Cast a Dark Shadow 1957  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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Conspirator 1949  N/R, 87 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Victor Saville
Cast: Robert Taylor, Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Flemyng, Harold Warrender, Honor Blackman, Helen Haye, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Marjorie Fielding, Thora Hird, Karel Stepanek
This early Cold War story is about Major Michael Currah (Robert Taylor) who is caught selling information to Communists. His American wife, Melinda (Elizabeth Taylor), must deal with events as they close in around her.
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The Deadly Affair 1967 N/R, 109 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Sidney Lumet
Cast: James Mason, Simone Signoret, Maximilian Schell, Harriet Andersson, Harry Andrews, Kenneth Haigh, Lynn Redgrave, Robert Flemyng, William Dysart, Roy Kinnear
Based on John Le Carre's spy novel, "Call for the Dead," this exciting espionage thriller involves the investigation of the apparent suicide of diplomat Samuel Fennan (Robert Flemyng).
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Edward the King 1975 TV, 520 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: John Gorrie
Cast: Timothy West, Annette Crosbie, Helen Ryan, Robert Hardy, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Robert Flemyng, Jane Lapotaire, Charles Sturridge, Michael Hordern, Simon Gipps-Kent, Charles Dance
This made-for-TV British miniseries covers the life of Queen Victoria's and Prince Albert's eldest son, "Bertie," who ascended to the throne as King Edward VIII. The biography involves the time span from his birth in 1840 until his death in 1910.
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 Funny Face 1957 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Musical
Director: Stanley Donen
Cast: Fred Astaire, Audrey Hepburn, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Suzy Parker, Robert Flemyng, Ruta Lee, Iphigenie Castiglioni, Jean Del Val, Alex Gerry, Dovima, Virginia Gibson, Sue England, Paul Smith
Fashion photographer Dick Avery (Fred Astaire) uses a bookstore to shoot a layout and is fascinated with hapless clerk Jo Stockton (Audrey Hepburn) who has been left with the cleanup after models and photographer have left. Not to worry, Jo is rescued by Dick who takes her to Paris and turns her into a glamorous fashion model. All this, and a love story to boot, makes a good movie.
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock 1962  N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Foreign / Horror
Director: Riccardo Freda
Cast: Robert Flemyng, Barbara Steele, Maria Teresa Vianello, Harriet Medin, Silvano Tranquilli, Neil Robinson, Howard Nelson Rubien, Spencer Williams, Evar Simpson, Al Christianson
Necropheliac Dr. Hichcock enjoys playing sexual "funeral games" with his drugged wife. But, a mistaken overdose kills her. Years later he remarries and brings his new wife to his old house–plotting to restore his rotted first wife with the blood from wife number two. There is a sequel: "The Ghost."
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Kafka 1991  PG-13, 98 min.
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbe, Alec Guinness, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian Glover, Robert Flemyng, Keith Allen
Blending material from Kafka's work, this story relates the investigation by Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) into the mysterious disappearance of his friend in Prague during 1919.
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The Man Who Never Was 1956 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Ronald Neame
Cast: Clifton Webb, Gloria Grahame, Robert Flemyng, Josephine Griffin, Stephen Boyd, Andre Morell, Laurence Naismith, Geoffrey Keen, Moultrie Kelsall, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern, Allan Cuthbertson
Based on Ewen Montague's book, this is the story of how the Allies diverted attention from the planned assault on Sicily through deceptive letters that discussed a fake invasion of Greece.
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Mystery Submarine 1963  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Adventure
aka: Decoy
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Cast: Edward Judd, James Robertson Justice, Laurence Payne, Joachim Fuchsberger, Albert Lieven, Arthur O'Sullivan, Robert Flemyng, Richard Carpenter, Robert Brown, Jeremy Hawk
The best part of this film is the good archival submarine shots. While the plot has potential, the story plods along as British sailors capture a Nazi U-boat, man it, and infiltrate a U-boat wolfpack. After discovery, they get away, but the sub is damaged in the process.
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The Quiller Memorandum 1966 N/R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Anderson
Cast: George Segal, Alec Guinness, Max von Sydow, Senta Berger, George Sanders, Robert Helpmann, Robert Flemyng, Peter Carsten, Gunter Meisner, Edith Schneider
Set in early 1960s' West Berlin, British agent Quiller (George Segal) infiltrates a neo-Nazi organization and comes close to losing his life.
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Shadowlands 1993 PG, 130 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger, Edward Hardwicke, John Wood, Robert Flemyng, Michael Denison, Joseph Mazzello, Gerald Sim, Peter Firth, Julian Firth
Anthony Hopkins plays real-life scholar C.S. Lewis, and Debra Winger takes on the role of poet Joy Gresham as they begin their relationship through letters to each other. They fall in love, marry, and live happily until Joy's untimely death. Debra Winger was nominated for an Oscar. This film is an adaptation of the TV film of 1985.
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The Thirty-Nine Steps 1978 PG, 102 min.
Genre: Action
Director: Don Sharp
Cast: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Andrew Keir, Robert Flemyng, Timothy West
In this, the second remake (Alfred Hitchcock made the classic version), Richard Hannay (Robert Powell) and Appleton (David Warner) evade espionage agents during World War I.
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A Touch of Larceny 1959 N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Guy Hamilton
Cast: James Mason, Vera Miles, George Sanders, Harry Andrews, Robert Flemyng, Oliver Johnston, Peter Barkworth, Duncan Lamont, Martin Stephens, William Kendall, Rachel Gurney, Waveney Lee, Charles Carson, Junia Crawford, Henry B. Longhurst
A British naval officer, Commander Max Easton (James Mason), needs money to impress his friend Sir Charles Holland's (George Sanders) fiancee, wealthy American Virginia Killain (Vera Miles). Easton comes up with a scheme to sue the newspapers for libel after he causes his own arrest for supposed espionage. He makes it look like he is a traitor and then maroons himself on an island. After being rescued, he convinces the Special Branch that he is innocent and then visits Virginia. Will she be impressed?
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Travels with My Aunt 1972  PG, 109 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: George Cukor
Cast: Maggie Smith, Alec McCowen, Louis Gossett Jr., Robert Stephens, Cindy Williams, Robert Flemyng, Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez, Raymond Gerome, Daniel Emilfork, John Hamill
At his mother's funeral, a boring banker, Henry (Alec McCowen), meets an older woman (Maggie Smith) who claims to be his aunt. Before long, she has Henry in tow on a madcap adventure through Europe as she attempts to rescue one of her lovers who is being held for a ransom. Based on a Graham Greene bestseller, the film received an Oscar for Costumes and had several nominations, including Maggie Smith for Best Actress. 1 User Review
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| | Wonderful! | Anonymous 08/18/2007 | | Total hillarity and escape! You will love it! Not for kids, however. |
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Young Winston 1972 PG, 145 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Richard Attenborough
Cast: Simon Ward, Anne Bancroft, Robert Shaw, John Mills, Anthony Hopkins, Jack Hawkins, Patrick Magee, Ian Holm, Robert Flemyng, Jane Seymour
Based on Winston Churchill's autobiography, this film remains true to the author's version of his "My Early Life." Overall good production and acting, with Simon Ward as the young Winston.
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| 1. Cast a Dark Shadow (1957)
2. Conspirator (1949)
3. The Deadly Affair (1967)
4. Edward the King (1975)
5. The Four Feathers (1977)
6. Funny Face (1957)
7. The Horrible Dr. Hichcock (1962)
8. Kafka (1991)
9. The Man Who Never Was (1956)
10. Mystery Submarine (1963)
aka: Decoy
11. The Quiller Memorandum (1966)
12. Shadowlands (1993)
13. The Thirty-Nine Steps (1978)
14. A Touch of Larceny (1959)
15. Travels with My Aunt (1972)
16. Young Winston (1972)
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