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Alec McCowen
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Longitude
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Michael Gambon, Jeremy Irons, Ian Hart
Director: Charles Sturridge
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In LONGITUDE, an 18th-century clock maker named Jon Harrison (Michael Gambon) begins what is to become a 40-year task to invent a system for determining longitude at sea with a nautical timepiece. Meanwhile, 200 years in the future, naval officer Rupert Gould (Jeremy Irons) discovers Harrison's ..read more »
 
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from 1,163 member
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Personal Services
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Julie Walters, Alec McCowen, Shirley Stelfox
Director: Terry Jones
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A seemingly conservative woman and her clientele of kinky connoisseurs become daily tabloid sensations when it's discovered that her suburban brothel caters to some of Great Britain's elite. Members of Parliament, diplomats, judges, bankers, and even men of the cloth are all caught with their pants ..read more »
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from 1,342 member
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Never Say Never Again
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sean Connery, Max von Sydow, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Irvin Kershner
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In this remake and updated version of the 1965 THUNDERBALL, James Bond (Sean Connery), who has been primarily teaching for the last few years, is quite happily yanked out of semiretirement to deal with the deadly SPECTRE organization's newest plan for the destruction of the planet. (The Bond story ..read more »
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from 9,049 members
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Hanover Street
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer
Director: Peter Hyams
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Written and directed by Peter Hyams (THE HUNTER, END OF DAYS), HANOVER STREET stars Harrison Ford as David, a WWII American bomber pilot who meets and falls in love with a beautiful nurse during an air raid in London. She never tells him that she is married. David is then shot down behind enemy ..read more »
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from 468 members
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Frenzy
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Finch, Alec McCowen, Barry Foster
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
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FRENZY was Alfred Hitchcock's penultimate film--and the first film he'd made in England in 20 years. Based on an Arthur La Bern novel, the film focuses on many of the same motifs that Hitchcock had obsessively examined throughout his life's work: the wrong man theme, doubling (in which one person ..read more »
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from 2,338 members
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The One That Got Away
(1957)
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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This taut war film, based on actual fact, tells of the daring escape attempts of a captured German ace pilot, Fran Von Werra. After being taken to Britain, Von Werra was the only German prisoner to successfully escape and make it back to his homeland.
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from 332 members
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Time Without Pity
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Leo McKern, Lois Maxwell, Alec McCowen
Director: Joseph Losey
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In TIME WITHOUT PITY, director Joseph Losey delivers yet another multi-layered, atmospheric thriller. The film follows an alcoholic father (Michael Redgrave) who struggles to save his innocent son from the gallows, even as a cruel rival (Leo McKern) continues to keep him on the defensive. This was ..read more »
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from 47 members
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Twelfth Night
on DVD
Starring: Alec McCowen, Robert Hardy, Felicity Kendall
Director: John Gorrie
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In 1978, the BBC set itself the task of filming all of William Shakespeare's plays for television. The resulting productions, renowned for their loyalty to the text, utilised the best theatrical and television directors and brought great performances from leading contemporary actors. Viola and ..read more »
63%
from 121 members
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The One that got away
to Watch Now
(1957)
Starring: Hardy Krüger, Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
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Run time: 102 minutes
Based on a true story of an SAS patrol dropped behind enemy lines in Iraq at the height of the Gulf War, this powerful drama tells a tale of courage and heroism against almost overwhelming odds.
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from 9 members
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