Richard Attenborough
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Brighton Rock
(1948)Graham Greene's classic British crime story starring Richard Attenborough. Pinkie is a small time gangster who tries to bump off a rival and cover it up. Can he get away with it? 1948

The Angry Silence
(1960)Trouble brews in the workplace in this stirring 60s drama. A factory worker refuses to participate in an unofficial strike at work and finds himself shunned by his colleagues. 1960

10 Rillington Place
(1971)The horrifying true account of John Reginald Christie, whose savage murder of a woman and her newborn summarily ended capital punishment in Britain.

Gift Horse
(1952)Lt. Cmdr. Fraser is given command of a decrepit destroyer with a motley crew in 1940 ahead of a daring mission to destroy a crucial Nazi dockyard.

SOS Pacific
(1959)1959. Drama. Directed by Guy Green. Starring Richard Attenborough, Pier Angeli and John Gregson. A seaplane fire forces its passengers including a prisoner to make a disastrous water landing.

Only When I Larf
(1968)A master conman leads a pair of British accomplices on an international adventure of highly profitable dirty tricks.

The Scamp
(1957)1957. Crime drama directed by Wolf Rilla and starring Richard Attenborough, Dorothy Alison, Colin Petersen. Todd Dawson is a ten year old waif with a drunken scallywag for a father.

Diana: Queen of Hearts
(1998)Lord Richard Attenborough presents this tribute to the late Diana, Princess of Wales, from his unique perspective as a trusted friend for many years.

Loot
(1970)Based on the hilarious and controversial Joe Orton play, Loot is part moral satire, part black comedy and part police drama spoof. Two bank robbers, Dennis (Hywel Bennett) and Hal (Roy Holder), are on the run from the police after a successful heist. Needing somewhere to hide the loot, they turn to a funeral parlour where they can stash the cash in Hal's recently-deceased mother's coffin. Taking the coffin, they turn to Hal's father (Milo O'Shea) and hide it in the bathroom of his hotel. Before long the hotel is host to the eccentric Inspector Truscott (Richard Attenborough).

Dunkirk
(1958)It is early May: the year 1940. In London, the civil population, lulled into an atmosphere of false security, goes about its business as usual. But Charles Forman, war correspondent, knows better. As the war in France takes a turn for the worse, he signs on with the Merchant Navy and volunteers for the greatest mission ever mounted... the evacuation of Dunkirk.

Miracle on 34th Street
(1994)6-year-old Susan meets Kriss Kringle, a department store Santa who thinks he's the genuine article.

The Sand Pebbles
(1966)Steve McQueen received his only Academy Award nomination for his performance in this epic-scale war drama, based on the novel by Richard McKenna. In 1926, as China teeters on the edge of political revolution in the midst of a civil war, the USS San Pablo, is ordered to patrol the Yangtze River to represent and protect American interests.

Brannigan
(1975)A former police detective from Chicago is sent to England to retrieve an American racketeer. But the criminal is kidnapped before he arrives.

The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom
(1968)While her husband works, the wife of a bra manufacturer leads a secret life with her lover, whom she conveniently hides in her attic.

The Great Escape
(1963)The award-winning, high-energy World War II epic about a maximum-security Nazi POW camp that three U.S. military prisoners attempt to break out of.

Jurassic Park
(1993)An entrepreneur invites scientists to his theme park featuring dinosaurs regenerated from DNA.

I'm All Right Jack
(1959)An aristocrat in search of a career becomes caught up in the struggles between his profit-minded uncle and an aggressive labour union. Contains discriminatory content. (1959)(105 mins)

Doctor Dolittle
(1967)A doctor who loves animals turns to caring for them and learns to speak 500 animal languages. Together with three friends he sets sail on a search for the great pink sea snail.

The Lost World: Jurassic Park
(1997)It has been four years since the disaster at Jurassic Park and two groups are in a race against time that will determine the fate of the remote island's prehistoric inhabitants.

Elizabeth
(1998)This acclaimed epic of the Queen's treacherous rise to power received seven Academy Award nominations and stars Oscar winners Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush and Richard Attenborough.