Margaret Rutherford
Series
Criterion collection volume 830
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English
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The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.
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English
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Mystery novelist Agatha Christie's intrepid spinster sleuth, Miss Marple, reveals a skeleton full of closets as she tracks a killer in MURDER, SHE SAID.Miss Marple (Academy Award winner Margaret Rutherford) witnesses a murder while aboard the night train from Paddington. But when she reports the crime and the police cannot find a body, they dismiss her story as the ramblings of a doddering eccentric. Now, determined that the crime she saw does not...
Series
Criterion collection volume 158
Language
English
Description
A witty, delightful story about a lovestruck suitor named Jack whose fiancee can only love a man named Ernest.
10) The V.I.P.s
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English
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Elite passengers waiting for London-to-U.S. flights get fogged in, and have to deal with their problems rather than run from them.
15) Murder most foul
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English
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The Cosgood Players are knocking them dead, literally! Luckily, the players have a detective in the cast, their newest thespian, the redoubtable Miss Marple. Miss Marple takes her final bow in this film.
17) Murder, she said
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English
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"Who's that in the frilly cap and apron, toting a tea tray? Not a pert French maid, but spinster sleuth Miss Marple in disguise. And it's not Darjeeling that's caught her interest -- it's murder! Margaret Rutherford makes her first appearance in this sly, engaging mystery based on Agatha Christie's 4:50 from Paddington. Comfily ensconced in her railway carriage, Miss Marple sees a strangulation aboard a passing train, then follows a trail of baffling...
Series
Criterion collection volume 603
Language
English
Description
Disc 1. In which we serve. The story of the H.M.S. Torrin, a British naval ship, from its construction through its destruction in World War II. As the surviving crew cling to life boats and wreckage awaiting rescue, they flashback to their homes and loved ones and in so doing recall just why they are fighting and whom they are fighting for. Disc 2. This happy breed. The story of a London family from 1919 to 1939, and their struggle to maintain a stable...
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English
Description
The crowning achievement of Orson Welles's extraordinary film career that was the culmination of the filmmaker's lifelong obsession with Shakespeare's ultimate rapscallion, Sir John Falstaff. Usually a comic supporting figure, Falstaff; the loyal, often soused friend of King Henry IV's wayward son Prince Hal, here becomes the focus: a robustly funny and ultimately tragic screen antihero played by Welles with looming, lumbering grace.