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Stanley Holloway
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Stanley Holloway - what members say
review by A customer from England
Time Gone By 31 July 2004
review by A customer from London, England
Ealing Comedy not the best 18 May 2004
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Dad’s army 26 April 2006
Stanley Holloway - filmography
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Target - Harry
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Michael Ansara, Stanley Holloway, Suzanne Pleshette
Director: Roger Corman
Certificate: 
Freelance pilot Harry Black (Vic Morrow) finds both the Monte Carlo police and the underworld hot on his trail when he becomes caught up in the plans of one of his passengers - to break the Bank of England using forged currency. The tension mounts as Harry struggles to find the plates used to forge ..read more »
 
39%
from 17 members
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Up The Front
(1972)
Starring: Lance Percival, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Zsa Zsa G
Director: Bob Kellett
Certificate: 
Frankie Howard blusters through comic innuendo to find himself serving in the army while under hypnosis with the military plans for the German Master Invasion tattooed on his bum and trenches to dig.
59%
from 341 members
Currently unavailable
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Flight Of The Doves
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Dana, Ron Moody, Jack Wild
Director: Ralph Nelson
Certificate: 
Fondly-remembered family drama starring Jack Wild and Helen Raye as Finn and Derval Dove, an orphaned Irish brother and sister living unhappily in England with their domineering stepfather Hawk (Ron Moody). Together they decide to run away and return to their home country to live with their loving ..read more »
60%
from 185 members
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The Private Life Of Sherlock Holmes
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Geneviève Page, Colin Blakely, Robert Stephens
Director: Billy Wilder
Certificate:
Sherlock Holmes' pursuit of a missing husband provides the pretext to explore sides of the sleuth's character which have remained hitherto unexplored in filmed versions of Arthur Conan Doyle's stories. Robert Stephens plays Holmes as a troubled man, addicted to cocaine and unsure about his sexuality.
62%
from 1,229 member
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The Sandwich Man
(1966)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde-White, Norman Wisdom, Bernard Cribbins
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
Certificate:
A look at London in the swinging 60s through the eyes of a humble sandwich board man (Michael Bentine). Throughout the course of the day he travels London and meets many different types of people played by top comedy names of the time including Alfie Bass, Terry-Thomas, Bernard Cribbins, Diana Dors,..read more »
60%
from 89 members
Not available for rental
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In Harm's Way
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Paula Prentiss, Kirk Douglas, Dana Andrews
Director: Otto Preminger
Certificate:
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 411 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 174 members
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My Fair Lady
(1964)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White, Henry Daniell, Audrey Hepburn
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 11,755 members
Currently unavailable
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No Love For Johnnie
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Paul Rogers, Peter Barkworth, Billie Whitelaw
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
1960s drama starring Peter Finch as a parliamentary MP whose thirst for greater power leads him into political intrigue. Johnnie Byrne (Finch) is a Labour MP who aspires to the big-time. His hopes are raised when his party triumphs in a general election, but Johnnie is overlooked for a role on the ..read more »
67%
from 53 members
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On the Fiddle
(1961)
Starring: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker
Director: Cyril Frankel
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Cyril Frankel directs this 1960s comedy starring Sean Connery in one of his final pre-Bond roles. It is World War II and layabout Cockney Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch) finds himself forced to enlist in the war effort after one of his schemes backfires. In the RAF he strikes up a friendship with Pedlar ..read more »
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Not available for rental
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Jumping for Joy
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Frankie Howerd, Stanley Holloway, A.E. Matthews
Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Certificate:
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 »
60%
from 37 members
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Diana Dors - Icon Collection - A Kid For...
(1955)
Starring: John McCallum, Sid James, Honor Blackman
Certificate:
Carol Reed's whimsical 1950s comedy-drama. In a working-class London community of small shops, open-air vendors and flea-marketers, Joe (Jonathan Ashmore), a small boy, lives with his mother, Joanne (Celia Johnson), who works in and rooms above the Kandinsky tailor shop. Joe is innocently and ..read more »
64%
from 107 members
Currently unavailable
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Bill Owen, Stanley Holloway, Donald Sinden
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
1950s British drama following a group of London pub darts players on a day trip to France. The members of the group have various interests to pursue in France. While some are going just for the darts, one man plans to buy cheap watches and smuggle them back to Britain for a profit. Jim Carver (..read more »
61%
from 36 members
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A Day To Remember
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Bill Owen, Stanley Holloway, Odile Versois
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate: 
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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Classic Ealing comedy about a group of villagers who, angered by British Rail's decision to close down their local branch line, make a bid to run the service themselves, making use of an antique locomotive liberated from a local museum.
68%
from 9 members
Currently unavailable
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Diana Dors - Icon Collection - Lady Godi...
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Pauline Stroud, Diana Dors, Michael Craig
Certificate:
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.
58%
from 97 members
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The Lavender Hill Mob - Blu-ray
(1951)
Starring: Sid James, Alec Guinness, Edie Martin
Director: Charles Crichton
Certificate:
Classic Ealing comedy starring Alec Guinness as a mild-mannered bank clerk whose sudden compulsion to rob the bank he works for causes all manner of chaos. Henry Holland (Guinness) has been trusted with delivering gold bullion for 20 years and is considered a safe pair of hands by his employers. ..read more »
80%
from 223 members
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One Wild Oat
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Irene Handl, Audrey Hepburn, Stanley Holloway
Director: Charles Saunders
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Humphrey Proudfoot (Robertson Hare) is a class-conscious solicitor whose daughter falls in love with the son of a disreputable greyhound owner Alfred Gilbey (Stanley Holloway). After Humphrey fails to convince his daughter not to marry the young Gilbey, he employs a private investigator in order to ..read more »
47%
from 106 members
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Passport to Pimlico - Blu-ray
(1949)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Sydney Tafler
Director: Henry Cornelius
Certificate:
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An ancient document reveals that London's Pimlico district really belongs to France. And the Pimlico community, eager to abandon post-War constraints, quickly establish their independence as a ration-free state, with hilarious results.
72%
from 75 members
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Passport to Pimlico
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Hermione Baddeley, Sydney Tafler
Director: Henry Cornelius
Certificate:
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An ancient document reveals that London's Pimlico district really belongs to France. And the Pimlico community, eager to abandon post-War constraints, quickly establish their independence as a ration-free state, with hilarious results.
72%
from 4,252 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
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Although criticized by Shakespeare devotees upon its release because of director, producer, and star Laurence Olivier's decision to excise large portions of the text, his cinematic version of Hamlet is widely considered the best out of several dozens (and counting). Hamlet (Olivier) is a medieval ..read more »
65%
from 1,852 member
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Hamlet - Blu-ray
(1948)
Starring: Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Peter Cushing
Director: Laurence Olivier
Certificate:
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Laurence Olivier directs and stars in this adaptation of Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Hamlet (Olivier), Prince of Denmark, is still mourning over the death of his father and his mother Gertrude's (Eileen Herlie) subsequent remarriage to Hamlet's despised uncle, Claudius (Basil Sydney), who is now ..read more »
71%
from 60 members
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Nicholas Nickleby
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Alfred Drayton, Bernard Miles, Sybil Thorndike
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
Certificate:
This Ealing production of Charles Dickens' novel stars Cedric Hardwicke as the eponymous hero. The duplicitous scheming of an avaricious uncle robs Nicholas Nickleby of his rightful inheritance. In order to care for his family, Nicholas is forced to leave his schoolmaster's post, and seek his ..read more »
56%
from 221 members
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Marjorie Mars, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
A respectable, happily married doctor (Trevor Howard) comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife (Celia Johnson) when a passing train blows cinder into her eye. Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and railway cafe of a small English town. David Lean's classic study ..read more »
74%
from 13,227 members
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Brief Encounter - Blu-ray
(1945)
Starring: Marjorie Mars, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
Classic drama starring Celia Johnson as a married woman whose life is thrown into turmoil when she unexpectedly falls in love with a stranger. Laura Jesson (Johnson) appears to be the very embodiment of a respectable, happily-married British housewife and mother. Equally, the man who comes to her ..read more »
78%
from 454 members
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The Way Ahead
on DVD
(1944)
Starring: Peter Ustinov, William Hartnell, Stanley Holloway
Director: Carol Reed
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Carol Reed directs a host of British stars in this documentary-style WW2 adventure. Following the Dunkirk retreat, Lt. Jim Perry (David Niven) is assigned a bunch of raw recruits and sets about transforming them from bickering civilians into a proficient battle-ready fighting force. When training ..read more »
70%
from 807 members
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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An episodic tale of an average working class family in the interwar years. Narrated by Laurence Olivier and directed by David Lean, the story traces the melodrama caused by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of women's liberation and political instability in the country during ..read more »
71%
from 513 members
Not available for rental
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This Happy Breed - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
An episodic tale of an average working class family in the interwar years. Narrated by Laurence Olivier and directed by David Lean, the story traces the melodrama caused by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of women's liberation and political instability in the country during ..read more »
67%
from 4 members
Not available for rental
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Cotton Queen
(1937)
Starring: Stanley Holloway, Will Fyffe, Jimmy Hanley
Director: Bernard Vorhaus
Certificate: 
1930s British comedy from director Bernard Vorhaus and producer Joe Rock. Rival factory owners Sam (Stanley Holloway) and Bill (Will Fyffe) try to work together in order to obtain a big contract. The situation is further complicated when Sam's son Jack (Jimmy Hanley) and Bill's niece Joan (Mary ..read more »
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Due for release on 17th June 2013
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Diana Dors - Icon Collection
(7 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Sid James, Michael Craig, John McCallum
Certificate:
Boxed retrospective of the woman dubbed 'the British Marilyn Monroe'. Diana Dors was adored by the British public. A star of the silver screen for nearly 40 years, Dors was a larger than life character who had it all. This collection showcases some of the films that made Diana Dors one of Britain's ..read more »
73%
from 111 members
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Stanley Holloway facts
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