Ursula Howells

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Ursula Howells - what members say

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England

Lucy in the Sky 15 February 2011
... of English Grand Guignol made on the cusp of the 1970s, with theatrical legend Ursula Howells in the leading role. Very arch and decadent, and an object lesson for any young... Read customer review

The Beast Must Die on DVD (1974)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Herbert Lomas, Calvin Lockhart
Director: Roy Ward Baker, Freddie Francis, Peter Duffell
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Wealthy businessman and skilled huntsman, Tom Newcliffe (Calvin Lockhart) summons a selection of guests to his home for the weekend, one of whom is a werewolf with a taste for blood. It's up to the others to seek out the monster before the full moon reveals the culprit. Featuring a 30 second "guess ..read more »

56% from 646 members

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly on DVD (1970)
Starring: Ursula Howells, Pat Heywood, Howard Trevor
Director: Freddie Francis
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A quartet of bizarre British blue bloods get their kicks by kidnapping male victims and bringing them to their estate in the country. After one man (Hugh Armstrong) is killed in an in-house chase, a local playboy (Michael Bryant) is blackmailed into coming to the house. The four fiends chase him ..read more »

69% from 103 members

Crossplot on DVD (1969)
Starring: Roger Moore, Martha Hyer, Alexis Kanner
Director: Alvin Rakoff
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Roger Moore stars in this action-packed thriller as a British ad executive whose relations with a model from Hungary involve him in a scandalous web of romance and death. Set in London in the 1960s, CROSSPLOT sees an ordinary businessman's life turned upside down by the deception of a beautiful ..read more »

53% from 147 members

Dr Terrors House Of Horrors on DVD (1965)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Ursula Howells, Max Adrian
Director: Freddie Francis
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A mysterious, dark fortune teller named Schreck joins five travelers (Christopher Lee, Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch, Donald Sutherland, and Alan Freeman) on a train, offering to predict their futures with Tarot cards. The stories he sees in his deck of cards, or what he refers to as his "house of ..read more »

66% from 1,292 member

The Long Arm on DVD (1956)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, John Stratton, Dorothy Alison
Director: Charles Frend
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A well-made police thriller which follows a Scotland Yard Detective Superintendent as he finds links between a recent robbery from a safe in a London office building and other similar crimes over the past two years. In every instance the make of the safe was the same.

73% from 272 members

Keep It Clean on DVD (1956)
Starring: Ronald Shiner, James Hayter, Diane Hart
Director: David Paltenghi
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An all-star comedy cast with Ronald Shiner headlining in Keep it Clean and playing an advertising agency's wheeler/dealer who is attempting to sell a new invention - the Demon Cleaner - to the public. Comic chaos ensues when he has to keep debt collectors, unhappy crumpet clients and a posse of ..read more »

52% from 79 members

Operation Diplomat / The Sicilians on DVD
Starring: Guy Rolfe, Patricia Dainton, Sydney Tafler
Director: John Guillermin, Ernest Morris
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Titles Comprise: Operation Diplomat: Like Portait Of Alison and The Broken Horseshoe this thriller was originally made as a BBC television drama, and was based on a story by popular crime writer Francis Durbridge. Forced to work on a mystery patient, surgeon Mark Fenton (Guy Rolfe) finds the ..read more »

62% from 24 members

The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly - 3.5 stars
Crossplot - 2.5 stars
Dr Terrors House Of Horrors - 3.5 stars
The Long Arm - 3.5 stars

The Long Arm - 3.5 stars
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny And Girly - 3.5 stars
Dr Terrors House Of Horrors - 3.5 stars
The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars
Crossplot - 2.5 stars

Operation Diplomat / The Sicilians - 3.0 stars
Keep It Clean - 2.5 stars
Crossplot - 2.5 stars
The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars
Dr Terrors House Of Horrors - 3.5 stars

Anton Diffring - 3 times - show films
Peter Cushing - 3 times - show films
Max Adrian - 3 times - show films
Roy Castle - 3 times - show films
Herbert Lom - 2 times - show films

Freddie Francis - 4 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 2 times - show films
Peter Duffell - 2 times - show films
David Paltenghi - 1 times - show films
John Guillermin - 1 times - show films