Athene Seyler

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Make Mine Mink review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales

Good fun 28 June 2005
...urs the distinction between right and wrong. The elderly Dame Beatrice Appleby (Athene Seyler) is disillusioned with charity work, as most of the money she raises goes strai... Read customer review

Satan Never Sleeps (1962)
Starring: William Holden, Clifton Webb, France Nuyen
Director: Leo McCarey
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The last film by Leo McCarey (AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER) picks up on earlier religious themes in the director's work. It follows Father O'Banion (William Holden, THE WILD BUNCH) to a mission in 1949 China, where he is to take over the position of the elderly Father Bovard (Clifton Webb, CHEAPER BY THE ..read more »

13% from 3 members
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The Girl On The Boat on DVD (1962)
Starring: Norman Wisdom, Sheila Hancock, Bernard Cribbins
Director: Henry Kaplan
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It's the 1920s. Two Englishmen travelling on a transatlantic liner get into trouble and fall in love. Based on the novel by P.G. Wodehouse.

60% from 391 members

Make Mine Mink on DVD (1960)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, hattie Jacques
Director: Robert Hamer, Robert Asher, John Boulting
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When Dame Beatrice (Athene Syler) retires from charitable work, she finds her life rather empty. Suddenly an irresistible request to help unfortunate orphans comes along, and inspired by her maid's chequered past, takes on one final charitable challenge. An incident with a neighbours mink coat ..read more »

66% from 598 members

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon on DVD (1957)
Starring: Dana Andrews, Peggy Cummins, Niall MacGinnis
Director: Jacques Tourneur
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Classic slice of 1950s psychological horror. Dana Andrews stars as American psychologist Dr John Holden, who arrives in London to attend a paranormal psychology symposium with the aim of exposing devil cult leader Julian Karswell (Niall MacGinnis) as a charlatan and a fraud. On his arrival, Holden ..read more »

78% from 727 members

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 »

50% from 142 members

Nicholas Nickleby on DVD (1947)
Starring: Athene Seyler, Jill Balcon, Alfred Drayton
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
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The classic Charles Dicken's tale of 'Nicholas Nickleby,' a man who is deprived of his inheritance and travels to seek his fortune with a group of gypsies.

56% from 218 members

Satan Never Sleeps - 0.5 stars
The Girl On The Boat - 3.0 stars
Make Mine Mink - 3.5 stars
Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon - 4.0 stars
The Beggar's Opera - 2.5 stars

Night Of The Demon / Curse Of The Demon - 4.0 stars
Make Mine Mink - 3.5 stars
The Girl On The Boat - 3.0 stars
Nicholas Nickleby - 3.0 stars
The Beggar's Opera - 2.5 stars

Satan Never Sleeps - 0.5 stars
The Beggar's Opera - 2.5 stars
Nicholas Nickleby - 3.0 stars
The Girl On The Boat - 3.0 stars
Make Mine Mink - 3.5 stars

John Le Mesurier - 2 times - show films
Terry - 2 times - show films
Alastair Sim - 2 times - show films
Irene Handl - 2 times - show films
Billie Whitelaw - 2 times - show films

Robert Hamer - 2 times - show films
John Boulting - 2 times - show films
Robert Asher - 2 times - show films
Mari - 2 times - show films
Leo McCarey - 1 times - show films