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Kathleen Byron
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Kathleen Byron - what members say
review by Leni from London
The backroom boys 1 November 2009
review by ChrisTiffer from London
The Blu Ray is.... 24 April 2009
review by A customer from West Yorkshire
Worth Watching 19 September 2008
Kathleen Byron - filmography
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Hedda Gabler
(1981)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Denis Lill, Philip Bond
Director: David Cunliffe
Certificate: 
Drama based on Henrik Ibsen's classic play. Diana Rigg stars as the beautiful but manipulative Hedda Gabler, the daughter of an aristocrat, who is bored with life and craves nothing more than the power to determine someone's fate. An opportunity to do this arrives in the form of an ex-lover.
 
22%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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The Moonstone
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Basil Dignam, Robin Ellis
Director: Paddy Russell
Certificate:
Originally broadcast in 1971 this detective drama series is based on the hugely popular novel by Wilkie Collins. Starring Robin Ellis and Colin Baker, the plot centres around The Moonstone, an Indian treasure given to Rachel Verrinder (Kathleen Byron) as an 18th birthday present. It has been stolen ..read more »
49%
from 243 members
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The Golden Bowl
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Daniel Massey, Jill Townsend, Gayle Hunnicutt
Certificate: 
BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel in which a damaged golden bowl plays a key role in exposing the artifice and fraudulence within a wealthy 19th century family. Italian prince Amerigo (Daniel Massey) is set to marry American heiress Maggie Verver (Jill Townsend), but this doesn't prevent him ..read more »
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Twins Of Evil
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Mary Collinson
Director: John Hough
Certificate: 
Classic Hammer Studios vampire tale. Starring stunning identical twins Mary and Madeleine Collinson as the "Twins of Evil". Both look exactly alike - which one was the twin of evil? Victims of a vampire curse lead to a witch-hunt headed by Peter Cushing, a fanatical Puritan leader of a bizarre ..read more »
65%
from 680 members
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Young Bess
(1953)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Stewart Granger, Charles Laughton
Director: George Sidney, george sidney (2)
Certificate:
The mother died under the executioner's axe; the daughter rose to become England's greatest monarch - the brilliant and cunning Queen Elizabeth I. Jean Simmons portrays young Bess in this rich tapestry of a film that traces the tumultuous, danger-fraught years from Elizabeth's birth to her ..read more »
80%
from 5 members
Currently unavailable
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Scarlet Thread
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Laurence Harvey, Sydney Tafler
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
1950s British crime drama directed by Lewis Gilbert. Petty criminal Freddie (Laurence Harvey) teams up with mob boss Marcon (Sydney Tafler) to pull off a jewellery heist but their attempt does not go to plan and the situation gets quickly out of hand. Harry Fowler, Kathleen Byron and Dora Bryan co-star.
52%
from 13 members
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Hell Is Sold Out
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Herbert Lom, Mai Zetterling
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate: 
The renowned French author Dominic Danges (Herbert Lom) returns from a prisoner of war camp with his old friend Pierre Bonnet (Richard Attenborough). Danges was missing, presumed dead, but when he turns up unannounced at his old house, he finds that not only has he unknowingly written a best-..read more »
57%
from 104 members
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The Small Back Room
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Jack Hawkins, Sid James
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressbu
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One of the lesser-known Powell and Pressburger collaborations. During the Second World War, scientist Sammy Rice (David Farrar) works at a British research unit set up to solve the enemy's methods of attack. Embittered after losing a foot in a bomb blast, Sammy is increasingly seeking solace in ..read more »
68%
from 652 members
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Black Narcissus
(1946)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Jenny Laird, Judith Furse
Director: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell
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British filmmakers Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger once again deliberately courted controversy and censorship with their 1947 adaptation of Rumer Godden's novel. Deborah Kerr and Kathleen Byron play the head nuns at an Anglican hospital/school high in the Himalayas. The nuns' well-ordered ..read more »
74%
from 2,511 members
Not available for rental
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The Mummy
(1932)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Director: Karl Freund
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The Mummy represented Boris Karloff's second horror starring role after his overnight success in Frankenstein. Brought back to life after nearly 3,700 years, Egyptian high priest Imhotep wreaks havoc upon the members of the British field exposition that disturbed his tomb (shades of the King Tut ..read more »
65%
from 860 members
Currently unavailable
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The Mummy - Blu-ray
(1932)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Boris Karloff, Edward Van Sloan
Director: Karl Freund
Certificate:
During a 1921 archaeological dig, the expedition members discover a sarcophagus in an unmarked grave. It in fact contains the mummy of priest Im-Ho-Tep (Boris Karloff), who was buried alive 3,700 years ago as a punishment for attempting to bring a vestal virgin he loved back to life. Returned to ..read more »
73%
from 33 members
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Kathleen Byron facts
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...in support roles. The leads were the relatively unknown (now) David Farrar and Kathleen Byron, who had worked together in Black Narcissus. Although there is a very tense upp...
