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John Laurie
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John Laurie - what members say
review by SolarvanMan from North Yorkshire
I've forgotten him & where I was going! 6 March 2005
review by A customer from Wonderland of England
A Mirror to Times Past 7 June 2005
review by from Croydon, England
Dad’s army 26 April 2006
John Laurie - filmography
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Dad's Army - Series 6
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
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All seven episodes from the sixth series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), who are defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, the platoon have to ..read more »
 
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Dad's Army - Series 5
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier
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All 13 episodes from the fifth series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), who are defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, the platoon get trapped in ..read more »
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from 1,424 member
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Dad's Army - Series 4
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
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Complete fourth series of the much-loved classic BBC sitcom, set amongst the incompetent members of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard during the Second World War. Led by the officious Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), the platoon are always poised to repel an invasion by the dreaded Nazi ..read more »
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from 1,939 member
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Dad's Army - Series 3
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2005)
Starring: Clive Dunn, James Beck, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
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Complete third series of the popular British television comedy, about the members of the Walmington-on-Sea Home Guard in the early years of the Second World War. In this series, Jones (Clive Dunn) lets the platoon use his butcher's van as a troop-carrier, Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) is furious when ..read more »
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from 2,134 members
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Dad's Army - The Movie
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn
Director: Norman Cohen
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When World War Two breaks out, the small seaside town of Walmington-on-Sea finds itself less than ably defended by the elderly and inept members of Captain Mainwaring's (Arthur Lowe) home guard unit. Put on manoeuvres by a visiting Major-General, Mainwaring's men manage to bungle one task after ..read more »
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Dad's Army - Series 7
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Clive Dunn, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier
Director: David Croft
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All six episodes from the seventh series of the BBC wartime comedy classic, about a bumbling platoon of Home Guard soldiers led by the pompous Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe), who are defending the sleepy village of Walmington-on-Sea in the Second World War. In this series, Mainwaring puts the ..read more »
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from 1,033 member
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Dad's Army - The Very Best Of Dad's Army...
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, James Beck
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Five episodes from the popular BBC comedy series about the Walmington-On-Sea Home Guard. In 'No Spring for Frazer', Frazer loses the spring from Captain Mainwaring's machine gun. 'Mum's Army' sees Captain Mainwaring recruiting womenfolk into the regiment, while in 'Menace from the Deep', the ..read more »
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from 1,334 member
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Dad's Army - Series 1 And 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Bill Pertwee, Clive Dunn, James Beck
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All nine surviving episodes from Series 1 and 2 of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's classic BBC wartime comedy based around the Home Guard in Walmington-on-Sea. In 'The Man and the Hour', bank manager Captain Mainwaring (Arhtur Lowe) is put in charge of Walmington-on-Sea's new Local Defence Volunteers ..read more »
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from 3,029 members
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Kidnapped
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Bernard Lee, Finlay Currie
Director: Robert Stevenson
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This film keeps close to the original story by Robert Louis Stevenson about a young boy and his adventures in Scotland at the time of the Jacobite Rebellion. Starring Peter Finch and James MacArthur.
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from 210 members
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The Great Game
(1953)
Starring: James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors
Director: Maurice Elvey
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The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.
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Floodtide
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Rona Anderson, Gordon Jackson, John Laurie
Director: Frederick Wilson
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Late 1940s British romantic drama. Farmer's son David Shields (Gordon Jackson) gets a job with a shipping company, despite his father's wish for him to carry on the family business. While progressing through the ranks at the shipyard, David falls for his boss's daughter, Mary Anstruther (Rona ..read more »
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from 28 members
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier directs and stars in this adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Hamlet (Olivier), Prince of Denmark, is still mourning over the death of his father and his mother Gertrude's (Eileen Herlie) subsequent remarriage to Hamlet's despised uncle, Claudius (Basil Sydney), who is now ..read more »
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from 60 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Watch now: Unavailable
Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval ..read more »
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from 1,852 member
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The Brothers
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Maxwell Reed, Patricia Roc, Will Fyffe
Director: David MacDonald
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Orphan Mary Lawson (Patricia Roc) arrives on a remote Scottish island in 1900 to work as servant to the unwelcoming Macrae family. She is warned to avoid the Macraes' sworn enemies, the MacFarishes, but becomes friendly with Will MacFarish (Andrew Crawford). When Will pesters Mary, Fergus Macrae (..read more »
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from 21 members
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The Way Ahead
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway
Director: Carol Reed
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Carol Reed directs a host of British stars in this documentary-style WW2 adventure. Following the Dunkirk retreat, Lt. Jim Perry (David Niven) is assigned a bunch of raw recruits and sets about transforming them from bickering civilians into a proficient battle-ready fighting force. When training ..read more »
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from 808 members
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The Four Feathers
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, C. Aubrey Smith, Allan Jeayes
Director: Zoltan Korda
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Classic British adventure story of Harry Feversham (John Clements), a British officer, who resigns his commission on the eve of a battle in the Sudan. He is then given four white feathers by his friends and fiancée as a symbol of cowardice. Determined to win back his honour, Feversham exposes ..read more »
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from 623 members
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Jericho
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Frederick Cooper, George Barraud, Frank Cram
Director: Thornton Freeland
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Drama in which a First World War US soldier, forced to desert the army, finds a new life for himself in an African tribe. Corporal Jericho Jackson (Paul Robeson) is ordered to attend a court-martial after an unfortunate incident when he disobeyed a direct order to try and save a number of his ..read more »
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from 10 members
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The Edge Of The World
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Eric Berry, Belle Chrystall, Finlay Currie
Director: Michael Powell
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What happens when the people of a lonely, windswept island can no longer survive as a community ? This Drama/Documentary examines the hardships of such a life and the decisions they must make, whether to stay where their families have worked & died to establish this hard-working community or to ..read more »
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from 898 members
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As You Like It
on DVD
(1936)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Bergner, Sophie Stewart
Director: Paul Czinner
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Laurence Olivier and Elisabeth Bergner star in Shakespearian comedy. Filmed in England in 1936 when Olivier was still considered a promising young actor rather than one of the finest thespians ever, as he would later become, this is his first filmed Shakespeare performance and thus a milestone in ..read more »
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from 72 members
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The 39 Steps - Blu-ray
(1935)
Starring: Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Helen Haye
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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Alfred Hitchcock's most celebrated British thriller, adapted from John Buchan's novel. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat) becomes the victim of mistaken identity when a female corpse is dumped in his flat by a spy ring. He tries to track down the true murderers whilst being pursued by the police, and ..read more »
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from 470 members
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The 39 Steps
on DVD
(1935)
Starring: Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle, Helen Haye
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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This classic British thriller was one of Alfred Hitchcock's first major international successes, and it introduced a number of the stylistic and thematic elements that became hallmarks of his later work. Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), a Canadian rancher on vacation in England, attends a music hall ..read more »
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John Laurie facts
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... love story, but well acted, and with a great cast including Scottish Stalwarts John Laurie & Finlay Currie. A nice DVD transfer and some spectacular scenery all help to g...
