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Rachel Roberts - what members say

This Sporting Life review by Zamy from London

Great film 4 April 2005
... the black and white images just look great. The acting from Richard Harris and Rachel Roberts is first rate with strong support from the likes of Alan Badel, Arthur Lowe and... Read customer review

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning review by Forpor from Henley-On-Thames

The film that set the standard 26 April 2009
...skills as an actor - and inspired the contribution of others - particularly Rachel Roberts. The blend of broad comedy, intense anger and foolish courage is related to ... Read customer review

Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express review by GraftheGreatest from London, England

Superb rendition of Christie's locomotive thriller! 19 May 2004
...erre Cassel, Dennis Quilley, Vanessa Redgrave, Jacqueline Bisset, Michael York, Rachel Roberts, Anthony Perkins, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sir John Gielgud & George Cou... Read customer review

Rachel Roberts - filmography

Never Apologize on DVD (2007)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Alan Bates
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
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The documentary of Malcolm McDowell's celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature. Directed by Mike Kaplan, whose friendship with McDowell began on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and who produced Anderson's last ..read more »

59% from 275 members

When A Stranger Calls on DVD (1979)
Starring: Charles Durning, Carol Kane, Colleen Dewhurst
Director: Fred Walton
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A psychotic killer is arrested for making tormenting phone calls to a young babysitter, but returns seven years later to continue the nightmare.

54% from 660 members

Yanks on DVD (1979)
Starring: Richard Gere, Vanessa Redgrave, Lisa Eichhorn
Director: John Schlesinger
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From early 1942 until D-Day, several million Americans landed in Britain on their way to fight at the European front. To the war-weary British, many of these troops were "overpaid and oversexed." But despite the resentment, with thousands of men abroad, the stage was set for romantic dalliances ..read more »

67% from 834 members

Foul Play (1978)
Starring: Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Burgess Meredith
Director: Colin Higgins
Certificate:
Gloria is propelled into a world of wild chases, bizarre attempts on her life and deadly encounters with as assortment of weird underworld characters. When a handsome San Francisco detective Tony Carlson, also becomes personally and professionally involved with all the odd things happening to Gloria.

73% from 105 members
Currently unavailable

Picnic at Hanging Rock - Blu-ray (1975)
Starring: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse
Director: Peter Weir
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When a group of schoolgirls from an elite Victorian finishing school embark on a Valentine's day excursion to an unusual outcropping of volcanic rock, four members of the party are drawn towards the summit, where they experience powerful forces of time, nature, and eroticism, and vanish into thin ..read more »

70% from 265 members

Picnic at Hanging Rock on DVD (1975)
Starring: Rachel Roberts, Dominic Guard, Helen Morse
Director: Peter Weir
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Situated somewhere between supernatural horror and lush Victorian melodrama, director Peter Weir's lyrical, enigmatic masterpiece is an imaginative tease. The setting is a proper turn-of-the century Australian boarding school for girls, a suffocating institution built on strict moral codes, ..read more »

65% from 3,115 members

Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient E... on DVD (1974)
Starring: Jean-Pierre Cassel, Sean Connery, Rachel Roberts
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Like many of Agatha Christie's mysteries, Murder on the Orient Express is predicated on an actual event, in this case the Lindbergh kidnapping. In the movie, everyone on board the Orient Express seems to have concluded that hateful financier Ratchett (Richard Widmark) was behind the abduction and ..read more »

63% from 1,321 member

O Lucky Man! on DVD (1973)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Arthur Lowe, Ralph Richardson
Director: Lindsay Anderson
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Lindsay Anderson, working again with Malcolm McDowell and Robert Sherwin, continues his comic comment on corruption in British society when Mick Travis (Malcolm McDowell), the school boy from IF. . ., sets out, like a modern Candide, to make his way in the business world. Anderson stretches the ..read more »

71% from 1,104 member

The Belstone Fox (1973)
Starring: Eric Porter, Rachel Roberts, Heather Wright
Director: James Hill
Certificate:
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Based on the book 'The Ballad of the Belstone Fox', which was also the source for the Disney classic 'The Fox & The Hound', this live action film sees Tag, an orphaned fox, raised with a litter of fox hounds, form a friendship with a puppy, Merlin. As time goes on their friendship is put to the ..read more »

64% from 318 members
Not available for rental

This Sporting Life (1963)
Starring: Richard Harris, Rachel Roberts, Alan Badel
Director: Lindsay Anderson
Certificate:
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Adapted from David Storey's novel of the same title, THIS SPORTING LIFE is a gritty, unblinking look at life in the coal mining region of Northern England as seen through the eyes of Frank Machin. Richard Harris gives a remarkable performance as Machin, a proud man who wants to quit his job as a ..read more »

67% from 1,946 member
Not currently released

Girl On Approval on DVD (1961)
Starring: Rachel Roberts, James Maxwell, Annette Whiteley
Director: Charles Frend
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Sheila's 14. Her father abandoned her as a baby, her mum's in jail and she's stuck in a children's home. Every family that's tried to look after her has found her too difficult. Now Anne and John Howland want to foster Sheila. But if they can't make a home for her, her future looks bleak... ..read more »

55% from 4 members

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - Blu-ray (1960)
Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Hylda Baker
Director: Karel Reisz
Certificate:
Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in ..read more »

75% from 225 members

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning on DVD (1960)
Starring: Albert Finney, Shirley Ann Field, Hylda Baker
Director: Karel Reisz
Certificate:
Set in the gray industrial town of Nottingham, Alan Sillitoe's novel SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING, with all of its bleak realism, is successfully adapted to the screen with a powerful performance by Albert Finney in his first starring role. Director Karel Reisz draws on his work in ..read more »

71% from 5,015 members

Rachel Roberts facts

5 most recent films

Never Apologize - 3.0 stars
When A Stranger Calls - 2.5 stars
Yanks - 3.5 stars
Foul Play - 3.5 stars
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Foul Play - 3.5 stars
Saturday Night And Sunday Morning - 3.5 stars
O Lucky Man! - 3.5 stars
Picnic at Hanging Rock - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Girl On Approval - 3.0 stars
When A Stranger Calls - 2.5 stars
Never Apologize - 3.0 stars
Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express - 3.0 stars
The Belstone Fox - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Anne-Louise Lambert - 6 times - show films
Jacki Weaver - 6 times - show films
Helen Morse - 6 times - show films
Dominic Guard - 6 times - show films
Richard Harris - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Peter Weir - 6 times - show films
Lindsay Anderson - 4 times - show films
Mike E. Kaplan - 2 times - show films
Karel Reisz - 2 times - show films
James Hill - 2 times - show films