Basil Radford

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Whisky Galore! review by CashOnTheNail from Manchester

Excellent; Joan Greenwood Classic 9 July 2008
...binet Minister runs aground with a cargo of 50,000 cases of whiskey. Jobs-worth Basil Radford [Chance Of A Lifetime] insists on a 24x7 home-guard deployment, the islanders f... Read customer review

Dead of Night review by from Helmsley, North Riding of Yorkshire

Neat Little Period Piece 8 October 2010
...rs in the cast; often well trained for the stage before coming to the camera . Basil Radford and Naughton Wayne show up in an especially memorable - and in this film counte... Read customer review

Whisky Galore! - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
WHISKY GALORE is a comedy predicated on the notion that all Scotsmen are lushes. The tiny Scots Island of Todday suffers from a wartime whisky shortage. Luck of luck, a ship full of the precious liquid is wrecked on a reef. The islanders conspire to smuggle the whisky off the ship right under the ..read more »

71% from 169 members

Whisky Galore! (1949)
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Filmed at Barra in the outer Hebrides, Whisky Galore was based upon a true incident, the foundering of a cargo ship off the Isle Of Eriskay with 50,000 cases of Scotch aboard. The Scottish islanders of Todday by-pass war time rationing and delight in smuggling cases of their favourite tipple from ..read more »

73% from 3,554 members
Not currently released

The Winslow Boy on DVD (1948)
Starring: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
Director: Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
A moving drama in which a young naval cadet is expelled from school for stealing a postal order. When the case comes to court his defence lawyer unravels a mysterious and surprising chain of events.

73% from 337 members

The Captive Heart on DVD (1946)
Starring: Jack Warner, Basil Radford, Michael Redgrave
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
An Ealing production which revolves around life among British officers in a German POW camp, and their families at home during those years of uncertainty and doubt.

71% from 143 members

Dead of Night on DVD (1945)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dear
Certificate:
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales....

73% from 1,611 member

Unpublished Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford
Director: Harold French
Certificate:
Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson star in this British wartime spy thriller set in London's Docklands during the Blitz of 1940. War correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns to England from Dunkirk with a powerful story of Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg - and a stark ..read more »

58% from 56 members

Night Train to Munich (1940)
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Rex Harrison, Paul Henreid
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate:
When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent Gus Bennet follows, disguised as a senior German army officer.

59% from 14 members
Currently unavailable

Broken Blossoms on DVD (1936)
Starring: Arthur Margetson, Basil Radford, Edith Sharpe
Director: John Brahm
Certificate:
This 1936 Twickenham production Produced by Julius Hagen who put together a fine team of technicians. Hagen a German, called upon several countrymen, Hans Brahm Director, Curt Courant Photography then on screen Dolly Haas, and our own master of the scissors Ralph Kemplen. Comparisons are made to ..read more »

50% from 8 members

There Goes The Bride (1932)
Starring: Jessie Matthews, Basil Radford, Carol Goodner
Director: Albert De Courville
Certificate:
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On the morning of an unwonted marriage, reluctant bride Annette runs away to Paris. On the train she is robbed of her purse and meets a dashing wealthy young man, Max, who allows her to stay with him for 24 hours. Detectives trace the runaway and take her home, but Max follows her, and together ..read more »

69% from 12 members
Not available for rental

Kenneth More Collection
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Basil Radford
Director: Bernard Miles, Henry Cornelius, J. Lee Thompso
Certificate:
Features the Kenneth More films CHANCE OF A LIFETIME, GENEVIEVE, A NIGHT TO REMEMBER, NORTH WEST FRONTIER, and REACH FOR THE SKY.

46% from 3 members
Currently unavailable

Whisky Galore! - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Whisky Galore! - 3.5 stars
The Winslow Boy - 3.5 stars
The Captive Heart - 3.5 stars
Dead of Night - 3.5 stars

Whisky Galore! - 3.5 stars
Dead of Night - 3.5 stars
The Winslow Boy - 3.5 stars
The Captive Heart - 3.5 stars
Whisky Galore! - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

Kenneth More Collection - 2.5 stars
Broken Blossoms - 2.5 stars
Night Train to Munich - 3.0 stars
There Goes The Bride - 3.5 stars
Unpublished Story - 3.0 stars

Naunton Wayne - 3 times - show films
Michael Redgrave - 3 times - show films
Carol Goodner - 2 times - show films
George Curzon - 2 times - show films
Owen Nares - 2 times - show films