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David Lean - what members say
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: Victor Banerjee, Judy Davis, Alec Guinness
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 2,808 members
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Ryan's Daughter
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Robert Mitchum, Sarah Miles, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
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The logic behind inflating Robert Bolt's minimalist romantic drama Ryan's Daughter into a 12-million-dollar epic seems to have been When David Lean directs, it's a super-spectacular. Sarah Miles (who at the time was married to Robert Bolt) stars as Rosy, the daughter of Irish pub keeper Tom Ryan (..read more »
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from 1,589 member
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots intertwine ..read more »
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from 8,085 members
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Doctor Zhivago - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Following 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962), director David Lean continued his epic phase with this adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel. During World War One, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) studies to become a doctor in Moscow. He marries his childhood sweetheart Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), but is attracted ..read more »
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from 304 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia - Blu-ray
(1962)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Donald Wolfit
Director: David Lean
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David Lean's lush, Oscar-winning biopic stars Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-educated British army officer who aided the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Teaming up with Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence crosses a desert (considered uncrossable) in order to join two separate ..read more »
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from 266 members
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Lawrence Of Arabia
on DVD
(1962)
Starring: , ,
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 23,278 members
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Geoffrey Horne, Jack Hawkins, James Donald
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 17,109 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 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 »
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from 1,723 member
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Sound Barrier
on DVD
(1952)
Starring: Ralph Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Ann Todd
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this adaptation of the Terence Rattigan play. Ralph Richardson stars as an aircraft maunfacturer whose all-consuming passion with making the ultimate supersonic jet kills both his son and son-in-law and almost destroys him and the rest of his family. Also starring Lean's wife, ..read more »
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from 155 members
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Madeleine
on DVD
(1949)
Starring: Charles Laughton, Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this film based on the true story of a Glasgow woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857. Madeleine (Ann Todd) is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman Piere Emile L'Anglier (Ivan Desny) without her father's ..read more »
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from 197 members
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Oliver Twist
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Anthony Newley, Kay Walsh, Francis Sullivan
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 3,818 members
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The Passionate Friends
on DVD
(1948)
Starring: Wilfrid Hyde White, Trevor Howard, Isabel Dean
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directed this tale based on the novel by H.G. Wells in which a woman (Ann Todd) meets and marries an older man (Claude Rains) but then bumps into her former lover (Trevor Howard) and finds her passions re-ignited.
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from 360 members
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Great Expectations - Blu-ray
(1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »
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from 391 members
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Great Expectations
on DVD
(1946)
Starring: Anthony Wager, Torin Thatcher, Bernard Miles
Director: David Lean
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David Lean directs this classic adaptation of Dickens's novel about a young orphan who develops 'great expectations' after a mysterious benefactor pledges to sponsor his transformation into a gentleman. Pip (Anthony Wager) is visiting the graves of his deceased parents when he finds himself ..read more »
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from 5,615 members
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Blithe Spirit
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Margaret Rutherford, Hugh Wakefield, Kay Hammond
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 1,600 member
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Marjorie Mars, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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A respectable, happily married doctor (Trevor Howard) comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife (Celia Johnson) when a passing train blows cinder into her eye. Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and railway cafe of a small English town. David Lean's classic study ..read more »
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from 13,234 members
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Brief Encounter - Blu-ray
(1945)
Starring: Marjorie Mars, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
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Classic drama starring Celia Johnson as a married woman whose life is thrown into turmoil when she unexpectedly falls in love with a stranger. Laura Jesson (Johnson) appears to be the very embodiment of a respectable, happily-married British housewife and mother. Equally, the man who comes to her ..read more »
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from 457 members
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This Happy Breed
(1944)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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An episodic tale of an average working class family in the interwar years. Narrated by Laurence Olivier and directed by David Lean, the story traces the melodrama caused by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of women's liberation and political instability in the country during ..read more »
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from 513 members
Not available for rental
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This Happy Breed - Blu-ray
(1944)
Starring: Kay Walsh, Celia Johnson, John Mills
Director: David Lean
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An episodic tale of an average working class family in the interwar years. Narrated by Laurence Olivier and directed by David Lean, the story traces the melodrama caused by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of women's liberation and political instability in the country during ..read more »
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from 4 members
Not available for rental
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In Which We Serve
on DVD
(1942)
Starring: Celia Johnson, Bernard Miles, John Mills
Director: Noel Coward, David Lean
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Noel Coward co-directed, wrote and starred in this patriotic World War II drama about a destroyer, told through flashbacks and the reminiscences of the surviving crew after their beloved ship is torpedoed. Coward was awarded a Special Oscar for 'outstanding production achievement'.
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from 2,108 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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