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Dirk Bogarde
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Films to Rent
Quartet (1949)
- Dir. Ken Annakin, Arthur Crabtree, Harold French
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford, Honor Blackman - Four W Somerset Maugham stories are given exemplary treatment by the best of British, incl. Dirk Bogarde, Basil Radford and Honor Blackman. Unlike…
Boys in Brown, The (1949)- Dir. Montgomery Tully
Feat. Jack Warner, Richard Attenborough, Dirk Bogarde… - Soft youth rebellion drama with Jack Warner as warden of a borstal struggling to keep his tempestuous young charges in line. Mostly of note for its…
Blue Lamp, The (1950)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Patrick Doonan, Jack Warner - A confident, precisely–judged thriller set in post–war London, with feral petty–crooks Dirk Bogarde and Patrick Doonan being hunted…
So Long at the Fair (1950)- Dir. Antony Damborough, Terence Fisher
Feat. Jean Simmons, Dirk Bogarde, David Tomlinson… - Spooky urban legend gets the cinematic treatment in this accomplished chiller. At the 1896 World Fair in Paris two siblings check into a hotel, in…
Gentle Gunman, The (1952)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, John Mills - Dirk Bogarde and John Mills are Irish brothers sent to London by the IRA during the Blitz, but one succumbs to pacifism.
Hunted (1952)- Dir. Charles Crichton
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Kay Walsh, Geoffrey Keen… - Brit suspense trailing an orphan on the run from his foster parents wrath after an accident who is kidnapped by a wanted criminal who trys to prevent…
They Who Dare (1953)- Dir. Lewis Milestone
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Bonus film with SLEEPING TIGER is a Dirk Bogarde WWII actioner that details a commando raid on German–controlled Aegean air fields.
Doctor in the House (1954)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - First and best of a series in which Doctors and Nurses exchange fleeting glances and banter for comic effect while training at a med school. Dirk…
Sleeping Tiger (1954)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Suave street–crim Dirk Bogarde is sheltered by one of his victims, a psychiatrist who attempts to cure Bogarde's 'illness'. Shot with a baroque…
Doctor at Sea (1955)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Brigitte Bardot - Dirk Bogarde is once again the eligible MD, in this entertaining second entry in the series taken from Richard Gordon's novels. The crushing boredom…
Spanish Gardener, The (1956)- Dir. Philip Leacock
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sir Michael Hordern, Cyril Cusack… - Curious father/son drama with Bogarde in the title role forming a close relationship with a young boy much to his father's envy. Narrative wise…
Ill Met By Moonlight (1957)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley - Conventional WW2 flick focused on a group of Resistance fighters in German occupied Crete who hatch a plan to kidnap the head of the German army.…
Tale of Two Cities, A (1958)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence… - An intrepid Dirk Bogarde negotiates the rough and tumble of the French Revolution, in this, the version most faithful to the Charles Dickens novel.…
Song Without End (1960)- Dir. Charles Vidor, George Cukor
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Genevieve Page, Capucine… - Pleasant biopic of the great composer Franz Liszt which despite focusing mostly on his love affairs does boast a terrific score. This was Charles…
Victim (1961)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylvia Syms - As an English barrister blackmailed over his homosexual past, Dirk Bogarde gives a keynote performance, the first in what was to become a long line…
Singer Not the Song, The (1961)- Dir. Roy Ward Baker
Feat. John Mills, Dirk Bogarde, Mylene Demongeot… - Philosophical western is an oddity amongst the Rank canon with Bogarde as a campy Mexican bandit terrorising a catholic priest Mills. Homoerotic…
Damn the Defiant! (H.M.S. Defiant) (1962)- Dir. Lewis Gilbert
Feat. Alec Guinness, Dirk Bogarde, Anthony Quayle - Naval drama set aboard a British warship during the Napoleonic wars is a defiantly good–quality effort. Script, photography (by Christopher…
Servant, The (1963)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, James Fox, Sarah Miles - First collaboration between playwright Harold Pinter and dir. Losey is an elegant diagram of English class cruelties, with man–servant Dirk…
Mind Benders, The (1963)- Dir. Basil Dearden
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Mary Ure, Michael Bryant… - A sombre and sobering thriller about the dangers of scientific experiments into sensory deprivation. Investigating the suicide of a colleague,…
I Could Go on Singing (1963)- Dir. Ronald Neame
Feat. Judy Garland, Dirk Bogarde, Jack Klugman… - A successful singer visits her estranged son while on tour in England. Teary melodrama was Garland's last film and featured arguably her best acting.
King and Country (1964)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern - Earnest, expertly acted drama in which a detached army lawyer (Dirk Bogarde) attempts to defend a working–class deserter (Tom Courtenay) during…
High Bright Sun, The (McGuire, Go Home!) (1964)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, George Chakiris, Susan Strasberg… - Convoluted espionage tale with Bogarde on the trail of a Cypriot freedom fighter with an American Archaeology student holding the key to his…
Hot Enough For June (1964)- Dir. Ralph Thomas
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Sylva Koscina, Robert Morley… - A struggling young writer is plunged into a terrifying world of international espionage while on a seemingly innocent commercial assignment to Prague.
Darling (1965)- Dir. John Schlesinger
Feat. Julie Christie, Dirk Bogarde - Oscar–winning, watershed film of British sexual mores is a fashionably flashy and cynical moral fable. Julie Christie social climbs to a…
Modesty Blaise (1966)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Monica Vitti, Dirk Bogarde, Terence Stamp… - Comic–strip style adventures of a sexy female spy, filmed at the height of the pop–art craze.
Accident (1967)- Dir. Joseph Losey
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Vivien Merchant, Michael York - The second classic Joseph Losey / Harold Pinter collaboration takes place in a deceptively placid Oxford University setting, that conceals…
Damned, The (1968)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Ingrid Thulin, Helmut Berger - Italian dir. Luchino Visconti casts a languorous eye over the decline of a German industrialist family during the Nazi era. Heavyweight cast includes…
Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. John Rae, Corin Redgrave, Maurice Roeves… - Powerful anti–war musical adapted from the play by Charles Chilton, which depicts the mass blunder of WWI through the experiences of the poor…
Death in Venice (1971)- Dir. Luchino Visconti
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Dirk Bogarde plays a gay composer whose unspoken obssesion with a young boy detains him in Venice during a cholera epidemic. This soft–focus,…
Night Porter, The (1974)- Dir. Liliana Cavani
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Rampling - Bizarre yet sensual melodrama about an ex–gestapo officer who resumes a sado–masochistic affair with his Jewish former–prisoner.…
Providence (1977)- Dir. Alain Resnais
Feat. John Gielgud, Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn… - John Gielgud plays a dying writer struggling to complete his final novel. Unusual film juxtaposes his imagined thoughts with events from his…
Despair (1977)- Dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Feat. Dirk Bogarde - Fassbinder's blackly comic adaptation of Nabakov's novel about delusion, depression and decline of the human spirit. Dirk Bogarde plays a Russian…
Bridge Too Far, A (1977)- Dir. Richard Attenborough
Feat. Dirk Bogarde, Robert Redford, Sean Connery… - Perhaps a battle–scene too far for some, but for afficiandos this epic account of an abortive Allied invasion of Holland is sure to provide…
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