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Actors: John Malkovich, Jim Davidson, Richard E. Grant, Terence Rigby
Synopsis: In the mid-'90s, an Englishman by the name of Alan Conway (John Malkovich) conned many people into believing that he was the reclusive American director Stanley Kubrick, despite the fact that Conway was openly gay, bore no physical resemblance to Kubrick, and knew little about the director's work. Read More
Actors: Robert Powell
Synopsis: Acclaimed actor Robert Powell (Jesus of Nazareth) narrates this panoramic documentary overview of the American Civil War. The program spans numerous major events of the bloody and visceral four-year conflict, from one of the earliest battles at Fort Sumter, through the surrender of the Confederacy Read More
Crew: Stunts
Actors: Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Denzel Washington, Salli Richardson, Earl Billings
Synopsis: The directorial debut of Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, Antwone Fisher is an autobiographical drama written by the real-life Antwone Fisher. Played by newcomer Derek Luke, Antwone is a volatile young sailor in the Navy, getting into trouble for his constant fighting. When he gets Read More
Synopsis: A 19-hour 16th-century Chinese opera written by Tang Xianzu is curtailed to this two-hour video showcase of the poetic dance and performance artistry of the critically acclaimed piece as it was performed on stage. Narrator Robert Powell summarizes the ellipses left by the drastic cut in length Read More
Synopsis: This film chronicles the decisive sea battle that ended Napoleon Bonaparte's quest to conquer England. The French were defeated by the British in the fight that took place off the southwestern coast of Spain. The French lost 20 ships; the British lost none. However, Admiral Nelson, Britain's most Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this video examines the cases murder cases of Butch Defeo and Graham Young. Both men were accused of murdering their families. Defeo was responsible for the "Amityville Murders", having killed six members of his family while they Read More
Actors: Dawn French, Juliet Stevenson, Chris Barrie, Richard E. Grant, Hugh Laurie
Synopsis: Young Jim Hawkins and the pirate Long John Silver race to find the same treasure located on a mysterious map in this animated adaptation of the timeless classic by Robert Louis Stevenson. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: The owner of a luxury locomotive hires a sleuthing tour guide to recover valuables stolen by an elusive theif in this period adventure drama filmed aboard the famed Pride of Africa. The Pride of Africa was waiting to leave the station when a thief quietly absconded with a small fortune in cash and Read More
Actors: Jesse Ventura, Arnold Schwarzenegger, George Clooney, Chris O'Donnell, Uma Thurman, Alicia Silverstone
Synopsis: This was the third follow-up to Tim Burton's Batman (1989), the original revisionist look at the Gotham City legend, as well as the second in the Batman series directed by Joel Schumacher and the first featuring George Clooney as the Caped Crusader; it features not one but two super-villains, and Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this video examines the disturbing cases of Gary Heidnek and the mysterious "Brighton Trunk Murders". Gary Heidnek was accused and convicted of kidnapping, imprisoning and torturing 7 women. Two of the imprisoned women died, and it Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this video explores the high profile assinations of Robert F. Kennedy and John Lennon. Using archival news clips and expert commentary, Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century: Famous Assinations attempts to show how and the Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this video examines the crimes and subsequent trials of Leopold and Loeb and Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. Using archival news footage and expert testimony, the viewer is shown the details of how two bored and wealthy young men Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this video explores the crimes and subsequent trials of Gaston Dominici and Henry Lee Lucas. Gaston Dominici, an illiterate farmer from the south of France, was charged in 1952 with the murder of famed scientist Sir Jack Drummond Read More
Synopsis: Part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century ten-volume series, Public Enemies revisits "the stories that shocked the world." Supported by the American Bar Association, the series provides access to picture libraries, archive footage, and syndicated sources. Included in this installment Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this documentary examines the cases of Dr. John Bodkin and Dr. Buck Ruxton. Bodkin was charged with the murder of one of his patients after authorities became suspicious when they discovered that nearly one hundred of his deceased Read More
Synopsis: As part of the Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century series, this video details the troubles authorities had in proving that Judge Joseph Peel and Donald Hume commited murder. Using archival news footage and expert commentary, Great Crimes and Trials of the 20th Century: Great Forensic Cases Read More
Synopsis: Robert Powell narrates as Great Crimes & Trials of the 20th Century takes viewers inside the carnage of Malmedy and into the killing fields of Cambodia. Infamous Massacres is one in a series of riveting documentaries supported by the American Bar Association. The series brings to life 20 legendary Read More
Synopsis: Part of a series on 20th century crimes and trials that was endorsed by the American Bar Association, Questions of Doubt deals with famous trials that attracted worldwide attention and made history. Whether the defendant was found guilty or innocent, all the trials documented in this video leave Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Jonathan Phillips
Synopsis: This drama is adapted from Dicken's unfinished novel and centers upon a choirmaster who is insanely jealous of his fiancee. This jealousy causes him many problems down the road. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Examine one of the most talked about events in modern history, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rare archival material tells the story of King's murder at the hands of James Earl Ray in 1968. The film reviews the history of the Ku Klux Klan, the racist organization founded to harass Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Kevin J. Wilson
Synopsis: In its centuries-long role as the premiere empire in the world, Britain had a long history of putting political expediency over what most would consider to be the demands of common humanity. In this wartime drama, the Wellington Regiment, composed entirely of empire subjects from New Zealand, is Read More
Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy
Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Peter Marinker
Synopsis: Review the work of Ernst through his perspective as he evaluates his evolution as an artist. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: John Hurt, Robert Powell, Francesca Annis, Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave
Synopsis: Despite the use in this film of voices dubbed by greats of English theater, the casting of long-haired cats to play the roles of Romeo and Juliet seems somewhat perverse. Nonetheless, the lines are well read, and the movie contains some fine original musical compositions. Among the voices: Maggie Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Stefania Sandrelli, Sonia Petrova, Teresa Ann Savoy, Florence Guerin
Synopsis: During his lifetime, the noted Italian author Gabriele D'Annunzio was considered to be a genius, a daring adventurer, and a major Italian nationalist. During the Mussolini era, he was still considered to be a major figure in Italian literature, and many schoolchildren were required to study his Read More
Synopsis: Originally aired as a British mini-series, Shaka Zulu follows the rise of Shaka (Henry Cele) to the king of the Zulus during the early 19th century when the British were beginning to gain control of Africa. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This performance video from Kultur is a collection of highlights from famous dance partners Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev. Clips include Le Corsaire, Les Sylphides, and Romeo and Juliet. Narrated by Robert Powell. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Timothy Bottoms, Lisa Blount, Richard Johnson, Anne Heywood
Synopsis: Secrets of the Phantom Caverns is a goofy fantasy filmed on the cheap by the ever-canny Don Sharp. The story involves a team of anthropologists and military men who busy themselves exploring a serpentine system of subterranean caves. They discover of lost race of Albinos, which wreaks havoc upon Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Laurence Olivier, Susan George, Robert Powell, Charles Gray
Synopsis: This spy film purports to be inspired by the true story of Kim Philby (1912-1988), a British intelligence officer and Soviet spy during the 1940s and '50s who gained international notoriety when he blew his cover and defected to the USSR in 1963. But this fictional, unsophisticated, if not naive Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Brigitte Fossey, Sigfrit Steiner, Matthias Habich, Leslie Caron
Synopsis: Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi once more explores the dilemma of intellectualism at the expense of humanity in 1982's Imperative. The story concerns math professor Robert Powell, who feels that there is something lacking in his ever-so-precise life. What is missing is truth, specifically Read More
Actors: Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi, Lesley-Anne Down, Robert Powell, John Gielgud
Synopsis: While most people are familiar only with the Lon Chaney Sr. and Charles Laughton versions of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame, this 1982 TV adaptation was the fourteenth filmization of the Hugo novel. Anthony Hopkins, barely recognizable under mounds of disfiguring body makeup, plays Read More
Synopsis: Made for British television, this adaptation of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is doggedly faithful to its source. Dr. Frankenstein's synthetic monster speaks, aspires to intellectual achievements, and begins descending into insanity and murder against his will. As in the Shelley original, both Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Carmen Duncan, David Hemmings, Broderick Crawford, Gus Mercurio
Synopsis: Harlequin is directed by Simon Wincer and tells a tale with echoes in 20th-century Russian history. Nick and Sandra Rast (David Hemmings and Carmen Duncan) have a little boy, Alex (Mark Spain), who is suffering from leukemia. Like normal parents they will do anything to help their son, especially Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Jenny Agutter, Joseph Cotten, Angela Punch McGregor, Ralph Cotterill
Synopsis: A mid-air jet disaster leaves the one survivor to avenge the deaths of the others. This supernatural thriller follows him on his search for the bomber that caused the disaster. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Sean Young, Kurt Johnson, Katrina Hodiak
Synopsis: The Ismail Merchant-James Ivory team generated this account of a pair of teachers battling for the rights to produce an unpublished Jane Austen play. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: This musical performance is about the life of Christ. Filmed in Israel and the ancient amphitheater at Caesarea. ~ All Movie Guide Read More
Synopsis: Word is about the newly discovered text that is allegedly written by the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It the document is genuine, it would throw the world's theological community into chaos. David Janssen plays an archaeologist who travels to Italy to verify the document's origins. ~ Stephen Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, David Warner, Eric Porter, Karen Dotrice, John Mills
Synopsis: This 1978 re-remake of The 39 Steps adheres more closely to the source novel by John Buchan than Alfred Hitchcock's better-known original, restoring the pre-World War I time frame of the Buchan story. Hannay (Robert Powell) is an innocent bystander, suspected by enemy agents of having intercepted Read More
Actors: Dominique Sanda, Erland Josephson, Robert Powell, Virna Lisi, Philippe Leroy
Synopsis: A misguided attempt to dramatize the psychological triad formed by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche (Erland Josephson), his Jewish friend Paul Rees (Robert Powell), and a Russian girl named Lou Von Salome (Dominique Sanda), this overbearing drama fails mightily. Nietzsche is portrayed as a Read More
Actors: Robert Powell, Olivia Hussey, Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Anne Bancroft, James Mason, Ian McShane, Laurence Olivier, Rod Steiger
Synopsis: Because director Franco Zeffirelli noted publicly that he intended to depict Jesus Christ as a human being rather than a religious icon, his expensive made-for-TV miniseries Jesus of Nazareth fell victim to protestors long before its April 3, 1977, debut. Despite the pullout of several sponsors Read More
Actors: Beau Bridges, Jane Seymour
Synopsis: This fifth film version of A.E.W. Mason's "Sun Never Sets" adventure novel The Four Feathers was adapted for television by Gerald DiPego. Following the death of British general "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum, 19th-century gentleman officer Harry Favershem (Beau Bridges) is summoned to active duty in Read More
Actors: Ann-Margret, Oliver Reed, Roger Daltrey, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Jack Nicholson, Robert Powell
Synopsis: Tommy (Roger Daltrey) is a "deaf, dumb and blind kid" who retreats into himself after the death of his father. His mother, Nora (Ann-Margret), and stepfather Frank (Oliver Reed) take him to see a specialist (Jack Nicholson) but Tommy is apparently a hopeless case. That is, until Tommy discovers Read More
Synopsis: Sister Mary is a fictional character in a popular British soap opera. When Sister Mary is killed off by the scriptwriters, a mentally unbalanced fan objects. The fan insinuates himself (or herself?) on the set of the program and begins bumping off the other actors. Jennie Linden plays the title Read More
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
Actors: Peter Cushing, Britt Ekland, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Robert Powell
Synopsis: Four short stories by master of macabre Robert Bloch are related by the inmates of a mental institution. In the first story, Richard Todd murders his wife and cuts her body into little pieces -- but that doesn't stop her from seeking revenge. In the second, Peter Cushing orders crooked tailor Barry Morse Read More
Synopsis: In this grim drama, a college student remains passive as his friend commits suicide causing his friends to blame him for the death. Eventually he too, kills himself. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Robert Stephens
Synopsis: A well-mounted period horror tale, The Asphyx (known also as Spirit of the Dead) focuses on the scientific endeavors of Robert Stephens, whose revolutionary work in the burgeoning field of photography leads him to the remarkable discovery of the title creature -- a soul-stealing demon known to Read More
Synopsis: Filmed in London, Lady Killer stars American actress Barbara Feldon as a young newlywed. Her husband Robert Powell is outwardly a charmer, but inwardly a killer, with Feldon slated for early elimination. Feldon begins to have her suspicions; the problem lies in convincing anyone else. Is anything Read More
Synopsis: This six-episode British TV adaptation of the classic Thomas Hardy novel finds Robert Powell as the title character, whose aspirations toward the priesthood are undone by his love for the licentious Sue Bridehead (Fiona Walker). ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide Read More
Actors: Per Oscarsson, Robert Powell, Tarka Kings
Synopsis: A sexy day in the life of a young family provides the basis of this sudsy drama. During this time the husband, the wife, and their daughter each have their own secret sexual interlude. Many enjoy this film because it contains five minutes of nudity starring the luscious Jacqueline Bisset. ~ Sandra Read More
Actors: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley
Synopsis: The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Read More
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