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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

Brenda De Banzie - filmography

Flame In The Streets on DVD (1961)
Starring: Glyn Houston, Johnny Sekka, Dan Jackson
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate:
Hard-hitting melodrama about racial tensions in early 1960s England, starring John Mills and Sylvia Sims. Jacko Palmer (John Mills) is a union man who has to confront the prejudices of his members when a black foreman (Earl Cameron) is appointed, and the members threaten to strike. When he ..read more »

68% from 43 members

The Entertainer on DVD (1960)
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright
Director: Tony Richardson
Certificate:
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A tatty, ageing seaside performer is a failure as a family man and as an entertainer. Laurence Olivier plays the excruciating Archie Rice, with an ego that destroys the lives of those closest to him. Albert Finney and Alan Bates make their film debuts as his sons.

66% from 699 members

The Thirty Nine Steps on DVD (1959)
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Faith Brook
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
The second version of John Buchan's classic thriller sees Kenneth More as the innocent man caught up in international intrigue. Richard Hannay (More) meets a young nanny and takes her back to his flat. He soon learns she is not all that she seems to be and when she is murdered he becomes the prime ..read more »

68% from 732 members

The Man Who Knew Too Much on DVD (1956)
Starring: Bernard Miles, Christopher Olsen, James Stewart
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Certificate:
The debate still rages as to whether Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of The Man Who Knew Too Much is superior to his own original 1934 version. This two-hour remake (45 minutes longer than the first film) features more stars, a lusher budget, and the plaintive music of Bernard Herrmann (who appears ..read more »

68% from 5,053 members

Doctor At Sea on DVD (1955)
Starring: Joan Sims, Brigitte Bardot, Jill Adams
Director: Ralph Thomas
Certificate:
Second in the long-running series of 'Doctor' films. This time Simon Sparrow (Dirk Bogarde) becomes a ship's doctor on a sea-going freighter, runs into trouble with the Captain and performs an impromptu appendix operation. Brigitte Bardot appears, in her first British film role, as the love interest.

62% from 454 members

The Purple Plain on DVD (1954)
Starring: Maurice Denham, Bernard Lee, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Robert Parrish
Certificate:
World War Two drama based on a novel by H. E. Bates. Gregory Peck stars as Squadron Leader Forrester, a pilot who finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with his badly injured navigator and severely traumatised passenger after being shot down by a Japanese fighter. With the help of a ..read more »

61% from 74 members

Hobson's Choice on DVD (1953)
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Director: David Lean
Certificate:
A Hobson's Choice, as any slang expert will tell you, is no choice at all. In this 1953 filmization of Harold Brighouse's 1915 play Hobson's Choice, hero John Mills finds after several reels of evidence to the contrary that he does have a choice over how he'll conduct his life after all. Mills is ..read more »

79% from 1,722 member

Brenda De Banzie facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

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
Doctor At Sea - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

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

Most frequent co-stars

Bernard Miles - 3 times - show films
Doris Day - 3 times - show films
James Stewart - 3 times - show films
Joan Plowright - 2 times - show films
Reggie Nalder - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Ralph Thomas - 2 times - show films
Alfred Hitchcock - 2 times - show films
Tony Richardson - 2 times - show films
Robert Parrish - 1 times - show films
Mario Zampi - 1 times - show films

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