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Leo McKern - filmography
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A Foreign Field
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Edward Herrmann
Director: Charles Sturridge
Certificate: 
Five decades after blood flowed freely on its shores, Normandy is revisited by a handful of nostalgic World War Two veterans (Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, and John Randolph). It isn't long before the men begin to reopen old wounds as they explore the battlefield that shaped their lives. Two of the ..read more »
 
70%
from 393 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 7
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Mike Vardy, Robert Knights, Stuart Burge
Certificate:
The entire seventh series of Rumpole of the Bailey. Comprising six courtroom dramas with Horace Rumpole in defence. Includes: Rumpole and the Children of the Devil, Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice, Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle, Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson, Rumpole and the ..read more »
69%
from 288 members
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Monsignor Quixote
(1985)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Ian Richardson
Director: Rodney Bennett
Certificate: 
Alec Guinness portrays the title character in this made-for-television adaptation of Graham Greene's novel--itself a meditation on Cervantes' "Don Quixote." A provincial Spanish clergyman embarks on a trip to Madrid with a rigid Communist his only company. The unlikely pair converse to pass the ..read more »
67%
from 356 members
Not currently released
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The Chain
(1985)
Starring: Warren Mitchell, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lawson
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate:
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Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as sloth, envy, greed, avarice and pride.
68%
from 69 members
Not available for rental
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King Lear
(1984)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall
Director: Michael Elliott
Certificate:
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.
60%
from 268 members
Not available for rental
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Reilly - Ace Of Spys
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Sam Neill, Leo McKern, Tom Bell
Director: Jim Goddard, Martin Campbell, M
Certificate: 
Sam Neill stars in this TV mini-series as Sidney Reilly, an enigmatic spy operating in Europe and Asia. The character is based on a real person, who was the primary inspiration behind the creation of James Bond.
72%
from 16 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 6
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Brian Farnham, Peter Hammond, Stuart Burge
Certificate:
The popular TV series about an eccentric barrister, Horace Rumpole, who plays at being a part-time detective, dishing out his own brand of justice, and defending the 'little fellow'. All the while, smoking his ever-popular cigars and spouting Wordsworth. Contains all the episodes from the sixth series.
73%
from 395 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 5
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Mike Vardy, Julian Amyes, Julian
Certificate:
Leo McKern stars in this long-running series as Horace Rumpole, an eccentric London defence lawyer. Rumpole must contend with various difficult cases and, of course, his wife. This release features the entire fifth season.
70%
from 422 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 4
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Roger Bamford, Rodney Bennett
Certificate:
Leo McKern stars in this long-running series as Horace Rumpole, an eccentric London defence lawyer. Rumpole must contend with various difficult cases and, of course, his wife. This release features the entire 4th season. Episodes include: 'Rumpole And The Old, Old Story', 'Rumpole And The Blind ..read more »
74%
from 385 members
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern, Meryl Streep
Director: Karel Reisz
Certificate:
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In this dramatic film, director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Harold Pinter adapt the complex romantic novel by John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Set in 1867, Sarah Woodrough (Meryl Streep), a beautiful young woman, is condemned by society and driven into a deep melancholy because of her ..read more »
62%
from 2,754 members
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The Blue Lagoon
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern
Director: Randal Kleiser
Certificate:
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A remake of the 1949 original, which tells of a boy and a girl who become ship-wrecked on an exotic tropical island. As they grow up they learn how to fend for themselves, and as the years roll by their childish affection turns into an innocent love. But all is not what it seems...
58%
from 2,503 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Herbert Wise, Graham Evans, Gr
Certificate:
The complete first series of the popular television series which features defence lawyer Horace Rumpole. Episodes include: 'Rumpole And The Younger Generation', 'Rumpole And The Alternative Society', 'Rumpole And The Honourable Member', 'Rumpole And The Married Lady', 'Rumpole And The Learned ..read more »
69%
from 661 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - The Specials
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: John Glenister
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The first-ever, never-before-released, episode of Rumpole plus a two-hour special 'Rumpole Returns' which finds Rumpole in retirement and staying with his son in America. There he is contacted and encouraged to take on a case involving bloodstains.
75%
from 185 members
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Massacre in Rome
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Richard Burton, Leo McKern, Peter Vaughan
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Certificate:
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Adapted from Robert Katz's book DEATH IN ROME, this chilling tale is based on a true story of the Ardentine Massacre that took place in Italy during the German occupation of World War II. It occurred when the Italian Resistance attacked a squad of German storm troopers and killed 33 of them, ..read more »
58%
from 212 members
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The Prisoner - E09 - Checkmate
(1967)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern, Peter Wyngarde
Director: Don Chaffey
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After waking up from an artificial sleep, Number 6 discovers a game of "live chess" on the Village green in which the "chessmen" are Villagers and the players sit in elevated chairs and call out the moves with megaphones. Recruited by one player as the Queen's pawn, he only reluctantly obeys his "..read more »
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A Man For All Seasons
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Robert Shaw, Paul Scofield, Orson Welles
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Certificate: 
Adapted by Robert Bolt and Constance Willis from Bolt's hit stage play, A Man for All Seasons stars Paul Scofield, triumphantly repeating his stage role as Sir Thomas More. The crux of the film is the staunchly Catholic More's refusal to acknowledge King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw)'s break from the ..read more »
73%
from 4,927 members
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Alice In Wonderland
(1966)
Starring: John Gielgud, Peter Cook, Alan Bennett
Director: Jonathan Miller
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Based on the classic book by Lewis Carroll, this version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND was originally produced for BBC1 in 1966 by Jonathan Miller, and is one of the more original and stylish adaptations to date. Drawing inspiration from Victorian photography and pre-Raphaelite paintings, Miller's vision ..read more »
57%
from 778 members
Currently unavailable
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King And Country
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern
Director: Joseph Losey
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The intensely dramatic story of a young soldier who faces a court-martial for desertion at the battle of Passchendaelle in 1917. Dirk Bogarde stars as the officer tasked with the job of saving him from the firing squad.
64%
from 278 members
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Hot Enough For June
(1964)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley
Director: Jim Goddard, Ralph Thomas
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Dirk Bogarde plays one of those 'reluctant spies' so common to adventure films of the 1960s. A poverty-stricken author, Bogarde is sent to Czechoslovakia by the British government as an unofficial 'goodwill ambassador' to an industrial firm. It soon dawns upon him that his real assignment is to ..read more »
55%
from 9 members
Not available for rental
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The Day The Earth Caught Fire
(1961)
Starring: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Bernard Braden
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
When the Americans test a nuclear weapon at the South Pole at the exact moment that the Soviets are testing their own weapon at the North, the earth's axis is jolted out of alignment, causing catastrophic changes in global weather patterns. Additionally, the earth has been dislodged from its orbit, ..read more »
67%
from 1,727 member
Not available for rental
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Yesterday's Enemy
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Leo McKern, Stanley Baker
Director: Val Guest
Certificate:
BAFTA-nominated Hammer film, in which, cut off by the Japanese advance into Burma, Captain Langford (Stanley Baker) and his exhausted British troops take over an enemy-held jungle village. Despite protestations from a padre and a war correspondent (Leo McKern), Langford orders that two innocent ..read more »
69%
from 107 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 »
59%
from 85 members
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Rumpole And The ...
on DVD
Starring: Leo McKern, Joyce Heron
Director: Robert Knights
Certificate:
This is the story that launched a legend - the wildly popular courtroom drama Rumpole Of the Bailey. Written by John Mortimer as a 1975 BBC television play, Rumpole was an instant hit. But it was three years before the launch of the long-running series, and this pilot episode faded into history. ..read more »
66%
from 194 members
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Leo McKern facts
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...in a hard boiled(no pun intended) newspaper office and is told in flashback.
Leo McKern turns in a grizzled performance as a wordsmith par excellence with a soft heart...
