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Richard Todd
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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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House Of The Long Shadows
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: John Carradine, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing
Director: Pete Walker
Certificate: 
B-list horror featuring appearances from some of the stars of the genre, Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing and John Carradine. A young writer, Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz Jnr), is dared by his mischievous publisher, Sam Allyson (Richard Todd), to head to a remote country house and write a ..read more »
 
68%
from 56 members
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, James Donald
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Another outing for American private eye Philip Marlowe. While in London Marlowe is called upon by General Sternwood who is being blackmailed over his daughter Camilla's gambling debts. The mystery deepens when the gun-running husband of Sternwood's other daughter, Charlotte goes missing, and ..read more »
51%
from 823 members
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Asylum
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
Classic British horror anthology. Dr Martin (Robert Powell) is sent to Dunsmore Manor, a home for the horifically insane, with the task of locating the asylum's former administrator. Rounding up some of the most demented inmates the hospital has to offer, Martin interviews each of them one at a ..read more »
63%
from 576 members
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The Boys
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Richard Todd, Robert Morley, Ronald Lacey
Director: Sidney J. Furie
Certificate: 
Made in 1962, this British social-conscience drama is directed by Sidney J. Furie. When the night watchman of a London garage is found murdered, four working class teenagers are put on trial for the crime. Under cross-examination in court, suspects and witnesses give their various accounts of the ..read more »
71%
from 68 members
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Never Let Go
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Richard Todd, Carol White
Director: John Guillermin
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
Richard Todd plays John Cummings, an unsuccessful toiletry salesman who buys a very expensive car to sell and change the direction of his career. He does not have enough money to insure the car, and when it is stolen by a professional gang, led by Lionel (Peter Sellers), Cummings vows to hunt down ..read more »
64%
from 393 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 278 members
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Intent to Kill
(1958)
Starring: Betsy Drake, Herbert Lom, Richard Todd
Director: Jack Cardiff
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Vicki Stewart (Traci Lords) grows up on the wrong side of the tracks, becoming a victim of her abusive father and the local crimelords. Accompanied by her martial artist friend, she is determined to take down those who have terrorized her in the past, allowing her to escape from the ghetto.
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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 155 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.
53%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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Chase A Crooked Shadow
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Faith Brook, Richard Todd, Alexander Knox
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate: 
Richard Todd stars as Ward Prescott, a man who turns up at the Costa Brava house of an heiress (Anne Baxter), whose father has recently committed suicide and whose brother was seemingly killed in an accident. Prescott claims to be her dead brother but she is not convinced, despite all the evidence ..read more »
69%
from 209 members
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The Dam Busters
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Derek Farr, Basil Sydney
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 8,279 members
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The Dam Busters - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Derek Farr, Basil Sydney
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
The true story of Dr Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave), whose invention of the 'Bouncing Bomb' is greeted with scepticism in the Second World War. However, RAF Wing Commander Guy Gibson proves the bomb's worth in a daring mission to destroy the German Ruhr Dams. Also starring Richard Todd and Ursula ..read more »
80%
from 509 members
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The Elstree Story
(1952)
Starring: Richard Todd
Certificate:
Actor Richard Todd presents this documentary on the iconic Elstree Studios, where many classic English films were made between 1927 and the programme's recording in the 1950s. As well as relating the history of the studios, situated near the towns of Borehamwood and Elstree in Hertfordshire, the ..read more »
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Not available for rental
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Venetian Bird
(1952)
Starring: Richard Todd, Eva Bartok, John Gregson
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
Private detective Edward Mercer goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazza San ..read more »
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Due for release on 9th September 2013
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The Hasty Heart
(1949)
Starring: Ronald Reagan, Patricia Neal, Richard Todd
Director: Vincent Sherman
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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 »
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from 11 members
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House of the Long Shadows
(1938)
Starring: Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing
Director: Pete Walker
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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 13 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 578 members
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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'...
