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Donald Sinden Icon Box Set [DVD]

Donald Sinden , Diana Dors    Suitable for 12 years and over   DVD
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Product details

  • Actors: Donald Sinden, Diana Dors
  • Format: Box set, PAL
  • Language: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Number of discs: 11
  • Classification: 12
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 17 Sep 2007
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B000S39910
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 53,890 in Film & TV (See Top 100 in Film & TV)

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Product Description

A stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Donald Sinden first acted at the Brighton Little Theatre in 1941 and broke into professional acting after appearing in revues for the armed forces during the Second World War. He subsequently appeared in many British movies of the 1950s, some of which are showcased in this collection. Films include: 'A Day to Remember' (1953), 'You Know What Sailors Are' (1954), 'The Beachcomber' (1954), 'Mad About Men' (1954), 'Simba' (1955), 'Above us the Waves' (1955), 'An Alligator Named Daisy' (1955), 'Tiger in the Smoke' (1956), 'Eyewitness' (1956), 'The Black Tent' (1956), 'Rockets Galore' (1957) and 'Mix Me a Person' (1962).

Product Description

This is a lovely DVD Box set that captures the works of Donald Sinden - thefilms included are A day to remember, You know what sailors are, The Beachcomber, Mad about men, Above us the waves, An alligator named Daisy, Tiger in the smoke, Eyewitness, The Black Tent, Rockets Galore, Mix me a person.


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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT BOX SET 11 Mar 2011
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Great films all,Special mention to the THE BLACK TENT,

Rank have re-Mastered this in its VistaVision 1.85 Ratio
Anamorphic ,Beautiful Colour print

The rest of the prints are quite good too.
Great set.
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33 of 37 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Well, who'd have thought it ? 7 Mar 2008
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Most of us are familiar with Donald Sinden - a good many of us from his fruity-voiced luvvy puppet on 'Spitting Image', always angling after a knighthood.

Well, the knighthood came, and Sir Donald has joined the ranks of Sir John, Sir Ralph, Sir Laurence, et al., the main difference being that Sir Donald is still very much alive.

It is nice to see this collection of his films re-mastered and re-released. They are (mostly) very good and very watchable British film making, with a repertory company of excellent actors and actresses - and as a boxed set of no less than ELEVEN features, this one works out at very good value.

I bought it because of one film - MAD ABOUT MEN. I remember it from those Tuesday evening 'British Film Comedy' showings on BBC1 in the 60s and 70s. It was the sequel to an earlier effort, MIRANDA, which starred Glynis Johns as a mermaid.

MAD ABOUT MEN is joyous - it is dotty Englishness sent up to perfection, with some moments to die for - I call your attention especially to the end-of-the-pier show which kicks off with a hearty ladies' choir (all the members well past the first flush of youth) warbling about country swains and hey-nonny-no. Delicious.
Glynis Johns is glamorous, both as a human, and with a fishy tail, and Mr Sinden is extremely dishy - tall, dark, and handsome in his fisherman's sweater, as the romantic lead.

The other films are mostly excellent - especially worthy of note are MIX ME A PERSON, starring a young Adam Faith, released before Britain abolished hanging (The debate must have been raging at the time, and one wonders if this nicely constructed drama about a miscarriage of justice maybe helped Parliament to make up its mind) and ROCKETS GALORE - a wickedly funny satire about the Arms Race and its potential impact on a quiet Hebridean community. It is of course a sequel to the legendery WHISKY GALORE, with a large number of the original cast still doing battle with sheep, strong drink, and pompous English intruders.

WHISKY GALORE is still justly famous. This one, for some reason, isn't.
The Donald Sinden Icon Collection should go some way towards redressing the balance.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Great, but... 30 Nov 2009
All these films are either funny, charming, or dramatic, but I've recently dicovered that Miranda has been edited by about nine minutes.
Irene Handel's name features on the Credits, and a scene of her's is one of the photo's in the Stills' section, of the Special Features, but her scene's been deleted.
Halliwell's Seventh Edition gives the running time as 90 minutes; on the disc, it's given as 81 minutes.
All the prints are very good indeed.
I bought it for the Adam Faith film. I'll devour anything that comes from that fascinating late-' fifties-early-pre-Beat-' sixties' time: the ' fifties ended in '62; all decades end about two years into the following one.
The Black Tent was charming.
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