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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 »
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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
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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 »
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Monsignor Quixote
on DVD
(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 »
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The Chain
(1985)
Starring: Warren Mitchell, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lawson
Director: Jack Gold
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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.
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King Lear
(1984)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jeremy Kemp, Anna Calder-Marshall
Director: Michael Elliott
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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.
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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
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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.
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 5
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Mike Vardy, Julian Amyes, Roger Bamford
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.
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 4
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Roger Bamford, Rodney Bennett
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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 »
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The French Lieutenant's Woman
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Leo McKern
Director: Karel Reisz
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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 »
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The Blue Lagoon
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: Brooke Shields, Christopher Atkins, Leo McKern
Director: Randal Kleiser
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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...
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1978)
Starring: Leo McKern
Director: Herbert Wise, Graham Evans
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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 »
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Our Mutual Friend
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Leo McKern, Jane Seymour, Lesley Dunlop
Director: Peter Hammond
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A stellar cast including Jane Seymour, Leo McKern, John McEnery and Lesley Dunlop star in this classic
adaptation of one of Charles Dickens' most celebrated novels.
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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.
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Massacre In Rome
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Richard Burton, Leo McKern, Peter Vaughan
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
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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 »
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A Man For All Seasons
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Robert Shaw, Paul Scofield, Orson Welles
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Certificate: 
A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS, based on Robert Bolt's stage play, is an excellent biographical drama about the conflicts faced by Sir Thomas More (Paul Scofield) when King Henry VIII (Robert Shaw) asks him to break with Rome and grant him a divorce. The film is a powerful, cerebral story, supported by an ..read more »
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Alice In Wonderland
on DVD
(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 »
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Hot Enough For June
(1964)
Starring: Chris Sarandon, Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina
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 »
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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.
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The Servant
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Chris Sarandon, Harold Pinter
Director: Joseph Losey, Basil Dearden
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In THE SERVANT, Joseph Losey's 10th film made in the U.K. after his 1951 blacklisting in the U.S., the powerful undercurrents of class struggle and sexual repression erupt through the very British patina of civility to expose the poisoned undercurrents of a class-based society.
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The Day The Earth Caught Fire
(1961)
Starring: Leo McKern, Janet Munro, Bernard Braden
Director: Val Guest
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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 »
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Yesterday's Enemy
(1959)
Starring: Gordon Jackson, Leo McKern, Stanley Baker
Director: Val Guest
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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 »
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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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X The Unknown
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Dean Jagger, Edward Chapman, Leo McKern
Director: Leslie Norman
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In 'The Abominable Snowman' an international force set off for the Himalayas in search of the Yeti... In 'X The Unknown' a creature terrorises the inhabitants of a Scottish village.
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The Blue Lamp
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Harold Pinter, Jack Warner, Sylvia Sims
Director: Basil Dearden
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An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop ..read more »
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Rumpole Of The Bailey - Rumpole And The ...
on DVD
Starring: Leo McKern, Joyce Heron
Director: Robert Knights
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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 »
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Accident
on DVD
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Chris Sarandon, Harold Pinter
Director: Basil Dearden, Joseph Losey, Roy Boulting
Certificate: 
In 'Accident' (1967) Two Oxford students, William (Michael York) and Anna (Jacqueline Sassard), crash their car outside their professor Stephen's (Bogarde) house. The lecturer finds William dead and Anna in shock, and the horrifying spectacle in front of him triggers memories of their previous ..read more »
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The Chain
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(1984)
Starring: Denis Lawson, Rita Wolf, Phyllis Logan
Director: Jack Gold
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Run time: 93 minutes
The Chain is linked by a series of moves. As one couple moves out of their current residence to live in posher quarters, another moves in, and so it goes all the way up to the lavish mansion owned by self-made millionaire Leo McKern. The cycle starts all over again when McKern, wishing to be closer ..read more »
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Massacre In Rome
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(1973)
Starring: Richard Burton, Leo McKern, Peter Vaughan
Director: George Pan Cosmatos
Certificate: 
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Run time: 100 minutes
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 »
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Prisoner, The - Episode 1, The Chimes Of...
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(1967)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern, Peter Wyngarde
Director: Don Chaffey
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Run time: 52 minutes
A new prisoner, Nadia, or Number Eight, knows where the Village is, which means she and Number Six can escape. Using a boat that was disguised as a piece of abstract art, they make their way to the nearest shore and from there back to London, hidden in packing crates. But Number Six learns that ..read more »
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Prisoner, The - Episode 8, Checkmate
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(1967)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern, Peter Wyngarde
Director: Don Chaffey
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Run time: 52 minutes
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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Prisoner, The - Episode 9, Hammer Into Anvil
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(1967)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern, Peter Wyngarde
Director: Pat Jackson
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Run time: 52 minutes
Another quiet day in the Village is shattered by a woman's screaming. No. 6, walking past the so-called hospital, rushes in to see what all the commotion is about, and when he bursts into a young woman's room, he takes in at a glance the sadistic torture that No. 2 is using on her. Distracted for a ..read more »
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Prisoner, The - Episode 7, Dance Of The Dead
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(1967)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Leo McKern, Peter Wyngarde
Director: Don Chaffey
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Run time: 52 minutes
Number Six comes across a body that has washed ashore with a radio. After sending the body back out to sea, he tries to use the radio to get rescued. A former colleague finds him, but the man is resigned to his own destruction. Later, Number Six calls his ex-colleague to be his character witness ..read more »
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Leo McKern facts
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The day before the day after tomorrow 12 March 2005
...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...
The original and best 29 January 2005
