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Bryan Forbes
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Bryan Forbes - filmography
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The Slipper And The Rose
(1976)
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Three features. 'The Slipper And The Rose' is a musical version of the classic 'Cinderella' tale. 'Legends Of The Fall' is the story of three brothers. 'First Knight' finds the Guinevere of Leonesse agreeing to marry King Arthur if his army will protect her country.
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67%
from 524 members
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Raging Moon
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Nanette Newman, Bernard Lee, Malcolm McDowell
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Malcolm McDowell stars as a young working class man confined to a wheelchair by a crippling disease. Nanette Newman is the polio victim who restores his faith in love and life.
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60%
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King Rat
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Inside a Japanese POW camp during World War II, an American prisoner runs a black market operation for the benefit of his fellow captives, and among his "merchandise" he includes rats, breeded to supplement prisoners' food rations.
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65%
from 367 members
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Darling
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Director: John Schlesinger, Bryan Forbes
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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »
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62%
from 1,600 member
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Seance On A Wet Afternoon
(1964)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Kim Stanley, Nanette Newman
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
A woman who masquerades as a medium, has her husband kidnap a girl so that she can help the police to 'find' her.
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65%
from 309 members
Not available for rental
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The L-Shaped Room
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron
Director: Bryan Forbes
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A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.
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74%
from 171 members
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Whistle Down The Wind
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Alan Bates, Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Three motherless children believe that the murderer they found sheltering in a barn is really Christ. A thoughtful study of childhood innocence and simple faith. Based on a novel by Mary Hayley Bell.
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73%
from 957 members
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The Guns Of Navarone
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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One of the great war movies of all time, with an all start cast, and a gripping plot--based on the Alistair MacLean novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek Island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a ..read more »
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70%
from 4,648 members
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The League Of Gentlemen
(1960)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough
Director: Basil Dearden
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This British crime story has a delightfully dangerous premise: An ex-army colonel angered at being let after 25 years of service to his country, decides to fight back and put together what could be considered a nice severance package for himself. Armed with information he learned on the job, he ..read more »
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55%
from 1,293 member
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Quatermass 2
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Brian Donlevy, John Longden, Sid James
Director: Val Guest
Certificate: 
Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which, on his arrival, he finds has been destroyed...
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64%
from 1,051 member
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The Colditz Story
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: John Mills, Eric Portman, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Guy Hamilton
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This collection features four of the greatest British war films of all time. THE DAM BUSTERS, starring Michael Redgrave and Richard Todd, is a World War II adventure which centers around the British efforts to destroy two enormous dams in Germany. In THE COLDITZ STORY, starring John Mills, a group ..read more »
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69%
from 1,689 member
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An Inspector Calls
(1954)
Starring: Alastair Sim, Arthur Young, Brian Worth
Director: Guy Hamilton
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A young girl is murdered, and an Inspector calls on a prosperous Yorkshire household investigating the sad circumstances behind her death. Each one of the family has a secret - and each one is partly responsible for the girl's fate. The determined Inspector must prove their collective guilt and the ..read more »
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75%
from 1,116 member
Not currently released
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Bryan Forbes facts
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Clever film of its day that still resonates 30 December 2004
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Starring Katharine Ross and Nanette Newman and directed by Newman's husband Bryan Forbes, TSW shows a brilliantly eerie and sinister view of what could happen if women ...
Caron and Christie 26 August 2005
