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Robert Morley
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Robert Morley - what members say
review by A customer from Wales
Hopkins is pure class in otherwise routine actioner. 28 June 2004
review by SolarvanMan from North Yorkshire
Not a classic but pretty good. 30 January 2005
review by from London, England
Uncertain Salvation 8 September 2007
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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A tale that centers around three unlikely heroes as they attempt to settle an outrageous wager. An eccentric London inventor, Phileas Fogg, has come up with the secrets to flight, electricity, and even roller-blades, but the world has dismissed him as a crackpot. Desperate to be taken seriously, ..read more »
 
54%
from 496 members
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Alice In Wonderland
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Beau Bridges, Lloyd Bridges, Patrick Duffy
Director: Harry Harris
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This lavish 1982 made-for-TV version of the Lewis Carroll classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND features an all-star cast. Such celebrities as Donald O'Connor, Maureen Stapleton, and Eve Arden struggle to perform while buried under mounds of makeup and tons of eccentric costuming as Carroll's alternate-world ..read more »
61%
from 60 members
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The Human Factor
(1979)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Joop Doderer, John Gielgud
Director: Otto Preminger
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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 »
54%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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The Blue Bird
(1976)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner
Director: George Cukor
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A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities
57%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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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..
64%
from 550 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 »
67%
from 1,405 member
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Sinful Davey
(1969)
Starring: John Hurt, Pamela Franklin, Nigel Davenport
Director: John Huston
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Davey Haggart is quite certain of his paternity (even if nobody else is) and determined to emulate his father, a notorious rogue and highwayman. This includes breaking a man out of Stirling jail, holding up the stagecoach, and robbing the Duke of Argyll, among other feats. Unfortunately, he is ..read more »
60%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Life At The Top
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Laurence Harvey, Jean Simmons, Honor Blackman
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Certificate: 
Laurence Harvey turns in an excellent performance in this sequel to the highly successful Room At The Top which follows the life of a social climber whose self-doubt tarnishes his success. With his marriage to the boss' daughter on the rocks, Harvey finds himself embroiled in an affair with a ..read more »
62%
from 25 members
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Hot Enough For June
(1964)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley
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 »
55%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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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 »
59%
from 473 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 »
70%
from 52 members
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Go To Blazes
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Maggie Smith, Dave King, Robert Morley
Director: Michael Truman
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Bernard, Harry and Alfie are three charming but unsuccessful crooks who smash and grab tactics rarely come off. On their way for another stint behind bars they see the traffic part for an on call fire engine and hatch a new plan.
Upon their release they set out to acquire a fire engine to use as ..read more »
64%
from 32 members
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The Young Ones
on DVD
(1961)
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 »
63%
from 580 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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In this 1959 comedy, Robert MacPherson (Robert Morley) inherits his family's textile business in Edinburgh, Scotland, then hires American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings) to bring the business into the modern age. The House of MacPherson has long been known as a manufacturer of ..read more »
60%
from 608 members
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The Adventures of Quentin Durward
(1955)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Kay Kendall, Robert Morley
Director: Richard Thorpe
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In 1465, honorable, but penniless Scottish knight Quentin Durward (Robert Taylor) agrees to go to France to find out if the beautiful, young heiress, Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy (Kay Kendall), would be a suitable wife for his aged uncle (that is, if she is as rich as is claimed). The marriage has ..read more »
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from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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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 »
58%
from 588 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.
68%
from 94 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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The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship.
Based on ..read more »
73%
from 8,420 members
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Outcast Of The Islands
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley
Director: Carol Reed
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Adapted from The Joseph Conrad novel of the same name, 1952’s inimitable Outcast Of The Islands, directed by Oscar® winning director Carol Reed (The Third Man, Oliver!), feature Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) as Willems and Ralph Richardson (Peer Gynt, Falstaff) as Lingard. Peter ..read more »
50%
from 8 members
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African Queen - Blu-ray
(1951)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley
Director: John Huston
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The boozing, smoking, cussing captain of a tramp steamer, Charlie Allnut, saves prim and proper Rose Sayer after her brother is killed by German soldiers at the beginning of World War I in Africa. Many quarrels later, the two set sail on the Ulonga-Bora in order to sabotage a German ship.
Based on ..read more »
79%
from 337 members
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Robert Morley facts
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...n everything he does.
In all, well worth a watch for the Hopkins, a delicious Robert Morley, good location work, and a brisk plot....
