Miriam KarlinFilmography

Suzie Gold

Actors: Summer Phoenix, Leo Gregory, Stanley Townsend, Rebecca Front, Frances Barber

Utz

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Paul Scofield, Miriam Karlin

Synopsis: Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing. Read More

Jekyll and Hyde

Actors: Joss Ackland, Michael Caine, Cheryl Ladd, Ronald Pickup

Synopsis: In assembling the 1990 TV-movie version of Jekyll and Hyde, writer/director David Wickes recycled many of the elements of his 1988 adaptation of Jack the Ripper--including props, costumes, sets, and star Michael Caine. Caine goes through the standard motions as kindly Henry Jekyll, who dabbles Read More

The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank

Actors: Paul Scofield, Mary Steenburgen

Synopsis: This 1988 TV movie covers much of the same ground previously assessed in the stage and movie versions of The Diary of Anne Frank. The principal difference is that this adaptation is told from the point of view of Miep Gies (Mary Steenburgen), the courageous Dutch gentile who, together with her Read More

Mahler

Actors: Elaine Delmar, Claire McLellan, Sarah McLellan, Gary Rich, Michael Southgate, Arnold Yarrow, Robert Powell, Georgina Hale, Richard Morant, Lee Montague, Rosalie Crutchley

Synopsis: Director Ken Russell made a number of biographical films of composers' lives including The Music Lovers, (about Tchaikovsky) and Lisztomania. Russell embellished the other films with certain characteristic flourishes, which include a focus on the composers' sexual obsessions, poetically telling Read More

A Clockwork Orange

Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Adrienne Corri, Warren Clarke, Aubrey Morris

Synopsis: Stanley Kubrick dissects the nature of violence in this darkly ironic, near-future satire, adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel, complete with "Nadsat" slang. Classical music-loving proto-punk Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his "Droogs" spend their nights getting high at the Korova Milkbar before Read More

Just Like a Woman

Actors: Wendy Craig, Francis Matthews, John Wood, Dennis Price, Miriam Karlin

Synopsis: In this drama, a singer on her husband's weekly television show suddenly decides to begin a new life without him. She then quits her job and moves into the house of another man, a good friend, not a lover. When she learns that her husband is looking for a replacement singer, she does her best to Read More

The Bargee

Actors: Harry H. Corbett, Hugh Griffith, Eric Sykes, Ron Barker, Julia Foster

Synopsis: This British comedy comes from Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, writers of the hit television program Steptoe and Son. Harry H. Corbett (who played Steptoe, Jr. on the tube) is Hemel, a canal-cruising bargee who is dead-set against marriage. He goes about his freewheeling ways until he finds out that Read More

Ladies Who Do

Actors: Peggy Mount, Harry H. Corbett, Miriam Karlin, Avril Elgar

Synopsis: A British charwoman and her colleagues strike it rich on the stock market when she discovers a wastebasket filled with market tips in this drama. Later they decide to use their money for good after they overhear a wicked financier planning to destroy the cleaning woman's neighborhood. Together Read More

Heavens Above!

Actors: Peter Sellers, Bernard Miles, Cecil Parker, Eric Sykes, Irene Handl, Miriam Karlin, Isabel Jeans

Synopsis: Considered a bit too sacrilegious for general consumption in 1963, the Boulting brothers' Heavens Above was simply ahead of its time, and has since accrued a loyal and vocal following. Peter Sellers plays an idealistic British reverend with a bad habit of telling the truth at all times. He also Read More

The Small World of Sammy Lee

Actors: Anthony Newley, Julia Foster, Robert Stephens, Wilfrid Brambell, Warren Mitchell

Synopsis: Based on a BBC television program, this underworld drama set in London's Soho district created a different sort of role for star Anthony Newley, normally a performer associated with light musical comedy. Newley is the titular character, the master of ceremonies at a sleazy strip club owned by Read More

I Thank a Fool

Actors: Susan Hayward, Peter Finch, Diane Cilento, Cyril Cusack, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Dr. Susan Hayward makes a tragic mistake when she leaves her Canadian practice to follow her ailing, married lover to England. Dying slowly and in great pain, her love begs her to help him die quickly. With great compassion, she does so with a large morphine injection. Unfortunately, her mercy Read More

The Phantom of the Opera

Actors: Herbert Lom, Heather Sears, Thorley Walters, Michael Gough, Edward de Souza

Synopsis: This Gothic melodrama from Hammer Studios is in color, but the plot is basically the same as the two previous efforts. Instead of Paris, the action takes place at the Royal Opera House in London. The Phantom (Herbert Lom) is a facially disfigured musician/composer who had his opera stolen by a Read More

Watch It, Sailor?

Synopsis: Able-bodied seaman Albert Tufnell (John Meillon) plans to marry Shirley Hornett (Vera Day), and the ceremony is about to take place -- when a telegram arrives from an officer aboard his ship, advising that marriage is impossible for Tufnell at that moment. Shirley's battle-ax of a mother (Marjorie Read More

The Millionairess

Actors: Sophia Loren, Peter Sellers, Alastair Sim, Vittorio De Sica, Dennis Price

Synopsis: A beautiful and wealthy woman in the market for a husband believes she has found the right man -- only to discover he isn't especially interested, in this comedy based on a play by George Bernard Shaw. Epifania Parerga (Sophia Loren) is a woman who has inherited a vast fortune, making her the Read More

Operation Snafu

Actors: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King

Synopsis: Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more Read More

The Fourth Square

Synopsis: Based on an Edgar Wallace mystery, this suspenseful drama centers on an attorney who is determined to prove that his client is not a murderous burglar. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Entertainer

Actors: Laurence Olivier, Brenda de Banzie, Joan Plowright, Roger Livesey, Alan Bates, Albert Finney

Synopsis: Laurence Olivier recreates his stage role of Archie Rice in this in-your-face film adaptation of John Osborne's play. The son of a legendary music hall comedian (Roger Livesey), Archie is strictly a third-rater, headlining a tacky music hall revue in a seedy seaside resort town. Archie can't admit Read More

Hand in Hand

Actors: Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, John Gregson, Sybil Thorndike, Derek Sydney

Synopsis: Director Philip Leacock, praised for his handling of child actors, does another excellent job with the two young stars in this story about religious tolerance -- and intolerance. Loretta Parry is Rachel, a seven-year-old Jewish girl whose best friend and playmate Michael (Philip Needs) is exactly Read More

Crossroads to Crime

Synopsis: Tired of being constantly ignored by his superiors, a young cop takes it upon himself to expose a ring of hijackers. This crime drama chronicles his investigation. To get close to the culprits, he pretends to accept a bribe from the truck thieves. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Room at the Top

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Simone Signoret, Heather Sears, Donald Wolfit, Donald Houston, Ambrosine Phillpotts

Synopsis: Ruthless young working-class Englishman Laurence Harvey takes a job in a North Country village controlled by millionaire Donald Wolfit. Harvey resents Wolfit's class consciousness and vows to rise to the top by wooing the millionaire's daughter, Heather Sears. Meanwhile he has an affair with Read More

A Touch of the Sun

Synopsis: A bellboy gets sweet revenge upon the employers at the hotel where he once worked after he inherits a lot of money in this lively British comedy. The sweetest revenge of all comes when he and the other lackeys team up to scam the wealthy, who look down upon them, hoping to get them to finance his Read More

Fun at St. Fanny's

Actors: Fred Emney, Cardew Robinson, Vera Day, Davy Kaye, Freddie Mills

Synopsis: Droll British farceur Fred Emney is the star of Fun at St. Fanny's. Emney plays Dr. Septimus Jankers, headmaster of an exclusive boy's college. When the insititution is threatened with a shutdown instigated by its creditors, Dr. Jankers decides to "shake down" a wealthy, middle-aged student Read More

Quay South

Actors: Miriam Karlin, Richard Pearson, Allan Cuthbertson, Frederick Piper

Synopsis: This hour-long episode of the ITV network's anthology series Television Playhouse (which ran from 1955 through 1964 in the UK) originally aired December 10, 1955. It constitutes an adaptation of Howard Clewes's play Quay South, about a seafarer, Captain Daniel Thwaite (here played by Roger Read More

The Deep Blue Sea

Actors: Vivien Leigh, Kenneth More, Eric Portman, Emlyn Williams, Moira Lister

Synopsis: Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, The Deep Blue Sea stars Vivien Leigh as the troubled wife of a London attorney (Emlyn Williams). Racked with emotional problems, Leigh turns her back on her loveless marriage and sets up house with a handsome RAF officer (Kenneth More). When her lover Read More

The Woman for Joe

Actors: Diane Cilento, George Baker, Jimmy Karoubi, David Kossoff, Violet Farebrother

Synopsis: Comparatively little known, the British A Woman for Joe is an excellent showcase for leading lady Diane Cilento (later better known as Mrs. Sean Connery). The actress is cast as Mary, a carnival performer hired by fairground impresario Joe Harrap (George Baker). Mary was employed at the behest of Read More

Down Among the Z Men

Synopsis: In this British comedy, a group of World War II spies attempt to capture a secret atomic formula and it is up to military-man Harry Jones (Harry Secombe) and Carole Gayley (Carole Carr) to stop them. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More