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Stewart wins third Olivier award -
9 March 2009
-Veteran actor Patrick Stewart has won his third Laurence Olivier award for his stage portrayal of Claudius in Shakespeare's Hamlet.-
-The X-Men star was handed the Best Performance in a Supporting Role accolade at the 33rd annual theatre prizegiving, honouring London's b
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Laurence Olivier - filmography
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Never Apologize
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, Lindsay Anderson, Alan Bates
Director: Mike E. Kaplan
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The documentary of Malcolm McDowell's celebration of Lindsay Anderson, their times and their colleagues, is a unique hybrid of film, theater and literature.
Directed by Mike Kaplan, whose friendship with McDowell began on Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange and who produced Anderson's last ..read more »
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Pride and Prejudice
(2006)
Starring: Greer Garson, Laurence Olivier, Mary Boland
Director: Robert Z. Leonard, Rudolf Ising
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Like the arrows she launches at an archery target during an elegant lawn party, Elizabeth Bennet's wit is pointed and unerring. "If you want to be really refined, you have to be dead," she says, skewering the imperious airs of her hosts. Jane Austen's timeless 1813 novel of unlikely romance is ..read more »
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War Requiem
on DVD
(1989)
Starring: Nathaniel Parker, Tilda Swinton, Claire Davenport
Director: Derek Jarman
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The late great Derek Jarman's film of Benjamin Britten's unique choral work. Faced with the task of creating a visual equivalent to Britten's work, and using only the words Britten used (the poems of Wilfred Owen and the Latin Mass for the Dead), Jarman cast Tilda Swinton as the nurse looking after ..read more »
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Wild Geese 2
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Scott Glenn, Barbara Carrera, Edward Fox
Director: Peter R. Hunt
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Directed by Peter Hunt (ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE) this action-packed sequel to the much-loved 1978 original sees an American TV mogul hiring a tough gang of mercenaries to pull off an incredible coup... to spring Rudolf Hess from Spandau prison.
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The Bounty
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Mel Gibson, Anthony Hopkins, Edward Fox
Director: Roger Donaldson
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The familiar story of Captain Bligh, whose cruelty leads to a mutiny on his ship. This version follows both the efforts of Fletcher Christian to get his men beyond the reach of British retribution, and the epic voyage of Captain Bligh to get his loyalists safely to East Timor in a tiny lifeboat.
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King Lear
(1984)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall
Director: Michael Elliott
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Shakespeare's story of King Lear, who divided his kingdom between those he loved and trusted, and then was deceived and lost what he held dear. Laurence Olivier puts in another award winning performance as the struggling King.
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Wagner - Movie
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Richard Burton, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Director: Tony Palmer
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A seven-hour epic film of the life of the composer Richard Wagner. The musical score is performed by the London, Vienna and Budapest Philharmonic Orchestras, conducted by Sir Georg Solti.
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A Voyage Round My Father
(1983)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Jane Asher
Director: Alvin Rakoff
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A successful lawyer struck with blindness in middle age continues his battles in the courtroom with the assistance of his family. As his son deals with bitter memories of their relationship, he also seeks his father's respect and love and in the process learns to love in return.
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Clash Of The Titans - BLU-RAY Version
(1981)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
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Full of pride, Cassiopeia compares her daughter's beauty to that of Hera. Angered, the queen of the gods has Poseidon unleash the monstrous beast Craken to destroy their village unless Cassiopeia's daughter, Andromeda, is sacrificed. Perseus, the son of Zeus, becomes enchanted with the breathtaking ..read more »
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Due for release on 22nd March 2010
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The Jazz Singer
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Neil Diamond, Laurence Olivier, Lucie Arnez
Director: Richard Fleischer
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In New York City, Yussel Rabinowitz (Neil Diamond) trains to be a cantor. Although his father (Laurence Olivier) and wife, Rivka (Catlin Adams), don't approve, he also sings and writes songs for a black soul group under the name Jess Robin. When the group gets an opportunity in California, their ..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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Marathon Man
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, Dustin Hoffman
Director: John Schlesinger
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Columbia University graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) spends his spare time running in marathons. He finds himself running for his life, however, when he unwittingly becomes entangled in an espionage plot involving fierce Nazi fugitive Szell (Sir Laurence Olivier). Watch for--or avoid--..read more »
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Sleuth
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Alec Cawthorne
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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Rarely has a movie with only three characters been so enthralling as SLEUTH, guided by the expert direction of Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Mystery writer and gamesman Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier) has found the next target for his mind games: Milo Tindal (Michael Caine), a nice young British hairdresser ..read more »
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Nicholas And Alexandra
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Michael Jayston, Janet Suzman, Laurence Olivier
Director: Franklin J. Schaffner
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The story of the final years of Tsar Nicholas and Empress Alexandra of Russia, and the revolution which turned their lives upside down, and changed the world. Academy Award Nominations: 6, including Best Picture. Academy Awards: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Best Costume Design.
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Three Sisters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright
Director: Laurence Olivier
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This adaptation of Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS was part of the American Film Theatre series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. The play focuses on a trio of sisters who live far away from the big city ..read more »
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The Three Sisters
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Alan Bates, Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright
Director: Laurence Olivier
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This adaptation of Anton Chekhov's THREE SISTERS was part of the American Film Theater series, conceived in the 1970s by producer Ely Landau, and meant to be shown theatrically just like a play, with tickets sold in advance. The play focuses on a trio of sisters who live far away from the big city ..read more »
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Oh What A Lovely War
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Richard Attenborough's directorial debut OH! WHAT A LOVELY WAR is a riotous, thought-provoking satire on the follies of war, based on the stage musical of the same name. Set during World War I, the story revolves around the Smith family, whose five sons enlist in the army only to end up as cannon ..read more »
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Battle Of Britain
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw
Director: Guy Hamilton
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A powerful, colourful and star-studded re-creation of the epic 1940 battle that took place in the skies over England. Surprised and understaffed, the British forces used determination and guile to valiantly hold off the superior forces of the German Luftwaffe in the early days of World War II. If ..read more »
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The Shoes of the Fisherman
(1968)
Starring: Anthony Quinn, Laurence Olivier
Director: Michael Anderson
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All eyes are focused on the Vatican, hoping to see the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the selection of the next Pope. But this time, much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world hovering on the edge of nuclear nightmare.
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Khartoum
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Director: Basil Dearden
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The Arab leader Mahdi is involved in a battle of wits and swords with the British General "Chinese" Gordon which leads to the epic siege of Khartoum. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Story and Screenplay.
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Bunny Lake Is Missing
(1965)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea
Director: Otto Preminger
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This classic psychological thriller from Otto Preminger (BONJOUR TRISTESSE, THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN ARM) stars Carol Lynley as Ann Lake, a single mum who has just moved to London with her young daughter, Bunny. When she arrives to pick Bunny up from nursery school, she finds that her daughter has ..read more »
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The Entertainer
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
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Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of Britain's New Wave kitchen-sink realism, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne, by starring as third-rate seaside comedian Archie Rice ..read more »
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Spartacus - HD DVD Version
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
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Spartacus
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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SPARTACUS, based on Howard Fast's popular novel, is Stanley Kubrick's glorious masterpiece about a slave uprising in Rome in 70 BC. Kirk Douglas, who also served as executive producer, stars as the title character, a man born of a slave woman and a slave master who has known nothing but chains for ..read more »
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Richard III
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Soon after Edward IV is crowned King, his brother, Richard, a hunchback, twisted in mind as well as body, starts scheming for the throne of England. He woos and wins Lady Anne and then poisons Edward's mind against their brother, Clarence, later organising his death. But even after his coronation, ..read more »
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Carrie
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jennifer Jones, Miriam Hopkins
Director: William Wyler
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A sterling performance by Olivier is the centrepiece of this drama based on the novel by Sister Carrie by Dreiser. When a farm girl follows her dreams to turn-of-the-century Chicago, she enters a bleak world of gruelling, poorly-paid factory work. Determined to better her condition, she attaches ..read more »
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The Beggar's Opera
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, Dorothy Tutin
Director: Peter Brook
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Possibly the first ever English musical, John Gay's THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, tells the tale of a dandy highwayman, locked up in prison in 18th century London, who decides to write an opera based on his own career. With one song after another, Peter Brook's primary coloured, exuberant 1952 adaptation ..read more »
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway
Director: Laurence Olivier
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In the opening scene of Hamlet, Laurence Olivier describes the play in a voice-over as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind". But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. The contradictions and ambiguities of the title ..read more »
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Hamlet - BLU-RAY Version
(1948)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Before Kenneth Branagh, before Mel Gibson, Laurence Olivier gave the definitive portrayal of 'the man who could not make up his mind'. In 15th-century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet is racked by torment and indecision after seeing a vision of his deceased father. The late king's ghost informs his son ..read more »
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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 »
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Henry V - BLU-RAY Version
(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 »
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That Hamilton Woman
on DVD
(1941)
Starring: Vivien Leigh, Laurence Olivier, Henry Wilcoxon
Director: Alexander Korda
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That Hamilton Woman tells the tale of a lower-class girl named Emma Hart who rises out of poverty through her own determination, beauty and will power. Soon after, she weds Lord William Hamilton, the British ambassador to Naples. Lady Hamilton's life takes a dramatic turnwhen she meets Admiral ..read more »
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Rebecca
on DVD
(1940)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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A string of classic suspense films produced in England had earned Alfred Hitchcock a reputation in the United States, and his first American production, REBECCA, cemented his fame. Based on the novel by Daphne du Maurier, REBECCA was conceived to rival producer David O. Selznick's previous epic, ..read more »
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Q Planes
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson
Director: Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods
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Major Hammond of Scotland Yard (Ralph Richardson) is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of prototype British aeroplanes when on their test flights. At first Hammond is seen as an outsider at the factory, but he soon finds a friend in star pilot Tony McVane (Laurence Olivier) who ..read more »
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Fire Over England
on DVD
(1937)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Vivian Leigh, Flora Robson
Director: William K. Howard
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Set during the reign of Elizabeth I, Fire over England follows the adventures of Michael Ingolby, agent of the Queen, as he tries to uncover the extent of a Spanish spy-ring operating in England. This requires him to pretend to be one of them. When his pretence fails he is imprisoned in Spain. Can ..read more »
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The World At War
(11 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Laurence Olivier
Director: John Pett, David Elstein, Hugh Raggett
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The WORLD AT WAR series presents the sweeping story of World War II in five parts. Part One, narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier, features archival footage from 1933-1942, documenting the rise of the Nazis in Germany, the start of the war, and much more. The release also includes THE MAKING OF THE ..read more »
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Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
to Watch Now
(2004)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Angelina Jolie
Director: Kerry Conran
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Run time: 106 minutes
In this science fiction adventure set in the 1930s, New York City reporter Polly Perkins starts to investigate why so many famous scientists are being reported missing. Soon, she gets clues, as strange flying machines and giant robots threaten the city. Luckily, her old flame, aviator Captain ..read more »
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Marathon Man
to Watch Now
(1976)
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
Director: John Schlesinger
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Run time: 125 minutes
Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the US government and escaped Nazi war criminal Szell (Laurence Olivier). Believing that Doc has stolen a valuable cache of gems, Szell emerges from his South American hiding place and heads for New York. ..read more »
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Richard III
to Watch Now
(1955)
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Laurence Olivier, Nicholas Hannen
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Run time: 161 minutes
Laurence Olivier takes the lead role in Shakespeare’s Richard III for which he won a BAFTA and was nominated for an Oscar®. The film, now fully restored in High Definition, also won a BAFTA for Best Film and Best British Film. The cast includes Sir John Gielgud (Arthur; Shine), Sir Ralph ..read more »
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Hamlet
to Watch Now
(1948)
Starring: John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Run time: 155 minutes
Laurence Olivier delivers one of his greatest Shakespearean performances as the lead role in this 1948 version of Hamlet. Seldom has the tragic story of the Danish Prince, tortured by his duty to his murdered father and by the guilt and fear he feels at the prospect of revenge, been so brilliantly ..read more »
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Q Planes
to Watch Now
(1939)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson
Director: Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods
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Run time: 79 minutes
Major Hammond of Scotland Yard (Ralph Richardson) is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of prototype British aeroplanes when on their test flights. At first Hammond is seen as an outsider at the factory, but he soon finds a friend in star pilot Tony McVane (Laurence Olivier) who ..read more »
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Conquest of the Air
to Watch Now
(1936)
Starring: Frederick Culley, Laurence Olivier, Franklin Dyall
Director: Alexander Esway, Zoltan Korda
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Run time: 66 minutes
This drama follows man's attempts to fly from ancient times through the first balloons, the Wright Brothers, and other pioneers, using dramatic re-enactment and working models of early flying machines. Beginning with World War I, archival footage is used. Much on mid-1930s commercial aircraft and ..read more »
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JUST BECAUSE IT IS OLD DOESN'T MEAN IT IS DATED 19 March 2005
...ark secrets waiting to be told. Simply told in a classic style. Did wonder if Laurence Olivier was a tad lost with this part? ...
A true classic 14 May 2004
