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Roy Ward Baker - what members say
review by from Lancashire
A Film To Remeber 17 April 2005
review by from Paington, S. Devon
Disturbing, bloody, funny and Intriguing collection of stories 26 April 2005
review by from Kidderminster,England
Scars of Dracula 8 February 2007
Roy Ward Baker - filmography
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Flame Trees Of Thika
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Nicholas Jones, David Robb, Holly Aird
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
Classic television drama set in colonial East Africa around the beginning of WWI. Eleven-year-old Elspeth Grant (Holly Aird) arrives in Africa with her parents Tilly (Hayley Mills) and Robin (David Robb), who are planning to build a coffee plantation, and is enthralled by the beauty of its ..read more »
 
63%
from 294 members
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The Monster Club
(1980)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Roger Slowman, John Carradine
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
When horror writer Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (John Carradine) allows his vampire friend Eramus (Vincent Price) to take him to the Monster Club - a trendy hang-out for ghouls, werewolves, snakemen et al - the latter regales him with three horrific tales. In the first, a couple attempt to cheat gentle ..read more »
60%
from 539 members
Not available for rental
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Danger UXB
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Steven Grives, Alfie Bass, Anthony Andrews
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax, Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
The entire series of this World War 2 TV drama. It is the autumn of 1940. and the great blitz has taken London by surprise; hundreds of civilians have been killed and thousands more are made homeless. Brian Ash (Anthony Andrews) a young Royal Engineer Officer, finds himself posted to a Bomb ..read more »
72%
from 584 members
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Vault Of Horror
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Terry-Thomas, Daniel Massey, Glynis Johns
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
Five separate horror tales, linked by the story of five men trapped in a vault beneath the Thames. The individual tales involve mysticism, vampires in an English town, the grisly end of an insurance racket, magicians, and the voodoo exploits of an artist who exacts revenge by painting the deaths of ..read more »
63%
from 604 members
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And Now The Screaming Starts
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Herbert Lom, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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In 1785, a couple of newlyweds move into their marital home, only to discover that the terrible Fengriffen curse has been placed upon it. The couple are plagued by a murderous hand that crawls around the house with a life of its own, and engage the services of a mysterious doctor (Peter Cushing) in ..read more »
58%
from 488 members
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Asylum
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Patrick Magee, Richard Todd, Peter Cushing
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Classic British horror anthology. Dr Martin (Robert Powell) is sent to Dunsmore Manor, a home for the horifically insane, with the task of locating the asylum's former administrator. Rounding up some of the most demented inmates the hospital has to offer, Martin interviews each of them one at a ..read more »
63%
from 574 members
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Scars Of Dracula
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jenny Hanley, Dennis Waterman, Dennis Waterman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Everyone's favourite blood-sucker is back in this sequel to 'Taste the Blood of Dracula' (1969). After a philandering young artist goes missing, his brother Simon (Dennis Waterman) and girlfriend Sarah (Jenny Hanley) discover that he was last seen heading for Castle Dracula. When they investigate ..read more »
61%
from 804 members
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The Anniversary
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Bette Davis, Sheila Hancock, Jack Hedley
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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A widowed mother with three sons. Once a year, on her wedding anniversary, the entire family gathers to pay her respect - and to endure her cold sarcasm and malicious interference in their lives.
70%
from 581 members
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The Saint - S04 E02 - Legacy for the Saint
(1968)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Gangster Ed Brown dies in an explosion and a film is shown to rivals and daughter Penny explaining he deposited £1 million in a Swiss bank and whoever matches it can claim it. A security van with £1million in gold is a target for the prize. Then Penny's taken hostage - can Simon rescue her and the gold?
67%
from 25 members
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Quatermass And The Pit - Blu-ray
(1967)
Starring: James Donald, Barbara Shelley, Duncan Lamont
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Hammer version of the popular TV series. When prehistoric skulls and the remains of an alien spaceship are discovered in the bowels of London's Underground during an excavation, a weird and powerful force is unleashed. Professor Quatermass (Andrew Keir) is called in to investigate.
75%
from 313 members
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The Saint - S03 E21 - The Art Collectors
(1967)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Simon's in Paris and meets Natasha who tells him she wants to sell some priceless paintings. They contact an art dealer but he's intercepted by fake policemen. They then tell Natasha that Simon has killed the dealer and take the paintings. The Saint now has to go after the paintings.
62%
from 18 members
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The Saint - S03 E14 - Flight Plan
(1966)
Starring: Roger Moore, Ivor Dean, Edward Woodward
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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The Osprey is an experimental vertical take off and land plane which was being test-flown by Mike Gregory until a recent court martial. Now Middle Eastern agents are using him to steal the plane by kidnapping his sister. The Saint rescues her, goes after Mike and has to learn how to fly the Osprey...
66%
from 21 members
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The Avengers - Series 4
(7 discs)
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Diana Rigg, Patrick Macnee
Director: Sidney Hayers, James Hill, Roy Ward Baker
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All 26 episodes from the fourth season of the cult 1960s action series starring Patrick MacNee as top-level secret agent John Steed and Diana Rigg as martial arts expert Mrs Emma Peel. Episodes are: 'The Town of No Return', 'The Murder Market', 'The Master Minds', 'Dial a Deadly Number', 'Death at ..read more »
80%
from 154 members
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The Saint - S03 E12 - Little Girl Lost
(1966)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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In Ireland the Saint rescues Mildred from thugs. She says she's Hitler's daughter and is being used in a Nazi plot. He finds out she's the daughter of a wealthy man and is planning to elope - the thugs are private detectives. Then they take Mildred hostage and demand a ransom. Who's telling the truth?
69%
from 22 members
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The Saint - S03 E06 - The Helpful Pirate
(1966)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Simon is in Hamburg to find Prof Roeding who disappeared while buying antiques. Retracing his steps the Saint meets Eva who buys a goblet from a pawn shop. When she breaks it she finds a message, revealing hidden treasure. Simon thinks it's a scam - but he now knows how to rescue the professor.
61%
from 18 members
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Flame In The Streets
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: Glyn Houston, Johnny Sekka, Dan Jackson
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Hard-hitting melodrama about racial tensions in early 1960s England, starring John Mills and Sylvia Sims. Jacko Palmer (John Mills) is a union man who has to confront the prejudices of his members when a black foreman (Earl Cameron) is appointed, and the members threaten to strike. When he ..read more »
68%
from 43 members
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The Singer Not the Song
on DVD
(1960)
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, John Mills, Mylene Demongeot
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Roy Ward Baker directs this brooding psychological Western based on a novel by Audrey Erskine-Lindop. John Mills stars as Father Michael Keogh, a determined and well-intentioned Catholic priest who arrives in a godforsaken Mexican village and quickly finds himself at loggerheads with a gang of ..read more »
59%
from 59 members
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A Night To Remember
on DVD
(1957)
Starring: Kenneth More, Kenneth More, Honor Blackman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Classic documentary drama based on Walter Lord's book about the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Told from the perspective of Second Officer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More), the story follows the supposedly 'unsinkable' ship as she embarks on her maiden voyage and ultimately founders in the North ..read more »
73%
from 1,084 member
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The One That Got Away
(1957)
Starring: Colin Gordon, Hardy Krüger, Alec McCowen
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
Watch now: Unavailable
The true story of Lt. Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner-of-war interred in Britain to successfully escape and return to Germany. His journey took him initially to Canada and then through the USA before his eventual return to his homeland.
63%
from 398 members
Not available for rental
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Jacqueline
(1956)
Starring: John Gregson, Kathleen Ryan, Jacqueline Ryan
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Labourer John Gregson, unable to get a job on a farm, is lured by high wages into working in the Belfast shipyards. There, high upon the scaffolding surrounding the ships, he suffers from dangerous attacks of vertigo, causing him to take to drink to the despair of his wife.
83%
from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Morning Departure
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: John Mills, Eric Portman, Peter Hammond
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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World War Two thriller starring John Mills. While out on routine patrol, the Royal Navy submarine Trojan accidentally strikes an electronically-operated drifting mine, and plunges immediately to the sea bed. As time - and air - start to run out, the Captain, Lt Cmdr Armstrong (Mills) gathers the ..read more »
71%
from 167 members
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The October Man
(1947)
Starring: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
Jim Ackland, who suffers from a head injury sustained in a bus crash , is the chief suspect in a murder hunt, when a girl that he has just met is found dead on the local common, and he has no alibi for the time she was killed. [Black and White]
57%
from 13 members
Currently unavailable
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The Irish R.M. - Series 2
(2 discs)
Starring: Peter Bowles
Director: Peter Sykes, Roy Ward Baker, Roy Ward Baker /
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Second series of the popular C4 comedy drama, starring Peter Bowles as a Resident Magistrate struggling to keep law and order in pre-Independence Ireland. The episodes featured are: 'A Horse, A Horse'; 'The Dispensary Doctor'; 'Holy Island'; 'Oweneen the Sprat'; 'A Royal Command'; and 'The Aussolas ..read more »
64%
from 141 members
Currently unavailable
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...behind the film in this version, the only version in my opinion worth watching. Roy Ward Baker the director had to really push this film in the USA, as the Americans didn’t g...
