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Van Johnson - what members say
review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England
Three stars - Three Hankies 26 April 2010
review by A customer from London, England
Classic Movie 18 May 2006
Van Johnson - filmography
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Tales Of The Unexpected - Vol. 1 - 4
(4 discs)
(2000)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Anna Neagle
Director: none
Certificate: 
Contains 16 episodes of the mystery/suspense, sci-fi series by Roald Dahl: "The Vorpal Blade," "The Tribute," "The Best Chess Player In The World," "The Wrong 'Un," "Hit And Run," "Have A Nice Death," "The Reconciliation," "Wink Three Times," "The Verger," "The Surgeon," "Time To Die," "Skeleton in ..read more »
 
58%
from 223 members
Not available for rental
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The Purple Rose Of Cairo
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Van Johnson, Milo O'Shea, Michael Tucker
Director: Woody Allen
Certificate: 
Lonely Depression-era waitress Cecilia (Farrow) is hopelessly addicted to Hollywood movies. Spellbound by her new favorite, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Cecilia is astonished when the leading man (Daniels) suddenly walks off the screen to meet her. Wooed by his charm, Cecilia finds herself falling for ..read more »
67%
from 3,441 members
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From Corleone To Brooklyn
(1979)
Starring: Maurizio Merli, Mario Merola, Van Johnson
Director: Unberto Lenzi
Certificate: 
Police Officer Berni is escorting a lowlife criminal (Biagio Pellegra) from Italy to New York so he can testify against a mafia head. But the Mafia have other plans, and have done all they can to ensure they never make it to court.
20%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Eagles Over London
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Frederick Stafford, Van Johnson, Francisco Rabal
Director: Enzo G. Castellari
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Based on actual World War II events, EAGLES OVER LONDON chronicles the success of a German intelligence group's efforts to infiltrate the British army on the eve of the historic Battle of Britain. Directed by Enzo G. Castellari (INGLORIOUS BASTARDS, BRONX WARRIORS), the film features Ida Galli, ..read more »
45%
from 89 members
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Yours, Mine And Ours
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Van Johnson
Director: Melville Shavelson
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After being set up by a matchmaker, naval officer Frank Beardsley (Henry Fonda, THE GRAPES OF WRATH)--a widowed father with ten children--falls in love with Helen North (Lucille Ball, I LOVE LUCY), a naval base nurse who has eight children. They marry and the couple and their 18 children move into ..read more »
64%
from 163 members
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Divorce American Style
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Dick Van Dyke, Debbie Reynolds, Jason Robards
Director: Bud Yorkin
Certificate:
In this dark Norman Lear comedy about the debilitating process of divorce, an average American ex-couple (Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds) realise that, after matchmaking hell, alimony-avoiding schemes, and commiserations with fellow divorcees, married life doesn't seem so bad.
51%
from 59 members
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Subway In The Sky
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Hildegard Knef, Van Johnson, Albert Lieven
Director: Muriel Box
Certificate:
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centres on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a ..read more »
61%
from 15 members
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The End Of The Affair
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
Recently freed from his MGM contract, Van Johnson headed to England to star in a series of pictures, the first of which was The End of the Affair. Adapted by Lenore Coffee from the novel by Graham Greene, the film casts Johnson as Maurice Bendrix, the clandestine lover of married Briton Sarah Miles ..read more »
64%
from 141 members
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The Last Time I Saw Paris
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Van Johnson, Walter Pidgeon
Director: Richard Brooks
Certificate: 
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Based on the F. Scott Fitzgerald story "Babylon Revisited," this epic romance is a captivating blend of Parisian expatriate high society and the struggles in post-WWII Europe. When war writer and veteran Charles Wills (Van Johnson) meets the lovely and restless Helen Ellswirth (Elizabeth Taylor) in ..read more »
54%
from 175 members
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The Caine Mutiny - Blu-ray
(1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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In director Edward Dmytryk's classic seafaring drama, privileged mama's boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humprey Bogart) takes ..read more »
65%
from 4 members
Due for release on 2nd July 2012
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The Caine Mutiny
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Humphrey Bogart, Van Johnson, Jose Ferrer
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Certificate:
Robert Francis is at the center of the story as Willis Keith, a newly minted ensign assigned to the U.S.S. Caine. Keith has an uneasy relationship with his skipper, Lt. Comdr. DeVries (Tom Tully), partly through his own ineptitude and as a result of his disapproval of the slovenly way DeVries seems ..read more »
69%
from 802 members
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Brigadoon
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Gene Kelly, Van Johnson, Cyd Charisse
Director: Vincente Minnelli
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Reportedly, Vincente Minnelli turned down the opportunity to film Brigadoon on location in Scotland insisting that MGM's studio mockups looked more Scottish than the genuine article. This lavish adaptation of the Lerner and Loewe Broadway musical stars Gene Kelly as an American tourist who stumbles ..read more »
65%
from 1,488 member
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Go For Broke!
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Van Johnson, Lane Nakano, George Miki
Director: Robert Pirosh
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They were the 442nd Regimental Combat Team... a squad of loyal, Japanese-Americans who had to battle prejudice as well as the Axis enemy. Van Johnson stars as their contemptuous top-kick, whose bigotry gives way to respect in the crucible of war. Supporting Johnson is a cast of veterans, all former ..read more »
50%
from 53 members
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Battleground
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Van Johnson, Ricardo Montalban, George Murphy
Director: William A. Wellman
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"Dedicated to the battered bastards of Bastogne," this dramatic historic film directed by William Wellman tells the story of a U.S. Army division in the European theatre near the end of World War II. In a last-ditch effort to turn the tide of the war, the Germans launch a final attack that became ..read more »
60%
from 600 members
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In the Good Old Summertime
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Judy Garland, Van Johnson, S.Z. Sakall
Director: Robert Z Leonard
Certificate:
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It's turn of the century America when Andrew and Veronica first meet - by crashing into each other. They develop an instant and mutual dislike which intensifies when, later on, Andrew is forced to hire Veronica as a saleslady at Oberkugen's music store. What the two don't know is that while they ..read more »
68%
from 180 members
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...end of the Second World War and follows the relationship between sober, serious Van Johnson and free spirit Elizabeth Taylor, observing how their roles change as they get ...
