Movies found: 25, viewing from 1 to 20
Year: 1968
Country: USA, UK
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Michael Hordern, Ferdy Mayne, Richard Burton, Donald Houston
Director: Brian G. Hutton
Available Quality: Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def, Hi Def
Country: USA, UK
During WW2 a British aircraft is shot down and crashes in Nazi held territory. The Germans capture the only survivor, an American General, and take him to the nearest SS headquarters. Unknown to the Germans the General has full knowledge of the D-Day operation. The British decide that the General must not be allowed to divulge any details of the Normandy landing at all cost and order Major John Smith to lead a crack commando team to rescue him. Amongst the team is an American Ranger, Lieutenant Schaffer, who is puzzled by his inclusion in an all British operation. When one of the team dies after the parachute drop, Schaffer suspects that Smit...
Year: 1956
Country: UK
Actors: Stephen Boyd, Michael Hordern, Joan Hickson, Gloria Grahame, Cyril Cusack
Director: Ronald Neame
Available Quality: Hi Def
Country: UK
British Intelligence during World War II is trying to get the German High Command to shift it's forces away from Italy prior to the invasion. To create the illusion of a plan for England to invade Greece a dead body is to be procured, allowed to be found with secret papers on him by Spanish authorities who will send the papers on to the Germans, or that's the plan. First they have to find a body that will look drowned, and create an identity for him that will pass the examination of the German agent who is sure to check him out. Based on a true story.
Year: 1950
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Celia Johnson, Noel Coward, Graham Payn, Alan Webb
Director: Unknown
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
The film begins with a scene in which Barbara rings Leonora to tell her that something has happened to Chris. At this point, we don't know who Chris is or what has happened, only that he has lost conciousness. The film then flashes back a year, to when the old friends Barbara and Leonora meet again after having lost contact for many years. Time has not strained their relationship it seems, and Barbara invites Leonora to her house a few days later to meet her husband. Her husband Chris, a pompous, austere psychologist, gets off to a bad start with Leonora. The two despise each other until one night when Barbara has to leave town to look after ...
Year: 1958
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Sid James, Barbara Hicks, Leslie Phillips, Cecil Parker
Director: John Guillermin
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
The incredible but true story of how an impersonator was recruited to impersonate General Montgomery to mislead the German's about his intentions before the North Africa campaign.
Year: 1954
Country: UK
Actors: Donald Pleasence, Michael Hordern, Paul Rogers, Glynis Johns, Donald Sinden
Director: Muriel Box
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
Mr. Gray is the new Resident in Charge of the Welcome Islands in the Indian Ocean. The Islands are full of life, but the only other Europeans are the "sanctimonious, psalm-singing" brother-sister missionary team of Martha and Owen Jordans, and the Honourable Ted - a hard-drinking, womanizing social outcast whose English family pays him to stay away. Martha and Ted become an unlikely team when cholera threatens the islands and they must do their best to stop its spread.
Year: 1972
Country: UK
Actors: Patrick Magee, Michael Hordern, Robert Brown, Yvonne Mitchell, Shane Briant
Director: Peter Sykes
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
Baron Zorn keeps his teenaged children locked up and drugged, fearing that his insane wife passed along a congenital curse to them before her own suicidal death. Elizabeth escapes for a brief tryst with a local before being recaptured and subjected to a bleeding process to 'draw out the bad blood.' Emil keeps trying to escape, but is thwarted time and again by his aunt Hilda who runs the house like a prison. One reason the siblings have to be kept apart, is their incestuous attraction to each other. Local wenches are being murdered in the woods, and the superstitious peasants think demons are responsible. A wandering Priest dedicates himself ...
Year: 1967
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Ronald Lacey, Sheila Hancock, Roy Kinnear, Jack MacGowran
Director: Richard Lester
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
This film features former Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men in under the inept command of Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody. The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the army.
Year: 1986
Country: UK
Actors: Cary Elwes, Michael Hordern, Joss Ackland, Patrick Stewart, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Trevor Nunn
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
The death of King Henry VIII throws his kingdom into chaos because of succession disputes. His weak son Edward, is on his deathbed. Anxious to keep England true to the Reformation, a scheming minister John Dudley marries off his son, Guildford to Lady Jane Grey, whom he places on the throne after Edward dies. At first hostile to each other, Guildford and Jane fall in love. But they cannot withstand the course of power which will lead to their ultimate downfall.
Year: 1960
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Mark Dignam, Laurence Naismith, Jack Gwillim, Geoffrey Keen
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Country: UK
Chronicles the breakout of the Bismarck during the early days of World War Two. Seen both from the point of view of the many naval vessels on both sides and from the central headquarters of the British where the search for the super battleship was controlled.
Year: 1982
Country: UK
Actors: Sam Neill, Michael Hordern, James Mason, Stuart Wilson, Tony Haygarth
Director: Douglas Camfield
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
This is a remake of Walter Scott's Ivanhoe. Ivanhoe, a worthy and noble knight, the champion of justice returns to England after the holy wars. He find England under the reign of Prince John and his henchmen and finds himself being involved in the power-struggle for the throne of England. Will justice prevail and will all fair ladies in distress be rescued?
Year: 1975
Country: USA, UK
Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Alastair Sim, Lionel Jeffries
Director: Richard Lester
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA, UK
Ne'er-do-well Harry Flashman is coerced by Otto von Bismark into impersonating a prince.
Year: 1973
Country: UK
Actors: Jack Hawkins, Diana Rigg, Michael Hordern, Madeline Smith, Robert Morley
Director: Douglas Hickox
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
Edward Lionheart (Vincent Price) stars as an actor overlooked for a critics' acting award, despite producing a season of Shakespeare plays. After confronting the Critics' Circle, an attempted suicidal dive into the Thames results in Lionheart being rescued by your typical paraffin/meths/turps swigging tramps. Lionheart then (presumed dead) exacts his grizzly, and quite amusing revenge on the critics who denied him his finest hour.
Year: 1972
Country: USA
Actors: Michael Hordern, Miriam Colon, Shirley MacLaine, Teodorina Bello, Perry King
Director: Waris Hussein
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA
A woman begins to suspect that her brother is possessed by a voodoo spirit.
Year: 1987
Country: USA
Actors: Michael Hordern, Barret Oliver, Billie Whitelaw, Jadrien Steele, Gennie James
Director: Alan Grint
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: USA
Mary Lennox (Gennie James) is a spoiled young British girl orphaned by an Indian epidemic. She is sent to Misselthwaite Manor in Yorkshire to live with a distant relative, Archibald Craven (Derek Jacobi), and there she becomes obsessed with a secret, overgrown garden. With the help of a local boy, Dickon, the garden and everyone around them--including Craven and his frail son, Colin--come to life again. Filmed on location at scenic Highclere Castle in Newbury, this Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program. Although it can't top the 1949 version with Margaret O'Brien...
Year: 1953
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Glynis Johns, Walter Fitzgerald, Gene Tierney, Pamela Brown
Director: Anthony Pelissier
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
Barbara Vining, a teen-age girl in a small English town falls in love with her teacher Stephen Barlow, who has no interest in her other than as a pupil and has done nothing to encourage her. When his wife, Kay Barlow confronts her, Barbara runs off. Stephen follows her to try and explain to her how hopeless the situation is. When she doesn't return home, the gossip and rumors begin. Barbara's father, an intelligent man is torn between his parental love and his basic wisdom, and her aunt, a neurotic old maid who also had a hopeless love affair years before, appears pleased with the situation. Barlow is accused of many lurid crimes, despite the...
Year: 1969
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Ralph Richardson, Richard Warwick, Peter Cook, Dandy Nichols
Director: Richard Lester
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
Set in post-nuclear-holocaust England, where a handful of bizarre characters struggle on with their lives in the ruins, amongst endless heaps of ash, piles of broken crockery and brick, muddy plains, and heaps of dentures and old boots. Patriotically singing "God Save Mrs. Etheyl Shroake, Long Live Mrs. Etheyl Shroake", they wander through this surrealistic landscape, forever being warned by the police to "keep moving", and prone to the occasional mutation into a parrot, cupboard, or even, yes, a bed sitting room with "No Wogs" scrawled in the grime on it's windows. In particular, this story revolves around the odd "love story" of a girl who ...
Year: 1982
Country: UK
Actors: Timothy Spall, Michael Hordern, Maggie Smith, David Suchet, Graham Crowden
Director: Richard Loncraine
Available Quality: DVD, iPod
Country: UK
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes. Charles hopes Deborah, his fiancee, will object and give him an excuse to say no to the bishop. But she is so imperturbably innocent that she totally fails to understand what he is being asked to do, and urges him to do his best. Wealthy Lady Ames is expected to fund the work, but once she makes it clear to Charles that there will be no contribution unless he shares her bed...
Year: 1983
Country: UK
Actors: Michael Hordern, Richard Pearson, Una Stubbs, Jonathan Cecil, Edward Kelsey
Director: Mark Hall, Chris Taylor
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
One spring, Mole decides that he can ignore the spring cleaning for a little longer, and begins a series of adventures with his new friend Rat. They go for a picnic on the riverbank, on a caravan expedition with Toad, until Toad switches allegiance to his new car and his reckless driving makes Mole and Rat search out Badger for help in curbing Toad's profligate habits. But Toad gets away from them and gets a 20-year sentence from the magistrate for theft, reckless driving, and Gross Impertinence. While Toad works his wiles on the jailer's daughter and escapes jail dressed as a washer woman, Badger tries to guard Toad Hall from the machination...
Year: 1966
Country: UK
Actors: Zia Mohyeddin, Charlton Heston, Michael Hordern, Laurence Olivier, Ralph Richardson
Director: Basil Dearden, Eliot Elisofon
Available Quality: DivX, iPod
Country: UK
After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want to commit a British military force to a foreign war but they have a commitment to protect the Egyptians in Khartoum. They decide to ask General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, something of a folk hero in the Sudan as he had cleared the area of the slave trade, to arrange for the evacuation. Gordon agrees but also decides to defend the city against the forces of the Mahdi - the expected one - and tries to force the British to commit troops.
Year: 1961
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Actors: Charlton Heston, Michael Hordern, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Douglas Wilmer
Director: Anthony Mann
Available Quality: DivX, Hi Def, iPod, Hi Def
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Movies found: 25, viewing from 1 to 20