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1.The Blue Lamp [1950] starring: Jack Warner, Jimmy Hanley, Dirk Bogarde, Robert Flemyng, Bernard Lee directed by: Basil Dearden July 03, 2000
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This film was the acorn from which sprang the oak of Dixon of Dock Green, the longrunning TV series featuring Sergeant Dixon, amiably wise local uniformed policeman, who always started and ended each episode with a homespun homily. My grandmother never missed. In the film, Dirk Bogarde's young gangster shoots dead the then Police Constable Dixon and is pursued relentlessly but with almost amusing gentility by the Metropolitan Police, who, naturally, capture him in the end. The film is skilfully made and the raffish atmosphere of postwar London brilliantly shown. Ground and aerial shots of the main areas used (Little Venice, Maida Vale, Paddington, North Kensington) are of interest not only to the film buff but to social and architectural historians. ... Read More:

2.The Guinea Pig [1948] starring: Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Flemyng directed by: Roy Boulting March 19, 2001
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Made in 1948, this film illustrates well the preoccupation with class and the re-ordering of a better society that exercised the Post-War years. It is hard not to smile at the cut-glass accents and the failure even of that sterling West-Country boy Bernard Miles, who plays the young Attenbrough's father, to produce a plausible working-class accent. But there hangs over the film the sadness of those who died in battle and determination, even amongst the dinosaurs, to honour them by building a better tomorrow. The film charts the conversion of an idealistic but hidebound housemaster to a view of the world that accepts that the new role of the ruling class is to play midwife to a new order in which the doors of opportunity (and social advancement - aye, ... Read More:

3.Audrey Hepburn Collection - Special Edition Box Set [1953] starring: Audrey Hepburn, Robert Flemyng, Humphrey Bogart, William Holden, John Williams directed by: Blake Edwards, William Wyler, Stanley Donen, Billy Wilder, Richard Quine November 06, 2000
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I was given this last Christmas and enjoyed it immensely - not only was it great over the dragging holiday period where the dang shops are shut and there is nothing of any worth on TV - but during the year I came back to this collection of some of Audrey Hepburn's best films (maybe excluding Paris When It Sizzles) and found that there is a film in this box for every mood. Roman Holiday for when you are feeling in love (but alone), Breakfast At Tiffany's for when you have a sinfully big box of chocolates you just must get through, Funny Face for when you want a smile to extend from cheek to cheek, Sabrina Fair for one of those happily retrospective nostalgia days, and Paris When it Sizzles for when it's raining and dull outside and you need a little reminder ... Read More:

4.Shadowlands [1993] starring: Julian Fellowes, Roddy Maude-Roxby, Michael Denison, Andrew Seear, Tim McMullan directed by: Richard Attenborough April 03, 2000
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"I seem to play men who are sort of imprisoned in themselves," Anthony Hopkins comments in an interview included on this movie's DVD. And although this adequately characterizes a mere fraction of his work, roles like that of butler Stevens in Merchant/Ivory's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's "Remains of the Day," Henry Wilcox in E.M. Forster's "Howards End" (also by Merchant/Ivory) and even Thomas Harris's Hannibal Lecter, illustrate Hopkins's minimalist approach to acting, which makes him so uniquely qualified to play emotionally restrained men, locked up behind the walls erected by convention, trauma or madness. Thus, while bearing little physical resemblance to the real C.S. Lewis, atheist-turned-Christian scholar and bestselling author of the famous "Narnia Chronicles," ... Read More:

5.The Thirty Nine Steps [1978] starring: Robert Powell, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, David Warner directed by: Don Sharp April 16, 2001
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This is probably the best version of Buchan's classic spy novel. Hitchcock's 1935 version (with Robert Donat) is now rather dated - this version captures the period well and the action is well-paced. Robert Powell is good in the role of Richard Hannay (and went on to make a series 'Hannay' which is now available on DVD in a boxed set). The film has a strong cast, including John Mills, David Warner and Eric Porter.

6.Battle of Britain/633 Squadron [1969] starring: Laurence Olivier, Curt Jurgens, Michael Redgrave, Nigel Patrick, Robert Flemyng directed by: Guy Hamilton, Walter Grauman July 19, 1993
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This is probably the best version of Buchan's classic spy novel. Hitchcock's 1935 version (with Robert Donat) is now rather dated - this version captures the period well and the action is well-paced. Robert Powell is good in the role of Richard Hannay (and went on to make a series 'Hannay' which is now available on DVD in a boxed set). The film has a strong cast, including John Mills, David Warner and Eric Porter.

7.The Medusa Touch [1977] starring: Richard Burton, Lino Ventura, Lee Remick, Harry Andrews, Alan Badel directed by: Jack Gold February 28, 2000
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Burton at his mean & moody best, he portrays the main character with such a sense of desperation, the final scenes leave us wondering who he in fact really is, a man, or a demon from hell itself, with the power to destroy at will, Brilliant, gripping, a real classic.

8.The Holly And The Ivy [1952] starring: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton, Denholm Elliott, Hugh Williams directed by: George More O'Ferrall November 18, 2002
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This quiet, unassuming film features a group of the best British actorsand actresses of the post-Second World War period. Celia Johnson alwaysgives an outstanding performance as Jenny, and her stay-at-home daughterrole with an overbearing minister father (Ralph Richardson) is neat,spare, and as effective as Julianne Moore as Laura Brown in the recent TheHours. Margaret Leighton, a marvellous actress who glows in every role sheplays, is Celia Johnson's sister who has been estranged from the familyfor a few years and reappears at this fraught Christmas, and reveals,after a tense reunion with Jenny the real reason for her absence, whichbrings the sisters together again. Their relationship also symbolises therebuilding of families in the recovery years, after the Second World Warhad changed ... Read More:

9.Funny Face [1956] starring: Audrey Hepburn, Fred Astaire, Kay Thompson, Michel Auclair, Robert Flemyng directed by: Stanley Donen March 11, 1996
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A real feel good film with a superb soundtrack by the Gershwin brothers. Unfortunately a cliched ending but does this really matter? See below for comments about "unrealism" and "hidden meanings" but lets "face" it its a fictional work.

10.The Four Feathers [1977] starring: Beau Bridges, Robert Powell, Simon Ward, Jane Seymour, Harry Andrews directed by: Don Sharp April 08, 2002
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This film has been the first colonial war film which I've seen, where British soldiers are seen wearing khaki. Although this film is not as good as such films as Zulu, it has some great fighting sceans, and is a great picture to watch on a Sunday afternoon!

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