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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 »
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59%
from 282 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!
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59%
from 144 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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A navy man goes out to capture strategic islands held by the Japanese during World War II. It doesn't get more macho than this: IN HARM'S WAY was directed by Otto Preminger and stars John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Henry Fonda, George Kennedy, and many more tough guys.
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64%
from 310 members
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Ten Little Indians
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Hugh O'Brian, Shirley Eaton, Leo Genn
Director: George Pollock
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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 »
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67%
from 78 members
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My Fair Lady
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Rex Harrison, Wilfrid Hyde White
Director: George Cukor
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A priceless classic, MY FAIR LADY has become one of the most popular musicals of all time. Based on George Bernard Shaw's 1913 play PYGMALION, the film swept the Academy Awards. Cecil Beaton's lavish sets and costumes and Lerner and Loewe's winning score became the background for George Cukor's ..read more »
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73%
from 10,028 members
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Diana Dors - Icon Collection - A Kid For...
on DVD
(1955)
Starring: Primo Carnera, Jonathan Ashmore, Diana Dors
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A charmingly idiosyncratic fable, A KID FOR TWO FARTHINGS stars Jonathan Ashmore as Joe, an imaginative young boy growing up in London's impoverished East End. After absorbing a tale about the magical power of captured unicorns from the kindly tailor Kandinsky (David Kossoff), who employs the boy's ..read more »
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66%
from 56 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 »
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50%
from 115 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.
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55%
from 48 members
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Hamlet
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway
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 »
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64%
from 1,483 member
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Hamlet - BLU-RAY Version
(1948)
Starring: Jean Simmons, Laurence Olivier, Stanley Holloway
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 »
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70%
from 8 members
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Nicholas Nickleby
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Stanley Holloway, Alfred Drayton
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
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When Nicholas Nickleby's father dies and leaves his family destitute, his uncle, the greedy moneylender, Ralph Nickleby, finds Nicholas a job teaching in a repulsive school in Yorkshire. Nicholas flees the school taking with him one of the persecuted boys, Smike, and they join a troop of actors. ..read more »
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53%
from 163 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 »
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73%
from 10,210 members
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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Three classic wartime dramas: A TOWN LIKE ALICE sees female prisoners of war at the mercy of the notoriously sadistic Japanese Army, a man and woman find hope and love in each other as they are forced at bayonet point on a long march of death. Based on Nevil Shute's best-seller, this film saw Best ..read more »
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from 463 members
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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 »
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70%
from 647 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.
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65%
from 62 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.
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75%
from 91 members
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The Sandwich Man
to Watch Now
(1966)
Starring: Michael Bentine, Dora Bryan, Harry H. Corbett
Director: Robert Hartford-Davis
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Run time: 92 minutes
Modern advertising can take many forms, but for both mobility and sheer economy nothing can match the Sandwich Man. These walking billboards with human fillings are amongst the sights of most big cities and afford a unique angle from which to observe life. Horace Quilby is a Sandwich Man who works ..read more »
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75%
from 2 members
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Hamlet
to Watch Now
(1948)
Starring: John Laurie, Esmond Knight, Anthony Quayle
Director: Laurence Olivier
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Run time: 155 minutes
Laurence Olivier delivers one of his greatest Shakespearean performances as the lead role in this 1948 version of Hamlet. Seldom has the tragic story of the Danish Prince, tortured by his duty to his murdered father and by the guilt and fear he feels at the prospect of revenge, been so brilliantly ..read more »
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70%
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Time Gone By 31 July 2004
... most people travelled by public transport. Ticket collectors with character - Stanley Holloway presents a fine supporting role - and the British Railways 'refreshment room' w...
