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The Shooting Party
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Edward Fox, Dorothy Tutin, James Mason
Director: Alan Bridges
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In October 1913, a group of aristocratic men and women gather for a shooting party at an estate in the heart of the English countryside. Assured and opulent, they move through the elaborate rituals of an Edwardian country house party. But times are changing and the values that have ordered their ..read more »
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Yellowbeard
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Peter Cook
Director: Mel Damski
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The comic saga of an infamous pirate who has just been released from the prison where he spent the last 15 years. He soon makes up for lost time.
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61%
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Evil Under The Sun
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Colin Blakely
Director: Guy Hamilton
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Peter Ustinov is Hercule Poirot, the master detective, in this Agatha Christie murder mystery film. An opulent beach resort provides a scenic background to this amusing whodunit as Poirot attempts to uncover the nefarious evildoer behind the strangling of a notorious stage star. Is the killer one ..read more »
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Salem's Lot
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: David Soul, James Mason, Lance Kerwin
Director: Tobe Hooper
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With Salem's Lot, a blood-curdling shocker based on the novel by Stephen King, director Tobe Hooper (Poltergeist) sends the time-honored vampire legend soaring on bat wings into the modern era.
Sinister events bring together a writer (David Soul) fascinated with an old hilltop house, a suave ..read more »
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Murder By Decree
(1979)
Starring: Christopher Plummer, James Mason, Donald Sutherland
Director: Bob Clark
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Christopher Plummer and James Mason take on the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson in this entertaining mystery-thriller. The famous sleuth and his loyal sidekick try to figure out the identity of Jack the Ripper and stop the madman's killing spree once and for all. In the process, they ..read more »
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64%
from 329 members
Not currently released
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Bloodline
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Ben Gazzara, Romy Schneider, James Mason
Director: Terence Young
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Suspense thriller based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. When Sam Roffe, president of a multinational pharmaceutical company, is killed while mountain-climbing, his beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) inherits the controlling interest of his empire - and almost immediately ..read more »
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43%
from 80 members
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The Water Babies
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: James Mason, Billie Whitelaw, Bernard Cribbins
Director: Lionel Jeffries
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Charles Kingsley's classic magical children's tale of Tom, a twelve year-old boy who is apprenticed to the unkind Master Chimney Sweep, Grimes. Life is tough for Tom - while he sweeps, Grimes and his unpleasant sidekick, Masterman, busy themselves thieving. Live action and animation.
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64%
from 796 members
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Heaven Can Wait
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason
Director: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
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When L.A. Rams quarterback Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty) is plucked from Earth too soon by an overzealous angel, he is sent back to Earth in another, older body. He struggles to regain his old spot in the line-up while straightening out his host's tangled affairs. Based not on the 1943 movie of the ..read more »
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The Boys From Brazil
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Laurence Olivier, James Mason
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Ira Levin's best-selling novel is the basis for this incredible film about the perpetuation of a new race of Hitlers. When one of his proteges locates the elusive Nazi war criminal Dr. Josef Mengele (Peck), famed Nazi hunter Ezra Lieberman (a wonderful Olivier) stumbles on Mengele's grand scheme to ..read more »
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Cross Of Iron
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: James Coburn, James Mason, David Warner
Director: Sam Peckinpah
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A very strong anti-war message film, set during World War II and told entirely from the German perspective. A German Army Sergeant doggedly struggles to keep his platoon intact while surviving the horrors of the Russian front in 1943.
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69%
from 2,919 members
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Autobiography Of A Princess
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: James Mason, Madhur Jaffrey, Keith Varnier
Director: James Ivory
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The London-based daughter-in-exile of an Indian Maharajah holds onto the memory of her father and Imperial India through faded home movies. The annual visit from her former English tutor gives her the chance to further reminisce, and to discover more about her father's complex relationship with the ..read more »
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34%
from 75 members
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11 Harrowhouse
(1974)
Starring: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, James Mason
Director: Aram Avakian
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A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
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Age Of Consent
(1968)
Starring: James Mason, Helen Mirren, Jack MacGowran
Director: Michael Powell
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Disillusioned with life, celebrated artist Bradley Morahan (James Mason) retreats to the solitude of a tropical island on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. The island, however, turns out to be far from uninhabited. Bradley soon stumbles upon Cora, played by Helen Mirren (The Queen), a beautiful, ..read more »
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54%
from 15 members
Not currently released
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The Blue Max
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: George Peppard, James Mason, Ursula Andress
Director: John Guillermin
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During World War I, the Blue Max, a coveted medal for achievement in flying, is ruthlessly sought by Bruno Satchel (George Peppard), a poor-boy German soldier who climbs out of the trenches and into the aristocratic air force. He is met with prejudice by the other contestants, wealthy snobs who ..read more »
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63%
from 756 members
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The Deadly Affair
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Harry Andrews
Director: Sidney Lumet
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A Foreign Office man apparently commits suicide. A colleague is not convinced and teams up with a retired CID Inspector to look into it. They finally uncover a spy ring but in doing so endanger their own lives.....
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66%
from 301 members
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Lord Jim
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, James Mason, Eli Wallach
Director: Richard Brooks
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This faithful adaptation of Joseph Conrad's 1900 novel tells the story of a romantic young Englishman, Jim (Peter O'Toole), who takes to the sea on a merchant vessel in his quest for adventure. Imagining himself to be a great man with a bright future, Jim instead deserts at the first true test of ..read more »
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59%
from 215 members
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The Fall Of The Roman Empire
(1964)
Starring: Alec Guinness, James Mason, Stephen Boyd
Director: Anthony Mann
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The success of Mann's widescreen epic El Cid (1961) led to this even grander undertaking, one of Hollywood's periodic infatuations with the decadence of Imperial Rome. After murdering his father, Emperor Marcus Aurelius Commodus drifts into a life of wanton depravity as the Gothic hordes gather at ..read more »
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from 547 members
Not currently released
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Lolita
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: James Mason, Shelley Winters, Sue Lyon
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Stanley Kubrick's adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov's controversial LOLITA is a wicked satire of sexual obsession, sadomasochism, and fetishism. When mild-mannered professor Humbert Humbert (James Mason) arrives in the small town of Ramsdale, New Hampshire, he is immediately set upon by his landlady, ..read more »
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from 3,980 members
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Tiara Tahiti
(1962)
Starring: James Mason, John Mills
Director: Ted Kotcheff
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A former army officer travels to Tahiti with the purpose of building a resort hotel there. His efforts are stymied when he encounters his ex-commanding officer already living on the island.
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60%
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North By Northwest - BLU-RAY Version
(1959)
Starring: Cary Grant, James Mason, Eva Marie Saint
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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NORTH BY NORTHWEST is a suspense thriller that finds Cary Grant in the role of Roger Thornhill, a Manhattan advertising executive mistaken for a spy. Considered by many to be the prototypical pure action movie (creating the template for later James Bond and Indiana Jones films), the film is a cross-..read more »
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from 36 members
Due for release on 16th November 2009
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Journey To The Centre Of The Earth
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Pat Boone, James Mason, Arlene Dahl
Director: Henry Levin
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JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is based on Jules Verne's 1864 novel. A scientist heads out on a treacherous journey to the center of the earth. With him are an intrepid student, an Icelandic guide and the widow of a geologist who steals his information in an attempt to beat him to the earth's ..read more »
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64%
from 1,283 member
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Bigger than Life
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: James Mason, Barbara Rush, Walter Matthau
Director: Nicholas Ray
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Schoolteacher and family man Ed Avery, who's been suffering bouts of severe pain and even blackouts, is hospitalized with what's diagnosed as a rare inflammation of the arteries. Told by doctors that he probably has only months to live, Ed agrees to an experimental treatment: doses of the hormone ..read more »
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71%
from 259 members
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A Star Is Born
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Judy Garland, James Mason, Charles Bickford
Director: George Cukor
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A STAR IS BORN was conceived as a comeback vehicle for Judy Garland, who gives a fascinating and heartrending performance in perhaps the finest work of her career. This film was director George Cukor's first musical and first color picture; the tale of a doomed Hollywood couple, it was a remake of ..read more »
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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas
Director: Richard Fleischer
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A mad scientist has created a monster-like looking submarine that sails underneath the oceans. He takes hostage a professor and a hardy sailor on one of his exploits, but an encounter with a giant squid, from whose clutches he is rescued by the sailor, cause him to have a change of heart and share ..read more »
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
(1951)
Starring: James Mason, Ava Gardner
Director: Albert Lewin
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In this adaptation of the famous "Flying Dutchman" legend, James Mason plays a man condemned to travel the world until he finds a woman willing to die for his love. He certainly doesn't think he's discovered her in a beautiful nightclub singer (the stunning Ava Gardner) who juggles lines of suitors...read more »
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The Desert Rats
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Director: Robert Wise
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Richard Burton stars in this exciting film directed by Robert Wise about the courageous men who held off German Field Marshall Erwin Rommell, despite being hopelessly outnumbered. The year is 1941, and all that stands between Rommel and the Suez Canal is the fortress of Tobruk, which is manned only ..read more »
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from 726 members
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The Desert Fox
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: James Mason, Cedric Hardwicke, Jessica Tandy
Director: Henry Hathaway
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James Mason delivers a strong performance in the title role of this sympathetic study of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. In the early '40s, Rommel's juggernaut Afrika Korps dominated North Africa. But as the tide turned and he came to the painful realization that his Fuhrer, to whom he had sworn ..read more »
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Reckless Moment
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: James Mason, Joan Bennett, Geraldine Brooks
Director: Max Ophuls
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Following the accidental death of her lowlife boyfriend, respectable mother Lucia Harper instinctively hides the body to protect her family. Before a long a stranger calls, sent by his partner to blackmail her. the comfort and security of Lucia's world appears to be in danger of collapsing.
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71%
from 344 members
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Caught
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: James Mason, Robert Ryan, Barbara Bel Geddes
Director: Max Ophuls
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After a long career in Europe making costume dramas like MAYERLING TO SARAJEVO, Max Ophuls came to Hollywood. In CAUGHT, he attempted an American-style film noir with a heavy soap opera influence. Taken from a novel, WILD CALENDAR by Libbie Block, the script is by Arthur Laurents, most famous as ..read more »
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from 120 members
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Odd Man Out
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
Director: Carol Reed
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James Mason stars in this powerful suspense drama as Johnny McQueen, the leader of a quasi-IRA group. When he's wounded in a botched robbery, he becomes the object of an intense police manhunt and must scramble desperately about Belfast in an attempt to escape. Kathleen (Kathleen Ryan), the woman ..read more »
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69%
from 510 members
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Thunder Rock
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Barbara Mullen, James Mason
Director: Roy Boulting
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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 »
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from 162 members
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Secret Mission
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Hugh Williams, Carla Lehmann, Roland Culver
Director: Harold French
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James Mason stars as a French intelligence officer in this classic wartime thriller. Parachuting into occupied France along with fellow agents Roland Culver, Michael Wilding and Hugh Williams, the team embark on a seemingly suicidal mission to determine the strength of the German defence forces - a ..read more »
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43%
from 9 members
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Candlelight In Algeria
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: James Mason, Carla Lehmann, Raymond Lovell
Director: George King
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Susan Foster (Carla Lehmann) is cast into a web of international intrigue when she decides to hide fugitive British agent Alan Thurston (James Mason) from suave Nazi Dr. Muller (Walter Rilla). Thurston's mission is to travel to the Vichy colony of Algiers and recover a camera revealing the exact ..read more »
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64%
from 56 members
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Unknown Chaplin
Starring: James Mason, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman
Director: Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
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Unfortunately this title is currently unavailable for rental. We apologise for any inconvenience that this may cause.
This three-part programme gives an extraordinary insight into many aspects of Chaplin's dazzing career: his early working methods, the making of famous films such as City Lights ..read more »
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61%
from 47 members
Not available for rental
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Stewart Granger Collection
(12 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Stewart Granger, James Mason, Phyllis Calvert
Director: Arthur Crabtree, Anthony Asquith, Leslie Arlis
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Includes the Stewart Granger films ADAM AND EVELYNE, BLANCHE FURY, CAESER AND CLEOPATRA, CAPTAIN BOYCOTT, FANNY BY GASLIGHT, LAMP STILL BURNS, LOVE STORY, MADONNA OF THE SEVEN MOONS, MAGIC BOW, WATERLOO ROAD, WOMAN HATER, and CARAVAN.
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Heaven Can Wait
to Watch Now
(1978)
Starring: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, James Mason
Director: Warren Beatty, Buck Henry
Certificate: 
Watch now: £2.49
Run time: 97 minutes
Heaven Can Wait is a romantic fantasy about Joe Pendleton (Warren Beatty), a Los Angeles Rams quarterback who is accidentally summoned to Heaven by an overly zealous celestial escort. Pendleton is returned to earth in the body of another man, who is a corporate giant. While practicing to once again ..read more »
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69%
from 35 members
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Child's Play
to Watch Now
(1972)
Starring: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Run time: 167 minutes
Leon Prochnik adapted the evocative Robert Moresco play Child's Play for the screen, with Sidney Lumet assuming directorial duties. Beau Bridges stars as a young teacher at an exclusive Catholic boy's boarding school named Paul Reis. An outbreak of violence and brutality among the students has Reis ..read more »
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