Dirk Bogarde - The Screen Icons Collection details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Patrick Magee, Sarah Miles, Michael York, Stanley Baker, Bernard Lee, Vivien Merchant, Harold Pinter, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Warner, Tom Courtenay, James Fox, Dennis Price, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, Leo McKern, Jacqueline Sassard |
| Director: | Basil Dearden |
| Genres: | Drama - Mystery, Gay/Lesbian - General, Thriller - Action/Adventure |
| Studio: | ELEVATION |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Accident |
PG Disc 1 | |
The Servant |
15 Disc 2 | |
The Blue Lamp |
PG Disc 3 | |
Victim |
12 Disc 4 | |
Hunted |
15 Disc 5 | |
The Spanish Gardener |
U Disc 6 | |
The Sleeping Tiger |
U Disc 7 |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 8 hours 5 minutes |
|---|---|
| Rental release: | Currently unavailable |
| Main languages: | English |
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Nightmare in Knightsbridge
By sheenaweena (42 reviews) from UK , 20 Jul 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
The Servant is odd, but a timeless masterpiece, whether viewers like it or not. But this Pinter adaptation is not meant to be liked. It is unsettling but riddled with clues that you are too engrossed to notice as you watch. And it has a voyeuristic quality that makes it seem very modern.
Tony is too trusting, but he is rich and thinks himself infallible and 'Barrett' is a consummate con artist The tension comes from knowing what this 'gentlemen's gentleman's game is, when 'sir' doesn't. It is a pleasure to watch two well cast actors get so involved in their roles. The verbal and physical sparring matches between Dirk Bogard and James Fox are well worth a viewing if you are one who loves to watch actors really relishing their work.
The house 'Sir' and The Servant live in, though claustrophobic from the start, slowly descends into little more than a cesspool even though it doesn't change much physically, but the mirror on the wall tells no lies. Sara Miles at her most nubile as the 'sister' cum 'bait' effortlessly unleashes sir's formerly hidden, but totally unruly appetites, rendering him totally disinterested in his high brow 'lady' love.
We know the roles between master and servant will inevitably reverse, but the most fascinating part is in seeing how it all comes together, or falls apart.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(40)Highly reccomended - a must see for LGBT supporters
By a customer , 12 Sep 2012Very good film - thought provoking and dramatic. The film still seems to be ahead of its time and isn't easy to watch, particularly as comparisons can be drawn today.
The film covers the reactions of the public towards homosexuals. The negative attitudes are distressing and are worrying when you can still see the same opinions 50 years on.
Aside from the controversy and ground-breaking impact of this film, the acting is fantastic and even the minor characters are established within a few lines. The story is exciting enough to enage throughout the duration of the film and draws to a powerful ending.
The film provides a rare example of original homosexual characters. There are few stereotypes and the characters are so diverse (some good, some bad, selfish and selfless etc) that you soon realise that their sexuality is not what the film uses to define them.
This is an important film the history of LGBT - it is a positive portrayal and highlights that the attitudes still exist today,- Was this review helpful to you?
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Victim (1961) Dirk Bogarde
By a customer from North of Watford , 31 Dec 2010This film was made at a time when homosexual activities were illegal and gay men were targeted by blackmailers. The film helped to underline the need for reform of the law but it works well as a crime drama in which a lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) sets out to find the blackmailer who drove a boy (Peter McEnery) to suicide. It is amazing to think that the stigma around homosexuality was such that being involved in making a film like this (or maybe even just going to see it) could have meant being subjected to sneering, vicious gossip, innuendo and threats.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Would like to have seen more
By sailbatten (64 reviews) from London , 27 Dec 2010[Highly rated reviewer]
Good movie but not exceptional. Would have prefered more from what I read in the reviews. I don't necessarily want to write twenty words- Was this review helpful to you?
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The Blue Lamp
By RayS (96 reviews) from Grays , 09 Apr 2010A great old film this starring Jack Warner who plays a police man called George Dixon.
This film was the starter of the first of many tv series called Dixon of Dock Green which was the first ever series about the great old time coppers- Was this review helpful to you?
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Nearly a buy
By Pugeater (182 reviews) from Leicester , 08 Feb 2010Ably directed by Basil Dearden, who also directed Dirk Bogard in The Blue Lamp and who made the legendary Dead of Night and The Assassination Bureau. This was a very important and 'ground-breaking' film with regards to its treatment of homosexuals at that time. Homosexuality was illegal in Great Britain until 1967, six years after this film was released and with the interest in Dirk's own sexual 'identity' it added to the mystic. Dirk admitted later in life that he and Anthony Forwoodhis manager had had an relationship. That aside the film is well written and paced and has several interesting characters, notably Derren Nesbitt for me most memorbable as the SS officer in Where Eagles Dare. John Barrie as Det.Inspector Harris gives a particularly understated performance of understanding and compassion. All in all a very good film which even today has the ability to shock and raise sympathy for people who are simply, as one of the characters puts it who are simply 'born that way.'- Was this review helpful to you?
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