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Sam - Series 1 - Part 1 (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
Starring: Kevin Moreton, Barbara Ewing, Ray Smith
Director: Baz Taylor, Alan Grint, Stephen Butcher
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Set in 1934, Sam Wilson's mother Dora leaves her husband and takes Sam away to the Yorkshire mining village of Skellerton. Her family are already very poor and two more mouths to feed put extra pressure on them. The series tells of Sam's new life, adjusting to a new school, a new dad and a trip to ..read more »

63% from 618 members

Sam - Series 1 - Part 3 (2 discs) on DVD (1973)
Starring: Kevin Moreton, Barbara Ewing, Ray Smith
Director: Baz Taylor, Alan Grint, Stephen Butcher
Certificate:
The final four episodes of the 1930s set drama series SAM. Sam's mother Dora dies in childbirth and Sam is sent to Boarding School, but ultimately gets a job down the pit with his grandfather. Contains the episodes: "Where the Heart Is", "Home from Home", "No Going Back" and "Breadwinners."

72% from 129 members

Hadleigh - Series 2 - Complete (1971)
Starring: Gerald Harper, Jane Merrow, Michael Goodliffe
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Yorkshire TV drama featuring the travails of eligible bachelor, James Hadleigh as he contends with his career, romances and vast fortune.

30% from 8 members
Not available for rental

The Gorgon on DVD (1964)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Richard Pasco, Barbara Shelley
Director: Terence Fisher
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Classic Hammer horror, in which residents of a middle-Europe village are being found petrified into stone. Academics arrive to solve the mystery and find themselves face to face with Medusa herself.

63% from 215 members

633 Squadron on DVD (1964)
Starring: George Chakiris, Maria Perschy, Cliff Robertson
Director: Walter Grauman
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Cliff Robertson portrays a combat-weary pilot whose R.A.F. squadron is ordered to destroy a Nazi rocket fuel plant tucked deep into a Norwegian fjord. Based on a true story.

68% from 2,800 members

The Day The Earth Caught Fire (1961)
Starring: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Bernard Braden
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
When the Americans test a nuclear weapon at the South Pole at the exact moment that the Soviets are testing their own weapon at the North, the earth's axis is jolted out of alignment, causing catastrophic changes in global weather patterns. Additionally, the earth has been dislodged from its orbit, ..read more »

67% from 1,727 member
Not available for rental

No Love For Johnnie on DVD (1961)
Starring: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Based on a novel by Wilfred Fienburgh, this is the story of a British Member of Parliament whose public and private lives are in a shambles. Portrayed by Peter Finch, but supported by an eclectic cast of stereotypical politicians, the protagonist has his hands full trying to keep the important ..read more »

68% from 33 members

Camp On Blood Island on DVD (1958)
Starring: Michael Goodliffe, Barbara Shelley, Andre Morell
Director: Val Guest
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A Hammer production. As World War II reaches its end, a group of men, women and children, trapped by the Japanese invasion, are held captive in the Blood Island prison camp, under the sadistic command of Yamamitsu, who shoots prisoners for sport, and who has told his prisoners that he will kill ..read more »

68% from 71 members

Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
The moving and dramatic story of Violette Szabo (McKenna), a courageous WW2 secret agent who was captured in northern France... Carve Her Name With Pride is the inspiring true life story of Violette Szabo. During World War II, Violette (Virgina McKenna) volunteers to parachute into France as a ..read more »

72% from 428 members
Not available for rental

A Night To Remember on DVD (1957)
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Honor Blackman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
A Night To Remember / The Making Of A Night To Remember DVD contains the 1958 film--directed by Roy Baker and based on the novel by Walter Lord--and a "making of" documentary about the movie's production. "A Night to Remember" tells the tragic tale of the maiden voyage of the Titanic in a semi-..read more »

73% from 962 members

The One That Got Away (1957)
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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This taut war film, based on actual fact, tells of the daring escape attempts of a captured German ace pilot, Fran Von Werra. After being taken to Britain, Von Werra was the only German prisoner to successfully escape and make it back to his homeland.

63% from 373 members
Not available for rental

A Night To Remember - Blu-ray (1957)
Starring: Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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"A Night to Remember" tells the tragic tale of the maiden voyage of the Titanic in a semi-documentary style, through the eyes of the ship's second officer, Herbert Lightoller, whose duties provided him with a unique perspective of the everyday goings-on aboard the huge ocean liner. An excellent ..read more »

72% from 33 members

The End Of The Affair on DVD (1955)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, the clandestine lover of married Briton Sarah Miles ..read more »

64% from 141 members

Cry, The Beloved Country on DVD (1951)
Starring: Canada Lee, Charles Carson, Sidney Poitier
Director: Zoltan Korda
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A South-African preacher goes to search for his wayward son who has committed a crime in the big city.

60% from 60 members

Sam - Series 3 - Part 1 (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Mark McManus, Jennifer Hilary, Michael Goodliffe
Director: Michael Cox, Quentin Lawrence, Les Chatfield
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The first five episodes of the third series of the ITV drama set in the North West of England in the 1950s. Sam turns down a promotion, George is killed in an accident at the foundry and family finances are not as they seemed. Episodes include: 'God Sent Sunday', 'In The Midst Of Plenty', '..read more »

63% from 155 members

Sam - Series 2 - Part 1 (2 discs) on DVD
Starring: Mark McManus, Michael Goodliffe, Frank Mills
Director: Baz Taylor, Alan Grint, Les Chatfield
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The war is over and Sam is a young man. He is unhappy working in the pit and has no respect for Alan Dakin, his mother's ex-lover, whose house he lives in. When his Grandfather dies he leaves Sam some property and appoints him trustee for his father. Nobody knows Sam's father Harry's whereabouts, ..read more »

70% from 300 members

Michael Goodliffe facts

5 most recent films

Sam - Series 1 - Part 1 - 3.0 stars
Sam - Series 1 - Part 3 - 3.5 stars
Hadleigh - Series 2 - Complete - 1.5 stars
The Gorgon - 3.0 stars
633 Squadron - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

A Night To Remember - 3.5 stars
Sam - Series 1 - Part 3 - 3.5 stars
Carve Her Name With Pride - 3.5 stars
Sam - Series 2 - Part 1 - 3.5 stars
633 Squadron - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Hadleigh - Series 2 - Complete - 1.5 stars
No Love For Johnnie - 3.5 stars
A Night To Remember - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Cry, The Beloved Country - 3.0 stars
The One That Got Away - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alethea Charlton - 4 times - show films
Maggie Jones - 4 times - show films
Kenneth More - 3 times - show films
Ray Smith - 3 times - show films
Frank Mills - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Baz Taylor - 9 times - show films
Alan Grint - 9 times - show films
Stephen Butcher - 6 times - show films
Les Ch - 6 times - show films
Les Chatfield - 6 times - show films