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Darling review by from London

Caron and Christie 26 August 2005
...n by landlady Avis Bunnage. There's Cicily Courtneidge (aging lesbian actress), Brock Peters (gay, black jazz musician),Pat Pheonix (prostitute) and Tom Bell (failed writer... Read customer review

Brock Peters - filmography

To Heal A Nation on DVD (1987)
Starring: Eric Roberts, Glynnis O'Connor, Scott Paulin
Director: Michael Pressman
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A Vietnam veteran undertakes to erect a memorial to those men who served in the Vietnam conflict. He has a daunting task ahead of him, and will have to overcome a number of obstacles before his dream is realised.

47% from 19 members

Two Minute Warning on DVD (1976)
Starring: Charlton Heston, John Cassavetes, Beau Bridges
Director: Larry Peerce
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When a crazed sniper hides out in a football stadium waiting for the game, and his killing spree, to start Captain Peter Holly (Heston) is sent in to find and disarm him before anyone gets killed. However, his mission is made harder by the arrival of a rival SWAT team who plan to rush the sniper ..read more »

66% from 123 members

Lost In The Stars on DVD (1974)
Starring: Brock Peters, Melba Moore, Raymond St. Jacques
Director: Daniel Mann
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Based on the novel by Alain Paton this is the story of a South African minister who goes to the big city to find his son who is a criminal in the eyes of the white rulers. Part of the American Film Theatre series.

45% from 12 members

Soylent Green on DVD (1973)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, Joseph Cotten
Director: Richard Fleischer
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Richard Fleischer directed this nightmarish science fiction vision of an over-populated world, based on the novel by Harry Harrison. In 2022, New York City is a town bursting at the seams with a 40-million-plus population. Food is in short supply, and most of the population's food source comes from ..read more »

66% from 4,261 members

The McMasters on DVD (1970)
Starring: Burl Ives, Jack Palance, David Carradine
Director: Alf Kjellin
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Set in the immediate post-Civil War era, THE MCMASTERS stars Brock Peters as a black Union soldier who finds he must figuratively fight the war all over again. Returning to his southern hometown, Peters quickly learns that nothing has really changed: he is a 'free' man in name only. Peters' ex-..read more »

58% from 16 members

Darling on DVD (1965)
Starring: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey
Director: John Schlesinger, Bryan Forbes
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Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »

62% from 2,214 members

The Pawnbroker (1964)
Starring: Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Even social worker Marilyn Birchfield's love is inadequte in resurrecting the spirit of Sol Nazerman, a miserible New York pawnbroker who has become bitter and resentful after enduring Nazi imprisonment. Nazerman's sad convictions are reinforced when he learns that the real owner of the pawnshop ..read more »

75% from 68 members
Currently unavailable

To Kill A Mockingbird on DVD (1962)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford
Director: Robert Mulligan
Certificate:
Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in the 1930s, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a poignant coming-of-age story. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (written by Horton Foote),..read more »

77% from 14,125 members

To Kill A Mockingbird - Blu-ray (1962)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Philip Alford
Director: Robert Mulligan
Certificate:
Robert Mulligan's classic adaptation of Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, set in the racially charged atmosphere of Macon County, Alabama in the 1930s, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD is a poignant coming-of-age story. Winner of four Academy Awards including Best Screenplay (written by Horton Foote),..read more »

78% from 5 members
Not available for rental

The L-Shaped Room on DVD (1962)
Starring: Cicely Courtneidge, Brock Peters, Leslie Caron
Director: Bryan Forbes
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A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.

75% from 356 members

Brock Peters facts

5 most recent films

To Heal A Nation - 2.5 stars
Two Minute Warning - 3.5 stars
Lost In The Stars - 2.5 stars
Soylent Green - 3.5 stars
The McMasters - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

To Kill A Mockingbird - 4.0 stars
The L-Shaped Room - 4.0 stars
The Pawnbroker - 3.5 stars
Soylent Green - 3.5 stars
Two Minute Warning - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Lost In The Stars - 2.5 stars
To Heal A Nation - 2.5 stars
The McMasters - 3.0 stars
To Kill A Mockingbird - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Darling - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Paul Fix - 3 times - show films
William Windom - 3 times - show films
Robert Duvall - 3 times - show films
John Megna - 3 times - show films
Philip Alford - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Robert Mulligan - 4 times - show films
Bryan Forbes - 2 times - show films
Larry Peerce - 2 times - show films
Giuseppe Colizzi - 1 times - show films
Michael Pressman - 1 times - show films