David Copperfield 1970  TV, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Delbert Mann
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Cyril Cusack, Edith Evans, Pamela Franklin, Wendy Hiller, Laurence Olivier, Michael Redgrave, Robin Phillips, Ralph Richardson, Emlyn Williams
Based on Charles Dickens' story, Robin Phillips stars in the title role of a poor boy who grew up to be a successful man in London society.
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The Deep Blue Sea 1955 N/R, 100 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Anatole Litvak
Cast: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Moira Lister, Arthur Hill, Alec McCowen, Dandy Nichols, Gibb McLaughlin, Jimmy Hanley
In a desperate attempt to find happiness, wealthy Hester (Vivien Leigh) embarks in a love affair with Freddie Page (Kenneth More), which eventually leads to even more unhappiness.
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Evensong 1934   N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Evelyn Laye, Fritz Kortner, Emlyn Williams, Alec Guinness, Carl Esmond, Alice Delysia, Muriel Aked, Arthur Sinclair
An opera diva (Evelyn Laye) forsakes love for her career and tragically dies of a broken heart when her career ends. A young Alec Guinness makes his screen debut as a soldier in the audience at a concert. 1 User Review
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| | geoff 03/10/2007 | The cast list omits one imporant star - Conchita Supervia - a glorious Spanish mezzo soprano who died much too young, a couple of years after this film was made. This is the only film footage of her.
This film is based on a novel by Beverley Nicholls which is a thinly disguised portrait of Dame Nellie Melba. Supervia plays a young up-and-coming singer who exlipses the ageing prima donna. In real life Supervia was ten years older than Laye but the make-up was very effective. |
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Eye of the Devil 1967  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: J. Lee Thompson
Cast: Deborah Kerr, David Niven, Donald Pleasence, Edward Mulhare, Flora Robson, Emlyn Williams, Sharon Tate, David Hemmings, John Le Mesurier, Michael Miller
Set in a French castle, the plot involves the effects of black magic on Philippe de Montfaucon (David Niven), his wife Catherine (Deborah Kerr), and their children when they leave London for the "safety" of their French vineyard.
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Hatter's Castle 1942 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Lance Comfort
Cast: Deborah Kerr, James Mason, Robert Newton, Emlyn Williams, Beatrice Varley, Henry Oscar, Ian Fleming, George Merritt, Brefni O'Rorke, Laurence Hanray
Based on A.J. Cronin's novel, this is the story of a poor man who tries to expand his horizons and gain social acceptance in the rigid British class system.
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 Ivanhoe 1952 N/R, 106 min.
Genre: Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
aka: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
Director: Richard Thorpe
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Emlyn Williams, Robert Douglas, Finlay Currie, Felix Aylmer, Sebastian Cabot, Francis De Wolff, Norman Wooland, Basil Sydney, Harold Warrender, Patrick Holt, Guy Rolfe
Ivanhoe (Robert Taylor) is a knight whose quest is to save King Richard the Lionhearted (Norman Wooland) who has been captured during his return home from the Crusades. King Richard is imprisoned in Austria, and Ivanhoe plans to enter a tournament to raise ransom money to rescue him when Ivanhoe's evil brother Prince John (Guy Rolfe) refuses to pay for Richard's release. The lovely Rebecca (Elizabeth Taylor) pays Ivanhoe's entry fee for the tournament because Ivanhoe had rescued her Jewish father Isaac (Felix Aylmer) from the anti-Semites. But, Prince John's cohort De Bois-Guilbert (George Sanders) wants Rebecca for himself and kidnaps her. Action and chivalry abound, and, by story's end, good overtakes evil.
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Jamaica Inn 1939 N/R, 99 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Cast: Charles Laughton, Leslie Banks, Emlyn Williams, Robert Newton, Maureen O'Hara, Horace Hodges, Hay Petrie, Frederick Piper, Mervyn Johns, Wylie Watson
Sir Humphrey Pengalian (Charles Laughton) is a smuggler in Victorian England, and problems arise when Mary (Maureen O'Hara) discovers that her relatives are involved in shipwrecks.
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The L-Shaped Room 1963 N/R, 124 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Bryan Forbes
Cast: Leslie Caron, Tom Bell, Brock Peters, Cicely Courtneidge, Avis Bunnage, Emlyn Williams, Patricia Phoenix, Harry Locke, Bernard Lee, Kay Walsh, Anthony Booth, Avis Bunnage
Leslie Caron deftly portrays a single, French woman, June, who is pregnant–but not alone. Living in a London boarding house, she intermingles with the other residents as she tries to make sense out of her predicament. Caron received an Oscar nomination.
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Major Barbara 1941  N/R, 121 min.
Genre: Comedy / Romance
Director: Gabriel Pascal
Cast: Wendy Hiller, Rex Harrison, Robert Morley, Robert Newton, Deborah Kerr, Stanley Holloway, Emlyn Williams, Sybil Thorndike, Torin Thatcher, Miles Malleson, Marie Lohr, Penelope Dudley-Ward, Walter Hudd, David Tree, Donald Calthrop
This film rendition of the intuitive play by George Bernard Shaw features Salvation Army officer Major Barbara (Wendy Hiller) as the young woman who rebels against her wealthy upbringing and opts to help those less fortunate. Love enters the picture in the person of an intellectual (Rex Harrison).
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Three Husbands 1951 N/R, 79 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Letter to Three Husbands
Director: Irving Reis
Cast: Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown, Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Kames, Emlyn Williams, Billie Burke, Louise Erickson, Jonathan Hale, Jane Darwell, Benson Fong, Frank Cady, Dorothea Wolbert
When playboy Maxwell Bard (Emlyn Williams) arrives in Heaven, he is granted one last wish. His request is to watch from above the reactions of his three poker playing pals (Howard Da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, and Robert Kames) after they read the letters he left for them when he died. The letters tell about his affairs with each of their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, and Vanessa Brown), and the letters result in amusing reactions from the husbands.
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The Wreck of the Mary Deare 1959 N/R, 105 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: Gary Cooper, Charlton Heston, Michael Redgrave, Emlyn Williams, Cecil Parker, Alexander Knox, Virginia McKenna, Richard Harris, Ben Wright, Peter Illing
A salvage-boat captain, John Sands (Charlton Heston), testifies in the trial of Captain Gideon Patch (Gary Cooper) whose name is then cleared in the sinking of his ship, the Mary Deare.
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| 1. Another Man's Poison (1951)
2. David Copperfield (1970)
3. The Deep Blue Sea (1955)
4. Evensong (1934)
5. Eye of the Devil (1967)
6. Hatter's Castle (1942)
7. Ivanhoe (1952)
aka: Sir Walter Scott's Ivanhoe
8. Jamaica Inn (1939)
9. The L-Shaped Room (1963)
10. Major Barbara (1941)
11. Three Husbands (1951)
aka: Letter to Three Husbands
12. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
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