Robert Helpmann

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Robert Helpmann - what members say

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang review by KATHERINEofARROGANCEe from HARROW

16 July 2004
...y being explained, it has a dark, edgy side to it. The child catcher, played by Robert Helpmann, is truly nightmarish, made more so by his lithe, balletic, creepy movement (He... Read customer review

The Soldier's Tale on DVD (2007)
Starring: Robert Helpmann, Svetlana Beriosova, Brian Phelan
Director: Michael Birkett
Certificate:
A combination of fairy story, melodrama and ballet sets the stage for some of Stravinsky's music. Original libretto by Ramuz adapted by Michael Birkett.

50% from 29 members

Don Quixote (1999)
Starring: Rudolf Nureyev, Robert Helpmann, Lucette Aldous
Director: Robert Helpmann, Rudolf Nureyev, Robert Helpman
Certificate:
A performance of Don Quixote featuring Rudolph Nureyev and the members of the Australian ballet.

56% from 59 members
Not currently released

Second Time Lucky on DVD (1984)
Starring: Roger Wilson, Diane Franklin, Robert Morley
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
The Devil makes a collect call to God from down below and God just can not refuse. Adam and Eve go round by round, from the Garden Of Eden to the years of rock and roll. The Devil backs Eve and God backs Adam.

36% from 37 members

Patrick on DVD (1978)
Starring: Susan Penhaligon, Robert Helpmann, Rod Mullinar
Director: Richard Franklin
Certificate:
After the shocking bathtub death of his mother and her lover, the sinister Patrick lays comatose in a small private hospital.

56% from 282 members

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on DVD (1968)
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Ken Hughes
Certificate:
Jolly musical comedy about an unsuccessful inventor who rescues an old car which acquires magical properties. Screenplay written by Roald Dahl with music by the Sherman Brothers.

69% from 9,156 members

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Blu-ray (1968)
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Sally Ann Howes, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Ken Hughes
Certificate:
Jolly musical comedy about an unsuccessful inventor who rescues an old car which acquires magical properties. Screenplay written by Roald Dahl with music by the Sherman Brothers.

74% from 80 members
Not available for rental

The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
Starring: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max Von Sydow
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
George Segal, Alec Guinness and Max von Sydow square off against each other in this espionage thriller, adapted by Harold Pinter, from the novel by Adam Hall. Ace spy Quiller is lured away from holiday to replace a British agent who died while essaying a most challenging assignment: infiltrating ..read more »

60% from 551 members
Currently unavailable

Cinderella (1964)
Starring: Anthony Dowell, Antoinette Sibley, Frederick Ashton
Director: Frederick Ashton
Certificate:
This 1969 Royal Ballet production of Prokofiev's CINDERELLA is one of the most acclaimed stagings of the century. Renowned choreographer Frederick Ashton stages the dancing with power, grace, and emotive beauty. Antoinette Sibley shines in her role as the abused stepdaughter turned princess. A ..read more »

60% from 91 members
Not currently released

Iron Petticoat on DVD (1956)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Bob Hope, Robert Helpmann
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
Captain Vinka Kovelenko defects from Russia, but not for political reasons. She defects because she feels discriminated against as a woman...

54% from 151 members

Tales Of Hoffman on DVD (1951)
Starring: Moira Shearer, Leonide Massine, Robert Helpmann
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressbu
Certificate:
The Powell And Pressburger Collection contains eleven Emeric Pressburger and Michael Powell films. Titles in the box set include: 1. A Matter of Life and Death 2. The Red Shoes3. The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp4. A Canterbury Tale 5. I Know Where I'm Going 6. 49th Parallel 7. Battle of the ..read more »

67% from 204 members

The Red Shoes on DVD (1948)
Starring: Esmond Knight, Ludmilla Tcherina, Marius Goring
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Certificate:
This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More ..read more »

71% from 4,762 members

The Red Shoes - Blu-ray (1948)
Starring: Esmond Knight, Ludmilla Tcherina, Marius Goring
Director: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Certificate:
This seminal dance film, created Powell and Pressburger, in which an impresario takes a ballerina under his wing, deftly combines interpretive dance with drama. This acclaimed adaption of a Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale results in a marked triumph of artistic collaboration and modernity. More ..read more »

80% from 30 members
Currently unavailable

The Soldier's Tale - 2.5 stars
Don Quixote - 3.0 stars
Second Time Lucky - 2.0 stars
Patrick - 3.0 stars
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 3.5 stars

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
The Red Shoes - 3.5 stars
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 3.5 stars
Tales Of Hoffman - 3.5 stars
The Quiller Memorandum - 3.0 stars

Second Time Lucky - 2.0 stars
The Soldier's Tale - 2.5 stars
The Red Shoes - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Iron Petticoat - 3.0 stars
Patrick - 3.0 stars

Moira Shearer - 5 times - show films
James Robertson Justice - 5 times - show films
Leonide Massine - 5 times - show films
Anna Quayle - 4 times - show films
Albert Bassermann - 4 times - show films

Michael Powell - 7 times - show films
Emeric Pressburger - 7 times - show films
Ken Hughes - 4 times - show films
Rudolf Nureyev - 2 times - show films
Michael Anderson - 2 times - show films