Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international leader and symbol. Strong on history (the historic division between India and Pakistan, still a huge problem today, can be seen in its formative stages here) as well as character and ideas, this is a fine film. --Tom KeoghLearn More
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A curious combination of actors and actresses make this pre-WW2 Hitchcock spy flick a B-level film.
The homely and genteel John Gielgud plays an English author whose death is faked during WW1 to set him up as a reluctant spy under an assumed name. His mission is to proceed to Switzerland to uncover and thwart a German agent. The beautiful and enthusiastic Madeleine Carroll is playing his wife. Gielgud meets her in a hotel where she is conversing with a very youthful looking Robert Young. Gielgud and Young eventually will vie for her affections. Gielgud is aided by a horribly miscast Peter Lorre. Lorre pays a phony Mexican general complete with curly black hair, a gold earring, prosthetic teeth and a terrible accent.
I first saw this movie on TV when I was eleven years old, and I've never forgotten it. Last year I got the chance to see it, and it was every bit as good as I remember it. It's about Edward VII, the Prince Charles of the 1800's. The son and heir of Queen Victoria, he had to wait until he was 64 before he could wear the crown. The movie begins with the marriage of his parents, Victoria and Albert, one of the great love stories in history. Annette Crosbie is magnificent as Victoria, capturing her quirks, her pettiness and yes, her greatness. You really feel for her when Albert dies, because you see how much she loved him and depended on him. But you also see what a meanie she was to her own kids, particularly Edward (nicknamed "Bertie"), whom she would never allow any part in the... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Gielgud DVD Release Date: Released the 30 September 2003 Usually ships in 24 hours
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One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with another identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Gielgud - Madeleine Carroll - Robert Young Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock DVD Release Date: Released the 01 January 2003 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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I want to be sure to let all of the Amazon members know that this DVD would not play in my DVD player. I purchased three Hitchcock films from this distributor and only one of the three DVDs actually played. This one didn't, so buyer beware! More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Gielgud DVD Release Date: Released the 30 July 2002 Special Order
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Sir Richard Attenborough's 1982 multiple-Oscar winner (including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor for Ben Kingsley) is an engrossing, reverential look at the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi, who introduced the doctrine of nonviolent resistance to the colonized people of India and who ultimately gained the nation its independence. Kingsley is magnificent as Gandhi as he changes over the course of the three-hour film from an insignificant lawyer to an international leader and symbol. Strong on history (the historic division between India and Pakistan, still a huge problem today, can be seen in its formative stages here) as well as character and ideas, this is a fine film. --Tom KeoghMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Ben Kingsley - John Gielgud Director(s): Richard Attenborough DVD Release Date: Released the 28 August 2001 Usually ships in 24 hours
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One of Alfred Hitchcock's finest pre-Hollywood films, the 1936 Secret Agent stars a young John Gielgud as a British spy whose death is faked by his intelligence superiors. Reinvented with another identity and outfitted with a wife (Madeleine Carroll), Gielgud's character is sent on assignment with a cold-blooded accomplice (Peter Lorre) to assassinate a German agent. En route, the counterfeit couple keeps company with an affable American (Robert Young), who turns out to be more than he seems after the wrong man is murdered by Gielgud and Lorre. Dense with interwoven ideas about false names and real identities, about appearances as lies and the brutality of the hidden, and about the complicity of those who watch the anarchy that others do, Secret Agent declared that Alfred... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): John Gielgud - Madeleine Carroll - Robert Young Director(s): Alfred Hitchcock DVD Release Date: Released the 09 November 2000 THIS TITLE IS CURRENTLY NOT AVAILABLE. If you would like to purchase this title, we recommend that you occasionally check this page to see if it has become available.
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