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  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang review by KATHERINEofARROGANCEe from HARROW
    Rated - 5.0 stars 16 July 2004
    ...Based on 007 Ian Fleming's novel & adapted by Roald Dahl & director Ken Hughes, this is one of the great children's movies. Panned when it first came out this is ...   Read customer review
  • Cromwell
  • Cromwell review by A customer from Birmingham, UK
    Rated - 4.0 stars Gripping stuff 3 April 2005
    ...It shows the good work of Ken Hughes that a gripping story could be made from an era of English history with only minor alterations to historical continuity - Hollywood d...   Read customer review

Ken Hughes - filmography


  • Sextette (1978)
    Starring: Dom DeLuise,  Alice Cooper,  Mae West
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Marlo Manners (Mae West), a legendary movie star arrives at a hotel on her honeymoon with her sixth husband. Both are desperate to consummate the marriage but events make this very difficult - ex-husbands, TV and newspaper reporters, a gymnastics team, secret agents and a group of diplomats all get ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 46% from 112 members
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  • Alfie Darling on DVD (1975)
    Starring: Paul Copley,  Jill Townsend,  Annie Ross
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This sequel to the hit 1966 film `Alfie' has Alan Price in the Michael Caine role. This time around, Alfie is a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor. Also starring Joan Collins and Jill Townsend.
    2.5 stars out of 5 47% from 77 members
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  • Cromwell on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Patrick Magee,  Timothy D,  Stratford Johns
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    A period drama taking place during the English Civil War of the 17th century, seen through the eyes of Roundhead leader Oliver Cromwell (Richard Harris). Cromwell had planned to take his family to the New World (North America), when a succession of religious and political problems draw him into the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 1,473 member
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  • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Anna Quayle,  Sally Ann Howes,  Benny Hill
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the stars of Walt Disney's Mary Poppins, Dick Van Dyke, is re-united with that film's composer and lyricist, Richard M.Sherman and Robert B. Sherman, in this big budget and bloodless children's fantasy musical, based on the children's book by James Bond author Ian Fleming. Van Dyke plays ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 9,490 members
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  • Casino Royale on DVD (1966)
    Starring: Peter Sellers,  William Holden,  Daliah Lavi
    Director: Val Guest,  John Huston,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
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    Five directors and an all-star cast spoof the James Bond films in this comedy, very loosely based on Ian Fleming's first Bond novel. Sir James Bond (David Niven) is about to retire, but is called into battle with the evil organisation S.M.E.R.S.H. after the assassination of 'M' (John Huston). Bond'..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 51% from 2,984 members
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  • The Small World of Sammy Lee on DVD (1963)
    Starring: Anthony Newley,  Robert Stephens
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    The Small World of Sammy Lee is just around any corner in Soho. Peopled by the pimps, the punters, the brasses and the bookies, and scattered with Peepshows, just like the sleazy club where Sammy Lee comperes the strip-tease. Sammy Lee is worried. When you owe money to a bookie like Conner, you're ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 163 members
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  • Joe Macbeth (1955)
    Starring: Paul Douglas,  Ruth Roman,  Bonar Colleano
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Shakespeare (more-or-less) in modern gangster setting. Lily MacBeth pushes her husband Joe to rub out the reigning crime boss and become the new "kingpin" himself. Success is short- lived, however, as he confronts Lennie, a mobster whose father and wife are Joe's murder victims.
    2 stars out of 5 40% from 4 members
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  • The London Collection (5 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Anthony Newley,  Robert Step,  Earl Cameron
    Director: Basil Dearden,  Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This collection brings together six films, all produced in and showing various locations in post-war London and covering a range of themes from blackmail in a bombed out slum in the East End to dockside smuggling and robbery. In 'Pool of London' (1951) a group of sailors, including Dan MacDonald (..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 52 members
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  • The Internecine Project on DVD
    Starring: Lee Grant,  James Coburn,  Ian Hendry
    Director: Ken Hughes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    James Coburn stars in this political thriller as Robert Elliot, a retired secret agent soon to be appointed as personal consultant to the President. Before he can take up his new position, he has to deal with four people who are witnesses to his murky past, each of whom could easily destroy his new ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 104 members
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Ken Hughes facts

5 most recent films

Sextette - 2.5 stars
Alfie Darling - 2.5 stars
Cromwell - 3.5 stars
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 3.5 stars
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
The Small World of Sammy Lee - 3.5 stars
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - 3.5 stars
Cromwell - 3.5 stars
The London Collection - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Joe Macbeth - 2.0 stars
Scotland Yard - The Complete Series - 4.5 stars
Sextette - 2.5 stars
Alfie Darling - 2.5 stars
Casino Royale - 2.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

James Robertson Justice - 7 times - show films
Benny Hill - 5 times - show films
Gert Frobe - 5 times - show films
Barbara Windsor - 5 times - show films
Robert Helpmann - 5 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Val Guest - 3 times - show films
John Huston - 3 times - show films
Robert P - 3 times - show films
Val Guest - 3 times - show films
Basil Dearden - 2 times - show films