan Niklas
Director: Claude Chabrol
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Noted French director Claude Chabrol helmed this oddity, a remake of German director Fritz Lang's 1922 classic Dr. Mabuse. The film features an all-star international cast as it tells the futuristic horror story of a bizarre epidemic which has swept West Berlin leaving a grim trail of grisly ..read more »
60%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Mister Frost
(1990)
Starring: Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker, Alan Bates
Director: Philippe Setbon
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Directed by Philip Sebton, Mister Frost chronicles the life of serial killer Mr. Frost (Jeff Goldblum), who, after stashing 125 tortured corpses in and around his property, is caught by a British detective (Alan Bates) and brought to a mental institution. Strange things begin to happen immediately ..read more »
70%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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We Think The World Of You
(1989)
Starring: Alan Bates
Director: Colin Gregg
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Gary Oldman and Alan Bates star in this British comedy drama set in the 1950s. When Johnny (Oldman) is sent to jail, he has no choice but to leave his cherished Alsatian, Evie, in the care of his parents and his friend and ex-lover, Frank (Bates). Frank soon becomes very attached to the dog and ..read more »
54%
from 18 members
Not available for rental
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A Prayer For The Dying
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Sammi Davis, Liam Neeson, Camille Coduri
Director: Mike Hodges
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An IRA hitman (Mickey Rourke), sick of killing innocent people, escapes to England and contacts a big time criminal (Alan Bates), who says he will help him on the condition that he commits one more murder. He carries out the execution, but is seen by an ex-SAS priest (Bob Hoskins). Rourke falls in ..read more »
60%
from 574 members
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A Voyage Round My Father
(1983)
Starring: Jane Asher, Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: Alvin Rakoff
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An autobiographical story that follows John Mortimer's (Alan Bates) discovery of his father, the eccentric lawyer, Clifford (Laurence Olivier). John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to look after himself after being struck by blindness in middle age; and whilst he seeks his father's ..read more »
66%
from 196 members
Currently unavailable
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The Return of the Soldier
(1982)
Starring: Julie Christie, Glenda Jackson, Ann-Margret
Director: Alan Bridges
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Captain Chris Baldry has suffered the injuries of many during the war, lost in a state of young love he struggles through the overpowering presence of all of the women in his life. Trapped in his past with his true love, his present wife, cousin and woman of his dreams all compete to bring him back ..read more »
35%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Quartet
(1981)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Daniel Chatto, Isabelle Adjani
Director: James Ivory
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Based on the semi-autobiographical novel by Jean Rhys, this Merchant-Ivory drama is set in bohemian 1920s Paris. Isabelle Adjani stars as Marya Zelli, a beautiful young novelist who finds herself destitute when her art dealer husband, Stephan (Anthony Higgins) is sent to prison for theft. A rich ..read more »
50%
from 468 members
Not currently released
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The Rose
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: David Keith, Rudy Bond, Frederic Forrest
Director: Mark Rydell
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Bette Midler stars as rock singer Rose, whose vocal style and turbulent personal life closely resembles that of real-life pop icon Janis Joplin. When Rose asks for a break from her punishing touring schedule, her manager (Alan Bates) refuses. Dangerously burnt-out, the singer self-destructs through ..read more »
62%
from 1,063 member
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The Shout
(1978)
Starring: Robert Stephens, John Hurt, Tim Curry
Director: Jerzy Skolimowski
Certificate:
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An asylum director begins telling a visitor to a cricket game the story of one of his better patients, Crossley (Alan Bates) who is able to compete. Some time previously, Crossley accosted Anthony (John Hurt), a composer, just after church and was for some reason invited to dinner. Once at the ..read more »
63%
from 414 members
Not available for rental
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Mayor Of Casterbridge
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Alan Bates, Anna Massey, Anne Stallybrass
Director: David Giles
Certificate: 
A 1978 BBC adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel. Eighteen years after selling his wife, Michael Henchard (Alan Bates) is set to become mayor of Casterbridge. When his wife and her daughter return, they set a disastrous chain of events in motion.
66%
from 473 members
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Butley
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Jessica Tandy, John Savident, Oliver Maguire
Director: Harold Pinter
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Part of the American Film Theatre Collection, this stage-play-on-screen marks Harold Pinter's directorial debut. Alan Bates stars as Ben Butley, the eponymous anti-hero, an ascerbic, bitter and sharp-tongued English professor whose professional life is threatened by an upcoming intellectual young ..read more »
57%
from 338 members
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Royal Flash
(1975)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Tom Bell, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate:
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1970s adventure comedy adapted for the screen by George MacDonald Fraser from his second novel following cowardly antihero Harry Flashman, here portrayed by Malcolm McDowell. Trying to find his way into the high society of 19th-century Europe, Captain Flashman is persuaded to pose as a Prussian ..read more »
64%
from 117 members
Due for release on 19th August 2013
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Royal Flash - Blu-ray
(1975)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Tom Bell, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Richard Lester
Certificate:
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In this unique and outrageous period comedy adapted from George MacDonald Fraser’s novel, Malcolm McDowell stars as a comic character come to life.
It is 19th Century Europe and Captain Harry Flashman (McDowell) is a gutless bully who seeks admission into European high society. Seeing a chance to
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59%
from 12 members
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In Celebration
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: James Bolam, Bill Owen, Brian Cox
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Part of Ely Landau's 1970s American Film Theatre series, this stage-to-screen production of David Storey's play is directed by Lindsay Anderson, and stars Alan Bates, Brian Cox and James Bolam as three brothers returning to the bleak Northern mining town where they grew up to celebrate their ..read more »
63%
from 183 members
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A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Alan Bates, Janet Suzman, Peter Bowles
Director: Peter Medak
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Alan Bates and Janet Suzman are Bri and Sheila, a teacher and his wife who have created a comic character for their mute, severely disabled daughter (the eponymous ‘Joe Egg’). The cracks in their marriage become apparent when uptight acquaintances (Peter Bowles and Sheila Gish) come to visit and ..read more »
64%
from 49 members
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The Three Sisters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Joan Plowright, Derek Jacobi, Laurence Olivier
Director: Laurence Olivier
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A direct filming of Laurence Olivier's stage version of Chekhov's play about compromise, dissatisfaction and broken dreams. Olga (Jeanne Watts), Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowright) are the three daughters of a deceased Russian General, who, along with their brother Andrei (Derek ..read more »
52%
from 91 members
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The Go-Between
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Edward Fox, Margaret Leighton
Director: Joseph Losey
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The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel about Leo Colston, a middle-aged man (Michael ..read more »
68%
from 1,494 member
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Three Sisters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Joan Plowright, Derek Jacobi, Laurence Olivier
Director: Laurence Olivier
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A direct filming of Laurence Olivier's stage version of Chekhov's play about compromise, dissatisfaction and broken dreams. Olga (Jeanne Watts), Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowright) are the three daughters of a deceased Russian General, who, along with their brother Andrei (Derek ..read more »
58%
from 199 members
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The Go-Between - Blu-ray
(1970)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Edward Fox, Margaret Leighton
Director: Joseph Losey
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Julie Christie stars in this screen adaptation of the classic novel by L.P. Hartley. A young teenage boy, Leo, is invited to a wealthy school friend's rich family estate and is drawn into a love affair between his friend's twenty-something sister, Marian, and the family neighbour, even though she ..read more »
64%
from 119 members
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Women In Love
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Michael Gough, Oliver Reed
Director: Ken Russell
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Women in Love is set in 1920s England, where free-spirited artist Gudrun (Glenda Jackson) and her schoolteacher sister Ursula (Jennie Linden) make the acquaintance of lifelong friends Gerald (Oliver Reed) and Rupert (Alan Bates). The foursome attends a picnic in honor of a pair of newlyweds, who ..read more »
62%
from 2,205 members
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Far from the Madding Crowd
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Terence Stamp
Director: John Schlesinger
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Julie Christie stars in adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 19th Century story of a woman's passion. Christie is in love with three very different men who are also in love with her: her first love is a handsome and wayward soldier; the second is the local noble Lord, and the third is an ever-patient ..read more »
71%
from 2,242 members
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Georgy Girl
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Bill Owen, Denise Coffey, Lynn Redgrave
Director: Silvio Narizzano
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Lynn Redgrave stars as a frumpy British lass who is content to live vicariously through her flatmate until her employer (James Mason), who is married, asks her to be his mistress. The film was considered controversial at the time of release and was nominated for four Oscars.
64%
from 676 members
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Zorba The Greek
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Lila Kedrova, Irene Papas
Director: Michael Cacoyannis
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An Englishman goes to Crete in order to open a family mine, and while there he comes across Zorba, a man with a sad past but a marvellous enthusiasm for life, which he tries to instill in the rather stuffy Englishman.
70%
from 1,126 member
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The Caretaker
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw, Alan Bates
Director: Clive Donner
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Clive Donner's film version of Harold Pinter's groundbreaking play. For reasons unclear, Aston (Robert Shaw) invites a tramp named Davies (Donald Pleasence) to come and work as the caretaker in his run-down East London home. Davies initially talks of retrieving some documents that will establish ..read more »
67%
from 684 members
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A Kind Of Loving
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Bolam, June Ritchie, Alan Bates
Director: John Schlesinger
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John Schlesinger's screen adaptation of Stan Barstow's 'kitchen-sink' novel tells a gritty story of love in an industrial Lancashire town. Draftsman Vic Brown (Alan Bates) sleeps with Ingrid (June Ritchie), a young typist who works at the same factory as him, but soon loses interest in her. When ..read more »
73%
from 1,430 member
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Whistle Down The Wind
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Bernard Lee, Hayley Mills, Alan Bates
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Bryan Forbes' first directorial effort is set in a rugged Lancashire farm community. Three impressionable children, played by Hayley Mills, Diane Holgate, and Alan Barnes, come across a bearded vagrant named Arthur Blakey (Alan Bates) sleeping in their barn. Upon awakening, the ill-tempered bum ..read more »
73%
from 1,405 member
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The Entertainer
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
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A tatty, ageing seaside performer is a failure as a family man and as an entertainer. Laurence Olivier plays the excruciating Archie Rice, with an ego that destroys the lives of those closest to him. Albert Finney and Alan Bates make their film debuts as his sons.
66%
from 702 members
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Alan Bennett At The BBC
(4 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Prunella Scales, Janet McTeer, Patricia Routledge
Director: John Schlesinger, Stephen Frears, Richard Eyre
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A selection of BBC plays and observational pieces written by celebrated playwright Alan Bennett. The collection includes: 'A Visit From Miss Prothero', 'Sunset Across the Bay', 'A Day Out', 'A Woman of No Importance', 'Our Winnie', 'An Englishman Abroad', 'Dinner at Noon', 'The Insurance Man', '102 ..read more »
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from 154 members
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Alan Bates facts
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... then. The filming is crisp and the acting superb. Look out for the scene where Alan Bates runs and skips down slippery cobbled roads and steps and ask yourself if a Dire...
