Miles Malleson

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

Neat Little Period Piece 8 October 2010
...y memorable - and in this film counter-context - little piece. Cunningly comic! Miles Malleson gives a tiny vignette of pure leering horror ... This film, then, is a pretty ... Read customer review

The Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Starring: Edward de Souza, Heather Sears, Herbert Lom
Director: Terence Fisher
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The corrupt Lord Ambrose D'Arcy (Michael Gough) steals the life's work of the poor musical Professor Petry. (Herbert Lom). In an attempt to stop the printing of music with D'Arcy's name on it, Petry breaks into the printing office and accidentally starts a fire, leaving him severely disfigured. ..read more »

68% from 7 members
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Fury At Smuggler's Bay on DVD (1961)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, John Fraser
Director: John Gilling
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A small coastal village is the setting for smuggling and ship wrecking. Only the Squire's son is prepared to speak out against the man responsible...

53% from 137 members

Kidnapped on DVD (1960)
Starring: Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, James MacArthur
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Kidnapped and cheated of his inheritance, David Balfour joins forces with a Jacobite adventurer. When they are falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands.

54% from 195 members

The Captain's Table on DVD (1958)
Starring: John Gregson, Peggy Cummins, Donald Sinden
Director: Jack Lee
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Adapted from the novel by Richard Gordon, this amusing British sea comedy tells of a nervous captain who gets himself into some sticky situations when he finds himself in command of a cruise liner full of beautiful women.

60% from 31 members

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
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Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St James has things well organised. He has a wife in Gibraltar, and a hot-blooded mistress in Tangiers. Things are perfect... so long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

69% from 360 members

The Importance Of Being Earnest on DVD (1952)
Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin
Director: Anthony Asquith
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Anthony Asquith, having directed a wonderful film of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, turned in 1952 to another classic, one of the greatest theatrical comedies, Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Set at the height of the Victorian era, popularly imagined to be a cold and repressive ..read more »

71% from 844 members

Trent's Last Case on DVD (1952)
Starring: Margaret Lockwood, Orson Welles, Michael Wilding
Director: Herbert Wilcox
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Based on the famous novel by E.C. Bentley, Michael Wilding stars as journalist Philip Trent, who is convinced that the death of Sigsbee Manderson (Orson Welles) was really murder. Manderson's wife (Lockwood) and his secretary John Marlowe (John McCallum) are under suspicion but there's a twist in ..read more »

59% from 159 members

Train of Events on DVD (1949)
Starring: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton
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A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

67% from 158 members

Dead of Night on DVD (1945)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Mervyn Johns, Roland Culver
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dear
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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

Thunder Rock on DVD (1942)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason
Director: Roy Boulting
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Based on a play by Robert Ardrey, Michael Redgrave stars in this powerful and intriguing drama as a political journalist who retreats from the corrupt world of the press to seek solace in a remote lighthouse station. Soon he is having visions of those whose lives have been lost to the sea, a ..read more »

57% from 220 members

Unpublished Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford
Director: Harold French
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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

The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez
Director: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell
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Prince Ahmad is the rightful King of Bagdad but he has been blinded and cast out as a beggar. Now a captive of the wicked Grand Vizier Jaffar he is cast into a dungeon where he meets Abu, the best thief in all Bagdad. Together they escape and set about a series of adventures that involve a Djinni ..read more »

71% from 393 members
Not available for rental

The Phantom of the Opera - 3.5 stars
Fury At Smuggler's Bay - 2.5 stars
Kidnapped - 2.5 stars
The Captain's Table - 3.0 stars
Captain's Paradise - 3.5 stars

Dead of Night - 3.5 stars
The Thief of Bagdad - 3.5 stars
The Importance Of Being Earnest - 3.5 stars
Captain's Paradise - 3.5 stars
Train of Events - 3.5 stars

The Captain's Table - 3.0 stars
The Phantom of the Opera - 3.5 stars
Fury At Smuggler's Bay - 2.5 stars
Kidnapped - 2.5 stars
Thunder Rock - 3.0 stars

Michael Redgrave - 4 times - show films
Valerie Hobson - 3 times - show films
Joan Greenwood - 3 times - show films
John Justin - 2 times - show films
Basil Radford - 2 times - show films

Charles Crichton - 2 times - show films
Ludwig Berger - 2 times - show films
Michael Powell - 2 times - show films
Anthony Asquith - 2 times - show films
Roy Boulting - 1 times - show films