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Dora Bryan - what members say

A Taste Of Honey review by from London, England

Outstanding Dramedy 7 June 2004
... of a film with a racy storyline for the time that it was made which was 1961. Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens and Rita Tushingham are excellent in their protrayal of the th... Read customer review

Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery review by cheeky2xist from Liverpool

Of Its Time 15 December 2008
...heart of the movie, the girls in the 'Great Train Robbery' are merely extras to Dora Bryan and Frankie Howard who carry this film. This movie is not at all PC, and may ca... Read customer review

Dora Bryan - filmography

Mirror Mask on DVD (2005)
Starring: Dora Bryan, Rob Brydon, Andy Hamilton
Director: Dave McKean
Certificate:
Mirrormask is the story of Helena, who works for the family circus and wishes that she could run away and join real life. But this is not to be the case as she finds herself on a strange journey in the Dark Lands, a fantastic landscape filled with giants, Monkeybirds and dangerous sphinxes. Helena ..read more »

56% from 8,185 members

Up The Front on DVD (1972)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley
Director: Bob Kellett
Certificate:
In Frankie Howerd's third UP... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow ..read more »

59% from 330 members

Hands of the Ripper (1971)
Starring: Eric Porter, Jane Merrow, Angharad Rees
Director: Peter Sasdy
Certificate:
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Jack the Ripper's daughter (Angharhad Rees) carries on the family trade, warped as a child after witnessing her father murder her mother. Eric Porter plays a Freudian doctor who studies the disturbed woman

60% from 191 members
Not available for rental

Two A Penny on DVD (1967)
Starring: Cliff Richard, Dora Bryan, Avril Angers
Director: James F. Collier
Certificate:
An art student becomes involved in drug dealing because he has no money. Stealing and cheating his deceit impacts on the lives of those around him.

50% from 124 members

The Sandwich Man (1966)
Starring: Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
Certificate:
Performed mostly in mime, this comical tale relates the daily life of a sandwich man, and his encounters with many of his very eccentric acquaintances.

60% from 86 members
Not available for rental

Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery on DVD (1966)
Starring: Dora Bryan, George Cole, Eric Barker
Director: Sidney Gilliat, Frank Launder
Certificate:
Leaving a notorious trail of arson behind them, the St. Trinian's schoolgirls are always on the move. Their headmistress is more than 'just friends' with the Minister of Schools. Armed with a government grant, she re-houses her girls in yet another home - Hamingwell Grange. What she doesn't know is ..read more »

71% from 897 members

A Taste Of Honey (1961)
Starring: Rita Tushingham, Dora Bryan, Robert Stephens
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate:
Tony Richardson continued in the vein of kitchen-sink realism with this adaptation of Shelagh Delaney's novel of working-class life. Set in England in the early 1960s, A TASTE OF HONEY stars Rita Tushingham as the waifish Jo, a plain 17-year-old girl who is dragged from one shabby bed-sitter to ..read more »

70% from 3,276 members
Not currently released

Carry On Sergeant on DVD (1958)
Starring: William Hartnell, Bob Monkhouse, Eric Barker
Director: Gerald Thomas
Certificate:
This is the classic first CARRY ON film. Sergeant Grimshaw (William Hartnell) hopes to retire in a blaze of glory by winning the Star Squad prize with his final platoon. However, these recruits (Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Connor, and other CARRY ON regulars) turn out to be a ..read more »

66% from 1,588 member

Donald Sinden Icon Collection - You Know... on DVD (1954)
Starring: Donald Sinden, Akim Tamiroff, Sarah Lawson
Director: Ken Annakin
Certificate:
A fun frolic involving a fake secret weapon (accidentally created during a drinking bout), naval bureaucracy, political maneuvering and the hareem and palace of the exotic eastern country of Agraria.

55% from 28 members

Cockleshell Heroes on DVD (1954)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Jose Ferrer, Dora Bryan
Director: Jose Ferrer
Certificate:
Inspired by a true story, the film follows a group of ten 'canoe-commandos' who are taken, by sub-marine, close to the French coast. They must make a highly dangerous journey through 70 miles of enemy waters to destroy giant German battleships.

68% from 1,240 member

Donald Sinden Icon Collection - Mad Abou... on DVD (1954)
Starring: Donald Sinden, Glynis Johns, Anne Crawford
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
This time Miranda swaps places with a schoolteacher who has gone on holiday. All is well until she falls in love with a human.

67% from 44 members

Desert Mice on DVD (1954)
Starring: Alfred Marks, Sid James, Dora Bryan
Director: Michael Ralph
Certificate:
A fair stab at yet another World War II comedy, this film by Michael Ralph features the humorous antics of an ENSA troupe (the British equivalent of the American USO) and an absurd involvement with an army major (Alfred Marks) that leads to the capture of a German commanding officer (Marius Goring)...read more »

60% from 52 members

Gift Horse on DVD (1952)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Richard Attenborough, James Donald
Director: Compton Bennett
Certificate:
Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough star in this famous story of a Royal Navy destroyer and her officers and crew during the early years of the Second World War. H.M.S. Ballantrae is an ex-U.S. Navy destroyer - one of fifty lent by the Americans in 1940 to a desperate Royal Navy fighting to keep ..read more »

70% from 121 members

Time Gentlemen Please on DVD (1952)
Starring: Thora Hird, Dora Bryan, Raymond Lovell
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
The PM is planning a celebration visit to the model village of Little Hayhoe. However, local lay-about Dan Dance refuses to work, so he's shipped off to the local almshouse where he awaits an uncertain, yet very funny future

65% from 281 members

Scarlet Thread on DVD (1951)
Starring: Kathleen Byron, Sydney Tafler, Dora Bryan
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Certificate:
Laurence Harvey stars as a social-climbing crook in this 1951 crime thriller in which a robbery goes wrong.

40% from 2 members

The Fallen Idol on DVD (1948)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Dora Bryan
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate:
In this thriller with a twist, the great Ralph Richardson portrays a kindly butler who is falsely accused of murder. The only person who can save him is a small boy, who unwittingly makes the innocent man appear guilty. Graham Greene adapted his own short story into an award-winning screenplay.

70% from 824 members

Donald Sinden Icon Collection (11 discs) on DVD
Starring: Donald Sinden, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern
Director: Ralph Thomas, Ken Annakin, Muriel Box
Certificate:
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

Dora Bryan facts

5 most recent films

Mirror Mask - 3.0 stars
Up The Front - 3.0 stars
Hands of the Ripper - 3.0 stars
Two A Penny - 2.5 stars
The Sandwich Man - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery - 3.5 stars
A Taste Of Honey - 3.5 stars
The Fallen Idol - 3.5 stars
Gift Horse - 3.5 stars
Cockleshell Heroes - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Scarlet Thread - 2.0 stars
Donald Sinden Icon Collection - You Know What Sailors Are - 3.0 stars
Donald Sinden Icon Collection - Mad About Men - 3.5 stars
Two A Penny - 2.5 stars
Mirror Mask - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Donald Sinden - 3 times - show films
Sid James - 3 times - show films
Stanley Holloway - 3 times - show films
April Wilding - 2 times - show films
Marjorie Rhodes - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ken Annakin - 2 times - show films
Lewis Gilbert - 2 times - show films
Peter Sasdy - 2 times - show films
Ralph Thomas - 2 times - show films
Dave McKean - 2 times - show films