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Accident   1967     3 stars    N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant, Delphine Seyrig, Alexander Knox, Terence Rigby, Harold Pinter, Freddie Jones, Ann Firbank, Brian Phelan

  When an Oxford professor (Dirk Bogarde), who appears to be happily married, finds himself attracted to a student, he must now examine his own motives and what it is that he really stands for.

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Appointment in London   1953     3 stars    N/R, 96 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Philip Leacock  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ian Hunter, Dinah Sheridan, Bill Kerr, Bryan Forbes, William Sylvester, Anne Leon, Walter Fitzgerald, Terence Longdon

  This is a very good story of a British bomber squadron on raids from their home in England during World War II. Nearing retirement after many dangerous missions, Wing Commander Tim Mason (Dirk Bogarde) starts showing the strain.


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A Bridge Too Far   1977     2 and a half stars    PG, 175 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, James Caan, Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Laurence Olivier, Elliott Gould, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Redford, Maximilian Schell, Edward Fox, Hardy Kruger, Ryan O'Neal, Liv Ullmann, Denholm Elliott

  This is a detailed examination of the logistical complications behind World War II's failed "Operation Market-Garden" that dropped Allied troops behind enemy lines in preparation for battle. The plan involves British Major General Robert Urquhart (Sean Connery) and American Brigadier General James Gavin (Ryan O'Neal) leading paratroopers on a mission to take over a road and five bridges through Holland to Germany. Meanwhile, Lt. Col. John Frost (Anthony Hopkins) will hold the critical bridge at Amhem so that British Gen. Brian Horrocks (Edward Fox) and Lt. Col. Joe Vandeleur (Michael Caine) will be able to lead troops across the bridge. However, plans go awry, and the mission turns into a disaster.



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Dirk Bogarde Lt. Gen. Frederick Browning
James Caan SSgt. Eddie Dohun
Michael Caine Lt. Col. John Vendeleur
Sean Connery Maj. Gen. Robert E. Urquart
Laurence Olivier Dr. Jan Spaander
Elliott Gould Col. Robert Stout
Gene Hackman Maj. Gen. Stanislaw Sosabowski
Anthony Hopkins Lt. Col. John D. Frost
Robert Redford Maj. Julian Cook
Maximilian Schell Lt. Gen. Wilhelm Bittrich
Edward Fox Lt. Gen Brian G. Horrocks
Hardy Kruger Maj. Gen. Ludwig
Ryan O'Neal Brig. Gen. James M. Gavin
Liv Ullmann Kate Ter Horst
Denholm Elliott RAF Meteorologist officer

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Cast a Dark Shadow   1957     3 stars    N/R, 84 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Lewis Gilbert  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh, Kathleen Harrison, Robert Flemyng, Mona Washbourne, Walter Hudd, Myrtle Reed, Lita Roza, Philip Stainton

  Charming Edward (Dirk Bogarde) marries and murders rich older women for their money. But Freda (Margaret Lockwood) may be a match for his wit. This version of the Bluebeard story is a good "suspenser."


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Daddy Nostalgia   1990     3 stars    PG, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Bertrand Tavernier  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Jane Birkin, Odette Laure, Emmanuelle Bataille, Charlotte Kady, Michele Minns

  Caroline (Jane Birkin) returns home from England to be with her dying father. Although not particularly close before, the two now learn to understand and appreciate each other for what they are.


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Damn the Defiant!   1962     3 stars    N/R, 101 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lewis Gilbert  
Cast: Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Maurice Denham, Nigel Stock, Richard Carpenter, Anthony Quayle, Tom Bell, Bryan Pringle, Murray Melvin, Victor Maddern

  While fighting Napoleon's fleet during the Napoleonic Wars, a captain and his first mate form differences of opinion that threaten the success of their mission. This film remains faithful to historical fact.


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The Damned   1969     2 and a half stars    R, 150 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Griem, Helmut Berger, Renaud Verley, Umberto Orsini, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Albrecht Schoenhals, Charlotte Rampling, Florinda Bolkan

  The wealthy Von Essenbeck family meets its demise when the Nazis come into power at the rise of Hitler's Third Reich.


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Darling   1965     3 and a half stars    N/R, 128 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Schlesinger  
Cast: Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde, Laurence Harvey, Jose Luis Villalonga, Roland Curran, Alex Scott, Basil Henson, James Cossins, Helen Lindsay, Carlo Palmucci, Umberto Raho, Dante Posani

  Julie Christie won the Academy Award as Best Actress for her portrayal of a lovely, but immoral, model who climbs the social ladder by climbing into an assortment of beds. Unfortunately, when she reaches her goal, she is disappointed. The film also won Academy Awards for Best Writing and Costume Design and was nominated for Best Picture and Director.


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Death in Venice   1971     3 stars    PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Luchino Visconti  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Bjorn Andresen, Silvana Mangano, Marisa Berenson, Mark Burns, Romolo Valli, Nora Ricci, Carole Andre, Leslie French, Franco Fabrizi, Sergio Garfagnoli, Luigi Battaglia

  Aging German composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Dirk Bogarde) travels to the Venetian seashore for a rest. But rest doesn't come due to a young blond boy, Tadzio (Bjorn Andresen), who is traveling with his family. Aschenbach obsesses over Tadzio because Tadzio represents youth and physical perfection. Aschenbach knows he can never attain that perfection and quietly dies on the beach. Adapted from the Thomas Mann novel.


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Doctor in the House   1954     3 stars    N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Ralph Thomas  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Kay Kendall, Muriel Pavlow, Donald Houston, Donald Sinden, James Robertson Justice, George Coulouris, Geoffrey Keen, Suzanne Cloutier

  This comedy depicts the lighter side of medical school when students do not miss the virtues of beautiful women in spite of the rigorous routine of studies and practice.


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The Fixer   1968     2 stars    PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Frankenheimer  
Cast: Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Hartman, Ian Holm, David Opatoshu, David Warner, Carol White, George Murcell

  This film is based on Bernard Malamud's novel about Yakov Bok (Alan Bates), a Jewish handyman, who is unjustly imprisoned in Czarist Russia.

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I Could Go on Singing   1963     2 stars    N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Drama / Musical
Director: Ronald Neame  
Cast: Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman, Aline MacMahon, Gregory Phillips, Pauline Jameson, Jeremy Burnham, Russell Waters, Gerald Sim, Leon Cortez, Eric Woodburn, Robert Rietty

  While American singer Jenny Bowman (Judy Garland) is performing in London, she visits her illegitimate son, Matt (Gregory Phillips), who has been left at his father's (Dick Bogarde) home. Matt, not knowing that Jenny is his birth mother, is charmed by her, and she becomes attached to Matt. Now it is time for Jenny to leave, and Matt is torn between his parents.


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Libel   1959     2 and a half stars    N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anthony Asquith  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Olivia de Havilland, Paul Massie, Robert Morley, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Anthony Dawson, Richard Wattis, Millicent Martin, Robert Shaw, Martin Miller

  When Sir Mark Loddon (Dirk Bogarde) tries to prove he is not an impostor, he goes to court and finds more difficulty than he originally bargained for.

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The Mind Benders   1963     2 and a half stars    N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Sci-Fi
Director: Basil Dearden  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, John Clements, Michael Bryant, Wendy Craig, Harold Goldblatt, Geoffrey Keen, Terry Palmer, Norman Bird, Roger Delgado

  After a scientist commits suicide, his friend and colleague, Henry (Dirk Bogarde), tries to convince authorities that the man had been brainwashed by a new technique intended to extract secret information. In order to convince doubters, Henry agrees to undergo the revolutionary brainwashing, which has bad consequences. Eerie, but interesting.


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Modesty Blaise   1966     1 and a half stars    N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Joseph Losey  
Cast: Monica Vitti, Terence Stamp, Dirk Bogarde, Harry Andrews, Michael Craig, Clive Revill, Alexander Knox, Rossella Falk, Scilla Gabel, Michael Chow

  British comic strip superagent Modesty Blaise comes to the screen with Monica Vitti in the title role. Modesty's task: watch over a diamond shipment. But archrival Gabriel (Dirk Bogarde), thought dead by Modesty, has plans for both her and the shipment. A lighthearted spy flick.


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The Night Porter   1974     1 star    R, 117 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
Director: Liliana Cavani  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling, Philippe Leroy, Gabriele Ferzetti, Giuseppe Addobbati, Nino Bignamini

  An accidental meeting at a hotel of an ex-Nazi concentration camp guard and the woman ex-prisoner he once sexually abused leads to an affair–and death. Sleazy.


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Providence   1977     3 stars    R, 104 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Alain Resnais  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, John Gielgud, Ellen Burstyn, David Warner, Elaine Stritch, Samson Fainsilber, Denis Lawson, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Milo Sperber, Anna Wing

  This fantasy, written inside the mind of a 78 year old, involves family members and is the dying Clive Langham's last effort.

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Quartet   1949     3 and a half stars    N/R, 120 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Smart, Harold French, Arthur Crabtree, Ken Annakin  
Cast: Basil Radford, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Susan Shaw, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker

  Four of W. Somerset Maugham's stories are presented in this film, with each being introduced by the author. The stories are: "The Facts of Life," "Alien Corn," "The Kite," and "The Colonel's Lady." All are excellent, and due to the success of this omnibus, three others were produced the following year in "Trio."

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The Serpent   1972     2 and a half stars    PG, 113 min.
Genre: Thriller
aka: Night Flight from Moscow
Le Serpent

Director: Henri Verneuil  
Cast: Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret, Virna Lisi, Farley Granger, Robert Alda, Marie Dubois, Michel Bouquet, Martin Held

  In this film adaptation of Pierre Nord's "Le 13e Suicide" a Russian diplomat (Yul Brynner) defects to the West–along with top-secret Soviet documents.


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The Servant   1963     3 stars    N/R, 112 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Losey  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sarah Miles, Wendy Craig, James Fox, Catherine Lacey, Richard Vernon, Patrick Magee, Harold Pinter, Ann Firbank, Doris Knox, Jill Melford, Alun Owen

  The roles of master and manservant are slowly reversed as a corrupt Hugo Barrett (Dick Bogarde) finds he can exploit his "master," the bachelor Tony (James Fox), in this study of morality in the world of class distinctions.


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The Sleeping Tiger   1954     2 and a half stars    N/R, 89 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joseph Losey  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Alexis Smith, Alexander Knox, Hugh Griffith, Patricia McCarron, Maxine Audley, Glyn Houston, Harry Towb, Russell Waters, Billie Whitelaw, Fred Griffiths, Esma Cannon

  Frank Clements (Dirk Bogarde) breaks into the home of criminal psychologist Dr. Clive Esmond (Alexander Knox) who, after catching him, offers to help Frank reform and give up his life of crime. The rehabilitation begins, but Clive's wife Glenda (Alexis Smith), who doesn't care for Frank at first, is finally seduced by him–and that is when Frank decides that he really wants to reform. But, Glenda has other ideas and convinces Frank to get into her car, which she drives off a cliff. Glenda is killed, but Frank manages to survive.



Cast
Dirk Bogarde Frank Clemmons
Alexis Smith Glenda Esmond
Alexander Knox Dr. Clive Esmond
Hugh Griffith Inspector Simmons
Patricia McCarron Sally
Maxine Audley Carol
Glyn Houston Bailey
Harry Towb Harry
Russell Waters Manager of Pearce & Mann
Billie Whitelaw Pearce & Mann Receptionist
Fred Griffiths Taxi Driver
Esma Cannon Scrubwoman

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So Long at the Fair   1950     3 stars    N/R, 86 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Antony Darnborough, Terence Fisher  
Cast: Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson, Marcel Poncin, Cathleen Nesbitt, Honor Blackman, Betty Warren, Zena Marshall, Felix Aylmer, Eugene Deckers

  Vicky (Jean Simmons) and Johnny (David Tomlinson) Barton arrive in Paris for the 1889 Exhibition, but Johnny suddenly disappears. Frantic, Vicky has trouble getting anyone to help–until she meets George Hathaway (Dirk Bogarde) who comes to the rescue and solves the mystery.

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Song Without End   1960     2 and a half stars    N/R, 141 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: George Cukor, Charles Vidor  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Capucine, Genevieve Page, Patricia Morison, Ivan Desny, Martita Hunt, Lou Jacobi, Albert Rueprecht, Marcel Dalio, Lyndon Brook

  This biography of Franz Liszt takes many liberties with the facts but is still a good film with an Academy Award-winning musical score. Womanizer Liszt (Dirk Bogarde) falls for a married Russian princess (Capucine) who encourages him to shift from performing to composing.

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A Tale of Two Cities   1958     2 and a half stars    N/R, 117 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ralph Thomas  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Dorothy Tutin, Cecil Parker, Stephen Murray, Athene Seyler, Ian Bannen, Alfie Bass, Ernest Clark, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence

  This film adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel stars Dirk Bogarde as Sydney Carton, the Englishman who adapts to determined Parisians' ideals during the French Revolution but,by story's end, gives his life for the woman he loves.

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They Who Dare   1954     2 stars    N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama / Action
Director: Lewis Milestone  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Denholm Elliott, Akim Tamiroff, Gerard Oury, Eric Pohlmann, Alec Mango, Kay Callard, William(2) Russell, Lisa Gastoni, Sam Kydd, David Peel, Michael Mellinger

  During World War II, six British commandos and four Greek soldiers land on the Greek isle of Rhodes with orders to blow up two Axis airfields. The Greek soldiers are there to help lead the way through the rugged terrain. But the island is crawling with enemy troops, and the mission will prove costly in human lives.



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Dirk Bogarde Lt. Graham
Denholm Elliott Sgt. Corcoran
Akim Tamiroff Capt. George One
Gerard Oury Capt. George Two
Eric Pohlmann Capt. Papadappoulos
Alec Mango Patroklis
Kay Callard Nightclub Singer
William(2) Russell Lt. Poole
Lisa Gastoni George Two's Girlfriend
Sam Kydd Marine Boyd
David Peel Sgt. Evans
Michael Mellinger Toplis
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Victim   1961     3 stars    N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Basil Dearden  
Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms, Dennis Price, Anthony Nicholls, Peter Copley, Norman Bird, Peter McEnery, Donald Churchill, Derren Nesbitt, John Barrie, John Cairney, Alan MacNaughtan

  Homosexuality was illegal in England in the 1960s, and this film is one of the first to influence the "opening up" of the discussion on the subject. Melville Farr (Dirk Bogarde) is a married lawyer who had demonstrated homosexual tendencies in the past and had a male lover. Being illegal, such people were often blackmailed, and Melville gets involved with the issue when he takes on the blackmailing in court.


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Movie Quick Pick
1. Accident (1967)
2. Appointment in London (1953)
3. A Bridge Too Far (1977)
4. Cast a Dark Shadow (1957)
5. Daddy Nostalgia (1990)
6. Damn the Defiant! (1962)
7. The Damned (1969)
8. Darling (1965)
9. Death in Venice (1971)
10. Doctor in the House (1954)
11. The Fixer (1968)
12. I Could Go on Singing (1963)
13. Libel (1959)
14. The Mind Benders (1963)
15. Modesty Blaise (1966)
16. The Night Porter (1974)
17. Providence (1977)
18. Quartet (1949)
19. The Serpent (1972)
   aka: Night Flight from Moscow
   aka: Le Serpent
20. The Servant (1963)
21. The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
22. So Long at the Fair (1950)
23. Song Without End (1960)
24. A Tale of Two Cities (1958)
25. They Who Dare (1954)
26. Victim (1961)


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