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Robert Morley - filmography
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Around The World In Eighty Days
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Eric Idle, Julia Nickson-Soul
Director: Buzz Kulik
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Jules Verne's classic adventure, this time recorded for television, stars Pierce Brosnan as Phileas Fogg who places a bet that he can circumnavigate the globe within 80 days. His sidekick Passepartout is played by Eric Idle, and they are pursued by a detective (Peter Ustinov) to check they are ..read more »
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53%
from 468 members
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Little Dorrit
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Michael Elphick, Eleanor Bron
Director: Christine Edzard
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A drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens which tells the story of Arthur Clennam who is thrown into a debtor's prison. There he meets a young seamstress whose father has been imprisoned for twenty-five years.
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60%
from 368 members
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The Lady And The Highwayman
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Emma Samms, Oliver Reed, Claire Bloom
Director: John Hough
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Set in the turbulent 17th Century reign of King Charles II, this film tells of Lady Panthea Vyre who has attracted the attention of the King and the eye of the folk hero and highwayman, Silver Blade, who, unknown to her, is really a relative of hers and rightful heir to the family estate and title. ..read more »
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50%
from 216 members
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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.
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34%
from 28 members
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The Human Factor
(1979)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate: 
Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Graham Greene's novel, this is a story of a world peopled by lonely men cut off from the luxury of communication, a world where a leak of relatively unimportant information can be the catalyst for a witch hunt, and it's one man's duty to point the finger... Colonel John ..read more »
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41%
from 6 members
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When Eight Bells Toll
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon
Director: Etienne Perier
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A Naval Secret Service agent's tough assignment is to stop the ruthless pirating of gold bullion in the Irish Sea. The trail takes him to a tiny port in the Hebrides where mysterious disappearances of boats, yachts and people are commonplace..
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63%
from 440 members
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Cromwell
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Richard Harris, Stratford Johns
Director: Ken Hughes
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Following the rise of Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris) to power as Lord Protector and in the process was central to bringing King Charles I to trial and exectution. In doing so, Cromwell laid the seeds for the more democratic Great Britain of today. This amazing story is told in an epic and lavish ..read more »
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66%
from 1,149 member
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Hot Enough For June
(1964)
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina
Director: Jim Goddard, Ralph Thomas
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Dirk Bogarde plays one of those 'reluctant spies' so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author, Bogarde is sent to Czechoslovakia by the British government as an unofficial 'goodwill ambassador' to an industrial firm. It soon dawns upon him that his real assignment is to ..read more »
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65%
from 4 members
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Topkapi
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Melina Mercouri, Maximilian Schell, Peter Ustinov
Director: Jules Dassin
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Five years after directing the heist classic RIFIFI, Jules Dassin returns to robbery with TOPKAPI. Again there is a long and daring break-in, as his heroes attempt to steal the priceless Emerald Dagger from the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul, but in contrast to the bleak RIFIFI, the mood in ..read more »
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60%
from 358 members
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The Boys
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Ronald Lacey, Robert Morley, Richard Todd
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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Director Sidney J. Furie was betwixt and between his Canadian TV work and his theatrical-film prominence vis-a-vis THE IMPCRESS FILE (65) when he helmed the British social melodrama The Boys. The title characters are four youths, all implicated in the murder of a night watchman. Robert Morley plays ..read more »
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62%
from 5 members
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Battle Of The Sexes
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Peter Sellers, Robert Morley, Constance Cummings
Director: Charles Crichton
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THE BATTLE OF THE SEXES is a witty black comedy from Ealing comedy director Charles Crichton. The House of MacPherson has been supplying Scottish tweeds for years--its weavers make the tweed in their homes on the Scottish islands, and the staff sells it in the company's Edinburgh premises. When Old ..read more »
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60%
from 495 members
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Beat The Devil
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Gina Lollobrigida
Director: John Huston
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BEAT THE DEVIL is a whimsical parody of THE MALTESE FALCON and other 1940's detective movies in which Bogart so often starred (and John Huston directed). The film tells of the exploits of a group of travelers on a steamboat, each of whom hope to carry off a huge swindle in the uranium fields of ..read more »
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56%
from 444 members
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The Final Test
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Jack Warner, Robert Morley, George Relph
Director: Anthony Asquith
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A cricket drama which follows the final test in the series between England and Australia. England's favourite player is retiring after the match and wants his son to witness his final game, but his son would rather interview an eccentric poet. Fortunately the poet would rather watch the match too.
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67%
from 65 members
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The African Queen
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
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In John Huston's AFRICAN QUEEN, the boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut (Humphrey Bogart), saves prim and proper Rose Sayer (Katharine Hepburn) after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set ..read more »
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72%
from 7,022 members
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The Young Ones / Wonderful Life
on DVD
Starring: Cliff Richard, Robert Morley, Carole Gray
Director: Sidney J. Furie
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The Young Ones When aspiring young pop singer Nicky Black (Cliff Richard) learns that his local youth club is to be demolished by his millionaire tycoon father (Robert Morley), he and his friends decide to stage a variety show to buy the lease. But as they begin jamming the airwaves with pirate ..read more »
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63%
from 494 members
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Hopkins is pure class in otherwise routine actioner. 28 June 2004
...n everything he does.
In all, well worth a watch for the Hopkins, a delicious Robert Morley, good location work, and a brisk plot....
Not a classic but pretty good. 30 January 2005
