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Stanley Holloway
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Stanley Holloway - what members say
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Stanley Holloway - filmography
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Up The Front
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Bill Fraser, Hermione Baddeley
Director: Bob Kellett
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In Frankie Howerd's third UP... film it's World War I and he plays Lurk, an absolute cowerd, er coward. He's evading the call-up for all he's worth. But one evening he's hypnotised by a drunken hypnotist (Stanley Holloway) into being brave, but he fails to be released from it. So with his yellow ..read more »
 
59%
from 330 members
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Flight Of The Doves
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Ron Moody, Dorothy McGuire, Helen Raye
Director: Ralph Nelson
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A boy and his little sister run away to Ireland to escape from their cruel stepfather. Their evil uncle is their next of kin and when he discovers that they are heirs to a fortune, he chases after them with one wicked purpose in mind!
60%
from 180 members
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Patricia Neal
Director: Otto Preminger
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In Harm's Way, based on James Bassett's novel Harm's Way, has enough plot in it for four movies or a good miniseries (when it was shown on network television in prime time, it was broken into two very full nights). On the morning of December 7, 1941, a heavy cruiser, commanded by Captain Rockwell ..read more »
65%
from 382 members
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Ten Little Indians
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Leo Genn
Director: George Pollock
Certificate: 
Ten strangers are gathered in a house, where they are told that they are each responsible for the death of an innocent person, and that justice is about to be served. One by one, the guests are disposed of according to the poem Ten Little Indians. As the group of survivors decreases, they try to ..read more »
67%
from 158 members
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My Fair Lady
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Theodore Bikel, Jeremy Brett, Henry Daniell
Director: George Cukor
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At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, dishevelled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert ..read more »
73%
from 11,521 members
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No Love For Johnnie
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Peter Finch, Stanley Holloway, Mary Peach
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Based on a novel by Wilfred Fienburgh, this is the story of a British Member of Parliament whose public and private lives are in a shambles. Portrayed by Peter Finch, but supported by an eclectic cast of stereotypical politicians, the protagonist has his hands full trying to keep the important ..read more »
68%
from 33 members
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Jumping for Joy
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, A.E. Matthews
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
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It’s a dog’s life in this hilarious British comedy! When Willie Joy (comedy legend Frankie Howered) is fired from his job at the greyhound stadium, he takes pity on a fellow victim and adopts an injured greyhound called Lindy Lou, who would otherwise be destroyed.
Teaming up with amiable con-man ‘..read more »
62%
from 28 members
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Odile Versois, Donald Sinden
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Arts history programme following the sculptor Paul Day as he creates the Battle of Brtain Monument sited on London's Victoria Embankment. As well as exploring Day's career and his thoughts on his commission, the programme also focuses on the Battle of Britain itself and includes interviews with ..read more »
22%
from 5 members
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Titchfield Thunderbolt
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, George Relph, Naunton Wayne
Director: Charles Crichton
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The railroad between Mallingford and Titfield is losing money, and British Rail decides to close it. Clergyman Sam Weech (George Relph) and Squire Gordon (John Gregson) try to save the railroad by buying it and running it themselves. They enlist wealthy publican Valentine (Stanley Holloway), ..read more »
70%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Bill Owen
Director: Ralph Thomas
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A Day to Remember is a 1953 British comedy drama film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring an ensemble cast including Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden, Bill Owen and Thora Hird. The darts team of a London public house go on a day trip to Boulogne-sur-Mer in France. Members of the party have ..read more »
61%
from 15 members
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The Beggar's Opera
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway, Dorothy Tutin
Director: Peter Brook
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Possibly the first ever English musical, John Gay's THE BEGGAR'S OPERA, tells the tale of a dandy highwayman, locked up in prison in 18th century London, who decides to write an opera based on his own career. With one song after another, Peter Brook's primary coloured, exuberant 1952 adaptation ..read more »
50%
from 142 members
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Diana Dors - Icon Collection - Lady Godi...
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Pauline Stroud, Diana Dors, Michael Craig
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Marjory Clark wins a competition in her Midland town and finds herself in a Festival of Britain procession as Lady Godiva - though not in the buff. This leads by way of a suspect beauty competition to the show-business world of London. But it could be a slippery slope for simple home-town Marge.
59%
from 89 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
Director: Laurence Olivier
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In the opening scene of Hamlet, Laurence Olivier describes the play in a voice-over as "the tragedy of a man who couldn't make up his mind". But Olivier's screen adaptation is considerably more thoughtful and complex than this thesis would suggest. The contradictions and ambiguities of the title ..read more »
65%
from 1,778 member
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons, Eileen Herlie
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Before Kenneth Branagh, before Mel Gibson, Laurence Olivier gave the definitive portrayal of 'the man who could not make up his mind'. In 15th-century Denmark, young Prince Hamlet is racked by torment and indecision after seeing a vision of his deceased father. The late king's ghost informs his son ..read more »
70%
from 43 members
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
74%
from 12,689 members
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Brief Encounter - Blu-ray
(1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
78%
from 371 members
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This Happy Breed - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
20%
from 1 member
Not available for rental
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
70%
from 499 members
Not available for rental
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The Way Ahead
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: David Niven, Stanley Holloway, William Hartnell
Director: Carol Reed
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Boasting a script by Eric Ambler and Peter Ustinov, The Way Ahead [1944] is a rousing version of a familiar WWII genre: an officer must hammer a small group of disparate characters into an effective fighting unit as quickly as possible. David Niven stars as tough-minded Lieutenant Jim Perry, who ..read more »
70%
from 771 members
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Donald Sinden Icon Collection
(11 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Donald Sinden, Stanley Holloway, Michael Hordern
Director: Ralph Thomas, Ken Annakin, Muriel Box
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Features the Donald Sinden films A DAY TO REMEMBER, YOU KNOW WHAT SAILORS ARE, THE BEACHCOMBER, MAD ABOUT MEN, ABOVE US THE WAVES, AN ALLIGATOR NAMED DAISY, TIGER IN THE SMOKE, EYEWITNESS, THE BLACK TENT, ROCKETS GALORE, and MIX ME A PERSON.
64%
from 75 members
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Diana Dors - Icon Collection
(7 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Diana Dors, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
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Features the Diana Dors films YIELD TO THE NIGHT, LADY GODIVA RIDES AGAIN, DIAMOND CITY, A BOY, A GIRL AND A BIKE, AS LONG AS THEY'RE HAPPY, and A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS. Also includes the documentary THE BLONDE BOMBSHELL.
74%
from 99 members
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