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Lillian Gish
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Lillian Gish - what members say
review by hammer99 from Chelmsford, England
Masterpiece with dodgy message 25 January 2005
review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
Broken Blossoms 27 May 2008
review by A customer from Preston
Charles Laughton - genius! 14 November 2008
Lillian Gish - filmography
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Never Apologize
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Alan Bates
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
Certificate: 
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The documentary of Malcolm McDowell's celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature.
Directed by Mike Kaplan, whose friendship with McDowell began on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and who produced Anderson's last ..read more »
 
59%
from 275 members
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Sweet Liberty
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Alan Alda, Bob Hoskins, Saul Rubinek
Director: Alan Alda
Certificate: 
A history professor's life and peaceful college town are turned upside down when a film crew turns up to make a movie out of his best-selling novel about the American Revolution.
59%
from 148 members
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The Unforgiven
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Audrey Hepburn, Audie Murphy
Director: John Huston
Certificate: 
One of Hollywood's most famous and acclaimed directors, John Huston guides this western with an unerring hand -- the cast of notable stars is no drawback either. Setting up the story with a series of suspenseful scenes, Huston has a mysterious stranger on horseback come into a small community in ..read more »
58%
from 588 members
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Orders To Kill
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish
Director: Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
ORDERS TO KILL is a psychological drama about a young American bomber pilot (played by Paul Massie , winner of the Most Promising Newcomer to Film Award at the 1959 BAFTA Film Awards) who is sent to Nazi-occupied France to kill a Paris lawyer (Eddie Albert – ROMAN HOLIDAY) believed to be betraying ..read more »
65%
from 87 members
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The Night of the Hunter
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Director: Charles Laughton
Certificate:
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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 7,399 members
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Portrait Of Jennie
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore
Director: William Dieterle
Certificate: 
In Portrait of Jennie, Joseph Cotten plays an artist, Eben Adams, who is unable to bring any true feeling to his work. While painting in Central Park one morning, Eben makes the acquaintance of a schoolgirl named Jennie (Jennifer Jones), who prattles on about things that happened years ago. ..read more »
68%
from 398 members
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Duel In The Sun
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotten
Director: King Vidor
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Dubbed 'Lust in the Dust' by Hollywood wags and, at $5 million, the most expensive film made up to that time, DUEL IN THE SUN stars Jennifer Jones as Pearl Chavez, a stunning young mixed-race woman. After her father's death, she's taken in by distant relative Laura Belle McCanles (Lillian Gish), ..read more »
58%
from 468 members
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Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)
Starring: Paul Muni, Anna Lee, Lillian Gish
Director: John Farrow
Certificate: 
During World War II, simple Norwegian fisherman Erik Toresen (Paul Muni) finds his peaceful village under siege by the Nazis. After an elderly villager is tortured by the invaders, Toresen mobilizes the members of his community villagers and leads them on their way to becoming a fierce troop to be ..read more »
41%
from 7 members
Currently unavailable
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Orphans of the Storm
(1921)
Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish
Director: D. W. Griffiths
Certificate:
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Henriette and Louise, a foundling, are raised together as sisters. When Louise goes blind, Henriette swears to take care of her forever. They go to Paris to see if Louise's blindness can be cured, but are separated when an aristocrat lusts after Henriette and abducts her. Only Chevalier de Vaudrey ..read more »
59%
from 48 members
Not available for rental
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Way Down East
(1920)
Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman
Director: D.W. Griffith
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Innocent Anna (Lillian Gish, in a terrific performance) is sent by her poverty-stricken mother to visit rich relations in Boston, where she is seduced into a sham marriage by a smooth-talking scoundrel (Lowell Sherman). When she becomes pregnant, he abandons her; later, the baby dies. Now a social ..read more »
66%
from 251 members
Currently unavailable
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Broken Blossoms
on DVD
(1919)
Starring: Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess
Director: D.W. Griffith
Certificate:
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This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An ideological Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed "sons ..read more »
64%
from 503 members
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Intolerance
on DVD
(1916)
Starring: Constance Talmadge, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish
Director: D.W. Griffith
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Silent film director D.W. Griffith's biggest, most ambitious spectacle uses stories from different times and places to illustrate humanity's intolerance of religious differences throughout the ages. The most visually impressive of these chronicles is the fall of Babylon, for which Griffith built ..read more »
65%
from 783 members
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The Birth of a Nation
on DVD
(1915)
Starring: Lillian Gish, Walter Long, Erich Von Stroheim
Director: D.W. Griffith
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The most successful and artistically advanced film of its time, The Birth of a Nation has also sparked protests, riots, and divisiveness since its first release. The film tells the story of the Civil War and its aftermath, as seen through the eyes of two families. The Stonemans hail from the North, ..read more »
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from 1,786 member
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...at it is a gripping film with astonishing scope and ambition. It?s female lead, Lillian Gish (much later to be seen in the classic ?Night of the Hunter?), just has to be on...
