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Billy Liar
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles
Director: John Schlesinger
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BILLY LIAR was an immediate sensation as first a novel, then a hit play--both written by Keith Waterhouse, who also served as screenwriter on the film. Director John Schlesinger's screen version was a British landmark in the fertile cinema of the late 1950s and early '60s, and launched the career ..read more »
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from 3,032 members
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Kidnapped
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Peter Finch, Bernard Lee, James MacArthur
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Kidnapped and cheated of his inheritance, David Balfour joins forces with a Jacobite adventurer. When they are falsely accused of murder, they must flee across the Highlands.
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53%
from 171 members
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Ben Hur
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Stephen Boyd
Director: William Wyler
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This 1959 version of Lew Wallace's best-selling novel, which had already seen screen versions in 1907 and 1926, went on to win 11 Academy Awards. Adapted by Karl Tunberg and a raft of uncredited writers including Gore Vidal and Maxwell Anderson, the film once more recounts the tale of Jewish prince ..read more »
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Footsteps In The Fog
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Director: Arthur Lubin
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Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons star in this compelling thriller set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London. As he buries his wife in a rain-soaked London churchyard, Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) thinks he has committed the perfect murder. He's wrong. His quick-witted young maid Lily (..read more »
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70%
from 31 members
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Quo Vadis - BLU-RAY Version
(1951)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Leo Genn
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years-in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and featuring 110 speaking parts, 30,000 participants and a filmed-on-location panoply of marching legions, ..read more »
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Quo Vadis
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Deborah Kerr, Peter Ustinov
Director: Mervyn LeRoy
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MGM turned Henry Sinkiewicz's Nobel Prize-winning novel into one of the most extravagant productions in film history. The epic tale is set in the decadence and decay of Nero's Rome, where Christianity is just beginning to foment. Robert Taylor (BILLY THE KID, JOHNNY EAGER) stars as Marcus Vinicius, ..read more »
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from 61 members
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People Will Talk
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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A lovely movie featuring Cary Grant in one of his more inscrutable roles as an angel of mercy to the sick, recalling his work in THE BISHOP'S WIFE. PEOPLE WILL TALK focuses on Dr. Praetorius, a non-traditional doctor whose patients and medical students love him, while his success spurs the jealousy ..read more »
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63%
from 375 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later ..read more »
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71%
from 4,361 members
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Great Expectations - BLU-RAY Version
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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Lean's definitive version of the Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years ..read more »
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74%
from 161 members
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The Edge Of The World
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Niall MacGinnis, John Laurie, Belle Chrystall
Director: Michael Powell
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On a remote Scottish island, poor harvests and bad weather are bringing an end to the traditional ways of life. The islanders must decide whether to abandon their homes and seek employment on the mainland. Director Powell's breakthrough film, shot on the island of Foula, was a particularly ..read more »
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The Edge of the World
to Watch Now
(1937)
Starring: John Laurie, Belle Chrystall, Eric Berry
Director: Michael Powell
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Run time: 74 minutes
Shot over four arduous months in the wild, windswept Shetland Islands, Michael Powell's first independent production establishes the daring techniques and experimentation that would later become familiar hallmarks of his career. The Edge of the World tells the moving story of a remote island and ..read more »
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I've forgotten him & where I was going! 6 March 2005
...ut well acted, and with a great cast including Scottish Stalwarts John Laurie & Finlay Currie. A nice DVD transfer and some spectacular scenery all help to give this an edge...
A Neglected Classic 3 November 2005
