
Roger Livesey
Oyuncu · 1906 – 1976 · Barry, Wales, UK
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Roger Livesey (25 June 1906 – 4 February 1976) was a British stage and film actor. He is most often remembered for the three Powell & Pressburger films in which he starred: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, I Know Where I'm Going! and A Matter of Life and Death. Tall and broad with a mop of chestnut hair, Livesey used his highly distinctive husky voice, gentle manner and athletic physique to create many notable roles in his theatre and film work. Description above from the Wikipedia article Roger Livesey, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Film7.7RomantikFantastikPilot Peter Carter, II. Dünya Savaşı'nda bir bombardımandan dönerken kullandığı uçak kontrolden çıkar ve düşer. Paraşütünü açmayı başaramayan pilot sisin içinde kaybolur. Kendisine geldiğinde yaşamla ölüm arasındaki o ince çizgidedir. Yukarıda işler karışmıştır ve öteki dünyaya gitmesi gerekirken Carter'ın eline ikinci bir şans geçer. Araf'tan dünyaya ve aşık olduğu kadına dönme şansı vardır...
Film7.5SavaşDramFilm, bize sıradışı bir adamın hayatını ve aşklarının hikayesini samimi bir şekilde anlatıyor. Öncelikle tam bir eski kafalılık örneği olan, aşırı kilolu general Clive Wyne-Candy ile tanışıyoruz. 40 yıl geriye gittiğimizde ise tamamen farklı bir adam, genç ve yakışıklı subay "Sugar" Candy'i görüyoruz... Hayatına girmiş üç kadınla olan ilişkilerini ve bir Alman subayı ile ömür boyu arkadaşlığını izlerken, Candy'nin hayatındaki izleri görüp onun ordu onuru anlayışını modern çağın "genel harp" mefhumuna adapte etmesinin ne kadar zor olduğunu anlıyoruz...
Film7.7BelgeselMartin Scorsese, İngiliz film yapımcıları Michael Powell ve Emeric Pressburger hakkındaki bu son derece kişisel ve aydınlatıcı yeni uzun metrajlı belgeseli sunuyor.
Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger
İngiltere'de Yapıldı: Powell ve Pressburger'in Filmleri
2024 · 32 votes
Film7.1RomantikDramLondranın ileri gelen ailelerinden birinin kızı Joan Webster, nereye gittiğini bilen, aklı başında, planlı programlı bir genç hanımdır. Bu plan ve program çerçevesinde, zengin bir sanayiciyle nişanlanır ve evlenmek üzere İskoçyaya gider. Ancak yolda büyük bir fırtınaya yakalanır ve yolculuğuna ara vermek zorunda kalır. Mahsur kaldığı adada tanıştığı genç adam, kasaba sakinleri ve yaşadıkları kafasını karıştırır. Acaba gerçekten nereye gittini biliyor mudur? İngiliz sinemasının saklı cevherlerinden olan bu Powell Pressburger klasiği, sinema sanatının tüm hilelerini kullanıyor.
Film7.1KomediSuçInvoluntarily-retired Colonel Hyde recruits seven other dissatisfied ex-servicemen for a special project. Each of the men has a skeleton in the cupboard, is short of money, and is a service-trained expert in his field. The job is a bank robbery, and military discipline and planning are imposed by Hyde and second-in-command Race on the team, although civilian irritations do start getting in the way.
The League of Gentlemen
1960 · 110 votes
Film7.2KomediBusinessman Paul Bultitude is sending his son Dick to a boarding school. While holding a magic stone from India, he wishes that he could be young again. His wish is immediately fulfilled and the two change bodies with each other. Mr Bultitude becomes a school boy who smokes cigars and has a very conservative view on child upbringing, while his son Dick becomes a gentleman who spends his time drinking lemonade and arranging children's parties.
Vice Versa
1948 · 5 votes
Film6.1DramMedical student Philip Carey becomes involved with flirtatious waitress Mildred Rogers. Their love affair is interrupted when Philip is made aware of her constant infidelity. As Mildred quits her job and becomes a prostitute, Philip is still in love with her.
Of Human Bondage
1964 · 18 votes
Film6.0DramThis classic Greek tale tells how a noble youth accidentally marries his own mother, kills his own father and ends up paying a terrible price for invoking the wrath of the Gods.
Oedipus the King
1968 · 6 votes
Film5.9MaceraScottish highlander Jamie Durie falls into a life of piracy after joining the failed rebellion of Bonnie Prince Charlie against the British crown.
The Master of Ballantrae
1953 · 30 votes
Film6.5SuçGerilimAn elderly lady manages to sneak some pills away from her nurse and dies of an overdose. The nurse is tried for murder and acquitted. Some time later the nurse, under a new name and identity, cares for a patient who also dies of an overdose. When her real identity comes out, suspicions arise.
Girl in the News
1940 · 7 votes
Film6.0KomediGerilimEfforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.
Green Grow the Rushes
1951 · 7 votes
Film6.1MaceraSavaşİngiliz Raj'ı sırasında Yüzbaşı Carruthers, Hindistan'ın huzursuz Kuzey Batı Sınırı'nda kaçak silah sevkiyatlarını takip etmek için gizli görevdedir. Büyük çaplı bir isyanın patlak vermesinden korkmaktadır. İngiliz vali bunu önlemek için, Peşaver'den kuzeye doğru dört günlük yürüyüş mesafesinde olduğu belirtilen bölgedeki kilit krallıklardan Tokot'un dost canlısı, barışsever hükümdarıyla bir anlaşma imzalar. Bu arada kralın oğlu Prens Azim, Carruthers ve ona enstrüman çalmayı öğreten İngiliz davulcu Bill Holder ile arkadaş olur.
Film6.8DramTarihA character study depicting the life of Rembrandt Van Rijn at the height of his fame in the mid 1600s. Beginning with the death of his wife, Rembrandt's work takes a dark turn, which offends many of his patrons.
Rembrandt
1936 · 38 votes
Film10.0aka Maisie's Marriage, based on Marie Stopes book, a fireman falls in love with a daughter from a large family. When she refuses to marry and have children, she is estranged from her family, and after being imprisioned after a failed suicide attempt becomes a maid. Controversial at the time for its views on marriage and birth control.
Married Love
1923 · 1 votes
Film6.7MaceraSet just before the outbreak of WWII, this is the story of a test pilot who works for the (unnamed) enemy. Made in 1939, by the time it was released in 1940, war had been declared.
Spies of the Air
1939 · 3 votes
Film6.2DramArchie Rice, an old-time British vaudeville performer sinking into final defeat, schemes to stay in show business.
The Entertainer
1960 · 59 votes
Film7.2KomediA British business tycoon is surprised to discover his teenage daughter is being courted by a mysterious young man.
No, My Darling Daughter
1961 · 4 votes
Film6.2KomediA crowded inn means that a man and a woman must share the same room for a night. One problem is that they are both married - to other people. The other problem is that they used to be engaged to each other.
A Cuckoo in the Nest
1933 · 5 votes
Film6.1DramGerilimFilm producer Reggie Wilson is worried he may have a dual personality. Fleeing Hollywood, he finds himself in England and married to the studio boss's daughter after which he quickly rises through the studio ranks. Then the letters begin to appear from a lovesick American actress who wants to know why he has thrown her over.
The Intimate Stranger
1956 · 13 votes
Film5.8DramTony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Hamlet
1969 · 15 votes
Film5.9KomediEntirely silent, with a musical score, sound effects and incoherent mutterings, the story revolves around a weekend gathering at the decaying country home of the eccentric and lewd General Futtock (Ronnie Barker) and the series of saucy mishaps between the staff (Michael Hordern plays the lecherous butler) and his guests.
Futtocks End
1970 · 11 votes
Film4.0A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti.
The Stowaway
1958 · 2 votes
Film7.3RomantikDramThe lonely wife of a workaholic husband on the magical Isle of Capri meets a charming and attractive young man. An exciting affair must end when word gets back to the husband and he becomes ill. In hopes of avoiding a scene, she passes her beau along to her stepdaughter, Monica.
That Dangerous Age
1949 · 3 votes
Film9.0KomediDuring the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
East Lynne on the Western Front
1931 · 1 votes
Diziler10
Dizi7.2DramTheatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Theatre 625
1964 · 5 votes
Dizi7.0Anthology series of dramatic works.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
1969 · 3 votes
Dizi6.3SuçDramNew Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.
New Scotland Yard
1972 · 3 votes
Dizi7.3DramJustice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.
Justice
1971 · 3 votes
Dizi10.0Aksiyon ve MaceraDramPulled from actual case histories and utilizing newsreel and documented narratives, the activities of spies from various countries are depicted as far back as the American Revolution and as recent as the Cold War.
Espionage
1963 · 1 votes
Dizi6.4DramThis sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
The Pallisers
1974 · 5 votes
Dizi8.2The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.
The Human Jungle
1963 · 5 votes
- Dizi9.0DramGizem
Armchair Mystery Theatre is a 60-minute United Kingdom television anthology mystery series. Thirty-four episodes aired from 1960-65. It was hosted by Donald Pleasence and produced by Leonard White.
Armchair Mystery Theatre
1960 · 1 votes
DiziSuçDramA series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
On Trial
1960
Dizi8.0Aksiyon ve MaceraDramA completely lost BBC1 miniseries adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 19th century historical adventure novel of the same name. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
The Man in the Iron Mask
1968 · 1 votes