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Actors: Geraldine Chaplin, Alison Doody, Jeremy Kemp, Virginia McKenna, Billie Whitelaw, Michael York, Richard Johnson
Synopsis: The made-for-TV Duel of Hearts is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland. It is difficult to believe that there's a Gothic-romance TV movie in existence that isn't based on a Cartland novel. Alison Doody plays gorgeous debutante Lady Caroline Faye, who falls for dashing nobleman Genuse Warlingham (Michael York Read More
Synopsis: Based on the story by Kenneth Grahame, this animated episode follows the adventures of Rat, Mole, and Toad. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn
Synopsis: The Beiderbecke Tapes is the second entry in playwright-screenwriter Alan Plater's Beiderbecke Trilogy (following 1985's The Beiderbecke Affair and preceding 1988's The Beiderbecke Connection). The British television miniseries follow the crime-solving adventures of a jazz-loving schoolteacher Read More
Synopsis: Based on the story by Kenneth Grahame, this episode features more of the animated adventures of Rat, Mole, and Toad. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Based on the story by Kenneth Grahame, this animated episode contains more adventures of Rat, Mole, and Toad. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Timothy Dalton, Jonathan Pryce, Twiggy, Julian Sands, Sian Phillips, Stephen Rea
Synopsis: A movie version of the stage play The Doctor and the Devils, written in the 1950s by Welsh poet/playwright Dylan Thomas, had been planned and shelved by several filmmakers before producer Mel Brooks and director Freddie Francis finally brought the project to fruition in 1985. Essentially, the Read More
Synopsis: Based on the story by Kenneth Grahame, the fourth volume of this series features another animated episode of the wonderful adventures of Rat, Mole, and Toad. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: For many aficionados of Kenneth Grahames' The Wind in the Willows, the definitive film version was seen in Disney's omnibus animated feature Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949). Even so, this 1983 British adaptation is every bit as accomplished and worthwhile as the Disney film. Consisting of three short Read More
Actors: Graham Chapman, Peter Boyle, Tommy Chong, Eric Idle, Peter Cook
Synopsis: This colorful spoof of pirate movies had all the makings of a classic farce and yet sank straight to Davy Jones' locker at the box-office, for despite it's all-star international cast of famous comedians, and despite the fact that it was largely co-written by "Monty Python"-veteran Graham Chapman Read More
Actors: Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, James Warwick
Synopsis: In the conclusion of the four-part story "Earthshock," the leader of the Cybermen intends to destroy the earth by forcing the crash-landing of a huge, heavily armed space vessel. The Doctor (Peter Davison), Tegan (Janet Fielding), and Nyssa (Sarah Sutton), all locked in the TARDIS, are unable to Read More
Synopsis: In the third episode of the four-part story "Earthshock," the Doctor (Peter Davison) has materialized on earth in the 26th century, where a huge super-bomb of alien origin is sequestered in a cave, guarded by a pair of murderous robots. To his chagrin, the Doctor learns that the bomb is the Read More
Synopsis: In the second episode of the four-part story "Earthshock," the Doctor (Peter Davison) and two of his companions are held responsible when four 26th century paleontologists disappear. The actual culprits turn out to be a brace of blank-faced robots who are jealously guarding a giant bomb within a Read More
Actors: Suzanne Danielle, Kenny Williams, Kenneth Connor, Jack Douglas, Joan Sims
Synopsis: The Carry On series is living on fumes in this late entry. An unofficial burlesque of the Emmanuelle series (albeit with a single modification: the spelling of the name was changed to 'Emmannuelle' to avoid legal complications), the film centers upon Emmannuelle Prevert (Suzanne Danielle) and her Read More
Actors: Ann-Margret, Peter Firth, Michael Hordern, Beryl Reid, Jim Dale
Synopsis: Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel. Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic escapades. Joseph even has the fortune of Read More
Actors: Ronnie Corbett, Beryl Reid, Arthur Lowe
Synopsis: This bedroom farce seems better suited to a suburban dinner theatre than the Big Screen, but everyone involved strives to please, and often as not they succeed. The plot hinges upon a misdelivered parcel of pornographic postcards, which end up in the hands of a staid banker and his frigid wife. By Read More
Actors: Patrick Cargill
Synopsis: The British TV sitcom Father Dear Father originally ran from 1968 through 1973. Veteran farceur Patrick Cargill starred as a divorced father with two nubile daughters. Complications ensued when the girls moved into the flat just below Cargill's. You may recognize this property as the basis for the Read More
Actors: Vincent Price, Robert Quarry, Valli Kemp, Hugh Griffith, John Thaw
Synopsis: This sequel to the stylish 1971 melodrama The Abominable Dr. Phibes once more stars Vincent Price in the title role. Long believed dead, Phibes arises from a state of suspended animation, in search of the means to bring his deceased wife back to the land of the living. Phibes also wears a rubber Read More
Actors: Beryl Reid, George Sanders
Synopsis: An annoying devil-worshipping British biker gang calling themselves "The Living Dead" decide to take their moniker to heart when their leader commits suicide and is brought back from the dead in an occult ritual, thanks to a Satanic pact. Realizing that becoming zombies could be even more fun than Read More
Actors: Beryl Reid, Peter McEnery, Harry Andrews, Alan Webb
Synopsis: An attractive young charmer by the name of Mr. Sloane weasels his way into the lives of a middle-aged brother and sister, while trying to disguise the truth about his unpleasant past. This black comedy is based on a work by Joe Orton, the taboo-tweaking British playwright who delighted in loading Read More
Synopsis: Set in the British Isles in the 1930s, this film involves two old-maid sisters who lock their deranged brother in a cellar to keep him out of the war. He's there for thirty years, and when he finally gets loose he's a little irritated. Enough so, that he plagues the local countryside with a rash Read More
Actors: Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Telly Savalas, Curd Jürgens, Philippe Noiret
Synopsis: The Assassination Bureau is loosely based on a turn-of-the-century yarn written by Jack London. Nellie Bly-style girl reporter Sonya Winter (Diana Rigg) tries to get the goods on shady businessman Ivan Dragomiloff (Oliver Reed). Ivan is in charge of a wide-reaching organization which, for a price Read More
Actors: Hugh Paddick, Beryl Reid
Synopsis: The genesis of the British sitcom Wink to Me Only was "View by Appointment," an episode of the BBC anthology Comedy Playhouse. Hugh Paddick and Beryl Reid starred as long-married couple Sydney and Rene Jelliot. To say that the Jelliots were "weird" was an understatement, but they were no weirder Read More
Actors: Beryl Reid, Susannah York, Coral Browne, Ronald Fraser, Patricia Medina
Synopsis: A year after helming The Dirty Dozen, director Robert Aldrich took on this controversial drama based on the play of the same name by Frank Marcus. Beryl Reid stars as soap opera star June, an alcoholic lesbian who spends most of her time with her younger lover, Alice (Susannah York). When Read More
Actors: Julie Andrews, Richard Crenna, Michael Craig, Daniel Massey, Robert Reed
Synopsis: Touted by 20th Century-Fox as a follow-up to their enormously successful The Sound of Music, Star! reteams that earlier film's leading lady Julie Andrews and director Robert Wise. Andrews plays legendary musical comedy star Gertrude Lawrence, while Daniel Massey appears as Lawrence's friend Read More
Actors: Alan Arkin, Frank Finlay, Delia Boccardo, Patrick Cargill, Beryl Reid
Synopsis: The famously inept but accidentally brilliant Inspector Clouseau returns to help foil a group of daring robbers in this comedy, the only film in the long-running series not to feature Peter Sellers as the bumbling inspector. Instead, the talented Alan Arkin assumes the role, blundering his way Read More
Actors: Peter Sellers, Richard Attenborough, Beryl Reid, David Lodge, Frank Pettingell, Tristram Jellinek
Synopsis: Peter Sellers starts out with one role and ends up with three in The Dock Brief (U.S. title Trial and Error), a satirical comedy based on the television play by John Mortimer. Sellers' principal role is as an incompetent barrister assigned to defend a wife murderer (Richard Attenborough). The Read More
Actors: Peter Sellers, Wilfrid Hyde-White, David Lodge, Bernard Cribbins, Maurice Denham
Synopsis: Peter Sellers stars as an inmate in a "model prison" run by Maurice Denham. Though Sellers is disinclined to escape (he's never been as comfortable in his life), he is convinced to do so by phony vicar Wilfred Hyde-White, who breaks into jail to outline a robbery scheme. Hyde-White's plan is to Read More
Actors: Richard Basehart, Simone Simon, George Baker, Josephine Griffin, Colin Gordon
Synopsis: The Extra Day is a portmanteau film in the tradition of the earlier Derby Day. The ball gets rolling when Joe Blake (Richard Basehart), the assistant to film director Kurt Vorn (Laurence Naismith), routinely summons a group of movie extras for a few necessary retakes. The audience then Read More
Actors: Alastair Sim, Joyce Grenfell, George Cole, Hermione Baddeley, Betty Ann Davies
Synopsis: Belles of St. Trinian's was the first of several British comedies inspired by the fear-inspiring girl's school created by cartoonist Ronald Searle. The girls of St. Trinian's aim their deviltry at a gang of crooks who plan to steal a famous race horse. Alastair Sim wraps up the proceedings with Read More
Actors: Vic Wise, Norman Wisdom, Beryl Reid, Eddie Leslie, John Hanson
Synopsis: This very early British TV comedy-variety series was a vehicle for Vic Wise, who'd risen to popularity as star of BBC radio's "Variety Bandbox." Appearing in support of Mr. Wise were a number of talented film, radio, and music-hall veterans, many of whom became stars in their own right. Telecast Read More
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