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Noël Coward has 8 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1930s through the 1960s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by Brief Encounter.
Boccaccio '70
1962
Comedy · Romance
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.
Dir. David Lean · With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway
A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Dir. Otto Preminger · With Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea
While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elvira, leading to an increasingly complex love triangle with Ruth, his current wife of five years.
Dir. David Lean · With Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond
Charlie's got a 'job' to do. Having just left prison he finds one of his friends has attempted a high-risk job in Torino, Italy, right under the nose of the mafia. Charlie's friend doesn't get very far, so Charlie takes over the 'job'. Using three Mini Coopers, a couple of Jaguars, and a bus, he hopes to bring Torino to a standstill, steal a fortune in gold and escape in the chaos.
Dir. Peter Collinson · With Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill
Jim Wormold is an expatriate Englishman living in pre-revolutionary Havana with his teenage daughter Milly. He owns a vacuum cleaner shop but isn’t very successful so he accepts an offer from Hawthorne of the British Secret Service to recruit a network of agents in Cuba.
Dir. Carol Reed · With Alec Guinness, Burl Ives, Maureen O'Hara
as Captain E. V. Kinross R.N. / Captain 'D' · Director · Writer
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The story of the HMS Torrin, from its construction to its sinking in the Mediterranean during action in World War II. The ship’s first and only commanding officer is Captain E.V. Kinross, who trains his men not only to be loyal to him and the country, but—most importantly—to themselves.
Dir. Noël Coward, David Lean · With Noël Coward, John Mills, Bernard Miles
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been in Paris supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him finish on time.
Dir. Richard Quine · With William Holden, Audrey Hepburn, Grégoire Aslan
A cavalcade of English life from New Year's Eve 1899 until 1933 is seen through the eyes of well-to-do Londoners Jane and Robert Marryot. Amongst events touching their family are the Boer War, the death of Queen Victoria, the sinking of the Titanic, and the Great War.
Dir. Frank Lloyd · With Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook, Una O'Connor
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