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Trevor Howard
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Trevor Howard - what members say
review by A customer from Wales
Come zither and enjoy 10 June 2004
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Cockleshell Heroes 17 November 2007
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Mystery and suspense 16 February 2006
Trevor Howard - filmography
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The Unholy
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Hal Holbrook, Ned Beatty
Director: Camilo Vila
Certificate: 
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Supernatural horror. A Catholic priest is appointed to a church in New Orleans where his predecessors have been murdered. It seems that Satanic worship has been taking place, and a real life devil is stalking the sinners of the town in order to sustain his existence.
 
48%
from 189 members
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Shaka Zulu
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1986)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Gordon Jackson, Duduzile Mkhize
Director: William C. Faure
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Shaka was a Zulu leader in the early 19th century, raised to fulfil an ancient tribal prophecy. This is the story of his brutal rise to power, his uniting of the tribes and his fall at the hands of British colonialists. Edward Fox and Robert Powell star as men assigned by the British government to ..read more »
65%
from 776 members
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The Missionary
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Michael Hordern, Trevor Howard, David Suchet
Director: Richard Loncraine
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Recalled to London after spending years in Africa, the Reverend Charles Fortesque (Michael Palin) is given a new and no less difficult mission. He will now be required to bring the Word of the Lord to the ladies of the night. Thus he goes forth amongst them, bringing help and assitance, offering ..read more »
61%
from 737 members
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Gandhi - Blu-ray
(1982)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard
Director: Richard Attenborough
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Richard Attenborough's Academy Award-winning epic follows the extraordinary life of Mahatma Gandhi (played by Ben Kingsley), from his beginnings as a young Indian lawyer to his triumph as a revolutionary - whose philosophy of non-violent protest helped gain India its independence. The film won ..read more »
79%
from 1,119 member
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Gandhi
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Ben Kingsley, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard
Director: Richard Attenborough
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It was Richard Attenborough's lifelong dream to bring the life story of Indian political and spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi to the screen. When it finally reached fruition in 1982, the 188-minute, Oscar-winning Gandhi was one of the most exhaustively thorough biopics ever made. The film begins in ..read more »
75%
from 19,348 members
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The Sea Wolves
(1980)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Roger Moore, David Niven
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
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They were the unlikeliest heroes of World War II - the gray-haired veterans of the Calcutta Light Horse, who hadn't seen action since the Boer War, but were fated to become The Sea Wolves. Retelling of true wartime exploits hidden until the 1978 British Official Secrets Act lifted security ..read more »
68%
from 62 members
Currently unavailable
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Staying On
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson, Saeed Jaffrey
Director: Silvio Narizzano
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This television adaptation of Paul Scott's sequel to 'The Jewel in the Crown' reunites Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson for the first time since their pairing in the classic 'Brief Encounter'. Colonel Tusker (Howard) and his wife Lucy (Johnson) decide to stay on in India after it is granted its ..read more »
65%
from 238 members
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Superman
(1978)
Starring: Trevor Howar, Marc McClure, Terence Stamp
Director: Richard Donner
Certificate:
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Richard Donner's big-budget blockbuster Superman: The Movie is an immensely entertaining recounting of the origin of the famous comic book character. Opening on Krypton (where Marlon Brando plays Superman's father), the film follows the Man of Steel (Christopher Reeve) as he's sent to Earth where ..read more »
70%
from 16,773 members
Currently unavailable
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Stevie
(1978)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Mona Washbourne, Alec McCowen
Director: Robert Enders
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This movie portrays British poet/author Stevie Smith and her life with her beloved aunt through direct dialogue with the audience by Stevie, as well as flashbacks, and narration by a friend. The film mainly focuses on her relationship with her aunt, romantic relationships of the past, and the fame ..read more »
76%
from 6 members
Currently unavailable
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Superman - Blu-ray
(1978)
Starring: Marc McClure, Terence Stamp, Trevor Howard
Director: Richard Donner
Certificate:
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A baby from the planet Krypton develops superhuman powers under Earth's yellow sun. As an adult (Christopher Reeve) he dons red cape and pants, and flies across the world doing good deeds, whilst also hiding behind the alias of mild-mannered reporter Clark Kent. Fellow journalist Lois Lane (Margot ..read more »
73%
from 1,831 member
Currently unavailable
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The Last Remake Of Beau Geste
on DVD
(1977)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Irene Handl, Marty Feldman
Director: Marty Feldman
Certificate: 
Marty Feldman writes, directs and stars in this parody of the French Foreign Legion adventure films based on the novel by P.C. Wren. When a priceless family heirloom goes missing, Sir Hector Geste (Trevor Howard)'s adopted twin sons - the weedy, pathetic Digby (Feldman) and his (not so) identical ..read more »
61%
from 85 members
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Aces High
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Malcolm McDowell, Richard Johnson
Director: Jack Gold
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New airforce recruit Peter Firth takes an instant dislike to his embittered squadron leader, Malcolm McDowell. But as the young pilot experiences the tensions and stresses of warfare, his dislike turns to admiration. The film features excellently photographed aerial dogfight sequences. Also ..read more »
64%
from 1,084 member
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The Count of Monte Cristo
(1975)
Starring: Christopher Guard, Trevor Howard, Louis Jourdan
Director: David Greene
Certificate: 
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In this made for television adaptation, Richard Chamberlain plays Edmond Dantes, an innocent man who is falsely accused of helping the exiled Napoleon, and imprisoned on an island. After 15 harsh years, he makes his escape and proceeds to take revenge on the people who framed him. With Trevor ..read more »
69%
from 251 members
Not available for rental
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11 Harrowhouse
(1974)
Starring: Candice Bergen, Charles Grodin, James Mason
Director: Aram Avakian
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A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
63%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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A Doll's House
(1973)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Jane Fonda, Delphine Seyrig
Director: Joseph Losey
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Drama based on Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play. Nora Helmar (Jane Fonda) has all she wants - or so she thinks. Everything in her bourgeois home - the furniture, the clothing, the trimmings - looks perfect. But slowly she realises that her pampered life is spiritually empty. Her marriage to a bank manager, ..read more »
55%
from 151 members
Not currently released
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The Catholics
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard
Director: Jack Gold
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1970's made-for-TV drama in which a papal emissary is sent to Ireland to try and quell the unrest caused by a group of priests who aren't following the Vatican's line. Set at an unspecified point in the future where the Catholic hierarchy has liberalised elements of its doctrine and practice, ..read more »
57%
from 44 members
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Ludwig
(1972)
Starring: Romy Schneider, Trevor Howard, Helmut Griem
Director: Luchino Visconti
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Visconti's lavish portrait of Ludwig II, the 'Mad King' of Bavaria. From his glittering coronation to his mysterious suicide, Ludwig II (Helmut Berger) epitomised the doomed nineteenth-century Romantic hero. A loner by nature, he was tormented by his unrequited love for his cousin, Empress ..read more »
62%
from 443 members
Currently unavailable
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Offence
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen, Sean Connery
Director: Sidney Lumet
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Essentially a two-hander play transposed by ex-Z Cars writer John Hopkins to the screen and given a comparitively realistic police setting. Sean Connery is the policeman who has seen too much dying and misery on the force in the past twenty years. Ian Bannen is the prisoner suspected of being a ..read more »
64%
from 739 members
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The Night Visitor
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Max von Sydow, Trevor Howard, Liv Ullmann
Director: Laslo Benedek
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Thriller in which a detective attempts to link a brutal murder to a man incarcerated in an insane asylum. Salem (Max von Sydow) was sent to the asylum after being convicted of murdering a farmhand with an axe. When members of Salem's family are discovered to have been killed in an equally brutal ..read more »
100%
from 1 member
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Kidnapped
(1971)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard, Gordon Jackson
Director: Delbert Mann
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Delbert Mann's adaptation of the R.L. Stevenson novel, set during the 18th century, sticks close to the text. David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is a recently orphaned young man from a tiny Highland village and the true heir to the title of Master of the Shaws. His uncle Ebenezer (Donald Pleasance) ..read more »
56%
from 202 members
Not available for rental
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Mary Queen Of Scots
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Glenda Jackson, Trevor Howard, Daniel Massey
Director: Charles Jarrott
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Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson star in this historical drama portraying the life of Mary Stuart. Mary (Redgrave), named Queen of Scotland when she is only days old, is married off to the sickly Francis of France (Richard Denning) at the age of 17. Following his death she returns to a Scotland ..read more »
66%
from 207 members
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Ryan's Daughter
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
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The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular. Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to Robert Bolt) stars as Rosy, the daughter of Irish pub keeper Tom Ryan (..read more »
69%
from 1,589 member
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Battle Of Britain
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw
Director: Guy Hamilton
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Guy Hamilton's classic war film looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so ..read more »
73%
from 5,266 members
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Battle Of Britain - Blu-ray
(1969)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine, Robert Shaw
Director: Guy Hamilton
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Guy Hamilton's classic war film looks at how England defended itself from the German aerial onslaught of the summer of 1940. Laurence Olivier plays Sir Hugh Dowding, the air chief marshal whose fleet outmanouevre the Luftwaffe, despite a numerical disadvantage; and those few to whom so many owed so ..read more »
78%
from 405 members
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The Long Duel
on DVD
(1967)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling
Director: Ken Annakin
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Yul Brynner and Trevor Howard star in this action drama set in the 1920s in an India under British rule. After being imprisoned by the United Provinces Police, tribe leader Sultan (Brynner) manages to break out with some of his men in tow and leads them in a revolt in an effort to free themselves ..read more »
64%
from 5 members
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Operation Opium
(1966)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard
Director: Terence Young
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Made-for-TV thriller, based on the story by Ian Fleming, about narcotics agents trying to trace heroin shipments in Europe. After a UN agent is murdered trying to trace opium routes in Iran, two of his compatriots take over the case, coming up with an ingenious plan to inject a radioactive isotope ..read more »
42%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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Triple Cross
(1966)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Romy Schneider, Claudine Auger
Director: Terence Young
Certificate:
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Christopher Plummer stars as Eddie Chapman, the British safecracker who worked as a spy for both sides during the Second World War. Chapman is at first imprisoned on the Channel Islands by the Germans, but manages to persuade his captors that he will work for them if they set him free. Back in ..read more »
60%
from 287 members
Not available for rental
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Morituri
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Trevor Howard, Marlon Brando
Director: Bernhard Wicki
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Marlon Brando stars in this adaptation of Werner Jeorg Kosa's novel. Set during World War II, an anti-Nazi pacifist on a German freighter (who is seemingly working for the British) turns out to be a double agent who is working for a German spy.
59%
from 218 members
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Operation Crossbow
(1965)
Starring: Sophia Loren, George Peppard, Trevor Howard
Director: Michael Anderson
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During World War II, the British suspect that the Nazis are secretly building a new kind of long-range missile. English operatives -- disguised as German scientists -- are then sent to discover the source of the weapons -- and sabotage the project. Can the spies thwart the efforts of the nefarious ..read more »
66%
from 45 members
Currently unavailable
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Von Ryan's Express
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Sergio Fantoni, Trevor Howard, John Leyton
Director: Mark Robson
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Von Ryan's Express is a fast-paced, well-acted World War II drama, featuring a squadron of Allied soldiers trying to escape a prison camp in Italy. While most of the prisoners at the camp are British, a determined, resourceful American Air Force colonel (Frank Sinatra) takes charge and leads the ..read more »
69%
from 2,006 members
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Mutiny On The Bounty
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Richard Harris, Marlon Brando
Director: Lewis Milestone
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A remake of the classic 1935 film of a voyage from Portsmouth to the South Seas by The Bounty. Animosity grows between Captain Blythe (Trevor Howard) and Fletcher Christian (Marlon Brando) during the voyage, reaching a climax when the ship arrives at the island of Tahiti.
73%
from 345 members
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Sons And Lovers
(1960)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Mary Ure, Wendy Hiller
Director: Jack Cardiff
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Adaptation of DH Lawrence's breakthrough noevl, directed by Jack Cardiff. In a Northern industrial town, sensitive young Paul Morel (Dean Stockwell) is the son of a brutal and overbearing miner (Trevor Howard) and his repressed wife Gertrude (Wendy Hiller). With his artistic ambitions attracting ..read more »
58%
from 112 members
Currently unavailable
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Run for the Sun
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: Richard Widmark, Trevor Howard, Jane Greer
Director: Roy Boulting
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Mike, a Hemingway-esque adventure novelist, is spending his days in a self-imposed exile somewhere in Central America. A reporter for Sight Magazine, Katie, has tracked him down in the hope of getting the biggest scoop of her career. Mike falls for Katie. On a flight to Mexico City, their plane ..read more »
54%
from 55 members
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Cockleshell Heroes
on DVD
(1954)
Starring: Anthony Newley, Trevor Howard, Jose Ferrer
Director: Jose Ferrer
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World War II action film about the training of ten marines for a sabotage mission. Whipped into shape by a no-nonsense Sergeant Major, the men are charged with destroying a number of giant German battleships in the harbour at Bordeaux, a mission they will carry out by entering the harbour in canoes ..read more »
68%
from 1,281 member
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Gift Horse
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: James Donald, Trevor Howard, Sid James
Director: Compton Bennett
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World War Two drama starring Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough. HMS Ballantrae is a delapidated ex-US Navy destroyer, lent by the Americans to a desperate Royal Navy fighting to keep the Atlantic sea lanes open. Her captain, Lt Commander Fraser (Howard), struggles not only to keep her ..read more »
70%
from 142 members
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Outcast Of The Islands
on DVD
(1951)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Trevor Howard, Robert Morley
Director: Carol Reed
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Adapted from The Joseph Conrad novel of the same name, 1952’s inimitable Outcast Of The Islands, directed by Oscar® winning director Carol Reed (The Third Man, Oliver!), feature Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) as Willems and Ralph Richardson (Peer Gynt, Falstaff) as Lingard. Peter ..read more »
56%
from 36 members
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The Clouded Yellow
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Maxwell Reed, Trevor Howard, Barry Jones
Director: Ralph Thomas
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Early 1950s British thriller starring Trevor Howard as David Somers, an ex Secret Service agent who takes on a quiet job at a country estate cataloguing butterflies. However, he is unable to keep a low profile for long: his employer's beautiful niece Sophie (Jean Simmons) is framed for a murder she ..read more »
66%
from 295 members
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Golden Salamander
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Herbert Lom, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Director: Roland Neame
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An exotic British thriller adapted from the best selling novel by Victor Canning and directed by Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure). Trevor Howard (Brief Encounter, The Third Man) stars as archaeologist David Redfern, a man who has been dispatched to a small North African town to recover ..read more »
62%
from 52 members
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Odette
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: Trevor Howard, Peter Ustinov, Marius Goring
Director: Herbert Wilcox
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Set in 1942 at the height of the second war, this is the story of Odette Marie Celine Churchill who, after an appeal, sends her holiday photos of the French Coast to the War office. Due to her unique qualifications, she is sent to France as a secret agent, and to join the resistance.
70%
from 150 members
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this film based on the true story of a Glasgow woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857. Madeleine (Ann Todd) is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman Piere Emile L'Anglier (Ivan Desny) without her father's ..read more »
67%
from 197 members
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The Third Man - Blu-ray
(1949)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli
Director: Carol Reed
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Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take up a job with his old ..read more »
77%
from 519 members
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The Third Man
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White, Trevor Howard, Alida Valli
Director: Carol Reed
Certificate:
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Classic thriller written by Graham Greene and starring Orson Welles in which a writer sets about investigating the death of a friend in post-World War II Vienna. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten), a pulp Western writer, arrives in the Austrian capital expecting to take up a job with his old ..read more »
75%
from 21,954 members
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The Passionate Friends
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directed this tale based on the novel by H.G. Wells in which a woman (Ann Todd) meets and marries an older man (Claude Rains) but then bumps into her former lover (Trevor Howard) and finds her passions re-ignited.
64%
from 360 members
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They Made Me A Fugitive
on DVD
(1947)
Starring: Griffith Jones, Trevor Howard, Sally Gray
Director: Alberto Cavalcanti
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When ex-RAF officer turned petty crook Clem (Trevor Howard) is fitted up for murder by villainous spiv Narcy, only the love and loyalty of Sally (Sally Gray) stands between him and certain death … but whose certain death? At last, it is time to relish the finest British noir you've never seen. Part ..read more »
72%
from 194 members
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I See a Dark Stranger
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Deborah Kerr, Trevor Howard, Raymond Huntley
Director: Frank Launder
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Determined and independent, Bridie Quilty comes of age in 1944 Ireland believing all Englishmen are devils. Her desire to join the IRA meets no encouragement, but a German spy finds her easy to recruit. Soon she finds herself working in a pub near a British military, reporting from across enemy ..read more »
65%
from 69 members
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Marjorie Mars, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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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
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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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Trevor Howard facts
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...erior and so make the way Holly and Anna behave towards him wholly believable.
Trevor Howard and a pre 'M' Bernard Lee provide strong support.
Tense, heavy on atmosphere, ...
