Basil Dearden

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Historical biopic chronicling the final years of British General Charles Gordon (Charlton Heston) during the Siege of Khartoum. In 1883 Gordon is sent to Sudan in order to ensure the evacuation of a number of soldiers and civilians. When he arrives in Khartoum, Gordon defies his orders and instead begins preparing the city's defences against the Mahdist forces led by the charismatic and bloodthirsty Muhammad Ahmad (Laurence Olivier). After a brief correspondence the two men gain mutual respect but as the conflict intensifies this does little to lessen the fighting and the perilous position of Gordon, his garrison and the besieged citizens of Khartoum.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Oliver Reed and Diana Rigg star in this black comedy adventure directed by Basil Dearden. In 1908, journalist Sonia Winter (Rigg) discovers the existence of the Assassination Bureau, an organisation which once killed for moral reasons but has recently begun targeting people for financial gain instead. Hoping to shut it down, she secures enough money from her employer, Lord Bostwick (Telly Savalas), to arrange the killing of Ivan Dragomiloff (Reed), the chairman of the Bureau. However, Dragomiloff is eager to turn the situation to his advantage and purge the Bureau of all those who have forgotten its true purpose. After he challenges his colleagues to kill him or be killed themselves, he sets off on a journey across Europe with Sonia - and his colleagues - in pursuit. The cast also includes Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret and Warren Mitchell.<br/><br/><i>Typ: Blu-ray / Limited Edition</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Basil Dearden directs this WWII drama set during the London Blitz of 1940. Tommy Trinder stars as kennelman Tommy Turk, who volunteers for the East End Auxiliary Fire Service. The volunteers have to work alongside the regular firemen, who resent the amateurs but who also depend upon their indispensable work to save as many lives as possible.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

1950s British drama based on the short story by Nicholas Monsarrat. The crew of the Royal Navy's much-decorated Motor Gun Boat 1087 find the going much tougher following the end of the Second World War. Now unemployed, the men buy their old ship back from a scrap yard and use her to smuggle black market goods across the English Channel.<br/><br/>As the crew's fortunes prosper they become more daring, but when they start carrying money and guns for London's criminal gangs, the old 1087 herself seems to be protesting against their activities. The mood on board becomes blacker still when a convicted child murderer is given refuge on ship, setting off a disastrous chain of events...

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Basil Dearden directs this WWII drama set during the London Blitz of 1940. Tommy Trinder stars as kennelman Tommy Turk, who volunteers for the East End Auxiliary Fire Service. The volunteers have to work alongside the regular firemen, who resent the amateurs but who also depend upon their indispensable work to save as many lives as possible.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Hard-hitting 1950s crime drama exploring racism towards immigrants among the London police and public. Sapphire (Yvonne Buckingham), a fair-skinned West Indian immigrant, is discovered murdered. To the police, led by Superintendent Hazard (Nigel Patrick) and Inspector Learoyd (Michael Craig), the case seems clear cut - Sapphire must have been killed by a member of the black community. However, when Sapphire's brother (Earl Cameron) turns up at the police station and Sapphire's true ethnic roots become known, Hazard and Learoyd must face up to the racism of two communities and, quite possibly, their own...<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD</i>

<b>OBS! Import.</b> Kontrollera att språk och textning passar dig.<br/><br/>Basil Dearden directs this 1950s British drama starring John Mills, Dirk Bogarde and Elizabeth Sellars. During the Second World War, Irish brothers Terence and Matt Sullivan (Mills and Bogarde) arrive in London to launch an IRA bombing campaign, but Terry begins to have doubts about their mission when they are asked to free two of their captured comrades.<br/><br/><i>Typ: DVD / Restored</i>