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Donald Pleasence
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Donald Pleasence - what members say
review by ukphonebookdotcom from York
It's all in the cast... 15 October 2009
review by from Chester, England
Don't rent - not as described 18 January 2005
review by TonyBrooks from Hastings
Barchester revisited 19 June 2005
Donald Pleasence - filmography
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Shadows And Fog
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Fred Gwynne, Julie Kavner, Madonna
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's black-and-white curiosity piece is a mixture of influences -- from German silent film expressionism to Franz Kafka's nightmare worlds to the contemporary fables of Wim Wenders. Woody Allen plays the nebbish clerk Kleinman (in a throwback to his characters from Sleeper and Love and ..read more »
 
56%
from 1,989 member
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Dien Bien Phu
(1992)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Patrick Catalifo, Jean-Francois Balmer
Director: Pierre Schoendoerffer
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An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the French forces and France's eventual withdrawal from Vietnam.
54%
from 10 members
Currently unavailable
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Buried Alive
on DVD
(1990)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, John Carradine, Robert Vaughn
Director: Gerard Kikoine
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Janet Pendleton arrives at Ravens-croft Reform School to teach Science, but discovers macabre goings-on, especially to wayward girls. Suffering hallucinations of someone being bricked-up behind a wall, she seeks the help of the School Doctor, only to discover he was once a patient at the School ..read more »
39%
from 179 members
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Specters
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, John Pepper, Katrine Michelsen
Director: Marcello Avallone
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A group of archeologists enter a secret catacomb which has been sealed for centuries. But in their ignorance they have disturbed an evil force, not seen on the face of the earth for nineteen thousand years. The race is on to re-seal the tomb... a head-on clash with the power of evil.
41%
from 76 members
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Django Strikes Again
(1987)
Starring: Franco Nero, Donald Pleasence, Christopher Connelly
Director: Ted Archer
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Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practise a little liberation theology.
45%
from 11 members
Currently unavailable
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Scoop
(1987)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Michael Hordern, Herbert Lom
Director: Gavin Millar
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A young man who writes a weekly newspaper column about British rural life from his family estate, is mistaken for a war correspondent by confused subeditor and is sent to the suspected action site of Ishmaelia. On his journey he meets an elusive man of mystery (Herbert Lom), a stunning German ..read more »
56%
from 13 members
Not available for rental
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Phantom Of Death
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Michael York, Donald Pleasence, Edwige Fenech
Director: Ruggero Deodato
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From the writing team behind the vicious 'n' delicious NEW YORK RIPPER and Ruggero Deodato, the director of the hunger-inducing CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST, comes this star filled frenzy of brutal vengeance.Michael York (AUSTIN POWERS) stars as piano virtuoso Robert Dominici who suddenly contracts a ..read more »
49%
from 139 members
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Prince Of Darkness
(1987)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Lisa Blount, Victor Wong
Director: John Carpenter
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Director John Carpenter creates a film that is genuinely scary with PRINCE OF DARKNESS. Graduate students are confronted with pure evil when they go to study a container of strange ooze discovered in the basement of an abandoned church. The ooze is released and all hell, quite literally, breaks ..read more »
61%
from 1,739 member
Currently unavailable
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Phenomena
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Director: Dario Argento
Certificate:
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Released in the US in heavily edited form as CREEPERS in 1986 (though this is the loger, European cut), Italian horror master Dario Argento's masterpiece manages to be involving and interesting while providing a steady stream of funhouse style shocks. Jennifer Corvino (Connelly) is attending a ..read more »
54%
from 1,694 member
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Phenomena - Blu-ray
(1985)
Starring: Jennifer Connelly, Daria Nicolodi, Dalila Di Lazzaro
Director: Dario Argento
Certificate:
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Released in the US in heavily edited form as CREEPERS in 1986 (though this is the loger, European cut), Italian horror master Dario Argento's masterpiece manages to be involving and interesting while providing a steady stream of funhouse style shocks. Jennifer Corvino (Connelly) is attending a ..read more »
58%
from 274 members
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Arch of Triumph
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Lesley-Anne Down, Anthony Hopkins, Donald Pleasence
Director: Waris Hussein
Certificate:
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With a glittering cast which includes Anthony Hopkins (THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS) and Donald Pleasance (HALLOWEEN), ARCH OF TRIUMPH is the tale of a Parisian romance unfolding on the cusp of World War II. Dr. Ravic (Hopkins) is a German citizen who has escaped the clutches of the Nazi's by fleeing ..read more »
48%
from 120 members
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The Devonsville Terror
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Suzanna Love, Robert Walker Jr., Donald Pleasence
Director: Ulli Lommel
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A witch hunt in Devonsville 300 years ago purges three young ladies, one of which screams a curse as she disappears into the nether world. Now it's The Present, and things come to a head when a man kills his wife, thus activating the curse. A new school teacher comes to town, and finds the town ..read more »
33%
from 25 members
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Escape From New York
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Isaac Hayes, Adrienne Barbeau, Harry Dean Stanton
Director: John Carpenter
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Another John Carpenter cult classic, 'Escape From New York' was one of the best entries in the once popular post-apocalyptic genre which included 'Road Warrior' and 'The Terminator'. In 1997, the island of Manhattan has been turned into the world's largest maximum-security prison, a place where the ..read more »
68%
from 9,044 members
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Halloween 2
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Lance Guest
Director: Rick Rosenthal
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Watch now: £2.49
Picking up right where the last film ended, this sequel begins as Dr. Loomis (Donald Pleasence) pumps evil Mike Myers full of lead, then watches helplessly as the maniac killer stands up again and runs away. Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), the teenager last terrorized by Myers, is taken to a ..read more »
60%
from 4,244 members
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All Quiet on the Western Front
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Thomas, Ernest Borgnine, Donald Pleasence
Director: Delbert Mann
Certificate:
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In 1914 a group of fresh-faced and idealistic German schoolboys are goaded by their chauvinistic schoolmaster to troop off to the 'Glorious War'. With the fire and patriotism of youth they sign up, however, their disenchantment begins during the brutal basic training. Later, as they board the train ..read more »
65%
from 2,120 members
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Halloween - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, P.J. Soles
Director: John Carpenter
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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, Halloween is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, Halloween takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
74%
from 1,216 member
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Halloween
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: P.J. Soles, Nancy Loomis, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Carpenter
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Perhaps the most influential and successful independent film ever made, HALLOWEEN is the movie that put director John Carpenter on the map as a viable filmmaker. An exercise in simple, pure horror, HALLOWEEN takes us into the world of a mad killer, Michael Myers, who at a very young age stabbed his ..read more »
70%
from 13,148 members
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Oh God!
(1977)
Starring: John Denver, George Burns, Teri Garr
Director: Carl Reiner
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When God appears to an assistant grocery manager as a good natured old man, the Almighty selects him as his messenger for the modern world.
50%
from 37 members
Currently unavailable
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Telefon
(1977)
Starring: Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
Director: Don Siegel, Don Siegel
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Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the ..read more »
54%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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The Last Tycoon
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Robert De Niro, Jeanne Moreau
Director: Elia Kazan
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Elia Kazan directed this curiously constipated film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished final novel, about Monroe Starr, a brilliant and efficient studio executive (based upon Fitzgerald's experiences with MGM wunderkind Irving Thalberg). Robert De Niro plays Monroe Starr in a cool and ..read more »
55%
from 430 members
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Glory Days
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Tony Lo Bianco, Donald Pleasence, Gloria Carlin
Director: Harvey Hart
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A modern-day rodeo cowboy travels from town to town taking on anyone who will compete. But one day he is crushed by a horse and unable to compete anymore. Hitting rock bottom he is saved by the intervention of J.T. Jones who offers him hope for the future.
36%
from 58 members
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Escape To Witch Mountain
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence, Eddie Albert
Director: John Hough
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The ever present versatility of Walt Disney motion pictures is demonstrated in this film about two psychic orphans who head for Witch Mountain to escape evil and find their own identities. When their unusual psychic abilities attract the attention of a greedy industrialist, he tries to capture them ..read more »
61%
from 2,011 members
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The Black Windmill
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Michael Caine, Donald Pleasence, Delphine Seyrig
Director: Don Siegel
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A British agent's son is kidnapped and held for a ransom of diamonds. The agent finds out that he can't even count on the people he thought were on his side to help him, so he decides to track down the kidnappers himself.
62%
from 342 members
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Columbo - Series 3
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Richard Kiley, Peter Falk, Vera Miles
Director: Jeannot Szwarc, Leo Penn, Boris Sagal
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Peter Falk returns in his four-time Emmy-winning role as th wry and ruffled police lieutenant in Columbo Season Three. From the halls of Congress to that halls of academia, this dazzling 4 disc series includes over 10 TV hours of the classic third season. Star guests include Martin Sheen, ..read more »
73%
from 888 members
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Deathline
(1973)
Starring: Donald Pleasence
Director: Gary Sherman
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There's something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. When a top civil servant becomes the latest to disappear down there Scotland Yard start to take the matter seriously. Helping them are a young couple who get nearer to the horrors ..read more »
59%
from 435 members
Not available for rental
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The Pied Piper
(1972)
Starring: Donovan, Donald Pleasence, Jack Wild
Director: Jacques Demy
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THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG director Jacques Demy tackles the dark fairy tale with this star-filled film. Folk rocker Donovan plays the title character who agrees to help the town of Hamelin with its rat infestation, while Donald Pleasence (HALLOWEEN) is a town leader who wants more than just a ..read more »
67%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Kidnapped
(1971)
Starring: Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Jack Hawkins
Director: Delbert Mann
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This period drama is set during the Jacobite rebellion in Scotland. A young man David Balfour arrives to claim his inheritance but his wicked uncle attempts to kill him and then unduly ships him off to be sold as a slave. Michael Caine stars as Alan Breck, in a spirited performance, who befriends ..read more »
56%
from 195 members
Not available for rental
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Soldier Blue
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Candice Bergen, Peter Strauss, Donald Pleasence
Director: Ralph Nelson
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A cavalry unit in Colorado is conducting two important cargoes to Fort Reunion, home of the 11th Colorado Volunteers: Cresta Marybelle Lee (Candice Bergen), the fiancée of an officer in the unit until two years ago, when she was taken by the Cheyenne, and who just escaped; and Captain Battles (Dana ..read more »
67%
from 1,512 member
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THX 1138 - Blu-ray
(1970)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
Director: George Lucas
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In George Lucas's fascinating feature debut (based on his short student film), the young director creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, dronelike workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate, LUH 3417 (..read more »
58%
from 405 members
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THX 1138
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Don Pedro Colley
Director: George Lucas
Certificate:
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In George Lucas's fascinating feature debut (based on his short student film), the young director creates a futuristic, underground world in which bald, dronelike workers are forced to take drugs to regulate their moods and stifle their libidos. THX 1138 (Robert Duvall) and his mate, LUH 3417 (..read more »
59%
from 4,420 members
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Will Penny
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Joan Hackett, Donald Pleasence
Director: Tom Gries
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Cowboy, Will Penny, stops over at the home of Catherine, wife of an Oregon farmer. Catherine is attracted to Will and although Will is attracted to Catherine, he behaves like a perfect gentleman...
64%
from 276 members
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You Only Live Twice
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Lois Maxwell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure. When an American spacecraft disappears during a mission, it's widely believed to have been intercepted by the Soviet Union, and after a Russian space capsule similarly goes ..read more »
69%
from 12,814 members
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The Night Of The Generals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: Anatole Litvak
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The tense story of a manhunt for a psychopathic sex killer during the Nazi occupation of Warsaw and Paris in World War II. An Intelligence major is assigned to the task of finding the killer, who is believed to be a top-ranking German officer...
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from 1,586 member
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Fantastic Voyage
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Peter Lorre, Robert Sterling
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Shrunk to microscopic size, an elite scientific and medical team enters the bloodstream of an ailing scientist in a desperate effort to save his life. Battling the body's incredible defenses, the crew must complete their mission before time runs out.
67%
from 787 members
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Cul-De-Sac
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Francoise Dorleac, Donald Pleasence, Lionel Stander
Director: Roman Polanski
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A somewhat surreal black comedy directed and co-scripted by Roman Polanski, CUL-DE-SAC is the tale of a mismatched married couple, George and Teresa (Donald Pleasence and Francoise Dorleac), living in an 11th-century castle on an isolated island whose home is invaded by two gangsters on the run ..read more »
63%
from 1,132 member
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Pat Boone, John Wayne
Director: George Stevens
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Watch now: £2.00
George Stevens presents his monumental adaptation of the story of Jesus Christ starring Max von Sydow. The film concentrates on the most familiar episodes of the biblical story, including the birth of Christ in Bethlehem, Herod's (Jose Ferrer) decree of the execution of all male children in Judea, ..read more »
64%
from 674 members
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The Hallelujah Trail
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Lee Remick, Martin Landau
Director: John Sturges
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THE HALLELUJAH TRAIL is a slapstick comedy starring Burt Lancaster as cavalry officer Col. Thadeus Gearhart, set just before the winter of 1867, when the boomtown of Denver realizes it's almost run out of whiskey. The perenially drunken Oracle Jones (Donald Pleasence) hatches a plan to bring a ..read more »
61%
from 289 members
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The Great Escape
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson, James Garner
Director: John Sturges
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Arguably the best World War II adventure film ever made, John Sturges's dramatisation of the true story of a group of British, American, and Canadian POWs who executed a massive escape from Stalag Luft III in Upper Silesia in March 1944, stars Steve McQueen as the rebellious Virgil Hilts. The ..read more »
76%
from 25,537 members
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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
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The Shakedown
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Terence Morgan, Hazel Court, Donald Pleasence
Director: John Lemont
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Terence Morgan stars in this 1959 British production. Directed and co written by John Lemont which was distributed by Rank. Morgan plays "Augie" a crook just released from prison and intent on getting his rackets back from "Gollar" (Harry H Corbett). Augie sets up, down and out photographer (Donald ..read more »
52%
from 12 members
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Suspect
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Tony Britton, Virginia Maskell, Ian Bannen
Director: John Boulting, Roy Boulting
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After years of research scientists are ready to reveal their greatest triumph - a virulent germ that can stamp out bubonic and syphus epidemics. However, the Authority invokes the Official Secrets Act and gags the team, claiming that in the wrong hands this formula could be used for germ warfare. A ..read more »
55%
from 63 members
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Hell Is A City
(1959)
Starring: Stanley Baker, John Crawford, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Val Guest
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Detective Inspector Martineau prepares himself for action when he hears of the jailbreak of the notorious thief Don Starling. When a robbery goes seriously wrong, Martineau will stop at nothing to make sure that Starling is caught...
69%
from 367 members
Not currently released
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Look Back In Anger
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ..read more »
70%
from 307 members
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Battle Of The Sexes
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings
Director: Charles Crichton
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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then hires American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) to bring the business into the modern age. The House of MacPherson has long been known as a manufacturer of ..read more »
60%
from 608 members
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1984
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Edmond O'Brien, Jan Sterling, Michael Redgrave
Director: Michael Anderson
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After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with ..read more »
59%
from 278 members
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Second World War - Vol. 21 - Lest We For...
on DVD
Starring: Donald Pleasence, Vera Lynn
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Two features. 'Lest We Forget' pays tribute to the men and women of the Royal Air Force during the conflict. 'A War To Remember' recounts the events of 8th May 1945, when the final curtain came down on the six year drama that had rocked the world.
54%
from 45 members
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Lest We Forget
on DVD
Starring: Donald Pleasence
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This films demonstrates how all men and women of the RAF worked together against the odds to become the pride of Britain in it's finest hour and is dedicated to the memory of those gallant men and women who gave their lives for the love of their country.
44%
from 32 members
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Donald Sinden Icon Collection
(11 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Donald Sinden, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern
Director: Ralph Thomas, Ken Annakin, Muriel Box
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Features the Donald Sinden films A DAY TO REMEMBER, YOU KNOW WHAT SAILORS ARE, THE BEACHCOMBER, MAD ABOUT MEN, ABOVE US THE WAVES, AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY, TIGER IN THE SMOKE, EYEWITNESS, THE BLACK TENT, ROCKETS GALORE, and MIX ME A PERSON.
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from 75 members
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Donald Pleasence facts
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...n a film has a cast that includes; Jenny Agutter, Michael Caine, Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Anthony Quayle and Donald Sutherland (not forgetting Jean March) you know you'...
