Brenda De Banzie

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Brenda De Banzie - what members say

Doctor At Sea review by A customer from Cardiff, Wales

Gentle family comedy 23 December 2005
...is enlivened by the presence of two passengers: the owner's vivacious daughter (Brenda De Banzie) who is on the lookout for a husband and falls for the captain; and her young F... Read customer review

The Entertainer review by pyekan from england

olvier at his worst 19 May 2007
...This is a boring dismal play with only one headline performance. Apart from Brenda De Banzie who is great as the hapless Mrs Rice, theothers have nothing of any significance to... Read customer review

Flame In The Streets on DVD (1961)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
The faces of racism at work and at home provide the focus of this drama. When union members threaten to strike because their new foreman is black, the union boss persuades them not to by reminding them that a man's skin colour has nothing to do with his competence and worth. His words take on a new ..read more »

68% from 24 members

The Entertainer on DVD (1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate:
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Laurence Olivier shocked audiences accustomed to seeing him in Shakespeare or period romances when he joined forces with the two defining figures of Britain's New Wave kitchen-sink realism, director Tony Richardson and playwright John Osborne, by starring as third-rate seaside comedian Archie Rice ..read more »

66% from 646 members

The Thirty Nine Steps on DVD (1959)
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Taina Elg
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
While it's true that this 1959 screen adaptation of The 39 Steps pales in comparison to Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1935 version, it's still a thoroughly enjoyable romp that compensates for a lack of any tension whatsoever with a generous dose of genial good humour. Affable Kenneth More's Richard ..read more »

68% from 687 members

The Man Who Knew Too Much on DVD (1956)
Starring: Noel Willman, Christopher Olsen, James Stewart
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
THE MAN WHO KNEW TOO MUCH is Hitchcock's remake of his own 1934 film of the same title. While vacationing in French Morocco, an American family becomes accidentally involved in a series of international incidents after the father overhears an assassination plot. Compared with its 1934 predecessor, ..read more »

68% from 4,739 members

Doctor At Sea on DVD (1955)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
To escape the boredom of his medical practice, a young doctor signs aboard a cargo ship. Based on Richard Gordon's best-selling "Doctor" series.

62% from 425 members

The Purple Plain on DVD (1954)
Starring: Gregory Peck, Maurice Denham, Bernard Lee
Director: Robert Parrish
Certificate:
An H.E. Bates novel was the source for this psychological wartime drama set in Burma. Canadian pilot Gregory Peck and two comrades-in-arms crash in the Burmese wilds. The three men are forced to hack and crawl their way to safety, surrounded on all sides by the Japanese. Peck's subordinates don't ..read more »

62% from 58 members

Hobson's Choice on DVD (1953)
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
A story of feminism in 19th Century Salford, Hobson's Choice deals with the empowering of female characters. Henry Hobson is a widower with a weakness for the pub and the owner of a successful bootmakers. In order to save his finances he denies his three daughters the right to marry. So in ..read more »

79% from 1,623 member

Flame In The Streets - 3.5 stars
The Entertainer - 3.5 stars
The Thirty Nine Steps - 3.5 stars
The Man Who Knew Too Much - 3.5 stars
Doctor At Sea - 3.0 stars

Hobson's Choice - 4.0 stars
The Man Who Knew Too Much - 3.5 stars
The Thirty Nine Steps - 3.5 stars
The Entertainer - 3.5 stars
The Purple Plain - 3.0 stars

Flame In The Streets - 3.5 stars
Doctor At Sea - 3.0 stars
The Purple Plain - 3.0 stars
The Entertainer - 3.5 stars
The Thirty Nine Steps - 3.5 stars

James Stewart - 3 times - show films
Bernard Miles - 3 times - show films
Doris Day - 3 times - show films
Joan Plowright - 2 times - show films
Shirley Ann Field - 2 times - show films

Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films
Tony Richardson - 2 times - show films
Ralph Thomas - 2 times - show films
Roy Ward Baker - 1 times - show films
David Lean - 1 times - show films