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Ava Gardner
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Ava Gardner - what members say
review by danieljparsons from Ashford
This film still packs a powerful punch 2 January 2010
review by Lighthouse from EAST SUSSEX
The scenery wins 30 December 2004
review by A customer from Lincoln
Trip down Memory Lane 26 September 2010
Ava Gardner - filmography
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Harem - The Loss Of Innocence
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Sarah Miles, Omar Sharif, Ava Gardner
Director: William Hale
Certificate: 
A story of love, passion, intrigue and revolution set in the crumbling Ottoman empire in 1906. On route to Damascus, a naive American heiress is kidnapped and sold to the local Sultan's harem. As the days pass she becomes torn between a Turkish rebel, the Sultan and her English diplomat fiance.
 
52%
from 142 members
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Priest Of Love
(1981)
Starring: Ian McKellen, Janet Suzman, John Gielgud
Director: Christopher Miles
Certificate: 
This biographical film provides insight into the life of renowned British author D.H. Lawrence (Ian McKellen), best known for his sexually explicit novel LADY CHATTERLEY'S LOVER. In addition to exploring Lawrence's youth, PRIEST OF LOVE examines important events in Lawrence's personal and ..read more »
47%
from 128 members
Not available for rental
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The Sentinel
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Cristina Raines, Martin Balsam, Ava Gardner
Director: Michael Winner
Certificate: 
Shortly after moving into a new apartment, a beautiful, young fashion model (Cristina Raines) discovers that it the building actually provides a gateway to hell! When she complains to her rental agent, she is met with stony silence, and soon comes to learn that her moving in was not an accident. ..read more »
51%
from 508 members
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The Blue Bird
(1976)
Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Jane Fonda, Ava Gardner
Director: George Cukor
Certificate: 
A pair of peasant children, Mytyl and her brother Tyltyl, are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the Fairy Berylune. On their journey, they are accompanied by the humanized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, Bread, and other entities
57%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Earthquake
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy
Director: Mark Robson
Certificate:
This essential 1970s disaster epic, with a script co-authored by Mario Puzo (THE GODFATHER), centers around a devastating earthquake in Los Angeles and the shocking aftermath it causes. The all-star cast is led by Charleton Heston as a construction engineer whose marital problems supply him with ..read more »
58%
from 811 members
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The Bible - In The Beginning
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Ava Gardner, Richard Harris
Director: John Huston
Certificate:
Focusing and dramatizing the first 22 chapters in The Book of Genesis, "The Bible in the Beginning...," exquisitely and diligently explores the origins of mankind. The stories of Adam and Eve, the story of Cain and Abel, Noah and the Ark, the Tower of Babel, Sodom and Gomorrah, Abraham and Sarah, ..read more »
60%
from 405 members
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The Killers
(1964)
Starring: Angie Dickinson, Ava Gardner, Burt Lancaster
Director: Don Siegel, Robert Siodmak
Certificate:
based on the short story by Ernest Hemingway. Don Siegel builds another whole world around Hemingway's premise. The two assassins of Siegel's film go in search of their intended victim - a teacher at a school for the blind - and find that he not only recognises his fate when they show up, but seems ..read more »
70%
from 74 members
Currently unavailable
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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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On The Beach
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire
Director: Stanley Kramer
Certificate:
Although there'd been doomsday dramas before it, Stanley Kramer's On the Beach was considered the first important entry in this genre when originally released in 1959. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute, the film is set in the future (1964) when virtually all life on earth has been exterminated by ..read more »
66%
from 1,073 member
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Mogambo
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Clark Gable, Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly
Director: John Ford
Certificate:
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Clark Gable reprises his role as veteran big-game trapper and guide Vic Marswell in John Ford's remake of RED DUST, the actor's 1932 hit. After a brief fling with Eloise Kelly (Ava Gardner), an adventurer temporarily stranded in Kenya, Vic is hired as a guide by British anthropologist Donald ..read more »
58%
from 283 members
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward, Ava Gardner
Director: Henry King
Certificate:
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Ernest Hemingway could never come to terms with Hollywood's preoccupation with The Happy Ending: he accepted the money for the screen rights to his short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro, but he could never bring himself to watch it. Gregory Peck plays a character based, in decidedly unflattering ..read more »
52%
from 209 members
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: James Mason, Ava Gardner
Director: Albert Lewin
Certificate:
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 »
67%
from 341 members
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My Forbidden Past
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas
Director: Robert Stevenson
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Barbara Beaurevel lives with her aunt and cousin in New Orleans in the late 1800s. In love with Mark Lucas, a research doctor at Tulane University, her plans to marry him are thwarted. Barbara's family is of the high society stratum, but her late grandmother was not in fact the connection with her ..read more »
50%
from 13 members
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Pandora and the Flying Dutchman - Blu-ray
(1951)
Starring: James Mason, Ava Gardner
Director: Albert Lewin
Certificate:
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 »
69%
from 81 members
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The Bribe
(1949)
Starring: Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner, Charles Laughton
Director: Robert Z Leonard
Certificate: 
In pursuit of stolen aircraft engines on a Central American island, federal agent Rigby meets chief suspect Hintten and his wife Elizabeth, a sultry cafe singer; and is watched by Bealer, a "pie-shaped man" with sore feet. Rigby knows he's on the right track when Bealer offers him money to leave ..read more »
50%
from 4 members
Currently unavailable
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Whistle Stop
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: George Raft, Ava Gardner, Victor McLaglen
Director: Leonide Moguy
Certificate:
In this drama, Mary (Ava Gardner) returns to her small town after she becomes a success in the city. Meeting up with her old love, Kenny (George Raft), she discovers that he is still the unambitious, lazy man he was when she left, and she begins an affair with nightclub owner Lew Lentz (Tom Conway)...read more »
49%
from 27 members
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Ghosts On The Loose
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Bela Lugosi, Bela Lugosi, Ava Gardner
Director: William Beaudine
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The Bowery Boys (the East Side Kids) end up in comedic horror when they try to renovate a crumbling house for Glimpy's newlywed sister and her husband. When the arrive at the address, they mistakenly start to work on the house next door - which is rumored to be haunted! Instead of ghosts, however, ..read more »
39%
from 55 members
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...rly believable and entirely human. An outstandingly good cast give their best - Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck's romance is particularly well played - and the direction is a...
