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  • The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
  • Rated - 5.0 stars Tom Courtenay's impressive debut... 29 July 2004
    ...s freedom... Colin is selected by the school's proudly competitive governor (Michael Redgrave) to 'raise the tone' of Borstal when an opportunity arises for the lad to compe...   Read customer review
  • The Dam Busters
  • The Dam Busters review by from Lancashire
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Great Classic War Film 19 May 2005
    ... using an ingenious technique to drop bombs where they would be most effective. Michael Redgrave plays Dr. Barnes N. Wallis, CBE, FRS invented the bouncing bomb from a seemingl...   Read customer review
  • Dead of Night
  • Dead of Night review by NAYLAND from Grays
    Rated - 4.0 stars Grandfather of Horror Anthologies 23 March 2008
    ...iloquist's Dummy is actually alive! This segment is indeed the best and has Sir Michael Redgrave in the lead and so gives the whole performance some credibility. The creepiness...   Read customer review

Michael Redgrave - filmography


  • The Go-Between on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Margaret Leighton,  Alan Bates,  Julie Christie
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel about Leo Colston, a middle-aged man (Michael ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 1,373 member
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  • Goodbye Gemini on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Marion Diamond,  Judy Geeson,  Martin Potter
    Director: Alan Gibson
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Two 20 year old twins have a bizarre incestuous relationship. Julian (Martin Potter) and his sister Jacki (Judy Geeson) carry on the affair and only reveal their secrets to a stuffed teddy bear named Agamemnon. While their father is absent, they murder the housekeeper and run wild at night. Drugged ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 88 members
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  • Battle Of Britain on DVD (1969)
    Starring: Laurence Olivier,  Michael Caine,  Robert Shaw
    Director: Guy Hamilton
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 5,155 members
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  • Heidi on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Jennifer Edwards,  Maximilian Schell
    Director: Delbert Mann
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    This is a made-for-television version of Johanna Spyri's timeless classic about a young orphan girl named Heidi living with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. At first Heidi finds him to be a cold and distant man, but soon her heartwarming nature sheds light and a newfound happiness on her once ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 34 members
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  • The 25th Hour (1967)
    Starring: Anthony Quinn,  Virna Lisi,  Grégoire Aslan
    Director: Henri Verneuil
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis invade his country. Because local police chief ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 7 members
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  • Alice In Wonderland (1966)
    Starring: John Gielgud,  Peter Cook,  Alan Bennett
    Director: Jonathan Miller
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on the classic book by Lewis Carroll, this version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND was originally produced for BBC1 in 1966 by Jonathan Miller, and is one of the more original and stylish adaptations to date. Drawing inspiration from Victorian photography and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Miller's vision ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 778 members
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  • The Innocents on DVD (1961)
    Starring: Deborah Kerr,  Peter Wyngarde,  Megs Jenkins
    Director: Jack Clayton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on Henry James's TURN OF THE SCREW, THE INNOCENTS is a chilling psychological horror film about a woman, Miss Giddens (Kerr), who takes a position as governess for two orphans in a stately Victorian home. Alone with the children and only a few servants, Miss Giddens soon begins to see what ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 2,338 members
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  • The Innocents - Blu-ray (1961)
    Starring: Deborah Kerr,  Peter Wyngarde,  Megs Jenkins
    Director: Jack Clayton
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Based on Henry James's TURN OF THE SCREW, THE INNOCENTS is a chilling psychological horror film about a woman, Miss Giddens (Kerr), who takes a position as governess for two orphans in a stately Victorian home. Alone with the children and only a few servants, Miss Giddens soon begins to see what ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 398 members
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  • The Wreak of the Mary Deare (1959)
    Starring: Gary Cooper,  Charlton Heston,  Michael Redgrave
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Talented special effects and adventure director Michael Anderson (Around the World in 80 Days, 1956) keeps the suspense going in this drama about the wreck of the Mary Deare. John Sands (Charleton Heston) is the captain of a salvage ship that is almost rammed by the apparently abandoned Mary Deare. ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 55% from 4 members
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  • Time Without Pity on DVD (1957)
    Starring: Leo McKern,  Lois Maxwell,  Alec McCowen
    Director: Joseph Losey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In TIME WITHOUT PITY, director Joseph Losey delivers yet another multi-layered, atmospheric thriller. The film follows an alcoholic father (Michael Redgrave) who struggles to save his innocent son from the gallows, even as a cruel rival (Leo McKern) continues to keep him on the defensive. This was ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 85 members
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  • 1984 on DVD (1956)
    Starring: Edmond O'Brien,  Jan Sterling,  Michael Redgrave
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    After The Atomic War the world is divided into three states. London is the capital of Oceania, ruled by a party who has total control over all its citizens. Winston Smith is one of the bureaucrats, rewriting history in one of the departments. One day he commits the crime of falling in love with ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 278 members
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  • Mr. Arkadin on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Robert Arden,  Katina Paxinou,  Paola Mori
    Director: Orson Welles
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A dying man's final words send two people to Gregory Arkadin (Orson Welles), a mysterious and much-feared billionaire who lives on a Xanadu-like castle. In Welles's noirish MR. ARKADIN, Robert Arden stars as Guy Van Stratten, an adventurer and fortune hunter who is interested in Arkadin's money--..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 56% from 620 members
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  • Night My Number Came Up on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Sheila Sim,  Alexander Knox
    Director: Leslie Norman
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A pilot recounts a dream in which a plane carrying eight passengers crashes in the mountains of Japan. An Air Marshal due to fly to Tokyo the next day overhears the dream but thinks nothing of it, until a series of events manages to convince him that the premonition might actually become a reality.
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 151 members
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  • The Dam Busters on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Richard Todd,  Michael Redgrave,  Ursula Jeans
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The British The Dam Busters is the story of the development and utilization of the bouncing bombs in World War II. Michael Redgrave stars as Dr. Barnes Wallis, who developed these unorthodox explosives. Wallis' invention is put to practical use during the British raid on the Ruhr Dams in Germany. ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 8,105 members
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  • The Years Between on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Valerie Hobson,  Michael Redgrave,  Flora Robson
    Director: Compton Bennett
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne Du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 88 members
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  • The Way To The Stars (1945)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  John Mills,  Rosamund John
    Director: Anthony Asquith
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 506 members
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  • Thunder Rock on DVD (1942)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Barbara Mullen,  James Mason
    Director: Roy Boulting
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on a play by Robert Ardrey, Michael Redgrave stars in this powerful and intriguing drama as a political journalist who retreats from the corrupt world of the press to seek solace in a remote lighthouse station. Soon he is having visions of those whose lives have been lost to the sea, a ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 57% from 220 members
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  • The Stars Look Down on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Linden Travers,  Margaret Lockwood,  Michael Redgrave
    Director: Carol Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    This powerful depiction of life in a depression-era Welsh mining town features Michael Redgrave as Davey Fenwick, the idealistic son of a collier, who aspires to improve the lives of the local miners by fighting for reform in their treacherous workplace. But his efforts are hampered by the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 254 members
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  • The Great War (7 discs)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave
    Director: Mario Monicelli
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    In the early 1960s the BBC embarked on one of their most important and ambitious series ever. It was to be the definitive history of the First World War, complete in twenty-six 40-minute episodes. An inspired account of the world-shattering events of 1914-1918, The Great War is narrated by Sir ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 786 members
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Michael Redgrave facts

5 most recent films

The Go-Between - 3.5 stars
Goodbye Gemini - 3.0 stars
The Go-Between - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Battle Of Britain - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Battle Of Britain - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Dam Busters - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Land Of Promise - The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 - 4.0 stars
The Browning Version - 4.0 stars
Battle Of Britain - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Great War - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Behind The Mask - 2.0 stars
The Wreak of the Mary Deare - 3.0 stars
The 25th Hour - 3.0 stars
Heidi - 3.0 stars
The Terence Rattigan Collection - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kenneth More - 10 times - show films
Jean Kent - 7 times - show films
Vivien Leigh - 6 times - show films
Edward Fox - 6 times - show films
Laurence Olivier - 6 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Anthony Asquith - 11 times - show films
Mario Monicelli - 8 times - show films
Anatole Litvak - 6 times - show films
Guy Hamilton - 4 times - show films
Michael Anderson - 4 times - show films