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Michael Powell
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
Edge of the World, The (1937)
- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. John Laurie, Belle Chrystall, Eric Berry… - In what is considered his first major film, director Michael Powell depicts a majestic account of the depopulation of one of the isolated outer…
Spy In Black, The (U-Boat 29) (1939)- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, June Duprez - The brilliant debut collaboration between Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (COLONEL BLIMP, THE RED SHOES), twists an already exciting spy yarn…
Thief of Bagdad, The (1940)
- Dir. Michael Powell, Ludwig Berger, Tim Whelan
Feat. Sabu, Conrad Veidt, June Duprez - Sabu stars in this magical, intoxicating vision of the Arabian Nights, some twenty years before the genre was revived in SINBAD. Romance, tragedy,…
49th Parallel (1941)- Dir. Michael Powell
Feat. Laurence Olivier - A taut, effective actioner in which five German U–boat men become stranded off the Canadian coast and try to make it overland to the neutral…
Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, The (1943)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Roger Livesey, Deborah Kerr, Anton Walbrook - The numerous off–beat adventures of a British soldier are chronicled over a period of three wars, with Deborah Kerr playing all three of the…
Canterbury Tale, A (1944)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Eric Porter, Sheila Sim, Dennis Price - A typically uncategorisable Powell/Pressburger movie, that draws on British eccentricities to flesh out its simple story about three wartime…
I Know Where I'm Going! (1945)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Dame Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, George Carney - A headstrong Wendy Hiller seeks marriage and wealth on the Scottish Hebrides, but is sidetracked by true romance. The powerful landscapes and lyrical…
Black Narcissus (1946)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Deborah Kerr, Sabu, David Farrar… - Visually stunning film about a group of nuns who try to establish a mission on a remote Himalayan outpost in the face of formidable conditions. One…
Matter of Life and Death, A (1946)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. David Niven - By a miracle, RAF pilot David Niven escapes certain death, only to find he must argue for his right to live before a 'heavenly tribunal'. A…
Red Shoes, The (1948)- Dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
Feat. Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer, Marius Goring… - Beloved dance classic is a strikingly realised story of a young ballerina who, in an echo of the Hans Christian Andersen story, becomes torn between…
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