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Roy Ward Baker
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Roy Ward Baker - what members say
review by from Lancashire
A Film To Remeber 17 April 2005
review by from Torbay, Devon
Bride of Fengriffen would have made a better title... 21 January 2005
review by from Paington, S. Devon
Disturbing, bloody, funny and Intriguing collection of stories 26 April 2005
Roy Ward Baker - filmography
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Flame Trees Of Thika
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1988)
Starring: Hayley Mills, David Robb, Holly Aird
Director: Roy Ward Baker
Certificate: 
An excellent t.v. mini-series based on Elspeth Huxley's much-loved memoir of her upbringing in East Africa, where her family hewed a farm from the rugged land in 1913. Growing up amidst the same pastoral loveliness that so inspired Danish novelist Isak Dinesen, the little girl and her family ..read more »
 
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from 284 members
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Danger UXB
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Anthony Andrews, Steven Grives, Alfie Bass
Director: Ferdinand Fairfax, Roy Ward Baker
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This intense TV series follows a British EOD (Explosive Ordinance Disposal) unit on various missions during the Second World War. Anthony Andrews stars as Lieutenant Brian Ash, one of the soldiers who must diffuse German aerial bombs that have not exploded--and may be fitted with booby traps. This ..read more »
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from 553 members
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Vault Of Horror
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Curt Jurgens, Terry-Thomas, Denholm Elliott
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Made by Amicus the studio that dripped blood and directed by Roy Ward Baker (ASYLUM), THE VAULT OF HORROR is a collection of five horror tales taken from the E.C. Comic books of the 1950s. The stories are revealed by five men in the form of their recurring dreams.
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from 562 members
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And Now The Screaming Starts
(1973)
Starring: Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Herbert Lom
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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In the 1973 cult classic AND NOW THE SCREAMING STARTS, an inconsiderate young couple moves into a house already inhabited by a dismembered and disgruntled hand . Catherine (Stephanie Beacham) is a lovely young bride set to start a new life with her wealthy new husband Charles (Ian Ogilvy.) But a ..read more »
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from 453 members
Not currently released
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Asylum
(1972)
Starring: Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Four tales of terror are revealed to a new doctor by four mental asylum inmates. Each tale leads to a puzzling mystery which is solved during the final tale.
62%
from 524 members
Currently unavailable
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Scars Of Dracula
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Dennis Waterman, Dennis Waterman, Christopher Matthews
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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The Prince of Darkness casts his undead shadow once more over the cursed village of Kleinenberg when his ashes are splashed with bat's blood. And two innocent victims search for a missing loved one, loved to death by the mistress of Dracula. But after they discover his bloodstained corpse in Castle ..read more »
61%
from 782 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 523 members
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The Saint - S04 E06 - The Time to Die
(1968)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Whilst in the company of his journalist friend Mary Ellen, the Saint receives a number of death threats, most starkly a wreath which informs him that he will be killed in two days' time. A couple of small-time crooks seem to be implicated in carrying messages for the would-be killer but both are ..read more »
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The Saint - S03 E18 - Simon and Delilah
(1967)
Starring: Roger Moore, Kate O'Mara, Ian Ogilvy
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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Temperamental film star Serena Harris is kidnapped at gunpoint from the set of a Biblical epic in which she is starring as Delilah in Rome. The Saint manages to locate where she is being held but, given her unpopularity, he has a wide number of suspects to choose from as the instigator of her abduction.
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The Avengers - Series 4
(7 discs)
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg
Director: Roy Ward Baker, Sidney Hayers, James Hill
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Episodes Comprise:
1: The Town of No Return
2: The Gravediggers
3: The Cybernauts
4: Death at Bargain Prices
5: Castle De'ath
6: The Master Minds
7: The Murder Market
8: A Surfeit of H2O
9: The Hour That Never Was
10: Dial a Deadly Number
11: Man-Eater of Surrey Green
12: Two's a Crowd
13: Too ..read more »
80%
from 127 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 a new experimental plane and was being test-flown by Flight Lieutenant Mike Gregory until his recent court-martial. Now Middle Eastern agents are using Mike to steal the plane, kidnapping his sister Diane. Having rescued Diane, the Saint goes after Mike, getting himself parachuted ..read more »
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Flame In The Streets
on DVD
(1961)
Starring: John Mills, Sylvia Syms, Brenda De Banzie
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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The faces of racism at work and at home provide the focus of this drama. When union members threaten to strike because their new foreman is black, the union boss persuades them not to by reminding them that a man's skin colour has nothing to do with his competence and worth. His words take on a new ..read more »
68%
from 24 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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Billed as 'A New and Powerfully Different Kind of Motion Picture Story' upon release, this unusual western concerns the conflict between a priest and a Mexican bandito from A Night to Remember (1958) director Roy Baker. Father Keogh (John Mills) is a Catholic priest who arrives in the remote ..read more »
58%
from 44 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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A Night To Remember / The Making Of A Night To Remember DVD contains the 1958 film--directed by Roy Baker and based on the novel by Walter Lord--and a "making of" documentary about the movie's production. "A Night to Remember" tells the tragic tale of the maiden voyage of the Titanic in a semi-..read more »
73%
from 962 members
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The One That Got Away
(1957)
Starring: Hardy Kruger, Michael Goodliffe, Colin Gordon
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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This taut war film, based on actual fact, tells of the daring escape attempts of a captured German ace pilot, Fran Von Werra. After being taken to Britain, Von Werra was the only German prisoner to successfully escape and make it back to his homeland.
63%
from 373 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.
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from 3 members
Currently unavailable
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Morning Departure
on DVD
(1950)
Starring: John Mills, John Gregson, Donald Sinden
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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In 'Morning Departure' a Navy Submarine hits a mine whilst searching for German shipping. The resulting explosion sends it to the bottom of the sea. Some of the crew can escape using the hatches but the rest remain trapped and have to hope that they will be rescued in time
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from 153 members
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The October Man
(1947)
Starring: John Mills, Joan Greenwood, Edward Chapman
Director: Roy Ward Baker
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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]
60%
from 12 members
Currently unavailable
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The Irish R.M. - Series 2
(2 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Peter Bowles
Director: Peter Sykes, Roy Ward Baker
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Features the complete six episodes from the second series of the popular television drama. Episodes include: 'A Horse! A Horse!', 'The Dispensary Doctor', 'Holy Island', 'Oweneen The Sprat', 'A Royal Command' and 'The Aussolas Martin Cat'.
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from 138 members
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Roy Ward Baker facts
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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...
