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review by from London
A TRUE CLASSIC 22 March 2005
review by RJNeb2 from London
You'll want more 3 August 2006
review by ghedgehog from Milton Keynes
A true classic 20 September 2010
David Lean - filmography
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A Passage To India
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Judy Davis, Peggy Ashcroft, Judy Davis
Director: David Lean
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A Passage to India, director David Lean's final film (for which he also received editing credit), breaks no new ground cinematically, but remains an exquisitely assembled harkback to such earlier Lean epics as Doctor Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter. Based on the novel by E. M. Forster, the film is set ..read more »
 
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from 2,660 members
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political ..read more »
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from 7,719 members
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Doctor Zhivago - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Watch now: Unavailable
David Lean's DOCTOR ZHIVAGO is an exploration of the Russian Revolution as seen from the point of view of the intellectual, introspective title character (Omar Sharif). As the political landscape changes, and the Czarist regime comes to an end, Dr. Zhivago's relationships reflect the political ..read more »
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from 229 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
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This sweeping, highly literate historical epic covers the Allies' mideastern campaign during World War I as seen through the eyes of the enigmatic T. E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole, in the role that made him a star). After a prologue showing us Lawrence's ultimate fate, we flash back to Cairo in 1917. ..read more »
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from 22,389 members
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins
Director: David Lean
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The Bridge on the River Kwai opens in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1943, where a battle of wills rages between camp commander Colonel Saito (Sessue Hayakawa) and newly arrived British colonel Nicholson (Alec Guinness). Saito insists that Nicholson order his men to build a bridge over ..read more »
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from 16,692 members
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Hobson's Choice
on DVD
(1953)
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Director: David Lean
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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 »
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from 1,623 member
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Sound Barrier
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Ann Todd, Nigel Patrick
Director: David Lean
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Directed by David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI), THE SOUND BARRIER charts the life of a fighter pilot who marries into a wealthy family; a family that are developing technology in order to break the sound barrier.
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from 139 members
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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Based on a true story, this powerful film is about a woman called Madeleine (Ann Todd) who embarks on an affair with a penniless Frenchman. Madeleine hails from a wealthy, respectable family so the relationship as to remain secret while her father parades eligible suitors in front of her.
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from 172 members
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Oliver Twist
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Anthony Newley
Director: David Lean
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The second of director David Lean's adaptations of a Charles Dickens novel (Great Expectations (1946) was the first), Oliver Twist expertly boils down an enormous novel to a little less than two hours' screen time. The film begins with baby Oliver left on the doorstep of an orphanage/workhouse by ..read more »
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from 3,607 members
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The Passionate Friends
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Ann Todd, Claude Rains, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
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An acclaimed drama based on the novel by H.G. Wells in which a young woman weds an older man for security and financial stability. A chance meeting with a former lover whose marriage proposal she once refused due to his social standing, rekindles the flames, leaving her torn between a life of ..read more »
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from 329 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this definitive version of the Charles Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In the gloom of a country graveyard, the young boy encounters an escaped convict, and a chance meeting years later ..read more »
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from 5,375 members
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: John Mills, Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
Director: David Lean
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Lean's definitive version of the Dickens classic about an orphaned boy befriended by a mysterious benefactor who enables him to become a gentleman of means. In nineteenth century London, in the gloom of a country graveyard, a young boy encounters an escaped convict, a chance meeting that years ..read more »
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from 334 members
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Blithe Spirit
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Rex Harrison, Kay Hammond, Margaret Rutherford
Director: David Lean
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The Noel Coward/David Lean combination which turned out such dramas as Brief Encounter and This Happy Breed sets its sights on the viewer's funny bone with Blithe Spirit. Rex Harrison plays a novelist, newly married to straight-laced Constance Cummings. Via a seance, Harrison accidentally summons ..read more »
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from 1,499 member
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
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from 12,690 members
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Brief Encounter - Blu-ray
(1945)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
Director: David Lean
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David Lean adapts Noel Coward's heartbreaking tale of two ordinary people caught up in the extraordinary power of love. Laura (Celia Johnson) is a seemingly happy, middle-class housewife who meets the equally married physician Alec (Trevor Howard) at a London railway station, and so begins a chaste ..read more »
78%
from 371 members
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
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from 499 members
Not available for rental
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This Happy Breed - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Robert Newton, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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THIS HAPPY BREED, based on the play by Noel Coward, follows the Gibbons family saga between the two World Wars. Frank (Robert Newton) having been demobbed returns to his wife (Celia Johnson) and family. They move to the suburbs in an attempt to get back to a sort of normality with good-old British grit.
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from 1 member
Not available for rental
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In Which We Serve
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Noel Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Director: Noel Coward, David Lean
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An engrossing account of the sinking of the British destroyer HMS Torrin during the Battle of Crete. Three survivors on a raft recount their lives aboard the sunken vessel. Academy Award Nominations: 2, including Best Picture, Best Original Screenplay.
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from 2,019 members
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David Lean facts
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Anyone who has a passing interest in British films should watch David Lean's 'Great Expectations'.
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