Films with: Howard, Trevor

Brief encounter

Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.

DVD 112

British noir

They met in the dark: discharged for treason, a former Navy commander sets out to expose the espionage ring that destroyed his career. The october man: after a traumatic brain injury, a young engineer tries to repair his life. But his recovery is thwarted when a woman is found strangled and he becomes the prime suspect. Snowbound: a British Army vet exposes a plot by ex-Nazis to reclaim a stash of gold bullion hidden at a ski resort. The golden salamander: a British archaeologist finds himself caught between a gang of North African gun-runners and the woman he loves. The assassin: a private eye arrives in Venice in search of a fugitive, but soon discovers that the city's winding waterways hold dark secrets.

DVD 11081

Charge of the light brigade

A re-creation of mid-Victorian England that contrasts the silliness of the aristocracy with the squalor of the lower classes. Rather than making a standard blood and glory epic, Richardson created a film that took the silly glory and glamour out of war and substituted something closer to the bitter truth.

DVD 2229

Gandhi

Tells the story of Gandhi's adult life, when he led an entire country to freedom, using non-violent methods.

DVD 2029

Memory of the camps

"When allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps at the end of World War II, they found unspeakable horrors that still haunt the world's conscience. In 1945, British and American film crews accompanying the troops liberating the camps captured these atrocities firsthand. The resulting film directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock but never finished, was discovered by Frontline in 1984 in the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Sixty years after the war ended, Frontline now re-broadcasts this powerful memorial in its entirety"--Container.

DVD 12228

Meteor

Science fiction drama about a five-mile meteor on a collision course with the earth. A scientist is summoned to Washington by NASA and is informed that a huge meteor will smash into earth in six days. There is one slim chance to divert disaster, but it means cooperation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, and neither side trusts the other.

DVD 2376

Mutiny on the Bounty

In 1787, the HMS Bounty sets out on a journey that will take it through perilous seas to a tropical paradise -- and into history as one of the most ill-fated vessels ever to sail for King and country.

DVD 5900

Ryan's Daughter

Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsule. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.

DVD 11753

Superman

A child from a dying planet is sent to Earth, where he is brought up by human parents and poses as a newspaper reporter, becoming Superman when necessary to use his special powers to save others.

DVD 10745

They made me a fugitive

Set in Soho, Clem is an ex-serviceman who is fed up after World War II and drawn to the excitement of black-marketeering. His psychopathic sadist gang boss, Narcy, betrays him when he refuses to deal in drugs, taking on an element of revenge.

DVD 5302

Third man

Set in post-war Vienna, an American western-adventure writer searches for a friend who turns out to be the king-pin of the Austrian black market.

DVD 547

Third man

Pulp novelist Holly Martins travels to shadowy, postwar Vienna, only to find himself investigating the mysterious death of an old friend, black-market opportunist Harry Lime-- and thus begins this legendary tale of love, deception, and murder.

DVD 563