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  • The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner
  • Rated - 5 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...  
  • The Dam Busters
  • The Dam Busters review by from Lancashire
    Rated - 5 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...  
  • Dead of Night
  • Dead of Night review by NAYLAND from Grays
    Rated - 4 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...  

Michael Redgrave - filmography


  • 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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 4,609 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 »
    Rate this: 2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 3 members
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  • Innocents, The - BLU-RAY Version (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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 10 members
    Due for release on 22nd March 2010
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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 »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 1,656 member
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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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 60% from 43 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 147 members
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  • Mr. Arkadin on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Robert Arden,  Paola Mori,  Michael Redgrave
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 519 members
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  • Night My Number Came Up (1955)
    Starring: Michael Redgrave,  Sheila Sim,  Alexander Knox
    Director: Leslie Norman
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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.
    Rate this: 5 stars out of 5 100% from 1 member
    Due for release on 22nd February 2010
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  • The Dam Busters on DVD (1954)
    Starring: Richard Todd,  Michael Redgrave,  Ursula Jeans
    Director: Michael Anderson
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the most popular British war films of all time, THE DAM BUSTERS tells the true story of one of the most daring and brilliant raids of World War II. With the campaign for Europe in the balance, Dr. Barnes Wallis (Michael Redgrave) comes up with an ingenious design for a bouncing bomb which ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 7,235 members
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  • The Years Between on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Valerie Hobson,  Michael Redgrave
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 57% from 42 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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 54% from 162 members
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  • The Stars Look Down on DVD (1939)
    Starring: Margaret Lockwood,  Michael Redgrave,  Edward Rigby
    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 »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 215 members
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  • The Great War (7 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Michael Redgrave
    Director: Mario Monicelli
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Two reluctant Italian army draftees try to avoid going to the battle front during World War II. When they are sent into town for supplies they scam a way to spend the night partying and falling in love. The next morning, they wake up to find that their whole battalion has been killed. It changes ..read more »
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 722 members
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Michael Redgrave facts

5 most recent films

Go-Between, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The Go-Between - 3.5 stars
Battle Of Britain - BLU-RAY Version - 3.5 stars
Battle Of Britain - 3.5 stars
Heidi - 2.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Dam Busters, The - BLU-RAY Version - 4.0 stars
Land Of Promise - The British Documentary Movement 1930 - 1950 - 4.0 stars
The Browning Version - 4.0 stars
John Mills - Centenary Collection Vol.2 - 4.0 stars
The Great War - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Heidi - 2.5 stars
The 25th Hour - 2.5 stars
Go-Between, The - BLU-RAY Version - 3.0 stars
The Years Between - 3.0 stars
Time Without Pity - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Edward Fox - 4 times - show films
Laurence Olivier - 4 times - show films
Ursula Jeans - 3 times - show films
Alec McCowen - 3 times - show films
Nigel Patrick - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Anthony Asquith - 5 times - show films
Michael Anderson - 3 times - show films
Joseph Losey - 3 times - show films
Anthony Mann - 2 times - show films
Guy Hamilton - 2 times - show films