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1.Battle Of Britain [1969] starring: Harry Andrews, Michael Caine, Trevor Howard, Curd Jürgens, Ian McShane directed by: Guy Hamilton September 10, 2001
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This is one of my all time favourite films. I remember eagerly waiting for it (its making was well trailed beforehand) and seeing it in its debut run at the Dominion in London - complete with commemorative booklet. I saw it several more times when it came out on general release so you will appreciate that it is a film that I love and can watch over and over again. However, it is a story and not a documentary as some reviewers have implied. It is one view of events and gives a taste of some of the ground level conflicts and difficulties. It would have taken a mini-series to do history full justice. Several reviewers have commented that some of the planes are not authentic and while that is true, they are lot more authentic than ... Read More:

2.White Mischief [1987] starring: Greta Scacchi, Charles Dance, Joss Ackland, Sarah Miles, Geraldine Chaplin directed by: Michael Radford August 10, 1992
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Having known a lady who was in Kenya from 1943 (3 years after the events on which this film is based) and having an English wife born in British East Africa a dozen years later, White Mischief was of huge interest to me quite apart from its intrinsic merit. Jock Delves-Broughton (Joss Ackland) is in financial trouble and has left 1940 England with creditors pressing (not surprising: he spent up to £120,000 annually, equivalent to perhaps £5 million or even £10 million today!). He buys a place near Nairobi and settles with his much younger and very beautiful (especially but not only when unclothed) wife Diana (Greta Scacchi). She has been "bought" by him in return for an allowance of £80,000 annually, for 7 years. She, however, falls ... Read More:

3.The Third Man [1949] starring: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Trevor Howard, Wilfrid Hyde White, Alida Valli directed by: Carol Reed November 08, 1999
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Everything about this movie works. If anyone wants to see how a movie should be directed and edited, or a screenplay written, or complex characters acted, or a film photographed, this is the one to flip in the DVD machine. Holly Martins, a down-on-his-luck writer, shows up in post-war Vienna looking for his old friend, Harry Lime. But he's told Lime died in an accident, the military tell him to go home, and he's attracted to a mysterious woman he sees at Lime's grave. He sticks around, gets different stories about Lime, but finally understands Lime was an unscrupulous black marketeer, dealing in adulterated drugs among other things. And he realizes that Lime is alive. Carol Reed was at the top of his form with this movie. His partnership ... Read More:

4.The Charge Of The Light Brigade [1968] starring: Trevor Howard, Vanessa Redgrave, John Gielgud, Harry Andrews, Jill Bennett directed by: Tony Richardson September 12, 1994
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Even in its abused, neglected state (hence the four-star rating instead of five) Richardson's "Charge of the Light Brigade" is still a fantastic piece of cinema and a sadly overlooked classic in the same league as the wonderful "Oh, What a Lovely War". At a time when most modern young British directors regularly churn out terrible mockney gangster flicks, wet rom-coms or stagnant period dross it seems such a shame that this bold example of British cinema should suffer such a fate. Sir David Puttnam even recently stated how extremely angry he was that Light Brigade remains completely ignored as the quality piece of cinematic art that it obviously is. Richardson himself had planned this film as his masterpiece but became so disillusioned with the reaction ... Read More:

5.Aces High [1976] starring: Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Plummer, Simon Ward, Peter Firth, David Wood directed by: Jack Gold March 18, 1996
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Based on R.C Sherriff's play 'Journey's end', Aces High is a gripping introduction for anyone wanting an insight into air combat during the First World war. A young Colin Firth is wonderful as the fledgling hero 'Croft' and McDowell proves once again that he is one of the U.K's most underrated actors. Christopher Plummer gives another highly polished performance. As in Journey's end the idealistic youngster joins the unit commanded by a man well known to him and his family, his sister's fiancee, who is now a decorated and experienced fighter. The youngster's idealism fades however as he realizes that in spite of his friend's success in the war, Greasham is close to breaking point. The movie shows very well how young pilots with insufficient training, no parachutes ... Read More:

6.Sir Henry At Rawlinson End [1980] starring: Trevor Howard, Patrick Magee, Denise Coffey, J.G. Devlin, Harry Fowler directed by: Steve Roberts February 22, 1993
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Great fun for a small part of a very exclusive family to enjoy ecstatically. A test of how surreal a film can be, making Salvador Dali's/Luis Bunuel's 'Un Chien Andalou'look as self explanatory as a Disney film. I'd recommend it to anybody, especially my psychiatrist. Portraying a variety of hateable characters in a loveable way, this film never fails to show Vivian Stanshall's true genius. That of Sir Henry. Definitely give it a go. Don't expect to understand the plot, though.

7.Father Goose [1964] starring: Cary Grant, Leslie Caron, Trevor Howard, Jack Good (II), Sharyl Locke directed by: Ralph Nelson January 13, 1997
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Well, this and Robin Hood with Errol Flynn. An excellent film, and a must see for anyone who has a single funny bone in their body. One of Grants best performances in my opinion, shows so many good aspects of his amazing acting abilities, although not nearly in the same league as north by north west..... a definite must see

8.Farewell My Lovely [1944] starring: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley, Otto Kruger, Mike Mazurki directed by: Edward Dmytryk August 10, 1998
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This one of my favorite movies. Years ago I rented a VHS of it and made a dupe at home. The quality was lousy but I liked it and played it often, but I learned my lession about making unauthorized copies. My daughter's puppy urinated all over the tape. This movie is so good it even survived that. This is classic noir, with Phillip Marlowe. The plot is about stolen jade, hidden identities, blackmail, love, treachery and murder. The story is complicated, the casting is great, the photography and voice-over narration carry things along. It has style. The ending is satisfying. And the dialogue is some of the best ever written. Powell broke through into serious roles with this film. Even in all the singing roles he had up to this movie he exuded cocky confidence, ... Read More:

9.Brief Encounter [1945] starring: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond directed by: David Lean January 29, 2001
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. . . and I didn't. Yes, I know, it gets all the plaudits, and continually features in favourite film lists, but my wife and I found it exceedingly tedious, and the acting both over-the-top and wooden (if you can combine the two). By OTT, I mean gushing and melodramatic. By wooden, I mean unconvincing and uninspired. We squirmed. The story is slight, but I know that's not the point. But, when it is so slight, you need everything else in place and for me - who has admired Trevor Howard in any things - it just didn't hang together. Sorry to be so frightfully stuffy, and all that, but it's an absolute stinker of a film.

10.Von Ryan's Express [1965] starring: Frank Sinatra, Trevor Howard, Raffaella Carrà, Brad Dexter, Sergio Fantoni directed by: Mark Robson April 27, 1998
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Von Ryan's Express belongs to the dying days of WW2-as-Boys-Own-adventure movies, where, for all the cynical window-dressing, the good guys can always outwit overwhelming numbers of Nazis and death is still heroic. It's also much more entertaining than it has any right to be as Frank Sinatra's unpopular new senior officer leads several hundred prisoners of war to freedom by hijacking a Nazi train and conning his way through Italy to Switzerland while Trevor Howard's old school British officer snipes at his bad form all the way and Edward Mulhare's loveable padre impersonates a German officer to get them past the checkpoints. Yep, it's The Great Escape meets The Train, with Great Escaper John Leyton along for the ride just in case anyone misses the connection. As big, not quite as dumb as it ... Read More:

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