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Ann Bell Movies
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Simon Armstrong,
Ann Bell,
Nicholas Blane,
Clive Brunt,
Cavan Clerkin,
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The Last Hangman ReviewMike ReynoldsIt's a dirty job, but someone's got to do it. The clock strikes nine and the hangman goes to work, getting rid of criminals the old fashioned way. At the end of the day he puts on his cap and heads home to his wife like any other man. But what goes on in the head of an ordinary person who's job it is to kill? This is the question asked by Adr...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Damian Lewis,
Rupert Graves,
Gina McKee,
Corin Redgrave,
Ioan Gruffudd,
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I had never heard of The Forsyte Saga before seeing the mini-series but I enjoyed it so much that I bought the novel, and isn't that really what these adaptations of novels are all about- trying to interest people enough to read the book the movie was based on? I'm glad this version wasn't completely true to the novel considering that so many of the characters in the novel are ...
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Colin Firth,
Paul Rhys,
David Calder,
Barbara Leigh-Hunt,
Emma Harbour,
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Genres:
Drama
Starring:
Sidney Poitier,
Christian Roberts,
Judy Geeson,
Suzy Kendall,
Ann Bell,
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Horror
Starring:
Gig Young,
Carol Lynley,
Oliver Reed,
Flora Robson,
Judith Arthy,
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I mirror the comments of the plethora of those before me. Saw this as a 9-year-old on the telly and it stayed with me for a long time. The suffocatingly gothic overtones, lovingly twisted POV camerawork, evocative jazz score and wonderfully creepy, dilaphidated locations still spiral through my brain from time to time. Perhaps most memorable are Oliver Reed's warped,...
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