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John Mills - what members say
review by from england
excellent adaptation 6 January 2005
review by from London, England
Worth waiting for.......... 9 July 2004
review by A customer from Richmond,Surrey,UK
Martial Art !! 9 September 2008
John Mills - filmography
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Jack Cardiff - Cameraman
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Jack Cardiff, John Mills, Thelma Schoonmaker
Director: Craig McCall
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Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for - John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe - and described by Michael Powell as "A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world." Yet ..read more »
 
76%
from 159 members
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Bright Young Things
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Stephen Campbell Moore, Peter O'Toole, Jim Broadbent
Director: Stephen, Fry
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Adapted from Evelyn Waugh's novel "Vile Bodies" - BRIGHT YOUNG THING is the directorial debut for Stephen Fry and follows the lives of a novelist, Adam (Stephen Campbell Moore) and his would-be lover, Nina (Emily Mortimer) as they mix with the 'bright young things' who inhabit the upper echelons of ..read more »
59%
from 7,067 members
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Sir John Mills' Moving Memories
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: John Mills
Director: Marcus Dillistone
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A fascinating look at the life and career of one of British cinema's most endearing actors, Sir John Mills. Using his own never before seen home movies, and clips from many of his most famous movies, the star of such films as ICE COLD IN ALEX, SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON and SCOTT OF THE ANTARCTIC tells ..read more »
67%
from 137 members
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Cats
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Elaine Paige, John Mills, Ken Page
Director: Trevor Nunn, Gillian Lynne
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This ultimate DVD edition of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Cats is one thing all fans of this phenomenal theatrical smash hit will want to have in their collection. Disc One: Original musical feature. Disc Two: Interviews with original creative team of composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, producer Cameron ..read more »
66%
from 2,430 members
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Bean - The Ultimate Disaster Movie
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Rowan Atkinson, Peter MacNicol, Pamela Reed
Director: Mel Smith
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In his big-screen debut, the bumbling, barely verbal Mr. Bean lands in Los Angeles, where he has been sent to "guard" Whistler's Mother as it changes hands between the London National Art Gallery and a chic private gallery. Absurd laughs from the hilarious Atkinson.
60%
from 5,905 members
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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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Who's That Girl
on DVD
(1987)
Starring: Madonna, Haviland Morris, John McMartin
Director: James Foley
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Upon her release a streetwise parolee, innocent of the crime for which she was jailed, is to be driven to the bus station by a strait-laced attorney. But she has other ideas, and the poor attorney must face the fact that his world is about to dissolve into chaos...
57%
from 1,033 member
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When The Wind Blows
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Peggy Ashcroft, John Mills, Robin Houston
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
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A darkly satirical and deeply affecting tale, WHEN THE WIND BLOWS concerns the final days of Jim and Hilda Bloggs, an elderly couple living in the remote Sussex countryside, whose almost romantic, rose-tinted memories of World War II are put into sharp relief when they are faced with the threat of ..read more »
74%
from 2,520 members
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Gandhi
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Upon his return to his native India and fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress ..read more »
75%
from 18,764 members
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Gandhi - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Richard Attenborough's award-winning epic recounts the life and times of Mahatma Gandhi. In South Africa, a young Indian lawyer is booted off a train for refusing to ride second-class. Upon his return to his native India and fed up with the unjust political system, he joins the Indian Congress ..read more »
79%
from 1,009 member
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Zulu Dawn
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Peter O'Toole, Simon Ward
Director: Douglas Hickox
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ZULU DAWN depicts the bloody Battle of Isandhlwana, in which 30,000 Zulu warriors wiped out nearly 1,500 British troops stationed in Natal. The film focuses most sharply on the preparations for battle and the political situation in the region at that time. Taking Zulu chief Cetshwayo's defiant ..read more »
64%
from 1,908 member
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The Thirty Nine Steps
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter
Director: Don Sharp
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It is 1914. Europe is on the brink of war. London seems peaceful enough but a dangerous conspiracy is underway. Colonel Scudder of the British Intelligence has unearthed a plot to assassinate the Greek Prime Minister on a visit to London and thus precipitate World War I. Richard Hannay (dashing ..read more »
70%
from 949 members
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The Big Sleep
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Richard Boone
Director: Michael Winner
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A faithful remake of the 1946 original in which private eye Philip Marlowe finds himself involved in murder, blackmail and violence when hired to protect a General's young daughter.
51%
from 784 members
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The Human Factor
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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George Kennedy stars in this 1970s revenge film as John Kinsdale, a military employee stationed in Naples who uses state-of-the-art (for the time) computer technology to track down the terrorists who killed his family. Local police inspector Dr. Lupo (Raf Vallone) and Kinsdale’s commander (Arthur ..read more »
54%
from 40 members
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Oklahoma Crude
(1973)
Starring: George C Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills
Director: Stanley Kramer
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t's oil boom time in Oklahoma and Lena Doyle, a hard-bitten, cynical feminist has a fight on her hands: the big oil companies don't like the fact that she's working a potentially profitable wildcat rig. Reluctantly, Lena must accept the aid of her estranged father Cleon, and Mason, the man he hires ..read more »
60%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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The Family Way
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, John Mills
Director: Roy Boulting
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The Family Way Jenny (Hayley Mills)and Arthur Fitton (Hywel Bennett) are two sensitive youngsters who fail to consummate their recent marriage, following the vulgar ribaldry of their typically working class wedding. The situation is compunded by the couple having to live in the same house as his ..read more »
69%
from 908 members
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Sky West And Crooked
(1966)
Starring: Hayley Mills, Ian McShane, Annette Crosbie
Director: John Mills
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A girl with learning difficulties is traumatised at a young age after witnessing an accidental death of a child. Essentially abandoned by her alcoholic mother and misunderstood and ostracized by the 1960s English rural community she lives in, suspicious of the circumstances of the accident, she ..read more »
77%
from 42 members
Not available for rental
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The Wrong Box
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Michael Caine, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
Director: Bryan Forbes
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Years before the story proper in THE WRONG BOX gets under way, a 'tontine' is drawn up on behalf several young British boys. Each of the boys' parents had placed £1,000 in a pool, to be invested and expanded upon. The resultant fortune will go to the last surviving member of the tontine. A series ..read more »
63%
from 346 members
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Operation Crossbow
(1965)
Starring: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Director: Michael Anderson
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During World War II, the British suspect that the Nazis are secretly building a new kind of long-range missile. English operatives -- disguised as German scientists -- are then sent to discover the source of the weapons -- and sabotage the project. Can the spies thwart the efforts of the nefarious ..read more »
67%
from 40 members
Currently unavailable
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Tiara Tahiti
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Mason, John Mills
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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A former army officer travels to Tahiti with the purpose of building a resort hotel there. His efforts are stymied when he encounters his ex-commanding officer already living on the island.
66%
from 29 members
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Flame In The Streets
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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The faces of racism at work and at home provide the focus of this drama. When union members threaten to strike because their new foreman is black, the union boss persuades them not to by reminding them that a man's skin colour has nothing to do with his competence and worth. His words take on a new ..read more »
68%
from 24 members
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Tunes of Glory
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Alec Guinness, John Mills, Dennis Price
Director: Ronald Neame
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In Ronald Neame's Tunes of Glory, the incomparable Alec Guinness inhabits the role of Jock Sinclair - a whiskey-drinking, up-by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man, who expects respect and loyalty from his men. But when Basil ..read more »
75%
from 484 members
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The Singer Not the Song
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylene Demongeot
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Billed as 'A New and Powerfully Different Kind of Motion Picture Story' upon release, this unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A Night to Remember (1958) director Roy Baker. Father Keogh (John Mills) is a Catholic priest who arrives in the remote ..read more »
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from 44 members
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Swiss Family Robinson
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: John Mills, Dorothy McGuire, James MacArthur
Director: Ken Annakin
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None of the many cinemadaptations of Johan Wyss' The Swiss Family Robinson are as relentlessly enjoyable as this 1960 Disney feature. The film wastes no time getting down to business, with the shipwreck of the Robinson family occurring as the credits flash across the screen. Fashioning a raft, the ..read more »
64%
from 1,907 member
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Tiger Bay
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: John Mills, Horst Buchholz, Hayley Mills
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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A 12-year-old Hayley Mills made her big-screen debut in this melodramatic thriller as Gillie, a young girl living in Cardiff. She accidentally witnesses a Polish sailor named Korchinsky shoot his girlfriend dead in a fit of rage after he finds out she's left him for another man. Gillie steals the ..read more »
72%
from 140 members
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Ice Cold In Alex - Blu-ray
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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This classic World War II drama stars John Mills as an ambulance driver who escapes the siege of Tobruk in the company of a sergeant major, a nurse and a South African officer who has become separated from his unit. Suspicions arise about whether one of the group is a German spy who is undermining ..read more »
80%
from 208 members
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Ice Cold In Alex
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Anthony Quayle
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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This classic World War II drama stars John Mills as an ambulance driver who escapes the siege of Tobruk in the company of a sergeant major, a nurse and a South African officer who has become separated from his unit. Suspicions arise about whether one of the group is a German spy who is undermining ..read more »
75%
from 4,859 members
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Dunkirk
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Robert Urquhart
Director: Leslie Norman
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1940 France. A British Corporal is forced to take responsibility for the lives of his men when their officer is killed in battle. The troops are boxed in and he has to get them back to Britain somehow. Meanwhile, British civilians are recruited into the British war effort with Operation Dynamo, the ..read more »
74%
from 1,046 member
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The Baby and the Battleship
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: John Mills, Richard Attenborough, Andre Morell
Director: Jay Lewis
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After a quayside mix-up with the Italian family of his fiancée, able Seaman, Knocker White, finds himself literally left holding the baby. Unable to return it before his ship sails he enlists the help of best mate Puncher Roberts to smuggle the child aboard. But babies are surprisingly demanding ..read more »
68%
from 66 members
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It's Great to Be Young
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: John Mills, Cecil Parker, John Salew
Director: Cyril Frankel
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Mr. Dingle is the popular music teacher in an English school, but when the headmaster threatens to close down the school band the pupils and Mr. Dingle must unite and use their musical skills to save the school band.
70%
from 74 members
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The End Of The Affair
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, the clandestine lover of married Briton Sarah Miles ..read more »
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from 141 members
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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 »
70%
from 1,939 member
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Hobson's Choice
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Director: David Lean
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A story of feminism in 19th Century Salford, Hobson's Choice deals with the empowering of female characters. Henry Hobson is a widower with a weakness for the pub and the owner of a successful bootmakers. In order to save his finances he denies his three daughters the right to marry. So in ..read more »
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from 1,623 member
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The Gentle Gunman
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty
Director: Basil Dearden
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Terrance Sullivan is a member of the IRA and has moved to London, along with his brother and a group of IRA members, to wreak havock on London. However Terrance becomes weary of the constant violence and refuses duirect orders to blow up a railway station. The IRA soon place a price on the Gentle ..read more »
66%
from 85 members
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Morning Departure
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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In 'Morning Departure' a Navy Submarine hits a mine whilst searching for German shipping. The resulting explosion sends it to the bottom of the sea. Some of the crew can escape using the hatches but the rest remain trapped and have to hope that they will be rescued in time
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from 153 members
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The History of Mr Polly
(1949)
Starring: John Mills, Betty Ann Davies
Director: Anthony Pelissier
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John Mills stars in this celebrated adaptation of the H.G. Wells classic. Mr Polly is a sensitive soul, idling away his days as a humble draper's assistant until one day he is abruptly sacked for daydreaming at work. His well-ordered life is plunged into chaos, until his father's death suddenly ..read more »
64%
from 205 members
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The Rocking Horse Winner
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Charles Goldner, Hugh Sinclair, John Howard Davies
Director: Anthony Pelissier
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D.H. Lawrence's classic story is brought to life by some of the leading stars of British cinema. John Mills stars as a groom who fires the imagination of a lonely young boy with stories of horse racing. The boy develops the knack of picking race winners with uncanny accuracy...
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from 13 members
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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Based on a true story, this powerful film is about a woman called Madeleine (Ann Todd) who embarks on an affair with a penniless Frenchman. Madeleine hails from a wealthy, respectable family so the relationship as to remain secret while her father parades eligible suitors in front of her.
67%
from 172 members
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The October Man
(1947)
Starring: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed. [Black and White]
60%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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Lean's definitive version of the Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years ..read more »
75%
from 334 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later ..read more »
72%
from 5,375 members
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The Way To The Stars
(1945)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, John Mills, Rosamund John
Director: Anthony Asquith
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Anthony Asquith's THE WAY TO THE STARS is an outstanding drama set during the Second World War. When a deserted airfield in rural England becomes a bustling fighter command base, Americans arrive to join the Royal Air Force and help turn the tide of war. Various conflicts and relationships arise ..read more »
67%
from 506 members
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
70%
from 499 members
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This Happy Breed - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
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from 1 member
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We Dive At Dawn
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: John Mills, Eric Portman, Jack Watling
Director: Anthony Asquith
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We Dive At Dawn is a gripping tale of WWII naval warfare in the Baltics, starring John Mills as Lt. Freddie Taylor, a British submarine Captain. The crew of the Sea Tiger are summoned from leave on shore with their families, and sent on a secret mission to intercept the Nazi battleship Brandenburg. ..read more »
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from 1,252 member
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In Which We Serve
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Director: Noel Coward, David Lean
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An engrossing account of the sinking of the British destroyer HMS Torrin during the Battle of Crete. Three survivors on a raft recount their lives aboard the sunken vessel. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay.
69%
from 2,019 members
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Cottage to Let
(1941)
Starring: John Mills, George Cole, Michael Wilding
Director: Anthony Asquith, Anthony Asqu
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A film adaptation, with the original stage actors, of one of the first war-time stage thrillers about an unsuspecting inventor who is in danger of being kidnapped by a Fifth Columnist organisation.
69%
from 135 members
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Goodbye, Mr. Chips
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Director: Sam Wood
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Based on the novel by James Hilton, GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS is the story of a shy schoolteacher who dedicates his life to his boys. In an Oscar-winning performance, Robert Donat plays Mr. Chipping, a young classics scholar en route to his first assignment at the reputable Brookfield school. Although his ..read more »
74%
from 3,033 members
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Donald Sinden Icon Collection
(11 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Donald Sinden, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern
Director: Ralph Thomas, Ken Annakin, Muriel Box
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Features the Donald Sinden films A DAY TO REMEMBER, YOU KNOW WHAT SAILORS ARE, THE BEACHCOMBER, MAD ABOUT MEN, ABOVE US THE WAVES, AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY, TIGER IN THE SMOKE, EYEWITNESS, THE BLACK TENT, ROCKETS GALORE, and MIX ME A PERSON.
64%
from 75 members
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Charles Dickens Collection
(8 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Hordern, Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins
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Featuring a box set of the BBC adaptations of popular tales from Charles Dickens. Includes: 'The Pickwick Papers', 'Oliver Twist', 'A Christmas Carol', 'Martin Chuzzlewit', 'David Copperfield', 'A Tale Of Two Cities', 'Great Expectations', and 'Our Mutual Friend'.
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from 2,720 members
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John Mills - Centenary Collection Vol.2
(7 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Noelle Middleton, John Mills, Elizabeth Sellars
Director: Anthony Asquith, Ralph Thomas, Robert Hamer
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This second volume in the JOHN MILLS CENTENARY COLLECTION features eight films starring the iconic British actor. Includes CAR OF DREAMS, FOREVER ENGLAND, THE WAY TO THE STARS, THE LONG MEMORY, ABOVE US THE WAVES, THE VICIOUS CIRCLE, TIGER BAY and RYAN'S DAUGHTER.
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...neous material to create a tight narrative. The acting is superb, particularly John Mills and Alec Guinness, and the tale of Pip's woes as he atteempts to impress Estrel...
