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Gracie Fields Collection review by A customer from London

Gracie 18 March 2008
...e care? Love, life & laughter is is from Britain's most prolific film director, Maurice Elvey, who directed the greatly admired late silent version of Hindle Wakes. Elvey is... Read customer review

Maurice Elvey - filmography

Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymo... on DVD (1953)
Starring: Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano, Diana Decker
Director: Maurice Elvey
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This second release the BFI's pioneering Adelphi Collection brings together two films directed by Maurice Elvey, both featuring sizzling performances from a young, sassy Diana Dors. Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953): American Army pilot Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano) - on leave in London -..read more »

61% from 26 members

Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymo... (1953)
Starring: Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano, Diana Decker
Director: Maurice Elvey
Certificate:
This second release the BFI's pioneering Adelphi Collection brings together two films directed by Maurice Elvey, both featuring sizzling performances from a young, sassy Diana Dors. Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953): American Army pilot Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano) - on leave in London -..read more »

56% from 32 members

The Great Game (1953)
Starring: James Hayter, Thora Hird, Diana Dors
Director: Maurice Elvey
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The wealthy chairman of First Division Football Club, Burnville United, makes an unethical approach to a star player of another club, and the ensuing scandal costs him his job.

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Stewart Granger Collection - The Lamp St... on DVD (1943)
Starring: Stewart Granger, James Mason, Rosamund John
Director: Maurice Elvey, Arthur Crabtree, Anthony Asquith
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A tribute to the important work of female nurses during World War II.

60% from 31 members

For Freedom on DVD (1940)
Starring: Will Fyffe, Anthony Hulme, E.V.H. Emmett
Director: Maurice Elvey, Castleton Knight
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In pre-war Britain, newsreel Chief Will Ferguson and his son Steve plan to make a documentary celebrating human achievement – but the events in Europe sour their plans, Hitler’s Third Reich is on the march and has just invaded Czechoslovakia. Europe is in flames and instead they make a documentary ..read more »

56% from 20 members

I Lived With You on DVD (1937)
Starring: Ivor Novello, Ursula Jeans, Ida Lupino
Director: Maurice Elvey
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Maurice Elvey the most prolific British director of all time, directed this 1933 Twickenham Studios production. The director is a story himself, having run away from his home in Stockton to work on the streets of London aged....nine. Co Written and starring Ivor Novello writer of over three hundred ..read more »

20% from 3 members

The Man in the Mirror on DVD (1936)
Starring: Edward Everett Horton, Genevieve Tobin, Alastair Sim
Director: Maurice Elvey
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Jeremy Dilke (Horton), is a meek, mild-mannered businessman who allows everyone to use him for a doormat. While looking into his mirror, Dilke is confronted by his brusque, assertive alter ego, who declares "I am the man you have always longed to be." Armed with his newfound confidence, Dilke ..read more »

56% from 41 members

The Clairvoyant on DVD (1934)
Starring: Claude Rains, Fay Wray, Jane Baxter
Director: Maurice Elvey
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The Great Maximus (Claude Rains – Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia) has got a new act for the music halls where he makes his living. Working with his beautiful wife Rene (Fay Wray – King Kong), he poses as a mind reader. It’s all a trick, of course: he certainly doesn’t have the gift for real. Or so ..read more »

66% from 37 members

Gracie Fields Collection (4 discs) on DVD
Starring: Gracie Fields, John Loder, Ivor Barnard
Director: Maurice Elvey, Basil Dean, Graham Cutts
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This box set features the following films: Love, Life and Laughter (Dir. Maurice Elvey) (1934): An impoverished author and a cabaret girl each have their dream of success, but are happy to wake to each other and reality. Sing As We Go (Dir. Basil Dean) (1934): When the textile mill closes, ..read more »

61% from 58 members

Adelphi Collection Vol.4 - Fun At St Fan...
Starring: Vera Day, Fred Emney, Ronnie Corbett
Director: Maurice Elvey
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The fourth release of the BFI s pioneering Adelphi Collection is a rib-tickling double bill of rare vintage comedy. Schoolboy howlers abound in the quick-fire classroom caper Fun at St. Fanny s (1955), featuring radio favourite Cardew "The Cad" Robinson, television's Gerald "Billy Bunter" Campion, ..read more »

40% from 5 members
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The Gay Dog on DVD
Starring: Wilfred Pickles, Petula Clark, Megs Jenkins
Director: Maurice Elvey
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Raving Beauty is the name of Jim Gay's (Wilfred Pickles) racing greyhound. With the big race only days away Jim pretends that Raving Beauty is in bad shape in order to lengthen its odds and clean up at the bookies. But keeping up the pretence with his wife, daughter, the whole street and the ..read more »

60% from 89 members

Diana Dors Double - Miss Tulip Stays the... on DVD
Starring: Diana Dors, John Laurie, Thora Hird
Director: Leslie Arliss, Maurice Elvey
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In MISS TULIP STAYS THE NIGHT, a writer and his wife are sleeping peacefully in their beds when a mysterious woman shows up, gives the writer her gun, also hands him some jewels and asks for a place to sleep. Unfortunately, someone murders her during the night and the author is accused of the crime...read more »

33% from 10 members

Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymo... (2 discs)
Starring: Diana Dors, Bonar Colleano, Diana Decker
Director: Maurice Elvey
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This second release the BFI's pioneering Adelphi Collection brings together two films directed by Maurice Elvey, both featuring sizzling performances from a young, sassy Diana Dors. Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? (1953): American Army pilot Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano) - on leave in London -..read more »

22% from 11 members

Adelphi Collection Vol.4 - Fun At St Fan...
Starring: Vera Day, Fred Emney, Ronnie Corbett
Director: Maurice Elvey
Certificate:
The fourth release of the BFI s pioneering Adelphi Collection is a rib-tickling double bill of rare vintage comedy. Schoolboy howlers abound in the quick-fire classroom caper Fun at St. Fanny s (1955), featuring radio favourite Cardew "The Cad" Robinson, television's Gerald "Billy Bunter" Campion, ..read more »

30% from 4 members
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Maurice Elvey facts

5 most recent films

Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger - 3.0 stars
Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
The Great Game - 3 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - The Lamp Still Burns - 3.0 stars
For Freedom - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Gracie Fields Collection - 3.0 stars
The Gay Dog - 3.0 stars
The Clairvoyant - 3.5 stars
Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger - 3.0 stars
Stewart Granger Collection - The Lamp Still Burns - 3.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Great Game - 3 stars
I Lived With You - 1.0 stars
Diana Dors Double Bill - Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary? / My Wife's Lodger - Blu-ray - 1.0 stars
Adelphi Collection Vol.4 - Fun At St Fanny's / You Lucky People - 1.5 stars
Diana Dors Double - Miss Tulip Stays the Night / The Great Game - 1.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Diana Dors - 5 times - show films
Diana Decker - 3 times - show films
David Tomlinson - 3 times - show films
Sid James - 3 times - show films
Audrey Freeman - 3 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Basil Dean - 2 times - show films
Arthur Crabtree - 1 times - show films
Anthony Asquith - 1 times - show films
Leslie Arlis - 1 times - show films
Leslie Arliss - 1 times - show films