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Claire Bloom
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Claire Bloom - what members say
review by from Sutton Ely Cambs
Excellent 27 February 2005
review by A customer from UK
Customer Review 23 June 2008
review by Severian67 from Gillingham, Dorset, England
Whose hand was I holding? 7 August 2007
Claire Bloom - filmography
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Daylight - HD
(1996)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya
Director: Rob Cohen
Certificate: 
An explosive traffic accident traps hundreds of commuters in a collapsing tunnel beneath the icy waters of the Hudson River. With the river bearing down on them, the panicked survivors struggle to free themselves. Only Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone), the shamed former head of Emergency Medical ..read more »
 
62%
from 229 members
Not currently released
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Daylight
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya
Director: Rob Cohen
Certificate:
Sylvester Stallone comes to the rescue in this disaster/adventure picture. A truck containing dangerous chemicals explodes in the Holland Tunnel, trapping those New Yorkers not killed in the explosion. Authorities know there are survivors, but cannot figure out what to do to save them. Ruptured ..read more »
60%
from 7,341 members
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Daylight - Blu-ray
(1996)
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Amy Brenneman, Dan Hedaya
Director: Rob Cohen
Certificate:
An explosive traffic accident traps hundreds of commuters in a collapsing tunnel beneath the icy waters of the Hudson River. With the river bearing down on them, the panicked survivors struggle to free themselves. Only Kit Latura (Sylvester Stallone), the shamed former head of Emergency Medical ..read more »
65%
from 67 members
Not available for rental
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A Joanna Trollope - Village Affair
(1995)
Starring: Sophie Ward, Kerry Fox, Nathanial Parker
Director: Moira Armstrong
Certificate: 
Alice Jordan's life is perfect with a handsome husband, three lovely children and a house set in the heart of an English village - perfect, that is, except for one thing. She lacks a perfect love to make her feel alive, but when she finds it, it is not in the arms of another man... Based on the ..read more »
57%
from 773 members
Not currently released
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Mighty Aphrodite
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: F. Murray Abraham, Woody Allen, Claire Bloom
Director: Woody Allen
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MIGHTY APHRODITE is Woody Allen's stab at Greek comedy/tragedy, and it is wildly successful. Allen stars as Lenny Weinrib, a sportswriter married to ambitious Amanda Sloan (Helena Bonham Carter), who desperately wants her own art gallery in New York City and is willing to play the game to get it. ..read more »
66%
from 4,830 members
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Remember
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Donna Mills, Stephen Collins, Derek de Lint
Director: John Herzfeld
Certificate:
News reporter Nicky Wells is shocked when she discovers her former fiance, who apparently committed suicide just before their wedding, is alive and living in Barcelona and involved with an international terrorist gang. This discovery could cost Nicky her life. She teams up with a photographer in ..read more »
57%
from 148 members
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Crimes And Misdemeanors
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Martin Landau, Claire Bloom, Anjelica Huston
Director: Woody Allen
Certificate:
In CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, Judah Rosenthal is a successful ophthalmologist who is having an affair with Dolores. Dolores threatens to reveal their relationship unless Judah commits to her and leaves his wife. He admits his sin to Ben, a friend, a patient, and a learned rabbi who is losing his ..read more »
70%
from 6,149 members
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The Lady And The Highwayman
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom
Director: John Hough
Certificate: 
Set in the turbulent 17th Century reign of King Charles II, this film tells of Lady Panthea Vyre who has attracted the attention of the King and the eye of the folk hero and highwayman, Silver Blade, who, unknown to her, is really a relative of hers and rightful heir to the family estate and title. ..read more »
51%
from 243 members
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Queenie
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Mia Sara, Joel Grey
Director: Larry Peerce
Certificate:
Based on the best-seller by Michael Korda, this epic tells of a young woman who rose from the slums of Calcutta to the heights of Hollywood, only to be tormented by her turbulent past.
60%
from 90 members
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Shadowlands
(1985)
Starring: Claire Bloom, Alan MacNaughton, David Waller
Director: Norman Stone
Certificate:
The original BBC production of this dramatic film which enters the private world of the legendary C.S. Lewis and tells the poignant, tragic story of his relationship with Joy Davidman, an American poet. Winner of two British Academy Awards and an international Emmy.
68%
from 16 members
Currently unavailable
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Florence Nightingale
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jaclyn Smith, Claire Bloom, Jeremy Brett
Director: Daryl Duke
Certificate:
The True Story Of the Mother of Modern Nursing. Jaclyn Smith stars as Florence Nightingale in this stirring drama. Florence was an aristocratic woman who defied Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is know today. After volunteering to travel to ..read more »
50%
from 6 members
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Clash of the Titans - Blu-ray
(1981)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Full of pride, Cassiopeia compares her daughter's beauty to that of Hera. Angered, the queen of the gods has Poseidon unleash the monstrous beast Craken to destroy their village unless Cassiopeia's daughter, Andromeda, is sacrificed. Perseus, the son of Zeus, becomes enchanted with the breathtaking ..read more »
66%
from 905 members
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Clash of the Titans
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
You've visited lands where a Cyclops roams (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), skeletons duel (Jason and the Argonauts) and cowboys lasso dinosaurs (The Valley of Gwangi). They are the worlds of Ray Harryhausen, the stop motion effects master who creates another dazzling realm in Clash of the Titans.
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71%
from 3,995 members
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Henry VIII
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Claire Bloom, Timothy West, Julian Glover
Director: Kevin Billington
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Henry is a ..read more »
62%
from 122 members
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Wessex Tales
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Nick Brimble, Ben Cross, Jane Asher
Director: Gavin Millar, Michael Tuchner
Certificate:
This six-part collection of adaptations of the works of Thomas Hardy. Originally broadcast in the UK in 1973, was Hardy's THE WITHERED ARM. Subsequent episodes include FELLOW TOWNSMAN, A TRAGEDY OF TWO AMBITIONS, (with John Hurt), AN IMAGINATIVE WOMAN, THE MELANCHOLY HUSSAR, and the series finale ..read more »
64%
from 43 members
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A Severed Head
(1970)
Starring: Lee Remick, Richard Attenborough, Ian Holm
Director: Dick Clement
Certificate: 
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin ..read more »
20%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Charly
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom, Lilia Skala
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Robertson delivers a heartbreaking performance as a retarded man who gains super intelligence from an experimental procedure, only to experience his newfound grasp of the world slowly ebbing away. Bloom also fine as the caseworker who loses her heart to her charge. Based on Daniel Keyes's FLOWERS ..read more »
54%
from 323 members
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The Haunting
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Director: Robert Wise
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One of the most highly regarded haunted house films ever produced, Robert Wise's The Haunting (based on Shirley Jackson's novel The Haunting of Hill House) weaves the dark tale of a questionably sane young woman and a sinister house which holds a terrifying past. Invited to join anthropologist Dr. ..read more »
69%
from 2,765 members
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Anna Karenina
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Sean Connery, Claire Bloom, Albert Lieven
Director: Rudolph Cartier
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Sean Connery and Claire Bloom star in the BBC's triumphant 1961 adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's romantic masterpiece. When the beautiful young aristocrat Anna Karenina (Claire Bloom) meets the dashing Country Vronsky (Sean Connery) at a Moscow railway station, their first meeting is overshadowed by ..read more »
56%
from 43 members
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Look Back In Anger
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ..read more »
69%
from 288 members
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The Brothers Karamazov
(1958)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Maria Schell, Claire Bloom
Director: Richard Brooks
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Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov is given a Hollywood screen treatment by producer Pandro S. Berman and director Richard Brooks. Yul Brynner plays Dmitri Karamazov, a callous Russian officer who cuckolds his domineering father (Lee J. Cobb) with the old man's mistress Grushenka (Maria ..read more »
50%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Alexander The Great
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, Barry Jones
Director: Robert Rossen
Certificate: 
The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While ..read more »
53%
from 538 members
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Richard III
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Soon after Edward IV is crowned King, his brother, Richard, a hunchback, twisted in mind as well as body, starts scheming for the throne of England. He woos and wins Lady Anne and then poisons Edward's mind against their brother, Clarence, later organising his death. But even after his coronation, ..read more »
64%
from 834 members
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Charlie Chaplin - Limelight
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Claire Bloom, Buster Keaton
Director: Charlie Chaplin
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London, 1914. Calvero (Charles Chaplin), a once-great music hall comedian, weaves drunkenly home to his shabby flat. As he arrives home, he is suddenly sobered by a bad smell. It isn't his shoes, as he originally assumes, but the smell of gas, emanating from behind a locked door. Calvero smashes ..read more »
66%
from 746 members
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...le digital restoration but Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson and Claire Bloom made renting this movie the bargain of the year for me. Yes this film did remin...
