Virginia McKenna Movies

List of the best Virginia McKenna movies: Carve Her Name With Pride(1958), A Town Like Alice(1956), Born Free(1966), Swallows and Amazons(1974), An Elephant Called Slowly(1970), Ring of Bright Water(1969), The Smallest Show on Earth(1957), Simba(1955), The Barretts of Wimpole Street(1957), The Ship That Died of Shame(1956), Holocaust 2000(1978), The Wreck of the Mary Deare(1959) ... ...

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Carve Her Name With Pride

During World War II, a recently widowed young woman is recruited to work as a spy in France.

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A Town Like Alice

A newly wealthy English woman returns to Malaya to build a well for the villagers who helped her during war. Thinking back, she recalls the Australian man who made a great sacrifice to aid her and her fellow prisoners of war.

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Born Free

The story of George and Joy Adamson and the orphaned lion cub, Elsa, they adopt.

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Swallows and Amazons

On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise... See full summary »

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An Elephant Called Slowly

Bill and Ginny are invited by a naturalist friend to take care of his home in Africa while he is away, and they find themselves adopted by three orphan elephants.

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Ring of Bright Water

Whoever said dog is man's best friend never met Mij! Mij is a cute, cuddly pet shop otter who captures the heart of Graham Merill (Bill Travers). It doesn't take Graham long to realize that... See full summary »

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The Smallest Show on Earth

British newlyweds (Bill Travers, Virginia McKenna) inherit a shabby movie house and its eccentric staff of three.

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Simba

Natives help an English farmer (Dirk Bogarde) and his white friends fight Mau Mau terrorists in Kenya.

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The Barretts of Wimpole Street

Elizabeth Barrett's tyrannical father has forbidden any of his family to marry. Nevertheless, Elizabeth falls in love with the poet Robert Browning.

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The Ship That Died of Shame

Boxing drama following the lives of five different fighters and their reasons for becoming boxers.

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Holocaust 2000

A designer (Kirk Douglas) of nuclear-power plants learns his son (Simon Ward) is the Antichrist and a big fan of fission.

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The Wreck of the Mary Deare

A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a result, vindicate his good name.

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The Cruel Sea

The World War II adventures of a British convoy escort ship and its officers.

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Golden Years

Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime. ... See full summary »

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