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Basil Dearden
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Basil Dearden - filmography
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The Man Who Haunted Himself
(1970)
Starring: Roger Moore, Olga Georges-Picot
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate: 
Things get complicated for Harold Pelham as he survives an horrific car crash. People claim to have seen him in places where he has never been and his business has been taken over. It soon becomes clear that there is another 'Harold' who is intent on taking over his existence.
 
64%
from 464 members
Not currently released
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The Assassination Bureau
(1969)
Starring: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate: 
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Based the Jack London novel, Assassination Bureau is hugely entertaining 60s adventure romp.
The Assassination Bureau has existed for decades (perhaps centuries) until Diana Rigg begins to investigate it. The high moral standing of the Bureau (only killing those who deserve it) is called into ..read more »
64%
from 103 members
Currently unavailable
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Khartoum
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Charlton Heston, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
The Arab leader Mahdi is involved in a battle of wits and swords with the British General "Chinese" Gordon which leads to the epic siege of Khartoum. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Original) Story and Screenplay.
67%
from 683 members
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The Blue Lamp / The Nanny
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde
Director: Basil Dearden, Seth Holt
Certificate: 
A double bill of two British crime thrillers.THE BLUE LAMP: In a chilling role, Dirk Bogarde plays a young criminal who kills a policeman on the brink of retirement (Jack Warner in the role of Inspector Dixon) after a bungled robbery. After another botched robbery and another murder, a huge manhunt ..read more »
65%
from 754 members
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The Mind Benders
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate: 
One of a number of early 1960s spy thrillers to incorporate the paranoia of the Cold War into a film that defied convention (THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE and THE SPY WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD also come to mind), THE MIND BENDERS is a fascinating science fiction influenced tale that begins when a ..read more »
61%
from 128 members
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A Place To Go
on DVD
(1963)
Starring: William Marlowe, Barbara Ferris, Michael Sarne
Director: Basil Dearden
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First ever DVD release of this classic crime film which Bernard Lee, Rita Tushingham, Michael Sarne and Doris Hare.
Ricky Flint (Mike Sarne) finds his world stifling. The East End that he grew up in is being demolished to make way for high rise blocks of flats and there seems just one possible ..read more »
61%
from 94 members
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Victim
(1961)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
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In its time, Victim was considered as a daring a film as had ever been made in England. Taken at face value, Janet Green and John McCormick's screenplay is nothing new: Dirk Bogarde plays a lawyer who agrees to defend an old friend (John McEnery) on a theft charge, only to be enmeshed in a ..read more »
72%
from 828 members
Not currently released
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All Night Long
(1961)
Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Richard Attenborough
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
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Based on Shakespeare's OTHELLO, ALL NIGHT LONG updates the story to London of the early sixties and features Jazz legends Charles Mingus and Dave Brubeck.
58%
from 138 members
Not available for rental
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Man In The Moon
(1960)
Starring: John Glyn-Jones, John Phillips, Kenneth More
Director: Basil Dearden
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Kenneth More was beginning to segue into comedy roles when he took on the character of William in this standard sci-fi parody by director Basil Dearden. William is an unsuccessful guinea pig for a medical group interested in researching the common cold when he is soon fired and offered a job by the ..read more »
56%
from 3 members
Not available for rental
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The League Of Gentlemen
(1960)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Richard Attenborough
Director: Basil Dearden
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This British crime story has a delightfully dangerous premise: An ex-army colonel angered at being let after 25 years of service to his country, decides to fight back and put together what could be considered a nice severance package for himself. Armed with information he learned on the job, he ..read more »
56%
from 1,345 member
Currently unavailable
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Sapphire
on DVD
(1959)
Starring: Nigel Patrick, Yvonne Mitchell, Michael Craig
Director: Basil Dearden
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Nigel Patrick and Michael Craig portray two Scotland Yard detectives who are investigating the murder of a young black woman who had been passing for white. As timely a topic today as when made in an England rampant with racial prejudice in the 1950s, it stays just this side of an in-depth ..read more »
66%
from 38 members
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The Smallest Show On Earth
(1957)
Starring: Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna, Leslie Phillips
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate: 
The Smallest Show on Earth is a gentle, frequently uproarious takeoff of Britain's neighbourhood-cinema industry. Real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna star as Matt and Jean Spencer, a middle-class couple who inherit a decrepit movie house in a tiny railroad whistle stop. ..read more »
69%
from 684 members
Currently unavailable
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The Green Man
on DVD
(1956)
Starring: George Cole, Alastair Sim
Director: Basil Dearden, Mario Zampi, Robert Day
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Alistair Sim plays a mild, innocuous little watchmaker who spends his off-hours as a professional assassin. His present target is windbag cabinet member Raymond Huntley. After various misfire attempts, Sim plants a bomb in a small radio and waits for the tube to warm up--but the authorities by now ..read more »
73%
from 478 members
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The Gentle Gunman
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Beatty
Director: Basil Dearden
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Terrance Sullivan is a member of the IRA and has moved to London, along with his brother and a group of IRA members, to wreak havock on London. However Terrance becomes weary of the constant violence and refuses duirect orders to blow up a railway station. The IRA soon place a price on the Gentle ..read more »
66%
from 85 members
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The Blue Lamp
(1950)
Starring: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde
Director: Basil Dearden
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An immensely popular British crime film, Basil Dearden's The Blue Lamp concentrates on interrelated episodes in the lives of several London policemen. Jack Warner heads the cast as George Dixon, a veteran "bobby" who is murdered by small-time delinquents Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan. Rookie cop ..read more »
72%
from 317 members
Not currently released
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My Learned Friend
on DVD
(1943)
Starring: Will Hay, Claude Hulbert, Mervyn Johns
Director: Basil Dearden, Will Hay, Will
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Veteran British filmmaker Basil Dearden (ASSASSINATION BUREAU, THE MAN WHO HAUNTED HIMSELF) directs this madcap farce in which Will Hay performs for the last time. The crazy plot revolves around two lawyers who are being pursued by a desperate murderer.
71%
from 95 members
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Life for Ruth
Starring: Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro
Director: Basil Dearden
Certificate:
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When a child is injured in a boat accident, her father refuses doctors permission to give her a blood transfusion due to his religious beliefs. The daughter dies and an inquest clears the father. However, the doctor in charge of the case attempts to get manslaughter charges brought against him.
74%
from 11 members
Not available for rental
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