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Richard Todd
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Richard Todd - what members say
review by from Kent
Shines despite its seediness! 28 November 2004
review by from Lancashire
A Great Classic War Film 19 May 2005
review by from York, England
Underrated Hitchcock well worth watching 19 October 2005
Richard Todd - filmography
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
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A faithful remake of the 1946 original in which private eye Philip Marlowe finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.
 
51%
from 773 members
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Asylum
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
Four tales of terror are revealed to a new doctor by four mental asylum inmates. Each tale leads to a puzzling mystery which is solved during the final tale.
62%
from 522 members
Not currently released
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The Boys
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Ronald Lacey, Robert Morley, Richard Todd
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Certificate: 
Director Sidney J. Furie was betwixt and between his Canadian TV work and his theatrical-film prominence vis-a-vis THE IMPCRESS FILE (65) when he helmed the British social melodrama The Boys. The title characters are four youths, all implicated in the murder of a night watchman. Robert Morley plays ..read more »
70%
from 50 members
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Never Let Go
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Richard Todd, Peter Sellers, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: John Guillermin
Certificate: 
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The life of a timid cosmetics salesman (Richard Todd) is thoroughly altered after he decides to track down the thieves who stole his car. In his first dramatic role, Peter Sellers plays the criminal mastermind behind a tough gang.
63%
from 346 members
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The Long And The Short And The Tall
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Richard Todd, Richard Harris
Director: Leslie Norman
Certificate:
Seven British soldiers are trapped behind Japanese lines during World War II. During the long days and dangerous Malayan jungle nights, tempers are short and the tension is high. A vivid and stark portrayal of a British patrol unit from the director of Dunkirk and producer Michael Balcon.
62%
from 254 members
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Saint Joan
(1957)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, John Gieldgud
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate: 
Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
52%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Yangtse Incident
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Richard Todd, William Hartnell, Akim Tamiroff
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
HMS Amethyst is on a peaceful mission up the Yangtse delivering supplies when she is attacked by communist shore batteries and twenty-two British sailors are killed and the ship's bridge destroyed. The only way out for the survivors is to run a one hundred and forty mile gauntlet of hostility.
76%
from 125 members
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Chase A Crooked Shadow
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Richard Todd, Anne Baxter, Herbert Lomas
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate: 
Set in a seaside villa in Spain a young man arrives claiming to be the brother of the South African diamond heiress living there. He had been, supposedly, killed in a car crash but the local police find his papers in order and he seems to know the family history intimately...
69%
from 181 members
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The Virgin Queen
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Joan Coliins, Richard Todd, Jay Robinson
Director: Henry Koster
Certificate:
Bette Davis gives her second memorable performance as Queen Elizabeth I in this swashbuckling historical drama that also features Joan Collins in an early screen performance. It's the story of the ageing Queen's attraction to handsome Sir Walter Raleigh (Richard Todd) and her bitter clash with a ..read more »
62%
from 249 members
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The Dam Busters
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Richard Todd, Michael Redgrave, Ursula Jeans
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the bouncing bombs in World War II. Michael Redgrave stars as Dr. Barnes Wallis, who developed these unorthodox explosives. Wallis' invention is put to practical use during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams in Germany. ..read more »
73%
from 8,049 members
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The Hasty Heart
(1949)
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
Director: Vincent Sherman
Certificate:
It's 1945, Burma, the day the war is over. For many this means they've survived and will be going home. But not for everyone. A Scottish soldier, Corporal Lachlan "Lachie" MacLachlan is the victim of a wound to the lower back on this day. He's moved to a M.A.S.H. unit and undergoes surgery. As time ..read more »
31%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
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House of the Long Shadows
(1938)
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Pete Walker
Certificate:
An American writer goes to a remote Welsh manor on a $20,000 bet: can he write a classic novel like "Wuthering Heights" in twenty-four hours? Upon his arrival, however, the writer discovers that the manor, thought empty, actually has several, rather odd, inhabitants.
70%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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The D-Day Sixth Of June
on DVD
Starring: Robert Taylor, May Britt, Richard Todd
Director: Henry Koster, Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
In this electrifying film, Robert Taylor portrays Captain Brad Parker, an American officer on the front lines on June 6. 1944, D-Day, when 3,000,000 men, 11,000 planes and 4,000 ships will come together to invade Normandy and determine the world's future. And since Parker and his commander (Richard ..read more »
57%
from 562 members
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Second World War - Vol. 20 - On A Wing A...
on DVD
Starring: Richard Todd
Certificate: 
Two features. 'On A Wing And A Prayer' documents the plight of the RAF Bomber Command during the conflict. 'The Guinea Pig Club' explores the demands for plastic surgical treatment for badly burnt aircrew.
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from 50 members
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Richard Todd facts
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...ed, and lovingly constructed, with very little that I felt was superfluous.
Richard Todd stars as a man whose life crumbles around him when his car is 'stolen to order'...
