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Minette Walters: The Scold's Bridle (1998)
7.5/10
Director: David Thacker
Starring: Miranda Richardson, Bob Peck, Virginia McKenna
Detective Cooper investigates the bizarre circumstances surrounding the murder of Matilda who was found dead in her bath wearing the Scold's Bridle. Read more
A Town Like Alice (1956)
7.2/10
Director: Jack Lee
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Peter Finch, Maureen Swanson
Based on Neville Shute's internationally bestselling WWII tale about Japanese oppression of female British POWs in Malaysia. Virginia McKenna, Peter F... Read more
Carve Her Name With Pride (1958)
7.3/10
Director: Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner
Based on R. J. Minney's book about real-life British war heroine Violet Szabo (Virginia McKenna) who parachuted into Nazi-occupied Europe as a secret... Read more
Julius Caesar (BBC) (1979)
7.4/10
Director: Herbert Wise
Starring: Richard Pasco, Keith Michell, Virginia McKenna, Charles Gray
Richard Pasco, Keith Michell and Charles Gray star this BBC production of Shakespeare's artful telling of conspiracy in the Roman Senate. Fearful that... Read more
Born Free / Living Free (1965)
Director: Jack Couffer, James Hill
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Bill Travers, Geoffrey Keen, Nigel Davenport, Susan Hampshire
An adventure-filled DVD double feature. "Born Free" (1965, 91 minutes) - Classic family adventure film, based on Joy Adamson's book, tells the amazing... Read more
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Director: Basil Dearden
Starring: Bernard Miles, Bill Travers, Margaret Rutherford, Peter Sellers, Virginia McKenn...
Jean and Bill are a struggling married couple with Bill trying to scrape a living as a writer. Out of the blue they receive a telegram informing them... Read more
Gold Cinema Collection: Carve Her Name With Pride / Cottage to Let / Sea of Sand (1958)
Director: Anthony Asquith, Guy Green, Lewis Gilbert
Starring: Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, Jack Warner, Leslie Banks, Alastair Sim, John M...
'Carve Her Name With Pride' (1958) Violette Bushell is a young woman living in London in World War 2. She meets a young French soldier whom she falls... Read more
Golden Years (2016)
6.1/10
Director: John Miller
Starring: Bernard Hill, Phil Davis, Simon Callow, Una Stubbs, Virginia McKenna, Alun Armst...
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and M... Read more
Ethel & Ernest (2016)
7.8/10
Director: Roger Mainwood
Starring: Simon Day, Peter Wight, Luke Treadaway, Roger Allam, Brenda Blethyn, Jim Broadbe...
The true story of British author and illustrator Raymond Briggs's parents, Ethel and Ernest, two ordinary Londoners living through a period of extraor... Read more
The Railway Children / Swallows and Amazons (1970)
Director: Claude Whatham, Lionel Jeffries
Starring: Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Sally Thomsett,...
"The Railway Children" (1970, 103 minutes). Edith Nesbit's 1906 novel "The Railway Children" was adapted for the big screen in 1970 by Lionel Jeffries... Read more
Duel of Hearts (1990)
7/10
Director: John Hough
Starring: Richard Johnson, Billie Whitelaw, Michael York, Geraldine Chaplin, Virginia McKe...
Based on Barbara Cartland's romantic novel, Alison Doody is Lady Caroline, the attractive debutante who falls for a dashing Michael York. In order to... Read more
The Edwardians (1972)
6.7/10
Director: John Howard Davies
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Michael Jayston, Nigel Davenport, Robert Powell,...
This eight-part BBC miniseries explores the influential characters of Britain's Edwardian Age - a period that underwent some of the greatest achieveme... Read more