Films starring Michael Hordern
Futtocks End1970, Bob Kellett, DVD Scripted by and starring Ronnie Barker, this 45-minute silent film eschews dialogue in favour of increasingly bizarre sound effects. The story features rude and rumbustious goings-on at a country mansion, presided over by the monocled General Futt...
£9.99 Three Films by Somerset Maugham: Trio, Encore and Quartet1948; 1950; 1951, Various , Compilation , DVD Three sets of adaptations of Somerset Maugham's short stories, all introduced by Maugham himself and featuring a host of famous acting talent. Features Quartet (Annakin, Crabtree, French and Smart, 1948), Trio (Annakin & French, 1950) and Encore (...
£13.49 RRP: £24.99
Save £11.50 Middlemarch1993, Anthony Page , DVD George Eliot's towering masterpiece brought to life with great performances and a terrific sense of place. Dorothea Brooke falls in love with the young cousin of her deceased husband, but she is unable to marry him without forfeiting her inheritan...
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Save £14.00 Romeo and Juliet (BBC, 1978)1978, Alvin Rakoff, DVD Romeo, heir of the lordly Montague family of Verona, falls in love with Juliet Capulet at a masked ball, not realising she is the daughter of their family's bitter rivals. Secretly married, they have only their love with which to confront their fa...
£11.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £1.00 King Lear (BBC, 1982)1982, Jonathan Miller, DVD Part of the marvellous BBC Shakespeare series, Lear features perhaps Michael Hordern's greatest performance as the eponymous King, raging against the dying of the light. Penelope Wilton is a fearsomely glacial Regan.
£11.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £1.00 Alls Well That Ends Well (BBC)1981, Elijah Moshinsky, DVD Winning both Bafta and RTS awards, this was considered one of the best of the BBC Shakespeare adaptations, with both its cast and its magnificent framing receiving great acclaim.
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Save £1.00 Trio1950, Harold French, Ken Annakin, DVD A trio of short plays based on the work of W. Somerset Maugham. Comprises "The Verger", the tale of a church verger who is forced to find a new career when it is revealed he is illiterate. In "Mister Know-All," an obnoxious passenger goes on a lux...
£5.99 RRP: £9.99
Save £4.00 The Donald Sinden Collection1953-62, Various , DVD Donald Sinden was a stage actor with The Royal Shakespeare Company before breaking into films as a leading man through the 1950s. This fine collection collects a number of his best films from this era. Features Day to Remember (1953), You Know Wha...
£30.99 RRP: £59.99
Save £29.00 A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum1966, Richard Lester, DVD A rare cinematic adaptation of a Stephen Sondheim musical. A bawdy, comical romp through the days of the Roman Empire given a contemporary musical perspective. Featuring a host of legendary comic talents.
£6.99 RRP: £12.99
Save £6.00 Anne Of The Thousand Days1969, Charles Jarrott, DVD A lavish costume drama telling of King Henry VIII's infatuation with Anne Boleyn. Burton plays the King who defied the Vatican and established himself as head of the Church of England in order to obtain a divorce from his wife.
£6.99 RRP: £9.99
Save £3.00 The Green Man1990, Various (TV), DVD Written by Malcolm Bradbury and based on the novel by Kingsley Amis, The Green Man delves into the haunted depths of an old building, in which a 17th century Doctor of Divinity is rumoured to have committed a series of particularly unsavoury crime...
£14.99 RRP: £15.99
Save £1.00 Paradise Postponed (Complete)1986, Alvin Rakoff, DVD Features the complete episodes from the popular television drama set in the decades following the Second World War.
£51.49 RRP: £59.99
Save £8.50 Where Eagles Dare1969, Brian G Hutton, DVD Two soldiers are parachuted into the Bavarian Alps to rescue an American General from an almost impregnable Nazi fortress, which can be reached only by cable car. Based on the Alistair MacLean novel.
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Save £5.50 Lady Jane1986, Trevor Nunn, DVD Helena Bonham-Carter's screen debut as the innocent Lady Jane Grey, caught in the middle of the destructive machinations of state.
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Save £10.00 Theatre Of Blood1973, Douglas Hickox, DVD An overlooked Shakespearean ham actor takes fitting revenge on his harshest critics by despatching them in methods inspired by the Bard. A wonderful, deliberately overblown, gleeful romp, with a fabulous cast throwing themselves into their roles, ...
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