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Tag Archives: Joan Greenwood
Little Dorrit (1987) Christine Edzard, Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood
Arthur Clennam returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Read More »
Lovers, Happy Lovers! AKA Monsieur Ripois (1954) René Clément, Gérard Philipe, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood
From the Louis Hemon novel “M. Ripois and His Nemesis” about Andre Ripois, a philanderer Read More »
The Man Within (1947) Bernard Knowles, Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood
Told in flashback, this movie opens with a scene of a seventeen-year-old boy Read More »
Moonfleet (1955) Fritz Lang, Stewart Granger, George Sanders, Joan Greenwood
Somewhere in the 18th century Great Britain, noble but penniless young boy John Mohune is sent by his dying mother to Moonfleet Read More »
The Man in the White Suit (1951) Alexander Mackendrick, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Cecil Parker
Sidney Stratton, a humble inventor, develops a fabric which never gets dirty or wears out. Read More »
Whisky Galore! (1949) Alexander Mackendrick, Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood, Catherine Lacey
Based on a true story. The name of the real ship, that sunk Feb 5 1941 – during WWII – was S/S Politician. Read More »
The Bad Lord Byron (1949) David MacDonald, Dennis Price, Mai Zetterling, Joan Greenwood, Drama
Seriously ill to a military campaign in Greece, Lord Byron fantasies of being judged, upon his passing, as a soldier and poet as a seducer and libertine. Read More »
Stage Struck (1958) Sidney Lumet, Henry Fonda, Susan Strasberg, Joan Greenwood, Drama, Romance
The movie tells the story of Eva, a girl who comes to New York in order to become a great actress. Read More »
Mysterious Island (1961) Cy Endfield, Michael Craig, Joan Greenwood, Michael Callan
During the US Civil War, Union POWs escape in a balloon and end up stranded on a South Pacific island, inhabited by giant plants and animals. Read More »
The Detective / Father Brown (1954) Robert Hamer, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Peter Finch, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Amateur detective Father Ignatius Brown defies his Bishop and decides to transport to Rome a holy relic from his church – a cross that once belonged to St. Augustin – rather than allow the more elaborate plans to proceed. On the channel crossing he becomes suspicious of a fellow traveler, a Mr Dobson, whom Brown quickly determines is not the automobile salesman he claims to be. He does befriend another priest whom he takes into his confidence but soon realizes that his suspicions should have been reversed. The fake priest is in fact Gustave Flambeau a professional art thief and an expert at disguise. After he gets away with the cross, Brown refuses to work with the police, insisting that he wants to save the man’s soul, not put him in prison. With the assistance of his friend Lady Warren, Father Brown sets a trap for Flambeau but Brown realizes that his work is only just beginning.
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