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Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: David Niven, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom, Christopher Plummer, Elke Sommer
Directed By: Blake Edwards, Carolyn F. Russell, John Cork, Kenneth L. Kramer

Manufacturer: Optimum Home Entertainment
Starring: Charles Laughton, John Mills, Brenda De Banzie
Directed By: David Lean

While it's true that this 1959 screen adaptation of The 39 Steps pales in comparison to Alfred Hitchcock's seminal 1935 version, it's still a thoroughly enjoyable romp that compensates for a lack of any tension whatsoever with a generous dose of genial good humour. Affable Kenneth More's Richard Hannay more closely resembles the kind of roles Cary Grant was playing for Hitch in the late ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Kenneth More, Taina Elg, Brenda De Banzie, Faith Brook
Directed By: Ralph Thomas

Alfred Hitchcock's 1956 remake of his own 1934 spy thriller is an exciting event in its own right, with several justifiably famous sequences. James Stewart and Doris Day play American tourists who discover more than they wanted to know about an assassination plot. When their son is kidnapped to keep them quiet, they are caught between concern for him and the terrible secret they hold. When asked ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Miles, Ralph Truman
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

The Entertainer of the title is Archie Rice, a mediocre music hall artist upholding a dying tradition in an English seaside against a background of the 1956 Suez Crisis. Laurence Olivier stars and is supported by a superb cast including a young Alan Bates as his son, Roger Livesey as his kindly, now retired, always more talented and popular father, and Joan Plowright as his daughter (who, ...

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: Laurence Olivier, Brenda De Banzie, Roger Livesey, Joan Plowright, Alan Bates
Directed By: Tony Richardson

Manufacturer: Orbit Media Ltd.
Starring: Celia Johnson, Diana Dors, David Kossoff, Joe Robinson, Primo Carnera
Directed By: Carol Reed

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Alastair Sim, Stewart Granger, Eric Portman
Directed By: Roy Ward Baker, Anthony Pelissier, David Lean, Sidney Gilliat, Anthony Asquith

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Dirk Bogarde, Brenda De Banzie, Brigitte Bardot, James Robertson Justice, Maurice Denham
Directed By: Ralph Thomas

Set during the Burma Campaign, Peck stars as a pilot whose life has already been shattered by the loss of his wife during an air raid on London. Shot down after a dogfight with a Japanese fighter, he finds himself marooned in the Burmese jungle with a badly-injured navigator and a traumatised passenger. How will they make it to safety?

Manufacturer: DD Home Entertainment
Starring: Gregory Peck, Win Min Than, Bernard Lee, Brenda De Banzie, Maurice Denham
Directed By: Robert Parrish

Too Many Crooks (1958) boasts an intricate plot in which Terry Thomas is being blackmailed for the hoards he's stashed away as a renowned tax dodger. Driving around in a Jaguar XK 150, a desirable sports car of the period, his intricate private life unravels as his put-upon wife, Brenda de Banzie, draws on her expertise as a wartime PT instructress to turn the tables on him by marshalling ...

Manufacturer: ITV DVD
Starring: Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sid James
Directed By: Mario Zampi