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  • A Night To Remember
  • A Night To Remember review by from Lancashire
    Rated - 5.0 stars A Film To Remeber 17 April 2005
    ...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...   Read customer review
  • And Now The Screaming Starts
  • And Now The Screaming Starts review by from Torbay, Devon
    Rated - 3.0 stars Bride of Fengriffen would have made a better title... 21 January 2005
    ......as mentioned by the great Roy Ward Baker on the commentary provided. That reason alone, if you adore Amicus and Hammer movies... this disk is a must. If that wasn't enough...   Read customer review
  • Vault Of Horror
  • Vault Of Horror review by from Paington, S. Devon
    Rated - 3.0 stars Disturbing, bloody, funny and Intriguing collection of stories 26 April 2005
    ...strated painter. A great film made by on the most underrated British directors, Roy Ward Baker. I can only wish Britain made them like this today... For Hammer horror and Ami...   Read customer review

Roy Ward Baker - filmography


  • Flame Trees Of Thika (2 discs) on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Hayley Mills,  David Robb,  Holly Aird
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 64% 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
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 553 members
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  • Vault Of Horror on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Curt Jurgens,  Terry-Thomas,  Denholm Elliott
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 562 members
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  • And Now The Screaming Starts (1973)
    Starring: Peter Cushing,  Christopher Lee,  Herbert Lom
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 453 members
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  • Asylum (1972)
    Starring: Christopher Lee,  Peter Cushing,  Britt Ekland
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 524 members
    Currently unavailable
  • Scars Of Dracula on DVD (1970)
    Starring: Dennis Waterman,  Dennis Waterman,  Christopher Matthews
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 782 members
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  • The Anniversary on DVD (1968)
    Starring: Bette Davis,  Sheila Hancock,  Jack Hedley
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 523 members
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  • The Saint - S03 E18 - Simon and Delilah (1967)
    Starring: Roger Moore,  Kate O'Mara,  Ian Ogilvy
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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.
    3 stars out of 5 No ratings yet. Be the first.
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  • Flame In The Streets on DVD (1961)
    Starring: John Mills,  Sylvia Syms,  Brenda De Banzie
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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 »
    3.5 stars out of 5 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
    Certificate: Certificate: U
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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.
    3 stars out of 5 63% from 373 members
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  • Jacqueline (1956)
    Starring: John Gregson,  Kathleen Ryan,  Jacqueline Ryan
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    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.
    4 stars out of 5 83% from 3 members
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  • Morning Departure on DVD (1950)
    Starring: John Mills,  John Gregson,  Donald Sinden
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 153 members
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  • The October Man (1947)
    Starring: John Mills,  Joan Greenwood,  Edward Chapman
    Director: Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    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]
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 12 members
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  • The Irish R.M. - Series 2 (2 discs) on DVD
    Starring: Peter Bowles
    Director: Peter Sykes,  Roy Ward Baker
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    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'.
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 138 members
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Roy Ward Baker facts

5 most recent films

Saracen - The Complete Series - 2.5 stars
Flame Trees Of Thika - 3.0 stars
The Monster Club - 3.0 stars
Danger UXB - 3.5 stars
The Beast Must Die - 3.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The Avengers - Series 4 - 4.0 stars
Quatermass And The Pit - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
A Night To Remember - 3.5 stars
Danger UXB - 3.5 stars
Morning Departure - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

Saracen - The Complete Series - 2.5 stars
The Singer Not the Song - 3.0 stars
The October Man - 3.0 stars
The Avengers - Series 4 - Blu-ray - 3.0 stars
Flame In The Streets - 3.5 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Roger Moore - 18 times - show films
Ian Ogilvy - 15 times - show films
Kate O'Mara - 14 times - show films
Burt Kwouk - 14 times - show films
Nyree Dawn Porter - 10 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Sidney Hayers - 9 times - show films
James Hill - 9 times - show films
Harry Booth - 8 times - show films
Ferdinand Fairfax - 5 times - show films
Jimmy Sangster - 3 times - show films