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David Niven
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David Niven - what members say
review by flippertbk from Milton Keynes, England
One of my favourite films 14 July 2004
review by from London
A World War II Classic not to be missed!! 22 November 2004
review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
2 August 2004
David Niven - filmography
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Rough Cut
(1980)
Starring: Burt Reynolds, Lesley-Anne Down, David Niven
Director: Don Siegel
Certificate: 
A romantic comedy with action and suspense. Two sophisticated jewel thieves join forces to steal $30 million in uncut jewels. Despite a continuous exchange of quips they eventually become romantically involved.
 
45%
from 2 members
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The Sea Wolves
(1980)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Certificate:
They were the unlikeliest heroes of World War II - the gray-haired veterans of the Calcutta Light Horse, who hadn't seen action since the Boer War, but were fated to become The Sea Wolves. Retelling of true wartime exploits hidden until the 1978 British Official Secrets Act lifted security ..read more »
69%
from 56 members
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Escape To Athena
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Certificate: 
On a Greek island during World War II, a diverse group of POWs come up with a plan to escape from their Nazi captors--and retrieve valuable stolen art at the same time. Although an unlikely ally comes to the aid of the prisoners, there is no guarantee that they will succeed in their missions. Will ..read more »
58%
from 778 members
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Escape To Athena - Blu-ray
(1979)
Starring: Roger Moore, Telly Savalas, David Niven
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Certificate:
On a Greek island during World War II, a diverse group of POWs come up with a plan to escape from their Nazi captors--and retrieve valuable stolen art at the same time. Although an unlikely ally comes to the aid of the prisoners, there is no guarantee that they will succeed in their missions. Will ..read more »
58%
from 118 members
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Richard Jordan, David Niven
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
Pinky is released from prison and has decided to go straight from now on, but accidentally getting himself a job as a maintenance man at a large bank, gives him a lot of undue attention from Ivan the Terrible, the local hoodlum. By using Pinky, Ivan hopes to rob the bank and Pinky starts to like to ..read more »
43%
from 19 members
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Death On The Nile
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Simon MacCorkindale, Jack Warden, Angela Lansbury
Director: John Guillermin
Certificate:
A deluxe version of Agatha Christie's favourite mystery story, published in 1937, and a thematic follow-up to her Murder on the Orient Express. Set aboard a steamship cruising down the Nile, an extremely unpopular heiress is murdered and everyone on the ship is suspect. The passengers include the ..read more »
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from 1,216 member
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Candleshoe
(1977)
Starring: David Niven, Jodie Foster, Helen Hayes
Director: Norman Tokar
Certificate: 
Casey Brown (Jodie Foster), a street-wise L.A. kid, joins with a con man (Leo McKern) to cheat Lady St. Edmund (Helen Hayes) whom they believe possesses buried treasure. Casey poses the woman's long-lost granddaughter, but soon finds that life in the mansion isn't what she had expected. This film ..read more »
68%
from 119 members
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Murder By Death
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Eileen Brennan, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
Director: Robert Moore
Certificate:
Neil Simon's screenplay is a clever spoof on murder mysteries in which eccentric millionaire Lionel Twain (Truman Capote) invites the world's greatest detectives to his home and challenges them to solve the perfect murder. Among the sleuths that try to solve the case are Milo Perrier (James Coco), ..read more »
66%
from 2,132 members
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Paper Tiger
(1975)
Starring: David Niven, Toshirô Mifune, Toshiro Mifune
Director: Ken Annakin
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A somewhat prim and proper Englishman is hired as the tutor to the son of the Japanese ambassador. His life changes when he and the boy are kidnapped by terrorists for political purposes.
66%
from 11 members
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The Statue
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: David Niven, Robert Vaughn, John Cleese
Director: Rodney Amateau
Certificate: 
David Niven is Alex, a scholar who has won the Nobel Prize for developing a universal language. The U.S. State Department has decided to honor him with a statue, to be displayed in London's Grosvenor Square. The commission for the project went to Alex's wife Rhonda (Virna Lisi), who has designed a ..read more »
47%
from 30 members
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Casino Royale
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter Sellers, David Niven, Ursula Andress
Director: Val Guest, John Huston, Ken Hughes
Certificate:
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This swinging spoof of Ian Fleming's spy hero concerns an aging James Bond (David Niven), reluctantly dragged out of retirement to face down the evil crime clique called SMERSH. In order to confound the enemy, the Secret Service sends five other agents, also under the name "Bond," and all six ..read more »
51%
from 2,866 members
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Lady L
(1965)
Starring: Sophia Loren, Paul Newman, David Niven
Director: Peter Ustinov
Certificate:
Today Lady Louise Lendale is 80 years old and she tells her long time admirer, British poet Sir Percy, all about her eventful life. In the beginning, she was a young laundress working in "Le Mouton Bleu", a renowned Paris whorehouse. There, she met Armand, both a charming man and a bomb-throwing ..read more »
52%
from 4 members
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Bedtime Story
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Marlon Brando, David Niven, Shirley Jones
Director: Ralph Levy
Certificate:
In this 1960s comedy, Freddy Benson (Marlon Brando) and Lawrence 'The Prince' Jameson (David Niven) are two charming scoundrel confidence trickster gigolos who prey on wealthy women taking holidays on the French Riviera. The pair join a playful competition to see who is best at the job, and the ..read more »
58%
from 327 members
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55 Days at Peking
(1963)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, David Niven
Director: Nicholas Ray
Certificate:
The courage and leadership of U.S. Marine (Charlton Heston) and British Ambassador (David Niven) are the only hope against insurmountable odds, while a beautiful Russian Countess (Ava Gardner) must choose between freedom and commitment.
60%
from 49 members
Currently unavailable
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Road To Hong Kong
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, Joan Collins
Director: Norman Panama
Certificate:
In the seventh ROAD... movie wisecracking Chester Babcock (Bob Hope) loses his memory, it leads to a wacky espionage adventure for him and his vaudeville partner Harry (Bing Crosby). The duo's exploits take them from Sri Lanka to Hong Kong, as they contend with a comely spy (Joan Collins) and a ..read more »
60%
from 363 members
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The Guns Of Navarone
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Gregory Peck, David Niven, Anthony Quinn
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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The guns of Navarone are huge Nazi cannons, installed on an Aegean island behind enemy lines. Anthony Quayle is the officer assigned by the British to lead a task force to put the guns out of commission. When Quayle is injured, the mission winds up in the relatively inexperienced hands of Gregory ..read more »
70%
from 5,364 members
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Please Don't Eat the Daisies
(1960)
Starring: Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige
Director: Charles Walters
Certificate:
David Niven meets his match when he crosses Doris Day's path and questions her ambitions. Niven plays a drama critic who copes with his wife's remodeling plans and a conniving actress friend at the same time...
68%
from 455 members
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Separate Tables
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven
Director: Delbert Mann
Certificate:
Life in an English bed and breakfast where the eccentric guests all have one common trait – loneliness. There's Major Pollack who hides a dark secret behind a polished military veneer; Sibyl Railton-Bell, a shy, neurotic old maid who lacks the courage to break away from her domineering mother. John ..read more »
69%
from 537 members
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Bonjour Tristesse
on DVD
(1958)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Jean Seberg
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate:
Francoise Sagan's bittersweet novel Bonjour Tristesse is given a sumptuous Riviera-filmed screen treatment. David Niven plays a wealthy playboy, the father of teenaged libertine-in-the-making Jean Seberg. Seberg tolerates most of her father's mistresses, but doesn't know what to make of the prudish ..read more »
60%
from 653 members
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Around The World In 80 Days
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: David Niven, Robert Newton, Shirley MacLaine
Director: Michael Anderson
Certificate:
Razzle-dazzle showman Michael Todd hocked everything he had to make this spectacular presentation of Jules Verne's 1872 novel Around the World in 80 Days, the second film to be lensed in the wide-screen Todd-AO production. Nearly as fascinating as the finished product are the many in-production ..read more »
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from 1,427 member
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Appointment with Venus
(1951)
Starring: David Niven, Kenneth More, Kenneth More
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
Delightful World War II farce based on the novel by Jerrard Tickell. At the outbreak of WWII, the Ministry of Agriculture and the War Office join forces to launch a daring mission to rescue a highly lucrative pedigree cow, Venus, from the German-occupied Channel Island of Armorel. English Army ..read more »
30%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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The Bishop's Wife
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Cary Grant, David Niven, Loretta Young
Director: Henry Koster
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David Niven plays preoccupied, harrassed Bishop Henry Brougham whose prayers are answered at Christmas when an angel (played by Cary Grant) is sent from heaven to help him raise money for a new church, enabling him to give his full attention to his neglected wife (Loretta Young) and parishioners. ..read more »
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from 1,707 member
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The Way Ahead
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, William Hartnell
Director: Carol Reed
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Boasting a script by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, The Way Ahead [1944] is a rousing version of a familiar WWII genre: an officer must hammer a small group of disparate characters into an effective fighting unit as quickly as possible. David Niven stars as tough-minded Lieutenant Jim Perry, who ..read more »
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from 771 members
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The Major And The Minor
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Ginger Rogers, David Niven, Charles Coburn
Director: Garson Kanin, Billy Wilder
Certificate:
New York working girl Ginger Rogers is desparate to go home to Iowa but does not have the railway fare so she disguises herself as a child to ride half fare. Enroute she meets Ray Milland, an Army major teaching at a military school., who takes her under his wing.
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from 58 members
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The First Of The Few
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: David Niven, Leslie Howard, Rosamund John
Director: Leslie Howard
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This fictionalized biopic tells the story of R.J. Mitchell (Leslie Howard), the British aviator who developed the Spitfire--an ace fighter plane, and Geoffrey Crisp (David Niven, who was granted military leave to star in the film), his daring test pilot who tells the tale in flashback. After ..read more »
71%
from 530 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 »
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from 2,686 members
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...rope in WWII to the miraculous survival (or so it appears) of the ever so sauve David Niven to Heaven - and back again. Or did everything take place in his head - the wild...
