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Felix Aylmer



Filmography

Felix Aylmer - filmography


  • The Boys on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Ronald Lacey,  Robert Morley,  Richard Todd
    Director: Sidney J. Furie
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Director Sidney J. Furie was betwixt and between his Canadian TV work and his theatrical-film prominence vis-a-vis THE IMPCRESS FILE (65) when he helmed the British social melodrama The Boys. The title characters are four youths, all implicated in the murder of a night watchman. Robert Morley plays ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 52 members
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  • Exodus on DVD (1960)
    Starring: Ralph Richardson,  Lee J. Cobb,  Martin Benson
    Director: Otto Preminger
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Based on Leon Uris' sweeping novel, "Exodus" is the epic saga of the founding of Israel in the days following World War II. Paul Newman stars as an Israeli resistance fighter, a member of the Hagannah, involved in the effort to bring a group of 600 European Jews from British-blockaded Cyprus into ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 660 members
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  • The Mummy (1959)
    Starring: Peter Cushing,  Robert Urquhart,  Hazel Court
    Director: Terence Fisher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star in this stylish Hammer Horror directed by Terence Fisher. Egypt, 1895: An archaeological expedition led by Stephen Banning (Felix Aylmer) and his son John (Peter Cushing) discover the 4000-year-old tomb of Princess Ananka. Ignoring warnings from a mysterious ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 1,115 member
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  • Dracula (1958)
    Starring: Peter Cushing,  Robert Urquhart,  Hazel Court
    Director: Terence Fisher
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Dracula (1958) is the first of the studio's many vampire movies, a stylish and exciting adaptation of Bram Stoker's original with Lee and Cushing as The Count and Van Helsing respectively.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 594 members
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  • Anastasia (1958)
    Starring: Ingrid Bergman,  Yul Brynner,  Helen Hayes
    Director: Anatole Litvak
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    An opportunistic Russian businessman tries to pass a mysterious impostor as the Grand Duchess Anastasia. But she is so convincing in her performance that even the biggest skeptics believe her
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 339 members
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  • The Curse Of Frankenstein (1957)
    Starring: Peter Cushing,  Robert Urquhart,  Hazel Court
    Director: Terence Fisher
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Baron Frankenstein lets his zeal get the better of him when he kills a scientist in order to obtain a brain for the macabre experimental creature he is stitching together. But when the creature comes to life it embarks on a rampage of terror for which Frankenstein is blamed and condemned to the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 935 members
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  • Master Of Ballentrae on DVD (1953)
    Starring: Errol Flynn,  Roger Livesey,  Anthony Steel
    Director: William Keighley
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Errol Flynn, the greatest of the swashbuckling stars, returns in The Master Of Ballentrae. Flynn stars as Ballantrae Castle's Jamie Durisdeer, a herioc highlander-turned-pirate in this version of Robert Louis Stevenson's story. Declare your allegiance... or answer to his blade!
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 24 members
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  • Quo Vadis - Blu-ray (1951)
    Starring: Robert Taylor,  Deborah Kerr,  Leo Genn
    Director: Mervyn LeRoy,  Franco Rossi
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Rome burns. Nero fiddles. Christianity rises. And moviegoers turned out in throngs for this years-in-the-making film colossus boasting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and featuring 110 speaking parts, 30,000 participants and a filmed-on-location panoply of marching legions, ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 123 members
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  • Trio (1950)
    Starring: James Hayter,  Kathleen Harrison,  Felix Aylmer
    Director: Ken Annakin,  Harold French
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Three short playlets are presented in this omnibus feature. "The Verger" focuses on a church verger who loses his position when it is discovered that he can neither read nor write. With the help of his sympathetic wife, he becomes a successful tobacconist. In "Mister Know-All," an obnoxious, ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 20 members
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  • The Years Between on DVD (1946)
    Starring: Valerie Hobson,  Michael Redgrave,  Flora Robson
    Director: Compton Bennett
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Michael Redgrave, Valerie Hobson, Flora Robson and Felix Aylmer star in this moving and sophisticated story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Second World War and based on the play by Daphne Du Maurier. After hearing news that her officer husband has been killed in battle, Diana ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 88 members
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  • South American George on DVD (1941)
    Starring: George Formby,  Linden Travers,  Felix Aylmer
    Director: Marcel Varnel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    To help out his exact double, George Formby (in a dual role) takes the place of a noted South American tenor. This way he can help the opera star fulfill contract obligations and also win the heart of the man's lovely press agent, Linden Travers.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 15 members
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  • I Thank You on DVD (1941)
    Starring: Moore Marriott,  Arthur Askey,  Graham Moffatt
    Director: Marcel Varnel
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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    Arthur and Dickie become servants in order to raise money for their theatre troupe. Fortunatly, their employer puts up the money for a stage performance for them to star in.
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 78 members
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  • Night Train to Munich (1940)
    Starring: Margaret Lockwood,  Rex Harrison,  Paul Henreid
    Director: Carol Reed
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    When the Germans march into Prague, armour-plating inventor Dr Bomasch flees to England. His daughter Anna escapes from arrest to join him, but the Gestapo manage to kidnap them both back to Berlin. As war looms, British secret service agent Gus Bennet follows, disguised as a senior German army officer.
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 14 members
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  • The Clairvoyant on DVD (1934)
    Starring: Claude Rains,  Fay Wray,  Jane Baxter
    Director: Maurice Elvey
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    The Great Maximus (Claude Rains – Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia) has got a new act for the music halls where he makes his living. Working with his beautiful wife Rene (Fay Wray – King Kong), he poses as a mind reader. It’s all a trick, of course: he certainly doesn’t have the gift for real. Or so ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 65% from 42 members
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  • Oh Brother (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Derek Nimmo,  Felix Aylmer
    Director: Harold Snoad
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Brother Dominic is a well-meaning novice at Mountacres Priory, who continually treads a thin line between acceptance within the order and expulsion from it. Follow his unstable progress...
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 192 members
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Felix Aylmer facts

5 most recent films

The Thief And The Cobbler - 3.5 stars
The Boys - 3.5 stars
Exodus - 3.0 stars
The Mummy - 3.0 stars
Dracula - 3.5 stars

5 highest-rated films

Will Hay - The Black Sheep of Whitehall - 4.0 stars
So Long At The Fair - 3.5 stars
The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp - 3.5 stars
Dracula - 3.5 stars
The Boys - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
South American George - 2.5 stars
The Man in the Mirror - 3.0 stars
Night Train to Munich - 3.0 stars
Master Of Ballentrae - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Kathleen Harrison - 4 times - show films
Ursula Jeans - 4 times - show films
Yvonne Furneaux - 4 times - show films
Anton Walbrook - 4 times - show films
Deborah Kerr - 4 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Terence Fisher - 4 times - show films
Marcel Varnel - 4 times - show films
Harold Snoad - 3 times - show films
Michael Powell - 3 times - show films
Emeric Pressburger - 3 times - show films