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Harry Andrews
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Harry Andrews - what members say
review by Christinekay from Southampton
Entertaining and rather subversive 7 February 2010
review by from West Yorkshire
Pure class 4 July 2005
review by A customer from Plymouth, England
Heavy, but absorbing 29 March 2006
Harry Andrews - filmography
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Cause Celebre
(1987)
Starring: David Morrissey, Neil Jeffery, David Suchet
Director: John Gorrie
Certificate: 
Feature-length ITV crime drama adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, which in turn is based on a real 1930s murder case. Helen Mirren stars as Alma, the pretty and musically talented wife of elderly, impotent architect Francis Rattenbury (Harry Andrews). When her passionate affair with hired ..read more »
 
60%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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Mesmerised
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: John Lithgow, Harry Andrews, Jodie Foster
Director: Michael Laughlin
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Set in New Zealand during the 1880s this film is based on the true story of an orphaned 18-year-old girl (Jodie Foster) who marries a much older man. However, he constantly abuses her and keeps her under his thumb until, using hypnotism, she kills him.
40%
from 207 members
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Agatha Christie's Seven Dial Mystery
(1981)
Starring: Lucy Gutteridge, Joyce R, Sandor Eles
Director: Tony Wharmby
Certificate: 
Small screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's murder mystery. Lady Eileen Brent (Cheryl Campbell) turns sleuth when a dead body is found in her Marquis father's (John Gielgud) home. The house had been rented out for the weekend to a society couple, and it transpires that the victim was their foreign ..read more »
59%
from 21 members
Not available for rental
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Hawk The Slayer
(1980)
Starring: Bernard Bresslaw, Ray Charleson, Jack Palance
Director: Terry Marcel, Terence Marcel
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Hawk (John Terry) is a man of courage, honour and duty; a marked contrast with his deformed, cruel and perverse older brother Voltan (Jack Palance), who wears a black mask to disguise the fact that he bears the mark of Cain. When Voltan slays their father, Hawk is entrusted by the dying man with ..read more »
59%
from 763 members
Not available for rental
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SOS Titanic
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Jerry Houser, Ian Holm, Victor Langley
Director: William Hale
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Made-for-TV drama documenting the doomed liner's maiden voyage in 1912. Viewed from the perspective of three groups of passengers in First, Second, and Third Class, and highlighting the role that class distinction played in events, the film charts the fortunes of millionaire John Jacob Astor (David ..read more »
45%
from 24 members
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Death On The Nile
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Jane Birkin, Angela Lansbury, Lois Chiles
Director: John Guillermin
Certificate:
Peter Ustinov stars as detective Hercule Poirot in this star-studded Agatha Christie mystery, set in the 1930s. When a rich heiress is murdered aboard a steamship travelling down the Nile, Poirot discovers that almost all the passengers had a reason to kill her. Will he be able to locate the true ..read more »
69%
from 1,280 member
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Equus
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Joan Plowright, Colin Blakely, Jenny Agutter
Director: Sidney Lumet
Certificate: 
Alan Strang (Peter Firth) is a troubled teenager who suffers from an uncontrollable urge to blind horses. As he faces prosecution, psychiatrist Dr Martin Dysart (Richard Burton) is called in by the court to explain the boy's actions, and it soon transpires that Alan's relationship with his devout ..read more »
63%
from 1,290 member
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The Four Feathers
(1977)
Starring: Richard Johnson, Simon Ward, Beau Bridges
Director: Don Sharp
Certificate: 
Harry Feversham (Beau Bridges) comes from a military background, and is expected to carry on the family tradition when he is called up to fight in Sudan in 1880. However, he cannot bear to be torn away from his new fiancée Ethne (Jane Seymour), so refuses the commission and secretly resigns. ..read more »
59%
from 189 members
Not currently released
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The Medusa Touch
(1977)
Starring: Lee Remick, Lino Ventura, Harry Andrews
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Novelist John Morlar (Richard Burton) is haunted by the belief that he can, through the power of telekenesis, cause fatal disasters to occur. This obsession is reinforced when, after Morlar is assaulted, a moon mission crisis and jet crash occur in short order. The police turn to Morlar's ..read more »
68%
from 1,045 member
Not available for rental
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, James Donald
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Another outing for American private eye Philip Marlowe. While in London Marlowe is called upon by General Sternwood who is being blackmailed over his daughter Camilla's gambling debts. The mystery deepens when the gun-running husband of Sternwood's other daughter, Charlotte goes missing, and ..read more »
51%
from 823 members
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Theatre Of Blood
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Vincent Price, Harry Andrews, Ian Hendry
Director: Douglas Hickox
Certificate:
Vincent Price plays a Shakespearian actor Edward Lionheart, who re-enacts murder scenes penned by the famous bard, in order to gain revenge on the nine theatre critics who have denied him the Best Actor of the Year award. His accomplice is his devoted daughter (Diana Rigg) and together they seek ..read more »
70%
from 1,848 member
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Man at the Top
(1973)
Starring: Kenneth Haigh, Nanette Newman, Harry Andrews
Director: Mike Vardy
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Mike Vardy directs this big screen adaptation of the adventures of working class hero Joe Lampton (Kenneth Haigh). When Joe gets to know pharmaceutical tycoon Lord Ackerman (Harry Andrews) and his wife Alex (Nanette Newman), it results in an unexpected job offer. However, things aren't all plain ..read more »
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Not available for rental
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The Nightcomers
(1972)
Starring: Harry Andrews, Marlon Brando, Thora Hird
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
Bly House, a turn-of-the-century English estate, provides young Miles and Flora with a home after they are orphaned. However, they only find out about the death of their parents through the gardener Peter Quint (Marlon Brando), who becomes a powerful father figure for them both. As the children ..read more »
47%
from 339 members
Currently unavailable
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The Ruling Class
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Peter O'Toole, Harry Andrews
Director: Peter Medak
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Controversial black comedy following the eccentric life and times of the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O'Toole), an aristocrat who veers between thinking he is Jesus Christ and Jack the Ripper. His family attempt to engineer a new heir to the family fortune, but the Earl has no intentions of going ..read more »
57%
from 582 members
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Man of La Mancha
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Sophia Loren, James Coco
Director: Arthur Miller
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Dale Wasserman's long-running Broadway smash comes to the screen in this musical based on Miguel de Cervantes' classic satire Don Quixote de la Mancha. Cervantes (Peter O'Toole) is arrested and put in prison by the soldiers of the Spanish Inquisition after staging a comic performance which mocked ..read more »
61%
from 327 members
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Burke And Hare
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Glynn Edwards, Harry Andrews, Derren Nesbitt
Director: Vernon Sewell
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Dark thriller with Derren Nesbitt and Glynn Edwards starring as the 19th century body snatchers. Supplying corpses for cash to the pioneering surgeon Dr Knox (Harry Andrews), Burke (Nesbitt) and Hare (Edwards) hit a problem when the supply of cadavers dries up. Not keen to let a business ..read more »
40%
from 222 members
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Nicholas And Alexandra
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Janet Suzman, Maurice Denham
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Russian Tsar Nicholas II (Michael Jayston) and his German wife Alexandra (Janet Suzman) are driven apart as personal and social circumstances conspire against them. Their only son is born a haemophiliac, and Alexandra becomes obsessed with faith healer Rasputin (Tom Baker). Meanwhile, World War One ..read more »
65%
from 600 members
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Wuthering Heights
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Ian Ogilvy, Anna Calder-Marshall, Judy Cornwell
Director: Robert Fuest
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
1970 film version of Emily Bronte's classic novel, directed by Robert Fuest. Anna Calder-Marshall stars as the wild and beautiful Catherine, who forms a strong attachment to the mysterious foundling Heathcliff (Timothy Dalton) after he is taken in by her father (Harry Andrews). When Heathcliff ..read more »
59%
from 298 members
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Entertaining Mr Sloane
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Alan Webb, Harry Andrews, Peter McEnery
Director: Douglas Hickox
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An attractive young charmer by the name of Mr. Sloane weasels his way into the lives of a middle-aged brother and sister, while trying to disguise the truth about his unpleasant past. This black comedy is based on a work by Joe Orton, the taboo-tweaking British playwright who delighted in loading ..read more »
66%
from 531 members
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Play Dirty
(1969)
Starring: Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Nigel Green
Director: Andre De Toth
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There's no mistaking the 1968 mood of Play Dirty: this cynical war movie could only have been made during the disillusioned Vietnam era, despite its WWII subject. Michael Caine plays a British captain in North Africa, tapped to lead a suicidal mission across the desert to destroy a German fuel ..read more »
61%
from 23 members
Currently unavailable
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Too Late The Hero
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Denholm Elliott, Lance Percival
Director: Robert Aldrich
Certificate:
November, 1942. A US Navy task force in the South Pacific faces imminent destruction unless the Japanese radio base on a nearby island can be silenced. The Navy's solution is to order the hard-nosed Lieutenant Lawson (Cliff Robertson) to join a bunch of British misfits - including the mouthy Tosh ..read more »
60%
from 970 members
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A Dandy In Aspic
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Per Oscarsso, Harry Andrews
Director: Anthony Mann
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Thriller directed by Anthony Mann. Laurence Harvey stars as Eberlin, a Russian spy and double-agent, homesick and pining for the Russian steppes. It is in this risky mood that Eberlin falls in love with the emaciated Caroline (Mia Farrow). Complications arise when he is directed to kill a Russian ..read more »
60%
from 133 members
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The Jokers
(1967)
Starring: Michael Crawford, Oliver Reed, Harry Andrews
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of ..read more »
64%
from 25 members
Currently unavailable
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The Long Duel
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Ken Annakin
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Yul Brynner and Trevor Howard star in this action drama set in the 1920s in an India under British rule. After being imprisoned by the United Provinces Police, tribe leader Sultan (Brynner) manages to break out with some of his men in tow and leads them in a revolt in an effort to free themselves ..read more »
66%
from 8 members
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Modesty Blaise
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Terence Stamp, Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Joseph Losey
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Essentially everything is played for its camp value, including the rather convoluted, James Bond-like plot, which concerns the hijacking of a shipment of diamonds heading for the Middle East.
50%
from 243 members
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The Night Of The Generals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Cor, Christopher Plummer
Director: Anatole Litvak
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In Warsaw, 1942, a prostitute is brutally murdered and it is rumoured that a German General is the man responsible. A special investigator (Omar Sharif) is called in to clear up the controversy, and narrows the suspects down to three high-ranking Nazi officers: Tanz (Peter O'Toole), Kahlenberge (..read more »
58%
from 1,645 member
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The Deadly Affair
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Simone Signoret, Lynn Redgrave, Harry Andrews
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Sidney Lumet directs this brooding spy drama, based on the novel `Call for the Dead' by John le Carre. James Mason stars as Charles Dobbs, a British intelligence officer who is sent to investigate an anonymous letter sent to the foreign secretary accusing a key officer, Robert Flemyng (Samuel ..read more »
66%
from 514 members
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The Agony And The Ecstasy
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Adolfo Celi, Diane Cilento, Alberto Lupo
Director: Carol Reed
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Adapted by Philip Dunne from the novel by Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstacy is the story of the 16th century war of wills between Renaissance artist Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) and warrior pope Julius II (Rex Harrison). Commissioned to paint a religious fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine ..read more »
65%
from 454 members
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The Hill
(1965)
Starring: Sean Connery, Harry Andrews, Ian Bannen
Director: Sidney Lumet
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THE HILL, a World War II drama directed by Sidney Lumet, focuses on the cruel British soldiers who were based in the desert in Libya, Africa.
74%
from 217 members
Currently unavailable
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633 Squadron
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Donald Houston, Harry Andrews
Director: Walter Grauman
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During World War Two, the 633 Squadron are sent to Norway to destroy an overhanging cliff which will demolish a bomb factory below run by the German forces. The squadron Wing Commander (Cliff Robertson) must work with the leader of the Norwegian resistance (George Chakiris) towards the common goal ..read more »
69%
from 2,872 members
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Barabbas
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Michael Gwynn, Anthony Quinn, Katy Jurado
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Sword and sandal epic which imagines the later life of the biblical character Barabbas (Anthony Quinn). Released from prison when the crowd chose his freedom over that of Jesus, Barrabas quickly returns to his life of crime. A subsequent arrest gets him sentenced to a lifetime's work in the silver ..read more »
59%
from 321 members
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Ice Cold In Alex
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Diane Clare, Harry Andrews
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria. Along the way they pick up a South ..read more »
75%
from 4,970 members
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Ice Cold In Alex - Blu-ray
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Diane Clare, Harry Andrews
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
John Mills stars in this war story set after the fall of Tobruk in World War II. Two English army officers (John Mills and Harry Andrews) and two young nurses (Sylvia Syms and Diane Clare) are driving an ambulance through occupied North Africa to Alexandria. Along the way they pick up a South ..read more »
80%
from 257 members
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Saint Joan
(1957)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Richard Todd, John Gieldgud
Director: Otto Preminger
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Young Joan of Arc comes to the palace in France to make The Dauphin King of France and is appointed to head the French Army. After winning many battles she is not needed any longer and soon she is thought of as a witch.
53%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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A Hill in Korea
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: George Baker, Harry Andrews, Stanley Baker
Director: Julian Amyes
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Based on real events, this vintage war movie charts the fortunes of a small group of British soldiers serving in the Korean war. Out on a routine patrol, the soldiers find that Chinese troop movements have cut them off from their own lines. They try to fight their way back to safety but with the ..read more »
57%
from 95 members
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Alexander The Great
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Claire Bloom, Barry Jones
Director: Robert Rossen
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The short life and quick death of Alexander the Great is recounted in this literate historical epic. Decked out in a blonde wig, Richard Burton stars as the Grecian warrior who conquered the known world while only in his twenties, then wept because there were no more worlds left to conquer. While ..read more »
53%
from 569 members
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The Red Beret
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Baker, Harry Andrews, Alan Ladd
Director: Terence Young
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Alan Ladd stars in this wartime tale of a paratrooper with a secret past who takes part in a daring raid behind enemy lines. Resigning from the US military after he caused the death of a fellow officer in a flying accident, Canada McKendrick (Ladd) enlists as a paratrooper in England, claiming to ..read more »
59%
from 36 members
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The Internecine Project
on DVD
Starring: Lee Grant, James Coburn, Ian Hendry
Director: Ken Hughes
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James Coburn stars in this political thriller as Robert Elliot, a retired secret agent soon to be appointed as personal consultant to the President. Before he can take up his new position, he has to deal with four people who are witnesses to his murky past, each of whom could easily destroy his new ..read more »
58%
from 104 members
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Harry Andrews facts
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...g for this film. One is the superb cast, including Richard Burton, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, et al. There are several well-known faces popping up in the supporting cast t...
