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1.Anne of Green Gables - The Sequel starring: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Wendy Hiller, Frank Converse, Jonathan Crombie directed by: Kevin Sullivan December 03, 2002
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I used to watch this all the time as a little girl with my grandmother. We'd spend all day watching both movies. I am glad that I was able to purchase it on DVD for my daughter and I to share those same memories too!!!

2.Anne of Avonlea starring: Megan Follows, Colleen Dewhurst, Wendy Hiller, Frank Converse, Jonathan Crombie directed by: Kevin Sullivan April 16, 1995
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I used to watch this all the time as a little girl with my grandmother. We'd spend all day watching both movies. I am glad that I was able to purchase it on DVD for my daughter and I to share those same memories too!!!

3.Voyage of the Damned starring: Faye Dunaway, Oskar Werner, Lee Grant, Sam Wanamaker, Lynne Frederick directed by: Stuart Rosenberg January 01, 1998
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I saw this when it first came out and had never before heard of the SS St Louis...and I naively supposed that while other countries, such as Cuba, would turn away these helpless people, the USA would welcome them a la Statue of Liberty...("Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!") apparently I was wrong, and my shock was first in discovering that this was indeed a true historical event and also that WE turned these poeple AWAY! THAT horrified me more than anything else and to this day I still do not understand WHY. This is the USA! What was up with FDR? Excellent cast, great acting, right from ... Read More

4.A Man for All Seasons starring: Paul Scofield, Wendy Hiller, Robert Shaw, Leo McKern, Orson Welles directed by: Fred Zinnemann June 28, 1994
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"If a statesmen foresakes with private conscience for the sake of public office, he leads his county to a short route to chaos." Thomas More to Cardinal Wolsey regarding granting an unlaw divorce to King Henry VIII from his barren wife. How great a country would America be if our Congress men and women had the courage of Thomas Moore. Man for All Seasons is one of the greatest movies of all time. You will need a pen and paper nearby to write all the provoking line from Sir Thomas.

5.Making Love starring: Michael Ontkean, Kate Jackson, Harry Hamlin, Wendy Hiller, Arthur Hill directed by: Arthur Hiller June 30, 1982
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For those of us who were old enough to see "Making Love" when it first came out over a quarter century ago, a second look is well worth it. At the time, this film was considered groundbreaking, if not overly deep, but one is reminded that this was a pre-AIDS era and one where gay themes had not yet been tackled in a two-hour film. The story is simple enough...a triangulation of people in love and a marriage which fails due not to any malicious intent. While the acting is not exactly gripping, it does have a poignancy and relevance to 2008. "Making Love" could be made today with some minor changes, but the core of the film is good.

6.Murder on the Orient Express starring: Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins directed by: Sidney Lumet February 13, 1998
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Murder on the Orient Express is the first Christie novel I read, and I believe it is the best Christie novel ever... After reading almost all Poirot books and seeing all Hercule Poirot adaptations(starring David Suchet), I think Albert Finney had none of the characteristics of Poirot. He is not well dressed, he is not clever, he is not anything that Poirot was...I think Finney and the director should have read some of Christie novels. For the movie, I should say that the cast is superb, scenes are very good for its time. Overall; I am no movie critic, but there were few thing good about this movie and they were spoiled by Albert Finney...

7.Toys in the Attic starring: Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, Yvette Mimieux, Wendy Hiller, Gene Tierney directed by: George Roy Hill September 01, 1998
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The performances by Dean Martin, Geraldine Page, and Wendy Hiller are all top-notch, and they make this movie a good rainy afternoon entertainment. There is also the beautiful black and white cinematography that always shows off New Orleans well. But as my title for this review suggests, this movie aspires to hit a target but misses. I don't know the original play, so I don't know if the problem lies in the censorship of the early 1960s that sometimes afflicted "spicey" plays making the transition to the screen. Given some of the movie's theme's, however, I wouldn't be surprised if part of the film's weakness stems from the facat that key plot and thematic developments were made obscure so as not to offend audiences of a more "sensitive" era. Now to the problems. To begin with, Yvette Mimieux's ... Read More

8.The Elephant Man starring: Anthony Hopkins, John Hurt, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller directed by: David Lynch September 22, 1999
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Rightly regarded as one of the classic British films of the last decades, this broadly true tale of dignified humanity shining through the gloomy, impersonal smog of Victorian London hardly puts a foot wrong. Anthony Hopkins is superb as the dispassionate surgeon who rescues the maltreated circus freak and convincingly settles his own (and our) moral doubt as to whether he has simply replaced the morbid curiosity of the voyeuristic crowds for an equally exploitative scientific curiosity and means of personal gain. But it is John Hurt's rendition of a humanity that has refused to die that makes this film so memorable, a peerless performance that is heartbreakingly never less than utterly convincing.

9.Ending Up starring: John Mills, Wendy Hiller, Michael Hordern, Lionel Jeffries, Googie Withers directed by: Peter Sasdy April 04, 2000
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Rightly regarded as one of the classic British films of the last decades, this broadly true tale of dignified humanity shining through the gloomy, impersonal smog of Victorian London hardly puts a foot wrong. Anthony Hopkins is superb as the dispassionate surgeon who rescues the maltreated circus freak and convincingly settles his own (and our) moral doubt as to whether he has simply replaced the morbid curiosity of the voyeuristic crowds for an equally exploitative scientific curiosity and means of personal gain. But it is John Hurt's rendition of a humanity that has refused to die that makes this film so memorable, a peerless performance that is heartbreakingly never less than utterly convincing.

10.Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne starring: Maggie Smith, Bob Hoskins, Wendy Hiller, Marie Kean, Ian McNeice directed by: Jack Clayton October 12, 1988
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What a great movie, and why it's not on DVD is beyond me. Maggie Smith plays the spinster Judith Hearne, a lonely Dublin woman who's spent her life caring for her sick aunt, seeking refuge in the teachings of the Catholic Church, and when that fails, the bottle. She meets an American Babbitt type (played by Bob Hoskins) who shows her some attention, especially after he learns she's got money. She immediately fancies he's in love with her and she throws herself at him, only to be rebuked. This pushes her off the deep end: she renounces her faith, hits the bottle hard, and ends up in an institution. Years go by after which Hoskins shows up again and asks Smith to marry him; she realizes it's just for her money now and sends him packing. Her lonely life will remain just that. Smith is superb as Hearne; ... Read More

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