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Robert Newton
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Robert Newton - what members say
review by HD from WEST BROMWICH
10 May 2004
review by FlyingSam from Melton Mowbray
David Lean's classic Oliver Twist 24 January 2008
review by from Manchester
Count me in! 28 November 2004
Robert Newton - filmography
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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 1,415 member
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Androcles And The Lion
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Victor Mature, Alan Young
Director: Chester Erskine
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George Bernard Shaw's breezy, delightful dramatization of this classic fable—about a Christian slave who pulls a thorn from a lion's paw and is spared from death in the Colosseum as a result of his kind act—was written as a meditation on modern Christian values. And Pascal's final Shaw production ..read more »
53%
from 20 members
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Blackbeard The Pirate
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Robert Newton, Linda Darnell, William Bendix
Director: Raoul Walsh
Certificate: 
In 1674, reformed pirate Sir Henry Morgan is a high official in Jamaica. Edward Maynard hopes to win a large reward by proving Morgan still dabbles in piracy. Maynard goes undercover as ship's surgeon with a Morgan henchman.who's been supplanted by the notorious Blackbeard himself. Also on board ..read more »
56%
from 47 members
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The Desert Rats
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Richard Burton, James Mason, Robert Newton
Director: Robert Wise
Certificate: 
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 »
68%
from 855 members
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Oliver Twist
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by ..read more »
70%
from 3,528 members
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Obsession
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Sally Gray, Phil Brown, Robert Newton
Director: Edward Dmytryk
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In the thriller Obsession, Robert Newton stars as a possessed doctor humilitaed by his faithless wife's love for a younger man. He plans to rid himself of her lover by means of an acid bath murder...
69%
from 286 members
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Odd Man Out
(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 »
71%
from 754 members
Not currently released
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Henry V - Blu-ray
(1945)
Starring: Robert Newton, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Laurence Olivier brings to vivid life Shakespeare's KING HENRY V, the epitome of the ideal Christian king. After a youth misspent in frivolity and common diversions, Prince Hal ascends the throne only to find himself on the brink of war with France over land and title disputes. Betrayed by his own ..read more »
61%
from 80 members
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Henry V
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Robert Newton, Laurence Olivier, Leslie Banks
Director: Laurence Olivier
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The definitive call to arms, Laurence Olivier's Henry V is a patriotic saga awash with pageantry, battles, romance and political chicanery. Intended to rally Britain during the darkest days of World War II, the film shows how the star of England sought to stake an ancestral, royal claim on the soil ..read more »
63%
from 2,921 members
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
70%
from 496 members
Not available for rental
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They Flew Alone
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Joan Kemp-Welch, Anna Neagle, Robert Newton
Director: Herbert Wilcox
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THEY FLEW ALONE is the biopic about pioneer aviatrix Amy Johnson. Anna Neagle portrays Amy, whose fame in the 1930s is such that songs are written about her and a worldwide fan club is organized. Ms. Johnson's fame exacts a toll on her marriage to pilot Jim Mollison (Robert Newton), a daredevil in ..read more »
70%
from 30 members
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Twenty One Days
(1940)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
Director: Basil Dean
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After Larry Darrent accidentally kills his lover's blackmailing husband, someone else is arrested for the crime. When he is found guilty, Larry and Wanda have just three weeks together before he must give himself up or let an innocent man go to the gallows.
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Jamaica Inn
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara, Leslie Banks
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
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Set in 19th-century Cornwall, this tale of a young woman who visits her aunt, only to discover she's residing in a haven for throat-slashing pirates, is one of Hitchcock's lesser-known films. A period melodrama, the film features an excellent Maureen O'Hara in one of her earlier roles. JAMAICA INN ..read more »
57%
from 1,456 member
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Long John Silver
on DVD
Starring: Robert Newton
Director: Byron Haskin
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Features further adventures of Long John Silver and Jim Hawkins following their 'Treasure Island' adventure. Silver is determined to go back and find the buried treasure.
63%
from 24 members
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Donald Sinden Icon Collection
(11 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Donald Sinden, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern
Director: Ralph Thomas, Ken Annakin, Muriel Box
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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 73 members
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
on DVD
Starring: John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Michael Hordern
Director: Gordon Parry
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Thomas Hughes' classic tale of life at Rugby public school. It centres around Tom, the `eternal schoolboy' and the evil Flashman, leader of the conniving upperclassmen, who test the junior boys and Tom in particular, in ways not known in the school curriculum as laid down by the headmaster, Dr. Arnold.
66%
from 132 members
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Long John Silver
(5 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Robert Newton
Director: Lee Sholem
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Straight out of the book 'Treasure Island' comes the character known as Long John Silver. Join him in his serial debut. Also includes: 'The Necklace', 'Pieces of Eight', 'The Orphan's Christmas', 'The Execution Dock', 'The Eviction', 'The Pink Pearl', 'The Tale Of The Tooth', 'Ship Of The Dead', '..read more »
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from 29 members
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...A good wholesome family film from Disney. Robert Newton set the standard here for all the pirate movies that followed. His performance as Long John Silver is a grand spree i...
