 |
|||
 |
Empty
|
 |
 |
 |
|||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||
|
|
Kenneth More Collection
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
Our DVD Price: £28.49 RRP: 
Availability This product should be despatched within 2 days. This product will be despatched from the UK. Delivery times
Earn 140 Bonus Points when you buy this product. More info |
Film Description
Five films starring one of Britain's most popular film stars, famous for his roles in, among others, Reach for the Sky and Genevieve (both included here).
In Chance of a Lifetime (Bernard Miles, 1950), the workers in a small plough factory take over the firm, but when a large order falls through, the old management come back to help out.
Genevieve (Henry Cornelius, 1953) sees two friends race their vintage cars on the annual London to Brighton rally. But once they place a friendly wager on who will win, the competition hots up! Genevieve is of course the car, a 1904 Spyker.
Reach for the Sky (Lewis Gilbert, 1956) is the story of one man's indomitable courage and endurance, and tells of Douglas Bader, a pilot Officer who loses both legs in a flying accident. Not only does he overcome his disability but he goes on to become an ace in the Battle of Britain.
A Night to Remember (Roy Ward Baker, 1958) is the true story of The Titanic which struck an iceberg on its maiden voyage from Europe to New York in 1912.
In North West Frontier (J Lee Thompson, 1959), Kenneth More plays Captain Scott, sent by the British Governor in India to rescue a five year old Hindu prince and his American governess (Lauren Bacall) when a rebellion breaks out among the tribesmen. Pursued by the abductors, the trio commandeer a derelict steam train to take them 300 miles through the mountains to safety.
Film Information
| Director | Various / Compilation | ||||
| Starring | Basil Radford, Kenneth More, Lauren Bacall, Naunton Wayne, Kay Kendall, Niall MacGinnis, Glynis Johns
|
||||
| Genre | Classic Film
|
||||
| Country | UK | Language | English | Year | 1949-59 |
DVD Extras
5 discs.
Technical Details
| Certificate | 12 | Length | 546 mins | Label | CRLTN | ||
| Cat No | 3711525713 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | ||||||
6 Stills
 |
 |
Share your thoughts and opinions - write a review
Review by James Oliver on 5th September 2007
Kenneth More was a very British sort of film star; the sort of chap who favoured Harris Tweed over leather jackets. Not for him the tortured anxieties of American contemporaries like Marlon Brando or James Dean; his breezy charm suggested that he never took this acting lark too seriously – although if people paid him good money to do it, who was he to argue?
But there was always more to More, as this set demonstrates. It takes a lot of hard work to look so casual. His skill with light comedy is displayed in the amiable – and wildly popular – Genevieve. And as Douglas Bader in Reach For the Sky, More became a stiff-upper-lipped icon of British cinema. In truth, neither film is a classic but only a cynic would dismiss them completely.
A Night to Remember is still the definitive Titanic film. And if you can forgive the questionable colonial politics, Northwest Frontier is a glorious Boy’s Own adventure romp. Rounded off with three early comedies, this set is a fine tribute to a neglected actor.
View more reviews by James Oliver
Recommendations from fellow customers
by Various
More films directed by Various / Compilation
Sidney Poitier - In The Frame Collection
Children Of Men / Twelve Monkeys
Laurence Olivier - Icon Collection
More films starring Lauren Bacall
by Howard Hawks
by John Huston
by Don Siegel
Humphrey Bogart Classics (Vol. 1)
More films starring Kenneth More
by Ronald Neame
More films starring Basil Radford
by Cavalcanti/ Crichton/ Hamer/ Dearden
Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years
More films starring Naunton Wayne
Alfred Hitchcock: The British Years
by Various
by Cavalcanti/ Crichton/ Hamer/ Dearden
More films starring Glynis Johns
by Ronald Neame
by Various
by Various
Three Films by Somerset Maugham: Trio, Encore and Quartet
| Special Offers | ||||||||||||||||
|
More Great Offers
|
| BestSellers | ||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
|
||||
| Recommended by MovieMail | ||||||||||
|
A curated collection of the best DVDs
Latest Additions
|
||||||||||
|
|
||||||||||
| Just Released |
|
There Will Be Blood The Other Boleyn Girl Around the World in 80 Gardens Be Kind Rewind Water Lilies |
| Coming Soon |
|
You, the Living La Vie de Jesus (Masters of Cinema) Up the Yangtze The Patrice Leconte Collection Love in the Time of Cholera |
|
||
| Home | Film Catalogue | New Releases | Special Offers | Top 30 | ||
|
||
| Film Collections | Film Media | News | Your Account | Help | Become a MovieMail affiliate | ||
|
||
For questions or assistance, call us on (+44) 0844 776 0900 or email on enquiries@moviemail-online.co.uk © 2004-2007 MovieMail, Ltd., All Rights Reserved. Find out more about MovieMail |
||
|
Encore
Night And Fog
The Andzrej Wajda War Trilogy
Becket
Early Hitchcock Box Set
