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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
Laurence Olivier - what members say
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JUST BECAUSE IT IS OLD DOESN'T MEAN IT IS DATED 19 March 2005
review by from Wolstenbury, Sussex
A true classic 14 May 2004
review by from London
Cracking thriller 29 May 2004
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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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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The Ebony Tower
(1984)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Roger Rees, Greta Scacchi
Director: Robert Knights
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Featuring a formidable central performance by Laurence Oliver, one of Britain s most revered actors, this BAFTA-nominated television play was adapted by John Mortimer (Rumpole of the Bailey) from the novel by John Fowles; a distinguished supporting cast includes Greta Scacchi and Roger Rees. Henry ..read more »
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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
(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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Clash of the Titans
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Claire Bloom
Director: Desmond Davis
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You've visited lands where a Cyclops roams (The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), skeletons duel (Jason and the Argonauts) and cowboys lasso dinosaurs (The Valley of Gwangi). They are the worlds of Ray Harryhausen, the stop motion effects master who creates another dazzling realm in Clash of the Titans.
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The Jazz Singer
(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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A Little Romance
(1979)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Diane Lane, Thelonious Bernard
Director: George Roy Hill
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Diane Lane stars as a young American girl abroad who meets a French boy--and romance blossoms. With the help of an aging pickpocket, engagingly played by Laurence Olivier, the girl finds the courage to pursue her new love.
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The Betsy
(1978)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Robert Duvall, Katharine Ross
Director: Daniel Petrie
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The patriarch of a family-owned corporation hires a young race car driver to help him design a fuel efficient car in secrecy. They face resistance from the president of the company (the patriarch's grandson), who wishes to eliminate the motor car division because of bad blood between himself and ..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: Marc Lawrence, Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier
Director: John Schlesinger
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Doc Levy (Roy Scheider) is an American secret agent who has been running interference between the U.S. 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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Love Among the Ruins
(1975)
Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Laurence Olivier, Colin Blakely
Director: George Cukor
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An ageing actress is being sued for breach of promise. She hires as her lawyer a man who was an ex-lover and is still in love with her, although she doesn't know it. She realizes that the only way to win this case and protect her assets is to destroy her reputation.
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The World At War
(10 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
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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The Merchant of Venice
(1973)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Joan Plowright, Jeremy Brett
Director: John Sichel
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In this lavish stage production, Oscar winner Laurence Olivier takes on one of literary history s most enigmatic and challenging characters: the vengeful moneylender of Venice, Shylock. Adapted from Jonathan Miller s brilliant London stage production, this updated interpretation of Shakespeare s ..read more »
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Long Day's Journey into Night
(1973)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Constance Cummings, Maureen Lipman
Director: Peter Wood
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The world's foremost actor, Laurence Olivier, and one of America's greatest playwrights, Eugene O'Neill, are brought together in this acclaimed stage production, by the National Theatre Company, of O'Neill's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece. Long Day s Journey into Night gives an autobiographical ..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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from 3,634 members
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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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from 554 members
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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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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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Battle Of Britain - Blu-ray
(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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from 352 members
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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
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea
Director: Otto Preminger
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Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day ..read more »
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Othello - Laurence Olivier
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Robert Lang
Director: Stuart Burge
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Shakespeare's tragic story of how a great man's vanity is manipulated by a jealous aide to bring about his downfall. A film by Stuart Burge of John Dexter's production of 'Othello' at the National Theatre. This famous production stars Laurence Olivier and Maggie Smith.
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Spartacus - Blu-ray
(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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from 52 members
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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
(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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from 238 members
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Spartacus
(1960)
Starring: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Director: Stanley Kubrick
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Spartacus (Kirk Douglas) is a rebellious slave purchased by Lentulus Batiatus (Peter Ustinov), owner of a school for gladiators. For the entertainment of corrupt Roman senator Marcus Licinius Crassus (Laurence Olivier), Batiatus' gladiators are to stage a fight to the death. On the night before the ..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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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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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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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
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
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
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 - 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 »
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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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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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Twenty One Days
on DVD
(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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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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Wuthering Heights
on DVD
(1939)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, David Niven
Director: William Wyler
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When Mr. Earnshaw encounters Heathcliff, a ragamuffin orphan, he kindly brings the boy into his home and makes him part of the family. Instantly Heathcliff falls hopelessly in love with the daughter of the house, the beautiful but headstrong Catherine. When a wealthy neighbor woos her, Catherine's ..read more »
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The World At War - Blu-ray
(9 discs)
Starring: Laurence Olivier
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Now you can own the most complete account of WWII. This 26-part series takes you from the stirrings of war to the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan. 20 million Russians, 2 and a half million Germans, 480,000 British and 300,000 Americans lost their lives in the epic struggle. Narrated by Sir ..read more »
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