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Anthony Quayle
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review by A customer from Worthing, England
marvellous film 31 March 2005
Anthony Quayle - filmography
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The Thief And The Cobbler
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Clinton Sundberg, Joan Sims, Stanley Baxter
Director: Richard Williams
Certificate: 
Richard Williams directs this animated Arabian adventure about a lowly cobbler who falls in love with a Princess. Brought to the royal palace after incurring the wrath of evil sorcerer Zigzag (voice of Vincent Price), shy cobbler Tack (voice of Matthew Broderick) quickly falls for the charms of ..read more »
 
67%
from 24 members
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The Bourne Identity
(1988)
Starring: Denholm Elliott, Jaclyn Smith, Donald Moffat
Director: Roger Young
Certificate: 
Espionage thriller in which a man who has lost his memory but gained several bullet wounds must avoid assassins on his tail in Europe and try to find out who he is. Originally made in two parts for television.
70%
from 3,661 members
Currently unavailable
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Masada
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Barbara Carrera, Peter O'Toole, Giulia Pagano
Director: Boris Sagal
Certificate: 
Epic historical TV mini-series in which Jewish zealots hold out against the superior numbers of the Roman army. 70 years after the crucifixion, Jerusalem finally falls to Roman rule, with the remaining rebels withdrawing to the heavily fortified mountain stronghold of Masada, south of the city. ..read more »
64%
from 497 members
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Henry IV - Part One
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Jon Finch, David Gwillim
Director: David Giles
Certificate:
In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. These are ..read more »
66%
from 188 members
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The Eagle Has Landed - Blu-ray
(1977)
Starring: Jenn, Maurice Roeves, Sven-Bertil Taube
Director: John Sturges
Certificate:
John Sturges' adaptation of Jack Higgins' semi-factual novel using an all-star cast. In 1943, a group of Nazi soldiers parachute into Norfolk and infiltrate a small village near the holiday retreat of Winston Churchill. Their plan is to assassinate the British Prime Minister but the villagers are ..read more »
71%
from 713 members
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21 Hours At Munich
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: William Holden, Richard Basehart, Shirley Knight
Director: William A. Graham
Certificate:
Based on the true story of terrorism striking at the 1972 Olympics in Germany, this film does not spare viewers the violence and intensity of the real event. A Munich police chief learns that during the games a group of Palestinian extremists have kidnapped members of the Israeli team. With the ..read more »
52%
from 184 members
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Moses The Lawgiver
(2 discs)
(1975)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Anthony Quayle
Director: Gianfranco De Bosio
Certificate:
Burt Lancaster stars as the Old Testament prophet in this 1975 mini-series. Baby Moses is taken in and raised by an Egyptian princess when an edict is passed calling for the death of all first-born Hebrew babies. When his surrogate mother dies, Moses returns to his impoverished people, marrying ..read more »
48%
from 52 members
Not available for rental
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Strange Report
(5 discs)
(1969)
Starring: Anthony Quayle
Director: Charles Crichton
Certificate: 
All sixteen episodes of the cult 1960s detective drama. Anthony Quayle plays Adam Strange, a Home Office criminologist drawn into the investigation of bizarre and baffling cases that are beyond the skills of the normal police. Ably assisted by American graduate student Hamlyn (Kaz Garas) and his ..read more »
64%
from 204 members
Not available for rental
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Anne Of The Thousand Days
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Nora Swinburne, Michael Hordern, Peter
Director: Charles Jarrott
Certificate:
Richard Burton stars as Henry VIII in this historical drama, with Genevieve Bujold playing his tragic wife, Anne Boleyn. Amidst the splendour of the Tudor court, Henry and Anne's tempestuous marriage mirrors the political and religious intrigues that threaten to divide the kingdom, as Henry grows ..read more »
72%
from 694 members
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
Arizona sheriff Sam MacKenna (Gregory Peck) thinks his luck is in when he is given a map to a mythical 'Valley of Gold'. But the news of the map travels fast, and soon everyone wants a piece of the action, including the brutal bandit Colorado (Omar Sharif). Colorado captures MacKenna and forces him ..read more »
63%
from 459 members
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Operation Opium
(1966)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard
Director: Terence Young
Certificate:
Made-for-TV thriller, based on the story by Ian Fleming, about narcotics agents trying to trace heroin shipments in Europe. After a UN agent is murdered trying to trace opium routes in Iran, two of his compatriots take over the case, coming up with an ingenious plan to inject a radioactive isotope ..read more »
42%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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A Study In Terror
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Neville, Robert Morley, Donald Houston
Director: James Hill
Certificate:
The famous detective brings his skills to bear on the bloody crimes of Jack the Ripper, in Victorian London's notorious East End. With the whole city in a panic, Holmes (John Neville) receives a mysterious clue in the form of a surgical box, marked with an aristocratic family crest. From this, ..read more »
58%
from 231 members
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Espionage
(1963)
Starring: Anthony Quayle, Roger Livesey
Director: Michael Powell
Certificate:
The complete 24 episodes of the early 1960s anthology series which tracked various spies around the world, both real and fictional, as they went about their top-secret business. Episodes are: 'A Covenant With Death', 'The Incurable One', 'The Gentle Spies', 'He Rises On Sunday and We On Monday', '..read more »
47%
from 8 members
Not available for rental
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H.M.S. Defiant
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Murray Melvin, Maurice Denham, Tom Bell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the years of the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Crawford (Alec Guinness) is respected by his crew as a fair and just leader of men, but his second-in-command, Lt. Scott-Padget (Dirk Bogarde), is known as a bitter sadist who likes to see the sailors suffer. ..read more »
66%
from 613 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia - Blu-ray
(1962)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Donald Wolfit
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
David Lean's lush, Oscar-winning biopic stars Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-educated British army officer who aided the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Teaming up with Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence crosses a desert (considered uncrossable) in order to join two separate ..read more »
87%
from 266 members
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The Guns Of Navarone
(1961)
Starring: Bryan Forbes, Anthony Quinn, Stanley Baker
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory ..read more »
70%
from 5,437 members
Currently unavailable
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The Challenge
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Anthony Quayle, Carl Möhner
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Jayne Mansfield makes a departure from her usual roles to play tough girl Billy in this dark crime story. Set in London during the 1960s, the film casts Mansfield as the ringleader of a band of robbers. After a failed heist, her boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Quayle), is captured, but not before he ..read more »
59%
from 27 members
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Serious Charge
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Olive Sloane, Leigh Madison, Cliff Richard
Director: Terence Young
Certificate:
A local trouble maker is accused by the priest of being responsible for the death of a young girl. Inorder to get revenge he accuses the priest of making homosexual advances towards him. Based on a play by Philp King.
61%
from 73 members
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Ice Cold In Alex
on DVD
(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 »
75%
from 4,965 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 255 members
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Woman In A Dressing Gown
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Max Butterfield, Carole Lesley, Yvonne Mitchell
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
Anthony Quayle and Sylvia Syms star in this 1950s British drama about marital strife. Fed up with his wife Amy (Yvonne Mitchell)'s frumpy appearance and bad housekeeping skills, long-married Jim Preston (Quayle) begins an affair with co-worker Georgie (Sylvia Syms), who threatens to break it off ..read more »
72%
from 146 members
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The Wrong Man
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Manny Ballestero is an honest hardworking musician at New York's Stork Club. When his wife needs money for dental treatment, Manny goes to the local insurance office to borrow on her policy. Employees at the office mistake him for a hold-up man who robbed them the year before and the police are ..read more »
69%
from 1,358 member
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval ..read more »
65%
from 1,852 member
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
Laurence Olivier directs and stars in this adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Hamlet (Olivier), Prince of Denmark, is still mourning over the death of his father and his mother Gertrude's (Eileen Herlie) subsequent remarriage to Hamlet's despised uncle, Claudius (Basil Sydney), who is now ..read more »
71%
from 60 members
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...lm with a terrific story and marvellous acting particularly from John Mills and Anthony Quayle. It kept me entranced all the way through and I do not usually enjoy war films...
