Rodney Bewes

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Billy Liar review by from London

British Comedy Classic 26 June 2005
...d fantasy sequences clearly influenced the Beatles' films which followed it and Rodney Bewes presence is almost a trial run for The Likely Lads TV series. Tom Courtney is m... Read customer review

Spring and Port Wine review by A customer from Staffordshire, England

A REAL SLICE OF ENGLISH FAMILY LIFE 28 January 2010
... that struck me. James Mason heads an excellent cast including: Diana Coupland, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon and Susan George : who would all go on to stardom in films or TV... Read customer review

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - Series 1 review by from Glasgow, Scotland

Classic British TV comedy 28 February 2007
...enre in the modern era. The combination of the enormously likeable James Bolam, Rodney Bewes and Brigit Forsyth in the main roles with the superb writing of Dick Clement an... Read customer review

Jabberwocky on DVD (1977)
Starring: John Le Mesurier, Rodney Bewes, Brenda Cowling
Director: Terry Gilliam
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Opening with a quote from Lewis Carroll's classic nonsensical poem, Terry Gilliam's JABBERWOCKY is a darkly comic medieval masterpiece about a monster wreaking havoc on helpless villages. Michael Palin stars as Dennis Cooper, a happy-go-lucky ne'er-do-well stock taker who becomes the unlikely hero ..read more »

61% from 3,088 members

The Likely Lads on DVD (1976)
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes, Brigit Forsyth
Director: Michael Tuchner
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The two lads from the much-loved 1960s television programme are back in their own feature film. The years have made Terry (James Bolam) and Bob (Rodney Bewes) more responsible...or have they?

71% from 705 members

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - S... (2 discs) on DVD (1974)
Starring: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth
Director: none
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The second - and final - series found Bob now married to Thelma. Dedicated to married life, the nine-to-five and the new-build-semi - it seems he has finally left Terry behind. After all what has he got in common with a work-shy, mayhem-making loudmouth - except the past?

80% from 472 members

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - T... on DVD (1973)
Starring: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam
Director: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais
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The very best episodes from the classic TV comedy. Six classic episodes are featured here: Stranger on a Train / Home is the Hero / Cold Feet / No Hiding / Place / Count Down / Boy Night In.

74% from 915 members

Dear Mother, Love Albert (1969)
Starring: Rodney Bewes, Garfield Morgan, Sheila White
Director: Derrick Goodwin, David Mallet
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This release brings together all the episodes from the series DEAR MOTHER, LOVE ALBERT, the cult TV programme featuring Rodney Bewes's signature comedic talent.

40% from 3 members
Not available for rental

Spring and Port Wine on DVD (1969)
Starring: James Mason, Susan George, Diana Coupland
Director: Peter Hammond
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A stern father and lenient mother try to deal with the ups and downs of their four children's lives in working class Bolton.

74% from 449 members

Billy Liar on DVD (1963)
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Director: John Schlesinger
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BILLY LIAR was an immediate sensation as first a novel, then a hit play--both written by Keith Waterhouse, who also served as screenwriter on the film. Director John Schlesinger's screen version was a British landmark in the fertile cinema of the late 1950s and early '60s, and launched the career ..read more »

69% from 3,783 members

Prize Of Arms on DVD (1962)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Tom Bell, Patrick Magee
Director: Cliff Owen
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Never in the history of crime was so much taken from so many by so few. A gang of criminals acquire an old army truck and try to pass themselves off as military policemen. Their plan is to steal a £250,000 payroll intended for soldiers in the Middle East. Turpin recruits Fenner and Swavek to make ..read more »

70% from 204 members

Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads - S... (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Rodney Bewes, James Bolam, Brigit Forsyth
Director: none
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Following on from the television series 'The Likely Lads (1964)' featuring two Geordie lads. Terry returns from serving in the Army and finds out that Bob is about to marry his girlfriend Thelma. Will Thelma be able to keep Bob on the straight and narrow or will Terry lead Bob back into their old ways?

77% from 655 members

The Likely Lads - Series 1 To 3 on DVD
Starring: James Bolam, Rodney Bewes
Director: none
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Features the seven surviving episodes from the original TV comedy series of 'The Likely Lads' following the lives of two Geordie lads, Terry Collier and Bob Ferris. In 'Entente Cordiale' the two boys come back from a holiday in the Costa Brava and find out that a French girl that they met on the ..read more »

69% from 944 members

Dear Mother, Love Albert - 2.0 stars
Jabberwocky - 3.0 stars
Billy Liar - 3.5 stars
The Likely Lads - Series 1 To 3 - 3.5 stars
Prize Of Arms - 3.5 stars

James Bolam - 9 times - show films
Brigit Forsyth - 7 times - show films
Finlay Currie - 2 times - show films
Wilfred Pickles - 2 times - show films
Mona Washbourne - 2 times - show films

none - 7 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 2 times - show films
Peter Hammond - 1 times - show films
Cliff Owen - 1 times - show films
Dick Clement - 1 times - show films