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Jack Gold
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review by from deep in the luscious green valleys of deepest Mid-Wales.
Excellent sacrilege iconoclasm & horror. 8 November 2005
Jack Gold - filmography
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Goodnight Mister Tom
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: John Thaw, Nick Robinson, Annabelle Apsion
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate: 
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John Thaw (Inspector Morse) stars as the widowed and cantankerous Tom Oakley in this charming film adaptation of the prize-winning children's novel by Michelle Magorian. When the Second World War is declared, Tom finds that his quiet life in the village of Little Weirwold is set to change when nine-..read more »
 
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from 4,164 members
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Goodnight Mister Tom - Blu-ray
(1998)
Starring: John Thaw, Nick Robinson, Annabelle Apsion
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate:
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Based on Michelle Magorian's novel about a cantankerous WWI veteran who is paired, against his will, with a London orphan. Set in a small English town at the start of WWII, GOODNIGHT MISTER TOM stars John Thaw as Tom Oakley, who gets stuck with a shy young orphan named Willie Beech when the ..read more »
80%
from 171 members
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The Return of the Native
(1994)
Starring: Catherine Zeta Jones, Clive Owen, Ray Stevenson
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate: 
Eustacia Vye longs to return to Paris, so marries Clym Yeobright when he returns from his work there, hoping he will take her back with him. However he has no plans to return, less so after his eyes begin to fail him. And so Eustacia finds herself looking for love elsewhere.
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from 36 members
Currently unavailable
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Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage
(1989)
Starring: Jack Shepherd, Zoë Wanamaker, Miranda Richardson
Director: Jack Gold
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Joe and Sarah Marriot is a pair of European campers who have pitched their tent for a little R & R at a campsite in France. The other families that have come to the site on holiday provide great comedy and plenty of people watching for the "perfect" Marriots. Of course, you'd expect hilarity from ..read more »
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from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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The Tenth Man
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Derek Jacobi
Director: Jack Gold
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During the Nazi occupation of Paris in the 1940's, a group of men are dragged off the street by soldiers. The twenty-nine Frenchmen are all quite innocent, but the Germans have ordered that one out of every ten men must be executed. One such man, a French lawyer named Chavel, persuades a dying man ..read more »
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from 415 members
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Escape From Sobibor
(1987)
Starring: Alan Arkin, Rutger Hauer, Rutger Hauer
Director: Jack Gold
Certificate: 
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During WWII, the death camp at Treblinka had an escape, causing the Commandant at a similar camp in Sobibor to vow (actually threaten) that his camp would never experience the same thing. But those who were its captives, the Jewish laborers that had been spared from the ovens, knew that they were ..read more »
76%
from 353 members
Not available for rental
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The Chain
(1985)
Starring: Warren Mitchell, Nigel Hawthorne, Denis Lawson
Director: Jack Gold
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Comical British comedy which takes a sideways look at the potential minefield of moving house, a minefield made even more explosive by the inclusion of such virulent vices as sloth, envy, greed, avarice and pride.
68%
from 69 members
Not available for rental
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Red Monarch
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Colin Blakely, David Suchet, Brian Glover
Director: Jack Gold
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In a Russia where fear has become the everyday currency, Stalin and Beria are the two double acts to end them all. With the Kremlin as their stage and the Politburo as their stooges, Stalin signs death warrants while Beria chases women. United by their Georgian heritage and moral depravity, they ..read more »
57%
from 19 members
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The Naked Civil Servant
(1981)
Starring: John Hurt
Director: Jack Gold
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A biographical film, based on the real life of an Englishman who lived in London. Quentin Crisp, who introduces the film, is an effeminate homosexual, a flamboyant and witty exhibitionist whose conversation is as glittering as the lipstick and mascara he used to effect. Includes documentary on ..read more »
73%
from 1,080 member
Not available for rental
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The Medusa Touch
(1977)
Starring: Harry Andrews, Alan Badel, Robert Lang
Director: Jack Gold
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Novelist John Morlar is a man with the unique power to cause disaster at will. Detective Brunel investigates an assault on Morlar and discovers he possesses mysterious powers. From his hospital bed, Morlar gives a small clue to his next target for destruction... the Windscale Nuclear Plant...
67%
from 947 members
Not available for rental
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Aces High
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, John Gielgud, Simon Ward
Director: Jack Gold
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A moving story of comradeship and bravery, loneliness and fear. Aces High contains some of the most magnificent aerial battles ever staged leading to a BAFTA nomination for Best Cinematography and Best Film at the Evening Standard British Film Awards. Under Jack Gold's sensitive direction, this is ..read more »
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from 1,045 member
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The Catholics
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Cyril Cusack, Michael Gambon, Trevor Howard
Director: Jack Gold
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Set in the near future, the Catholic Church has joined with other great western religions in an ecumenical movement that has irradicated much of original religious doctrines. A group of Irish monks rebel and begin saying the mass in Latin again and are starting to receive an international following...read more »
56%
from 36 members
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The National Health
(1973)
Starring: Lynn Redgrave, Bob Hoskins, Colin Blakely
Director: Jack Gold
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Based on the play by Peter Nichols. Comedy satire about overworked doctors and nurses who are doing their best to cope in a depressing and poorly-equipped National Health hospital.
50%
from 1 member
Currently unavailable
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Man Friday
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Richard Roundtree, Peter Cellier
Director: Jack Gold
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Adrian Mitchell's screenplay is a take-off on the Defoe classic, 'Robinson Crusoe'. This version finds Friday revolting against white supremacy and Crusoe losing the man-to-man conflict for human dignity.
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from 25 members
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...hrown in. Richard Burton is all brooding presence and convincing diabolism and Jack Gold's direction constitutes good story-telling. If you fancy some horror that is s...
