Films with: Kerr, Deborah

Affair to remember

Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn.

DVD 70

Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara

Set during World War II, Barbara Undershaft is a rich girl turned Salvation Army officer. She speaks out against the hypocrisy she believes exists in her organization.

DVD 8831

Black narcissus

Majesty gives way to mystery, and marks a harrowing descent into madness, when a young British nun is ordered to establish a convent in the remote Himalayan mountains. Sister Clodagh (Kerr) is a serious young novitiate assigned to lead a crucial mission, with the reluctant recommendation of her Mother Superior. Together with a disparate group of nuns, Sister Clodagh will face strange peoples and customs, a harsh and unforgiving climate and a wrenching struggle with her own past that will prove the ultimate test of her devotion and faith.

DVD 1598

End of the affair

In England during World War II, an American writer and the bored wife of a British civil servant fall in love, then she mysteriously ends the affair.

DVD 393

From here to eternity

Drama about life in the Army in the days prior to World War II. Shows the effect of Army discipline on an individualistic former boxing champion who defies the attempts of officers and men to break him when he refuses to fight on the company's boxing team. Includes actual scenes of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

DVD 1610

Innocents

Adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the screw. A governess suspects her young charges are demonically possessed.

DVD 4431

King and I

An English schoolteacher finds herself at odds with the King when she is the teacher at the royal court in the 1860s.

DVD 413

Life and death of Colonel Blimp

Based on cartoonist David Low's parody of the old-fashioned British professional soldier, set in his ways and unable to adapt to the brutality of modern war. This story follows the career of Clive Candy, at first an idealistic, young Boer War hero, then a brigadier general, serving honorably in World War I. Finally, by World War II, he has become a bald, overweight, querulous old man, angry that his age and military experience are held in contempt, and bewildered that his lifelong code of gentlemanly conduct has become an anachronism in a world threatened by a monster like Hitler.

DVD 5629

Night of the iguana

In a remote Mexican seacoast town, a fallen Episcopal priest struggles to pull his shattered life together. Three women, an earthy hotel owner, an ethereal artist and a hot-eyed willful teenager can help save him. Or destroy him.

DVD 2018

Quo vadis

Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets and falls in love with the devout Christian, Lygia. She doesn't want to have anything to do with the warrior. Though Lygia grew up Roman, and as the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered. Lygia is not happy about this situation, but she falls in love with Marcus anyway. Meanwhile, Nero's atrocities get more outrageous. When he burns Rome and blames the Christians, Marcus goes off to save Lygia and her family. Nero captures them and all other Christians. He decides to make a sport of it by throwing them to the lions.

DVD 8339

Separate tables

At the Beauregard Hotel, all the eccentric guests feel lonely. In one emotional evening, four of them will bare their innermost secrets and change each other's lives forever.

DVD 11700

William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar

An adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play, chronicling the events around the assassination of Julius Caesar.

DVD 5868