John Stratton

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The Cruel Sea review by from Wirral, Merseyside

Rewarding.and a wonderful homage to the WW2 Royal Navy Escort Service 31 March 2012
...nding officer who is both patient and critical when necessary. The other is John Stratton whose character of Ferraby is both carefully etched and compassionately extract... Read customer review

Backs To The Land - Series 3 on DVD (1978)
Starring: Marilyn Galsworthy, John Stratton, Philippa Howell
Director: John Davies
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John Stratton, Marilyn Galsworthy, Terese Stevens and Philippa Howell star in the War-era sitcom the follows the trials and tribulations of a couple of Land Girls who are sent to work on a farm. Features all the episodes from series three.

50% from 10 members

Backs To The Land - Series 1 - Complete on DVD (1977)
Starring: Philippa Howell, Terese Stevens, Marilyn Galsworthy
Director: David Askey
Certificate:
This release features the complete first series of BACKS TO THE LAND, the cult comedy programme from the late 70s starring Philippa Howell, Terese Stevens and Marilyn Galsworthy.

55% from 17 members

The Challenge on DVD (1960)
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Jayne Mansfield makes a departure from her usual roles to play tough girl Billy in this dark crime story. Set in London during the 1960s, the film casts Mansfield as the ringleader of a band of robbers. After a failed heist, her boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Quayle), is captured, but not before he ..read more »

61% from 17 members

Man In The Sky on DVD (1957)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Elizabeth Sellars, Jeremy Bodkin
Director: Charles Crichton
Certificate:
When an engine catches fire on the experimental rocket-propulsion plane that he is flying, test pilot John Mitchell (Jack Hawkins) defies an order to jettison the vehicle into the sea.

68% from 88 members

The Long Arm on DVD (1956)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.

73% from 272 members

The Cruel Sea on DVD (1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.

72% from 3,482 members

The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray (1953)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Stanley Baker, Denholm Elliott
Director: Charles Frend
Certificate:
An excellent documentary style film about a British ship in the North Atlantic during World War II. The hardships, loneliness and dangers of the sea are faithfully recreated. Academy Award Nominations: Best Screenplay.

74% from 105 members

Black Beauty - Series 1 - Complete
Starring: Judi Bowker, Roderick Shaw, Stephen Garlick
Director: Gerry Poulson, John Reardon, Ray Austin
Certificate:
Jenny, her stepdaughter Vicki, and Black Beauty, embark on a series of dramatic adventures that prove life is just as hard in the country as it is in the city.

70% from 19 members
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Backs To The Land - Series 3 - 2.5 stars
Backs To The Land - Series 1 - Complete - 3.0 stars
The Challenge - 3.0 stars
Man In The Sky - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars

The Cruel Sea - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars
The Cruel Sea - 3.5 stars
Man In The Sky - 3.5 stars
Black Beauty - Series 1 - Complete - 3.5 stars

Jack Hawkins - 4 times - show films
Meredith Edwards - 3 times - show films
Moira Lister - 2 times - show films
Denholm Elliott - 2 times - show films
Philippa Howell - 2 times - show films

Charles Frend - 3 times - show films
John Gilling - 2 times - show films
John Davies - 1 times - show films
John Reardon - 1 times - show films
Gerry Poulson - 1 times - show films