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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

Basil Radford - filmography

Whisky Galore! (1949)
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Classic Ealing comedy. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to contain 50,000 cases of malt, which are promptly appropriated by the menfolk of the island. All is ..read more »

73% from 3,709 members
Currently unavailable

Whisky Galore! - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Basil Radford, Joan Mackenzie
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Classic Ealing comedy. During the Second World War, the inhabitants of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to contain 50,000 cases of malt, which are promptly appropriated by the menfolk of the island. All is ..read more »

71% from 234 members

The Winslow Boy on DVD (1948)
Starring: Robert Donat, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford
Director: Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
Anthony Asquith's film adapted from Terence Rattigan's play (by himself) is based on real events that took place in 1912. When young Ronnie Winslow (Neil North) is expelled from Naval College after being accused of stealing a postal order, his banker-father (Cedric Hardwicke) remains convinced of ..read more »

74% from 370 members

The Captive Heart on DVD (1946)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Karel Stepanek, Ralph Michael
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
WWII drama about a Czech captain who impersonates a dead British officer, only to be thrown into a German P.O.W. camp reserved for the English.

70% from 162 members

Dead of Night on DVD (1945)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Anthony Baird, Renee Gadd
Director: Charles Crichton, Alberto Cavalcanti, Basil Dear
Certificate:
Horror anthology. Architect Walter Craig (Mervyn Johns) arrives at country house Pilgrim Farm thinking that he has been hired to remodel it. He finds the building strangely familiar, and upon entering discovers that he recognizes all of the house's occupants from a recurring nightmare he has ..read more »

73% from 1,735 member

Unpublished Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Roland Culver, Richard Greene, Brefni O'Rorke
Director: Harold French
Certificate:
Wartime spy thriller. Richard Greene stars as war correspondent Bob Randall, who returns from Dunkirk to report on Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg, and to deliver a stark warning about the traitors who aided the Germans in their conquest of Europe. He is outraged to discover that ..read more »

58% from 62 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.

63% from 19 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 »

54% from 13 members

There Goes The Bride (1932)
Starring: Owen Nares, Carol Goodner, Charles Carson
Director: Albert De Courville
Certificate:
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Reluctant bride Annette runs away to Paris on her wedding day. After she is robbed of her purse she meets the wealthy Max, who allows her to stay with him for 24 hours. Max falls in love with Annette, but detectives soon arrive to take her away.

70% from 19 members
Not available for rental

Kenneth More Collection
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Joyce Grenfell
Director: Bernard Miles, J. Lee Thompso, Henry Cornelius
Certificate:
A collection of some classic Kenneth More films: 'Appointment with Venus', 'Stop Press Girl', 'Chance of a Lifetime', 'Genevieve', 'A Night to Remember', 'The Galloping Major', 'North West Frontier' and 'Reach for the Sky'

46% from 5 members
Currently unavailable

Basil Radford facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

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

5 lowest-rated films

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

Most frequent co-stars

Naunton Wayne - 3 times - show films
Michael Redgrave - 3 times - show films
Margaret Lockwood - 2 times - show films
Owen Nares - 2 times - show films
Miles Malleson - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alexander Mackendrick - 4 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 3 times - show films
Albert De Courville - 2 times - show films
Henry Cornelius - 1 times - show films
Basil Dear - 1 times - show films

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