Michael Ripper

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The Anatomist review by FrankIV from Cirencester, England

A Rarity 6 February 2011
...and Hare story, with some very good dialogue, the chance to see the under-rated Michael Ripper actually act rather than simply glower from the coachman's seat in any number o... Read customer review

No Surrender on DVD (1986)
Starring: Michael Angelis, Michael Angelis, Avis Bunnage
Director: Peter Smith
Certificate:
Comical situations abound when three busloads of pensioners arrive at a seedy nightclub in Liverpool to celebrate New Year's Eve. Rock singer Elvis Costello appears in the role of an inept magician.

61% from 52 members

Butterflies - Series 2 - (2 discs) on DVD (1979)
Starring: Geoffrey Palmer, Wendy Craig, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Director: John B. Hobbs
Certificate:
The complete second series which follows the trials and tribulations of a married, middle class woman of the 70s. Rita is married to a dentist and she has two teenage boys. She yearns for excitement to liven up her mundane existence and discovers this in the form of Leonard, a businessman she meets ..read more »

65% from 506 members

Butterflies - Series 1 (2 discs) (1978)
Starring: Geoffrey Palmer, Wendy Craig, Nicholas Lyndhurst
Director: Sydney Lotterby
Certificate:
Rita is married to a dentist and she has two teenage boys. She yearns for excitement to liven up her mundane existence and discovers this in the form of Leonard, a businessman she meets one day. Their friendship causes her concern and her life is easily muddled. From the classic television comedy ..read more »

64% from 695 members
Not currently released

Freewheelers - Series 6 - Complete (2 discs) on DVD (1971)
Starring: Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Michael Ripper, Richard Shaw
Director: Dave Heather
Certificate:
The sixth series 70's spy adventure for all the family, FREEWHEELERS, is featured here in this rare collection.

70% from 18 members

The Lost Continent on DVD (1968)
Starring: Eric Porter, Hildegard Knef, Suzanna Leigh
Director: Michael Carreras
Certificate:
The nightmare begins when Captain Lansen (Eric Porter) attempts to tranport illegal explosives and a motley group of passengers on a rusty tramp steamer that becomes stranded in the vast floating swamp of the mysterious Sargasso Sea. Under cover of night, the terrified travelers encounter ..read more »

54% from 139 members

The Mummy's Shroud (1967)
Starring: Catherine Lacey, David Buck, John Phillips
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A small archaeological party unearths the hidden tomb of Kah-to-Bey, unleashing a horrible, murderous mummy, which can be revived by reading the text from a prince's shroud.

55% from 152 members
Due for release on 10th September 2012

The Scarlet Blade on DVD (1963)
Starring: Douglas Blackwell, Lionel Jeffries, Oliver Reed
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
A historical adventure set during the English Civil War from the famous Hammer Film Productions. Oliver Reed is in devilish form as a Roundhead soldier who kidnaps the King on the orders of his tyrannical Colonel (Lionel Jeffries). It's down to a local group of loyal soldiers to rescue him, led by ..read more »

61% from 21 members

The Anatomist on DVD (1961)
Starring: Alistair Sim, George Cole, Michael Ripper
Director: Dennis Vance
Certificate:
A doctor employs two men to dig up graves in order for him to have bodies on which to perform experiments, but the men begin to get their own ideas of where to get bodies.

51% from 50 members

The Curse of the Werewolf on DVD (1961)
Starring: Clifford Evans, Oliver Reed, Catherine Feller
Director: Terence Fisher
Certificate:
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In 18th Century Spain, a small village is ruled over by an evil Marquis. A beggar goes to the castle of this unfair ruler and asks for a small amount of bread and is consequently humiliated and jailed. He is soon forgotten and becomes more animal than human, the only contact he has with humanity is ..read more »

69% from 145 members

Woman In A Dressing Gown (1957)
Starring: Yvonne Mitchell, Anthony Quayle, Sylvia Syms
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Certificate:
Woman in a Dressing Gown is a 1957 British film directed by J. Lee Thompson (Ice Cold In Alex, Cape Fear, The Guns Of Navarone) and stars Sylvia Syms (Ice Cold In Alex, No Trees In The Street) Anthony Quale (Ice Cold In Alex, The Guns Of Navarone) and Yvonne Mitchell who won the Silver Bear for ..read more »

16% from 3 members
Due for release on 13th August 2012

No Surrender - 3.0 stars
Butterflies - Series 2 - - 3.5 stars
Butterflies - Series 1 - 3.0 stars
Freewheelers - Series 6 - Complete - 3.5 stars
The Lost Continent - 2.5 stars

The Curse of the Werewolf - 3.5 stars
Butterflies - Series 2 - - 3.5 stars
Butterflies - Series 1 - 3.0 stars
No Surrender - 3.0 stars
The Mummy's Shroud - 3.0 stars

Woman In A Dressing Gown - 1.0 stars
The Anatomist - 2.5 stars
The Scarlet Blade - 3.0 stars
Freewheelers - Series 6 - Complete - 3.5 stars
The Lost Continent - 2.5 stars

Wendy Craig - 6 times - show films
Bruce Montague - 6 times - show films
Andrew Hall - 6 times - show films
Joyce Windsor - 6 times - show films
Nicholas Lyndhurst - 6 times - show films

John B. Hobbs - 3 times - show films
Sydney Lotterby - 3 times - show films
Dave Heather - 3 times - show films
Terence Fisher - 2 times - show films
John Gilling - 2 times - show films