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Donald Crisp
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Donald Crisp - what members say
review by SAI81 from Tonbridge
Broken Blossoms 27 May 2008
review by A customer from London
A lot of fun 23 May 2006
Donald Crisp - filmography
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Greyfriars Bobby
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Donald Crisp, Laurence Naismith, Kay Walsh
Director: Don Chaffey
Certificate: 
The true story of a Skye terrier who, after a vigil at his master's grave for fourteen years, became well-known throughout Scotland, and eventually received a gold licence from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh.
 
69%
from 1,404 member
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A Dog of Flanders
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: David Ladd, Donald Crisp, Theodore Bikel
Director: James B Clark
Certificate:
This joyful classic, is a story about a young Dutch boy Nello (David Ladd) and his grandfather (Donald Crisp) who find a badly beaten dog (star of Disney's Old Yeller), with near fatal wounds and valiantly fight to restore him to health. The young Nello dreams of becoming a great painter until the ..read more »
64%
from 44 members
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The Man From Laramie
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Aline MacMahon, John War Eagle, James Stewart
Director: Anthony Mann
Certificate:
Anthony Mann directed this brilliant psychological Western reminiscent of Shakespeare's King Lear. James Stewart plays Will Lockhart, who is obsessed with finding the man who sold automatic rifles to the Apaches, resulting in the death of his brother. Will enters the town of Coronado, NM, ruled by ..read more »
66%
from 1,147 member
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Prince Valiant - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner
Director: Henry Hathaway
Certificate:
The Saturday matinee adventure classic is back! Young Prince Valiant travels to Camelot to become a squire for Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's legendary knights, unaware that the traitor that sold his father King Aguar to the pagan rival King Sligon is already seated at the Round Table!
With ..read more »
52%
from 33 members
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Prince Valiant
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: James Mason, Janet Leigh, Robert Wagner
Director: Henry Hathaway
Certificate:
The Saturday matinee adventure classic is back! Young Prince Valiant travels to Camelot to become a squire for Sir Gawain, one of King Arthur's legendary knights, unaware that the traitor that sold his father King Aguar to the pagan rival King Sligon is already seated at the Round Table!
With ..read more »
63%
from 27 members
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Home Town Story
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Jeffrey Lynn, Donald Crisp, Marjorie Reynolds
Director: Arthur Pierson
Certificate:
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Blake Washburn is a failed Senator, who decides to take the position of editor of the Herald newspaper after having lost an election. He is determined to uncover big business malpractice, but as an accident on a school trip occurs, Washburn's beliefs are questioned.
43%
from 112 members
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National Velvet
(1945)
Starring: Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor, Anne Revere
Director: Clarence Brown
Certificate:
NATIONAL VELVET is the poignant family story that made a young Elizabeth Taylor a star. Taylor excels as Velvet Brown, a 1920s working-class girl whose dreams of owning her own horse become a reality when she wins Pie, a wild and unruly horse, in a raffle. With the help of Mi Taylor (Mickey Rooney),..read more »
71%
from 622 members
Not currently released
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The Uninvited
(1944)
Starring: Ray Milland, Ruth Hussey, Donald Crisp
Director: Lewis Allen
Certificate: 
The UNINVITED is one of the rare Hollywood ghost stories that does not cop out with a "logical" ending. In fact, the film has more in common with British ghost tales of the period, in that the characters calmly accept spectral visitations as though they were everyday occurrences. Roderick ..read more »
70%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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How Green Was My Valley
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Donald Crisp, Sara Allgood, Anna Lee
Director: John Ford
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In John Ford's HOW GREEN IS MY VALLEY, Huw Morgan, now a middle-aged man leaving the mining town of Cwm Rhondda, recalls the events that most impressed themselves upon his younger self (Roddy McDowall). His first memories are of the marriage of his brother, Ivor (Patric Knowles), and the burgeoning ..read more »
67%
from 1,562 member
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The Sea Hawk
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains
Director: Michael Curtiz
Certificate:
Geoffrey Thorpe is an adventurous and dashing pirate, who feels that he should pirate the Spanish ships for the good of England. In one such battle, he overtakes a Spanish ship and when he comes aboard he finds Dona Maria, a beautiful Spanish royal. He is overwhelmed by her beauty, but she will ..read more »
74%
from 526 members
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Wuthering Heights
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven
Director: William Wyler
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When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff, a ragamuffin orphan, he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. Instantly Heathcliff falls hopelessly in love with the daughter of the house, the beautiful but headstrong Catherine. When a wealthy neighbor woos her, Catherine's ..read more »
64%
from 2,686 members
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Jezebel
(1938)
Starring: Henry Fonda, George Brent, Margaret Lindsay
Director: William Wyler
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Set in the antebellum South, William Wyler's JEZEBEL centres on high society beauty Julie Marsden. Julie first arrives on horseback, then enters her home flamboyantly hooking the long flowing train of her dress with her riding crop and hoisting it to her shoulders. Julie is not just high-spirited-..read more »
77%
from 53 members
Currently unavailable
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Svengali
(1931)
Starring: John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Crisp
Director: Archie Mayo
Certificate: 
Through hypnotism and telepathic mind control, a sinister music maestro controls the singing voice, but not the heart, of the woman he loves.
32%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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The Black Pirate
on DVD
(1926)
Starring: Donald Crisp, Sam De Grasse, Douglas Fairbanks
Director: Albert Parker
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The Black Pirate was hailed in 1926 as the return of the Douglas Fairbanks who'd breezed through several peppy comedies before starring in lavish costume epics like Robin Hood (1922) and Thief of Bagdad (1924). The story involves a young nobleman (Fairbanks) whose father is killed by pirates. He ..read more »
54%
from 78 members
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Broken Blossoms
on DVD
(1919)
Starring: Lillian Gish, Donald Crisp, Richard Barthelmess
Director: D.W. Griffith
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This strangely beautiful silent film from D.W. Griffith is also one of his more grim efforts; an indictment of child abuse and the violence of western society. An ideological Asian (Richard Barthelemess) travels to the west in hopes of spreading the Buddha's message of peace to the round-eyed "sons ..read more »
64%
from 511 members
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Lassie Box Set
(3 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp
Director: Fred M. Wilox
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Lassie, the ever-dependable rescue dog, comes to the aid of some more hapless humans as they get into various scrapes. Family adventure with a cosy moral subtext. Includes the following:
Lassie Come Home (Dir. Fred McLeod Wilcox) (1943): Lassie - a faithful collie dog, is sold by her poor family - ..read more »
68%
from 173 members
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Donald Crisp facts
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