Price, Dennis 1915-1973

Overview

Works:	86 works in 170 publications in 7 languages and 3,491 library holdings
Roles:	Actor, Performer
Classifications:	pn1997, 791.4372

Publication Timeline

1940 |

|2020

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Publications about Dennis Price

Publications by Dennis Price

Publications by Dennis Price, published posthumously.

Most widely held works by Dennis Price

Kind hearts and coronets ( Visual )
18 editions published between 1949 and 2006 in English and No Linguistic content and held by 635 libraries worldwide
Impatient to become duke, the ninth in line decides to eliminate the eight relatives standing in his way in this tart black comedy. Obstructing the path to his title is Alec Guinness, in one of his greatest performances, playing all eight relatives.

A Canterbury tale ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and Undetermined and held by 466 libraries worldwide
During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has something poured on to her hair by an unseen attacker. She is the latest victim of the Glue Man, a nocturnal rogue who harasses young women who date American soldiers. She, along with Bob and Peter, vow to track him down. Ostensibly a mystery, the film is principally a portrait of the bucolic English countryside during wartime.

Tunes of glory ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1960 and 2004 in English and held by 397 libraries worldwide
Jock Sinclair is a whiskey-drinking, by-the-bootstraps commanding officer of a peacetime Scottish battalion. Sinclair is a lifetime military man. He expects loyalty and respect from his men. But when Basil Barrow, an educated, by-the-book scion from a traditional military family enters the scene as Sinclair's replacement, the two men become locked in a fierce battle for control of the battalion and the hearts and minds of its men.

Kind hearts and coronets ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2006 and 2009 in English and held by 366 libraries worldwide
Louis Mazzini seeks to avenge his mother's disinheritance by ascending to her family's dukedom. To do this, he must kill eight of his relatives in the d'Ascoyne family.

Victim ( Visual )
8 editions published between 1997 and 2010 in English and Undetermined and held by 329 libraries worldwide
"A highly respected, but closeted barrister, Melville Farr, risks his marriage and reputation to take on an elusive blackmail ring terrorizing gay men with the threat of public exposure and police action"--Container.

I'm all right Jack ( Visual )
3 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and held by 259 libraries worldwide
"Peter Sellers won his only British Academy Award for his career-making performance as Socialist shop steward Fred Kite in this brilliant class-struggle comedy. Ian Carmichael ... co-stars as naive Oxford graduate Stanley Windrush, who is hired as a common worker at his wealthy uncle's missile factory and quickly becomes a pawn in the battle between management and Mr. Kite's labor union. But can both sides stop a complete nitwit from single-handedly destroying the economy while becoming the symbol of integrity for an entire nation?"--Container.

Agatha Christie's Ten little Indians ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1993 and 1999 in English and held by 158 libraries worldwide
Ten people--eight strangers and two married domestics--come from near and far to attend a posh weekend gala at a remote castle. What's the occasion? Each has unwittingly been invited to his/her own murder!

School for scoundrels ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2007 in English and held by 147 libraries worldwide
Mr. S. Potter is headmaster of a school which gives instruction on "How to win without actually cheating." The school teaches the ways to seduce a women, gain points in a conversation, or beating someone who plays a better game. One of Mr. Potter's pupils is a desperate Henry Palfrey whose every attempt to win the heart of April Smith has been thwarted by the cad Raymond Delauney. Needless to say Mr. Potter's instructions allow Henry to vanquish his nemesis and win April's affections, though not quite as Mr. Potter had intended.

A high wind in Jamaica ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2003 in English and held by 133 libraries worldwide
Concerned that their children aren't growing up as "civilized" as they would in their native England, a couple decides to leave Jamaica and return home with their family. However, when they inadvertently find their way onto a pirate ship, the children befriend, outwit and even frighten their shipmates.

The Adventures of Barry McKenzie ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1972 and 2010 in English and held by 52 libraries worldwide
"In this fan-bloody-tastic classic, Australia's favourite wild colonial boy, Barry McKenzie, journeys to the old country accompanied by his Aunt Edna Everage to take a Captain Cook and further his cultural and intellectual education. Faster than a rat up a drainpipe, Bazza heads for Earl's Court to catch up with a bonzer bunch of ex-pat bastards - and from there rampages through London, cracking tubes, parking the tiger, pointing percy, flashing the nasty and handing out knuckle-sandwiches to the unsuspecting Poms - who wouldn't even know a tram was up 'em 'till the bell rang!

The millionairess ( Visual )
6 editions published between 1996 and 2004 in English and held by 48 libraries worldwide
A beautiful, spoiled heiress has everything money can buy, except a husband. After a disastrous first marriage, she sets her sights on a dedicated but poor Indian doctor who has saved her from suicide.

The horror of Frankenstein ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1989 and 2001 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide
Victor Frankenstein returns from medical school with a depraved taste for beautiful women and fiendish experiments. But when the doctor runs out of fresh body parts for his 'research', he turns to murder to complete his gruesome creation. Now, his monster has unleashed its own ghastly killing spree ...

Alec Guinness. Disc 1, Kind hearts and coronets ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide
Following his mother's death, Edwardian gentleman Louis Mazzini plots to avenge her by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family. To gain this inheritance, Louis must first murder a line of eccentric heirs to the title.

Alec Guinness 5-film collection ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2009 in English and held by 30 libraries worldwide
Kind hearts and coronets: Following his mother's death, an Edwardian gentleman plots to avenge her by seizing the dukedom of the aristocratic d'Ascoyne family ; The Lavender Hill mob: A bank clerk devises a plot to steal a fortune in gold from his own bank ; The man in the white suit: An eccentric chemist one day invents a fiber that never wrinkles, wears out or gets dirty ; The captain's paradise: The captain of an international ferryboat secretly enjoys one wife in Gibraltar and another in Tangier ; The ladykillers: A band of vicious bank robbers rent a room from an elderly widow.

The magic bow ( Visual )
5 editions published between 1947 and 2005 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide
Episodes in the life of the volin virtuoso Paganini.

Venus in furs ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide
A traumatized trumpeter sucked into a whirlpool of psycho-sexual horror along with his sultry girlfriend, a kinky lesbian, a depraved playboy and the mysterious beauty who may lead them all straight to Hell.

Horror hospital ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1999 and 2004 in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide
A song writer and a young woman end up at the same hotel for a vacation. The "hotel" is actually a hospital where a surgeon experiments on the inhabitants, making them zombies.

Your past is showing ( Visual )
1 edition published in 2005 in English and held by 14 libraries worldwide
"A sleazy publisher (Dennis Price) has been blackmailing prominent Londoners by threatening to print shocking stories about them. Actor Sonny MacGregor (Sellers), a prime target, figures the only way to stop him ... is to kill him! A master of disguises, Sonny repeatedly attempts to stop the poison press. But it looks like he'll need help from a band of unlikely assassins ... those also scandalized on the rag's front page!"--Container.

Noblesse oblige by Robert Hamer ( Visual )
2 editions published between 1997 and 2000 in English and held by 13 libraries worldwide

Curse of the voodoo ( Visual )
2 editions published between 2001 and 2004 in English and held by 13 libraries worldwide
Big game hunter Mike Stacey leads a safari in the African jungle. After shooting and killing a lion, a tribe of lion worshippers places a curse on Stacey. The curse follows Mike back to London where it begins to take a terrible toll. Mike is told that only the death of the witchdoctor can lift the curse. So, he returns to the jungle in a desperate attempt to save his own life.