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Valerie Hobson - what members say

Kind Hearts and Coronets review by from Reading, England

Great comedic murders? 1 November 2004
...tte, voluminous lady's fashions and hats to delight the eye. Joan Greenwood and Valerie Hobson (pre Profumo scandal days)are at their elegant best as the two ladies in our he... Read customer review

Q Planes review by medaris from Inverness

Decent 1930's thriller 20 July 2010
...s, 'The Avengers'. Laurence Olivier plays a pilot, and does well. I hadn't seen Valerie Hobson, the main female character before, and I must look out for her other films. ... Read customer review

Valerie Hobson - filmography

Captain's Paradise on DVD (1953)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Celia Johnson, Yvonne De Carlo
Director: Anthony Kimmins, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
Mediterranean ferryboat Captain Henry St James has things well organised. He has a wife in Gibraltar, and a hot-blooded mistress in Tangiers. Things are perfect... so long as neither woman decides to follow him to the other port.

69% from 360 members

The Card (1952)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Glynis Johns, Valerie Hobson
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
Amusing adaptation of Arnold Bennett's tale of a young man who made the cards fall his way.

65% from 55 members
Not available for rental

The Man in the White Suit on DVD (1951)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Joan Greenwood
Director: Alexander Mackendrick, Henry Cass, Robert Hamer
Certificate:
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Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. This would seem to be a boon for mankind, but the established garment manufacturers don't see it that way and try to suppress it.

70% from 3,422 members

Train of Events on DVD (1949)
Starring: Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, Susan Shaw
Director: Sidney Cole, Charles Crichton
Certificate:
A train disaster is told as four short stories to give character studies of the people involved, how it will affect them and how they deal with it.

67% from 158 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
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An Ealing Studio classic, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS is considered th emost perfect of the Golden-Age Ealing comedies. A deft and dark Edwardian comedy with Alec Guinness in superb form as he plays eight different members of the D'Ascoyne clan. In order to inherit the entire D'Ascoyne fortune, the ..read more »

83% from 226 members

The Rocking Horse Winner on DVD (1949)
Starring: Charles Goldner, Hugh Sinclair, John Howard Davies
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Certificate:
D.H. Lawrence's classic story is brought to life by some of the leading stars of British cinema. John Mills stars as a groom who fires the imagination of a lonely young boy with stories of horse racing. The boy develops the knack of picking race winners with uncanny accuracy...

62% from 13 members

Kind Hearts and Coronets on DVD (1949)
Starring: Dennis Price, Beatrice Campbell, Valerie Hobson
Director: Robert Hamer, Henry Cass, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
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Set in the stately Edwardian era, Robert Hamer's Kind Hearts And Coronets is black comedy at is best, with the most articulate and literate of all Ealing screenplays. Sir Alec Guinness gives a virtuoso performance in his Ealing comedy debut, playing all eight victims standing between a mass-..read more »

73% from 9,172 members

Stewart Granger Collection - Blanche Fury on DVD (1948)
Starring: Stewart Granger, James Mason, Valerie Hobson
Director: Marc Allegret, Arthur Crabtree, Anthony Asquith
Certificate:
Ambitious poor relation Blanche Fullerton accepts a job as governess from her wealthy cousins who have adopted the name Fury since they acquired the ancestral home of the Fury family. Blanche plots to become the lady of the manor but her illicit passion for the vengeful, obsessed Philip Thorn sets ..read more »

67% from 34 members

The Years Between on DVD (1946)
Starring: Valerie Hobson, Michael Redgrave, Flora Robson
Director: Compton Bennett
Certificate:
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 »

61% from 88 members

Great Expectations on DVD (1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later ..read more »

72% from 5,375 members

Great Expectations - Blu-ray (1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
Lean's definitive version of the Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years ..read more »

75% from 334 members

Unpublished Story on DVD (1942)
Starring: Richard Greene, Valerie Hobson, Basil Radford
Director: Harold French
Certificate:
Richard Greene and Valerie Hobson star in this British wartime spy thriller set in London's Docklands during the Blitz of 1940. War correspondent Bob Randall (Richard Greene) returns to England from Dunkirk with a powerful story of Nazi atrocities committed during the Blitzkrieg - and a stark ..read more »

58% from 56 members

Contraband (1940)
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie
Director: Michael Powell
Certificate:
This is the tale of life in a British port in the first year of World War II. Spies and smugglers abound in the blackout and unreal shore life of the "phoney war" (before the shooting started).

61% from 31 members
Currently unavailable

Q Planes on DVD (1939)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson, Valerie Hobson
Director: Tim Whelan, Arthur B. Woods
Certificate:
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Major Hammond of Scotland Yard (Ralph Richardson) is called to investigate the mysterious disappearance of prototype British aeroplanes when on their test flights. At first Hammond is seen as an outsider at the factory, but he soon finds a friend in star pilot Tony McVane (Laurence Olivier) who ..read more »

66% from 57 members

The Bride Of Frankenstein on DVD (1935)
Starring: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Elsa Lanchester
Director: James Whale
Certificate:
Director James Whale's definitive Frankenstein's monster movies from the 1930s.FRANKENSTEIN: (1931)This is James Whale's first stylish, expressionist film to grace the Universal horror cycle of the 1930s and 1940s (DRACULA, THE MUMMY). Scientist Henry Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his hunchbacked ..read more »

71% from 2,333 members

Werewolf Of London on DVD (1935)
Starring: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson
Director: Stuart Walker
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While on a botanical expedition in Tibet Dr. Wilfred Glendon (Henry Hull) is attacked in the dark by a strange animal..

57% from 204 members

Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection (5 discs) on DVD
Starring: Alec Guinness, Beatrice Campbell, Kay Walsh
Director: Henry Cass, Robert Hamer, Alexander Mackendrick
Certificate:
Collection of five films starring the iconic British actor. Includes LAST HOLIDAY, KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT, CAPTAIN'S PARADISE and BARNACLE BILL.

76% from 925 members

Voice Of Merrill on DVD
Starring: James Robertson Justice, Valerie Hobson, Edward Underdown
Director: John Gilling
Certificate:
Three people are suspected by Scotland Yard of killing convicted blackmailer Jean Bridges (uncredited). The people in question are struggling author Hugh Allen (Edward Underdown) who was going out with the murdered woman but it broke off due to unhappy circumstances. Allen's publisher Ronald Parker ..read more »

60% from 72 members

Valerie Hobson facts

5 most recent films

Captain's Paradise - 3.5 stars
The Card - 3.0 stars
The Man in the White Suit - 3.5 stars
Train of Events - 3.5 stars
Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Kind Hearts and Coronets - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Alec Guinness - The Screen Icons Collection - 4.0 stars
Great Expectations - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Kind Hearts and Coronets - 3.5 stars
Great Expectations - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Contraband - 3.0 stars
The Rocking Horse Winner - 3.0 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - Blanche Fury - 3.5 stars
Werewolf Of London - 3.0 stars
Unpublished Story - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Alec Guinness - 12 times - show films
Dennis Price - 7 times - show films
Joan Greenwood - 7 times - show films
Beatrice Campbell - 7 times - show films
Kay Walsh - 7 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Alexander Mackendrick - 7 times - show films
Henry Cass - 7 times - show films
Robert Hamer - 7 times - show films
David Lean - 3 times - show films
Arthur B. Woods - 2 times - show films