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The Importance Of Being Earnest review by Mytrme from

Perfect. Perfect. Perfect! 28 May 2011
...ford; Joan Greenwood's gorgeous, chocolately husky voice; and undoubtedly every Edith Evans utterance- particularly 'To Lose one parent......' and of course 'A .... HA-A-A... Read customer review

The Queen Of Spades review by A customer from in the Slough of despond

So promising ... 28 January 2010
...Pushkin story + Edith Evans, complete with gambling and unseen ghost. But, oh dear, the histionics. You'd even prefer wooden Ralph Fiennes to the drama queens given ... Read customer review

Nasty Habits (1977)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Melina Mercouri, Geraldine Page
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.

75% from 2 members
Currently unavailable

The Slipper And The Rose on DVD (1976)
Starring: Richard Chamberlain, Gemma Craven, Annette Crosbie
Director: Bryan Forbes
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The Slipper and the Rose is Bryan Forbes' classic Oscar-nominated musical that re-tells the much-loved story of Cinderella and features a wonderful score by the renowned Sherman Brothers whose numerous credits include Mary Poppins, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and The Jungle Book. Richard Chamberlain ..read more »

68% from 628 members

Scrooge on DVD (1970)
Starring: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Director: Ronald Neame
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Watch now: Unavailable
A delightful musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens' classic starring Albert Finney in the role of Ebenezer Scrooge, the cold-hearted miser visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve.

74% from 957 members

Scrooge - Blu-ray (1970)
Starring: Albert Finney, Edith Evans, Kenneth More
Director: Ronald Neame
Certificate:
Watch now: Unavailable
SCROOGE was designed as a follow-up to 1968's OLIVER!, the Oscar-winning musicalization of Charles Dickens' OLIVER TWIST. The umpteenth musical version of Dickens' 1843 novelette A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SCROOGE features several sprightly Leslie Bricusse songs, including the bona fide hit 'Thank You Very ..read more »

71% from 37 members

Tom Jones (1963)
Starring: Albert Finney, Susannah York, Diane Cilento
Director: Tony Richardson
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Tony Richardson's rousing adaptation of Fielding's classic comic novel, a sharp change of pace for a director of choleric contemporary fare, stars Albert Finney as the eponymous swordsman. A foundling whose mother is thought to be a housemaid (Joyce Redman), he's raised by her employer, the aptly ..read more »

59% from 1,620 member
Not currently released

Look Back In Anger on DVD (1959)
Starring: Richard Burton, Gary Raymond, Mary Ure
Director: Tony Richardson
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Jimmy Porter (Richard Burton), the archetypal "angry young man" is a university graduate living with his wife Allison (Mary Ure) in squalor. He reviles society, the upper classes, the State, the Church and everything else that he sees as governed by hypocrisy. For a living, the disgruntled Jimmy ..read more »

70% from 307 members

The Nun's Story on DVD (1958)
Starring: Audrey Hepburn, Peter Finch, Edith Evans
Director: Fred Zinnemann
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Audrey Hepburn stars in The Nun's Story as Sister Luke, postulant of a Belgian order of nuns. Though frequently disillusioned in her efforts to spread good will -- at one point she is nearly killed by a mental patient (Colleen Dewhurst) -- Sister Luke perseveres. Sent as a nurse to the Belgian ..read more »

74% from 296 members

The Importance Of Being Earnest on DVD (1952)
Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Edith Evans, Dorothy Tutin
Director: Anthony Asquith
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Anthony Asquith, having directed a wonderful film of George Bernard Shaw's PYGMALION, turned in 1952 to another classic, one of the greatest theatrical comedies, Oscar Wilde's THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST. Set at the height of the Victorian era, popularly imagined to be a cold and repressive ..read more »

71% from 844 members

The Queen Of Spades on DVD (1949)
Starring: Anton Walbrook, Edith Evans, Yvonne Mitchell
Director: Thorold Dickinson
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An ageing countess makes a Faustian pact with the devil by pledging her soul in exchange for the ability to always win at cards...

69% from 437 members

Nasty Habits - 4.0 stars
The Slipper And The Rose - 3.5 stars
Scrooge - 3.5 stars
Scrooge - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Tom Jones - 3.0 stars

Scrooge - 3.5 stars
The Nun's Story - 3.5 stars
The Importance Of Being Earnest - 3.5 stars
Look Back In Anger - 3.5 stars
The Queen Of Spades - 3.5 stars

Scrooge - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
Nasty Habits - 4.0 stars
Tom Jones - 3.0 stars
The Slipper And The Rose - 3.5 stars
The Queen Of Spades - 3.5 stars

Albert Finney - 5 times - show films
Kenneth More - 4 times - show films
Joan Greenwood - 4 times - show films
Laurence Naismith - 3 times - show films
Michael Medwin - 3 times - show films

Ronald Neame - 3 times - show films
Tony Richardson - 3 times - show films
Anthony Asquith - 2 times - show films
Bryan Forbes - 1 times - show films
Michael Lindsay-Hogg - 1 times - show films