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The Winslow Boy (DVD)
Robert Donat, Margaret Leighton, Cedric Hardwicke, Basil Radford, Frank Lawton, …
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R169
Discovery Miles 1 690
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Anthony Asquith's film adapted from Terence Rattigan's play (by
himself) is based on real events that took place in 1912. When
young Ronnie Winslow (Neil North) is expelled from Naval College
after being accused of stealing a postal order, his banker-father
(Cedric Hardwicke) remains convinced of his innocence and risks
everything to press for a re-trial with the assistance of a
high-profile barrister (Robert Donat). By doing so the trial
becomes a cause celebre and the family's social standing becomes
precarious. The film drew wide acclaim for the quality of its
performances and was remade in 1999 by David Mamet.
The English composer William Alwyn was not only one of the most
versatile creative figures of his age, writing music for the
concert hall, recital room, operatic stage and film screen; he was
also a virtuoso instrumentalist and conductor, the teacher of some
of the most important composers of the succeeding generation, and
the founder of a number of influential music committees such as the
Composers' Guild of Great Britain. Alwyn was a gifted writer, too,
alive to literature and art - especially pre-Raphaelite painting,
on which he was an authority - as well as to music, and Composing
in Words presents his most important writings: the autobiographical
essay Winged Chariot; the diary, Ariel to Miranda, in which he
chronicled the composition of his Third Symphony; an extract from
Early Closing, Alwyn's reminiscences of his Northampton childhood;
and essays on film music, and on other composers, among them Elgar,
Bax and Puccini.
Collection of feature and short-length documentaries from British
filmmaker Humphrey Jennings. The films in this volume include 'The
Heart of Britain' (1941), 'Words for Battle' (1941), 'Listen to
Britain' (1942), 'Fires Were Started' (1943) and 'The Silent
Village' (1943).
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Manuela (DVD)
Pedro Armendáriz, Leslie Weston, Elsa Martinelli, Trevor Howard, Jack Macgowran, …
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R144
Discovery Miles 1 440
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Guy Hamilton directs this classic maritime drama starring Trevor
Howard and Elsa Martinelli. The film follows James Prothero
(Howard), the alcoholic skipper of a cargo ship, who begins a
relationship with a beautiful young woman (Martinelli) who has been
smuggled on board by one of his crew.
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Odd Man Out (Blu-ray disc)
James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Robert Beatty, …
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R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
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James Mason plays a hitman in this tense, atmospheric thriller from
the director of 'The Third Man'. Johnny (James Mason) is the
idealistic leader of an illegal organisation whi is on the run
after escaping from prison. An attempt to hold up a linen mill goes
wrong and Johnny is badly wounded. As the police hunt him down,
Johnny searches for Kathleen, the woman who loves him.
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Life For Ruth (DVD)
Michael Craig, Patrick McGoohan, Janet Munro, Paul Rogers, Malcolm Keen, …
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R144
Discovery Miles 1 440
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Morality thriller. When John Harris's (Michael Craig) daughter is
injured in a boating accident, only a blood transfusion will save
her. Unfortunately, this goes against his religious beliefs, and as
a result the child dies. Taken to court by local Dr. Brown (Patrick
McGoohan), Harris eventually wins the case, but at what cost.
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Odd Man Out (DVD)
James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan, Elwyn Brook-Jones, Robert Beatty, …
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R176
Discovery Miles 1 760
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James Mason plays a hitman in this tense, atmospheric thriller from
the director of 'The Third Man'. Johnny (James Mason) is the
idealistic leader of an illegal organisation whi is on the run
after escaping from prison. An attempt to hold up a linen mill goes
wrong and Johnny is badly wounded. As the police hunt him down,
Johnny searches for Kathleen, the woman who loves him.
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Malta Story (DVD)
Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Anthony Steel, Muriel Pavlow, Renee Asherson, …
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R126
Discovery Miles 1 260
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Wartime drama starring Alec Guiness as Peter Ross, an RAF
reconnaisance photographer assigned to trace and destroy an Italian
convoy threatening to invade Malta. As the Luftwaffe threatens,
Ross's romance with a local girl hangs in the balance.
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The Magnet (DVD)
Wylie Watson, Meredith Edwards, Michael Brooke Jr, Stephen Murray, Gladys Henson, …
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R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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Gentle Ealing comedy about childhood, guilt and half-truths
starring a young James Fox (then known by his real name, William
Fox) as Johnny Brent, a mischievous boy who tricks a younger boy
(Keith Robinson) into giving him his magnet in return for an
'invisible' clock. Having successfully obtained the magnet, Johnny
immediately starts to feel guilty about his swindling behaviour.
His guilt sparks a chain of misplaced assumptions that lead to a
search being mounted for the boy, who has run away after becoming
convinced that he is wanted for murder.
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The Ship That Died of Shame (DVD)
Richard Attenborough, George Baker, Bill Owen, Virginia McKenna, Roland Culver, …
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R233
Discovery Miles 2 330
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1950s British film drama based on the novel by Nicholas Monsarrat.
The crew of the Royal Navy's much-decorated Motor Gun Boat 1087
find the going much tougher following the end of the Second World
War. Now unemployed, the men buy their old ship back from a scrap
yard and use her to smuggle black market goods across the English
Channel. As the crew's fortunes prosper they become more daring,
but when they start carrying money and guns for London's criminal
gangs, the old 1087 herself sems to be protesting against their
activities. The mood on board becomes blacker still when a
convicted child murderer is given refuge on ship, setting off a
disastrous chain of events. Richard Attenborough, George Baker,
Bill Owen and Virginia McKenna co-star.
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The Rainbow Jacket (DVD)
Kay Walsh, Bill Owen, Edward Underdown, Fella Edmonds, Robert Morley, …
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R282
Discovery Miles 2 820
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Basil Dearden directs this Ealing Studios racing drama. Disgraced
jockey Sam (Bill Owen) has been banned from racing after taking a
bribe. Unwilling to leave the racing world behind, he takes on a
young protege, Georgie Crain (Fella Edmonds), and trains him up to
be the next champion. But as financial pressures loom, do Sam and
Georgie have what it takes to make it against all odds? Robert
Morley and Honor Blackman co-star.
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Night of the Eagle (DVD)
Margaret Johnston, Peter Wyngarde, Janet Blair, Anthony Nicholls, Reginald Beckwith, …
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R204
Discovery Miles 2 040
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University lecturer Norman Taylor earns the enmity of his
colleagues when it is rumoured that he has obtained a major
promotion. However, this is no ordinary professional jealousy;
someone is using the occult to try and ruin Norman's life. After
his own wife falls prey to the powers of darkness, Norman is forced
to do battle with demonic forces which bring him to the verge of
Hell itself.
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The History of Mr Polly (DVD)
John Mills, Sally Ann Howes, Finlay Currie, Betty Ann Davies; Contributions by William Alwyn; Directed by …
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R136
Discovery Miles 1 360
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John Mills stars as Alfred Polly, recently sacked from his job he
inherits money from his father, thus enabling him to take a bike
tour of the country. He falls in love but it all goes wrong so
Alfred ends up marrying his cousin, Miriam. They set up a draper's
shop in a small town. Miriam sours, they face bankruptcy and
boredom and Mr Polly comes to hate his life. In utter despair he
decides to commit suicide, but even this goes wrong and he is
forced to take to the road again.
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Madeleine (DVD)
Ann Todd, Norman Wooland, Ivan Desny, Leslie Banks, Elizabeth Sellars, …
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R55
Discovery Miles 550
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David Lean directs this film based on the true story of a Glasgow
woman accused of murdering her lover in 1857. Madeleine (Ann Todd)
is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian Glasgow family.
She begins an affair with Frenchman Piere Emile L'Anglier (Ivan
Desny) without her father's knowledge. Meanwhile, Madeleine's
father (Leslie Banks) insists on her seeing various suitors. When
Madeleine becomes engaged to William Minnoch (Norman Wooland),
Pierre threatens to reveal their relationship. Five weeks later,
Pierre is found dead, and Madeleine is arrested for his murder.
A collection of five Alastair Sim films. In 'The Green Man' (1956),
seemingly mild-mannered watchmaker Hawkins (Sim) is in fact a
skilled assassin. His latest target is leading politician Sir
Gregory Upshot (Raymond Huntley), who is due to stay the weekend at
the Green Man hotel. However, Hawkins' well-planned attempts to
remove Sir Gregory permanently from public life are frustrated by
well-meaning vacuum cleaner salesman William Blake (George Cole).
In 'Folly To Be Wise' (1952), Sim plays a new Entertainments
Officer at a local army camp who attempts to revitalise things by
getting rid of the lady violinists and trying to modernise
entertainments with chaotic results. In 'Geordie' (1955), Sim plays
a Scotsman who takes up a course in Physical Culture, and goes on
to become an Olympic hammer throwing champion. In 'Left, Right and
Centre' (1959), Robert Wilcot (Ian Carmichael) is the prospective
Tory candidate at the Earndale by-election. Travelling down to the
town from London, he strikes up a conversion with a pretty young
girl and the pair seem to hit it off. It's not until he's
photographed carrying her bags along the platform that he discovers
Stella (Patricia Bredin) is actually the town's socialist
candidate. In 'Laughter In Paradise' (1951), when it's time for the
reading of Henry Russell's will, his relatives gather in eager
anticipation of the wealth that could be theirs. But they are
surprised to discover that their inheritance is conditional upon
them each performing a certain humiliating task. Snobbish Agnes
(Fay Compton) must take work as skivvy, timid bank clerk Herbert
(George Cole) must become a bank robber, pillar-of-the-community
Deniston (Alistair Sim) must get sent to prison, and playboy Simon
(Guy Middleton) must get married. Will the lure of money be enough
to get these characters to go against type? Of course it will.
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Geordie (DVD)
Bill Travers, Alastair Sim, Norah Gorsen, Raymond Huntley, Brian Reece, …
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R233
Discovery Miles 2 330
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1950s comedy drama starring Bill Travers. Not content with being so
small and slight in stature anymore, young Scots lad Geordie
(Travers) sends away for a home body building kit in an effort to
bulk himself up. As the months progress, Geordie becomes a muscley,
toned athlete with a particular aptitude for hammer throwing. As he
becomes a national champion, he finds himself being selected to
represent the UK in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, Australia.
Four films based on the literary works of Graham Greene. In 'The
Third Man' (1949), writer Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) arrives in
war-torn Vienna to take up a job with his friend Harry Lime (Orson
Welles). He is informed that Lime died a week previously in a car
accident, but upon investigating further discovers that the
circumstances of Lime's death are shrouded in confusion. Martins
begins to wonder just how well he knew his old friend after the
head of local military police, Major Calloway (Trevor Howard),
convinces him that Lime was in fact a black market drug racketeer
responsible for many deaths. In 'Brighton Rock' (1947), 16-year-old
gangster Pinkie Brown (Richard Attenborough) uses young waitress
Rose Brown (Carol Marsh) as an alibi after commiting a murder at
the race track. Worried that she will give him away, Pinkie marries
Rose. However, his subsequent attempts to drive her to the point of
suicide do not go according to plan. 'The Heart of the Matter'
(1953) stars Trevor Howard as Scobie, an assistant police
commissioner posted in Sierra Leone in World War 2. Exploring
familiar Greene themes such as religion and work politics, the film
co-stars Elizabeth Allan and Maria Schell as the wronged wife and
the hard-done-by mistress. 'The Fallen Idol' (1948) is an
award-winning adaptation of Greene's short story 'The Basement
Room', and is told primarily from a child's perspective. Philippe
(Bobby Henrey) is the young son of a diplomat who idolises Baines
(Ralph Richardson), his father's butler. When Baines' wife is found
murdered and Baines is implicated, Philippe does everything he can
to point the investigation away from the butler. In doing so he
makes matters worse - and also discovers that his hero is not the
man he thought he was.
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A Night to Remember (DVD)
Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Michael Goodliffe, David McCallum, George Rose, …
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R124
Discovery Miles 1 240
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Classic documentary drama based on Walter Lord's book about the
sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Told from the perspective of Second
Officer Charles Lightoller (Kenneth More), the story follows the
supposedly 'unsinkable' ship as she embarks on her maiden voyage
and ultimately founders in the North Atlantic Ocean. The ship
leaves port and soon Captain Smith (Laurence Naismith) is given
several ice warnings but decides not to decrease the Titanic's
speed. When the ship hits an iceberg late at night on April 14th
the situation looks bleak, especially with the realisation that
there are not enough lifeboats to carry all on board. The Titanic's
distress call is received by the Carpathia but she is four hours
away and unlikely to reach the ship before it sinks. Chaos breaks
out both above and below deck as the passengers and crew race
against time for their survival.
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The Rake's Progress (DVD)
Rex Harrison, Lilli Palmer, Godfrey Tearle, Griffith Jones, Margaret Johnston, …
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R125
Discovery Miles 1 250
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Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer star in this 1940s drama directed by
Sidney Gilliat. When young aristocrat Vivian Kenway (Harrison)
fails in his studies at Oxford, he decides to use the talents he
has - namely, his irresistible charm - to create a new career
centred around decadence and promiscuity. When World War II breaks
out Vivian is given a chance to create a lasting name for himself.
Will he take it?
Collection of ten classic films from the award-winning British
director. In 'The Sound Barrier' (1952), Ralph Richardson stars as
an aircraft manufacturer whose all-consuming passion with making
the ultimate supersonic jet kills both his son and son-in-law and
almost destroys him and the rest of his family. In 'Hobson's
Choice' (1953), Lancashire bootmaker Henry Horatio Hobson (Charles
Laughton) keeps a tight rein on his three daughters until his
eldest, Maggie (Brenda De Banzie), marries his assistant, Willie
Mossop (John Mills), and sets him up in his own bootmaking firm. To
Hobson's consternation, Willie has soon become his father-in-law's
main business rival. In 'Blithe Spirit' (1945), cynical writer,
Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison), asks a medium (Margaret
Rutherford) to hold a seance in his house so he can collect
material for his latest book. No one is more surprised than the
medium when she inadvertently conjures up the ghost of Condomine's
first wife (Kay Hammond). The ghost refuses to go away, preferring
to taunt her less sophisticated replacement (Constance Cummings).
In 'Brief Encounter' (1945), a respectable, happily married doctor
(Trevor Howard) comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife
(Celia Johnson) when a passing train blows cinder into her eye.
Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and
railway cafe of a small English town. In 'Great Expectations'
(1946), orphan, Pip (Anthony Wager), befriends an escaped convict
before being elevated to higher circles as the companion of Miss
Havisham and her niece, Estella (Jean Simmons), with whom the boy
quickly falls in love. When the adult Pip (Mills) discovers a
mysterious benefactor has paved the way for him to become a
gentleman, he assumes Miss Havisham is responsible. In 'Oliver
Twist' (1948), Oliver (John Howard Davis) is a young orphan boy who
is expelled from the workhouse run by Mr Bumbel (Francis L.
Sullivan). After becoming an apprentice to an undertaker, Oliver
decides to run away to London, only to meet the Artful Dodger
(Anthony Newley) and fall amongst his gang of thieves, led by the
scheming Fagin (Alec Guinness). In 'Madeleine' (1949), Madeleine
(Ann Todd) is the eldest daughter in a respectable Victorian
Glasgow family. She begins an affair with Frenchman, Emile
L'Anglier (Ivan Desny), without her father's knowledge. Meanwhile,
Madeleine's father insists on her seeing various suitors. When
Madeleine becomes engaged to William Minnoch (Norman Wooland),
Emile threatens to reveal their relationship. 'The Passionate
Friends' (1944) is an episodic tale of an average working class
family in the interwar years. The story traces the melodrama caused
by illicit affairs, family bereavement, the first ripples of
women's liberation and political instability in the country during
the General Strike. It highlights the fact that these internal
wranglings are all happening in one house in an average street, and
that each average house has its own dramatic stories to tell.
Finally, 'In Which We Serve' (1942) is a World War II drama about a
destroyer, told through flashbacks and the reminiscences of the
surviving crew after their beloved ship is torpedoed.
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The Rocking Horse Winner (DVD)
Valerie Hobson, John Mills, John Howard-Davies, Ronald Squire, Cyril Smith, …
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R125
Discovery Miles 1 250
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Anthony Pelissier writes and directs this dark fantasy drama based
on a short story by D.H. Lawrence. An adolescent boy, Paul (John
Howard Davies), lives with his upper class family in London. His
mother, Hester (Valerie Hobson), is a compulsive shopper,
continually spending far beyond the family's means, while his
father, Richard (Hugh Sinclair), is a gambler who eventually loses
his job as a result of his bad habits. As his family fast
approaches bankruptcy, Paul befriends handyman Bassett (John Mills)
and discovers that he can magically predict the winner of horse
races by riding his rocking horse. The money is soon rolling in,
but Paul realises too late that it comes at a fatally high price.
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