Bill Travers

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Ring Of Bright Water review by Clerico from Dunbar

Delightful kids' story 27 January 2005
...Bill Travers and Virginia Mckenna (as per Born Free) spar amiably in this warm, touching feelgood film about a pet otter kept by a would-be writer in the west highlands of ... Read customer review

The Smallest Show On Earth review by from Reading England

A great little show!! 10 December 2004
...iles give splendid performances as 'The Bijou's' staff and Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers have a steep learning curve as the reluctant new owners of the run down cinema ... Read customer review

Duel At Diablo review by from Andover, Hampshire England

Maverick matures and makes mayhem. 5 May 2009
... with positive performances by central characters James Garner, Sidney Poitier, Bill Travers, Bibi Andersson and Denis Weaver. Whilst not quite on a par with Nelson's la... Read customer review

Born Free / Living Free on DVD (1996)
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen
Director: Jack Hill, Jack Couffer
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A special double-set collection of the nature classic and it's sequel.BORN FREE (1965): The true story of Elsa the lioness who was raised by game warden George Adamson and his wife Joy. Based on Joy's book and one of the best family dramas of all time. Academy Awards: Best Song ("Born Free"), Best ..read more »

70% from 1,675 member

The Belstone Fox (1973)
Starring: Eric Porter, Rachel Roberts, Heather Wright
Director: James Hill
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Based on the book 'The Ballad of the Belstone Fox', which was also the source for the Disney classic 'The Fox & The Hound', this live action film sees Tag, an orphaned fox, raised with a litter of fox hounds, form a friendship with a puppy, Merlin. As time goes on their friendship is put to the ..read more »

64% from 318 members
Not available for rental

Ring Of Bright Water on DVD (1969)
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Peter Jeffrey
Director: Jack Couffer
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A jaded Londoner's life is transformed by a domesticated otter he purchases from a pet store. When the hustle of the city proves too much for the pair, they relocate to the bucolic Scottish highlands, where the man falls in love with a rural physician and the otter sires a family in the wild. Based ..read more »

68% from 809 members

Duel At Diablo on DVD (1966)
Starring: Sidney Poitier, James Garner, Bibi Andersson
Director: Ralph Nelson
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Based on the novel APACHE RISING by Marvin Albert, this bold and inspired western meets every expectation of its genre. Director Ralph Nelson keeps the pace lively in this Cavalry verses the Indians narrative and puts both James Garner and Sidney Poitier to great use. Garner plays Jess Remsberg, a ..read more »

60% from 376 members

Gorgo (1961)
Starring: Bill Travers, William Sylvester, Vincent Winter
Director: Eugene Lourie
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A lonely boy befriends a baby prehistoric monster named Gorgo. When Gorgo's monster mom discovers her son missing, she goes on a terrible rampage and destroys half of London in a desperate search for her lost reptilian offspring.

38% from 15 members
Currently unavailable

The Smallest Show On Earth (1957)
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips
Director: Basil Dearden
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The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighborhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. They ..read more »

69% from 683 members
Currently unavailable

Footsteps In The Fog on DVD (1955)
Starring: Stewart Granger, Jean Simmons, Bill Travers
Director: Arthur Lubin
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Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons star in this compelling thriller set in the fog-shrouded streets of Victorian London. As he buries his wife in a rain-soaked London churchyard, Stephen Lowry (Stewart Granger) thinks he has committed the perfect murder. He's wrong. His quick-witted young maid Lily (..read more »

69% from 190 members

The Square Ring on DVD (1953)
Starring: Jack Warner, Robert Beatty, Bill Owen
Director: Basil Dearden, Michael Relph
Certificate:
Boxing drama following the lives of 5 different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

64% from 63 members

The Browning Version on DVD (1951)
Starring: Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Nigel Patrick
Director: Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
A 1951 black & white classic, in which Michael Redgrave stars as a once brilliant scholar, who goes from the despair of a failed career to the hope of a bright future.

79% from 256 members

Christian - The Lion At World's End on DVD
Director: Bill Travers
Certificate:
A feature length documentary which captures the complete true story of a zoo-born lion, its rescue, development and gradual return home to Africa.

80% from 124 members

Born Free / Living Free - 3.5 stars
The Belstone Fox - 3.0 stars
Ring Of Bright Water - 3.5 stars
Duel At Diablo - 3.0 stars
Gorgo - 2.0 stars

Gorgo - 2.0 stars
Duel At Diablo - 3.0 stars
The Belstone Fox - 3.0 stars
The Square Ring - 3.0 stars
Ring Of Bright Water - 3.5 stars

Virginia McKenna - 3 times - show films
Eric Porter - 2 times - show films
Dennis Waterman - 2 times - show films
Heather Wright - 2 times - show films
Jeremy Kemp - 2 times - show films

James Hill - 2 times - show films
Jack Couffer - 2 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 2 times - show films
Eugene Lourie - 1 times - show films
Arthur Lubin - 1 times - show films