Biography: Ava Gardner |
Ava Gardner began her career first as a model, then as a contract player at MGM, where her gawky, unsophisticated demeanor was totally made over by the studio into an image of inaccessible glamour. Gardner toiled in tiny bit roles, finally getting a... more
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Tags: Romantic Adventure Adventure Drama Action Adventure Drama
Length: 200min
The classy made-for-TV Harem managed to get away with plot devices that dated back to the days of Rudolph Valentino. Nancy Travis heads the cast as Jessica Gray, a turn-of-the-century American woman who is kidnapped and ensconced in the harem of...
Cast: Ava Gardner
Length: 125min
The later years of the life of author D.H. Lawrence are dramatized in this screen biography. Following the controversial reception of his novel -The Rainbow, David Herbert Lawrence (Ian McKellen) and his wife Frieda (Janet Suzman) leave England for...
Cast: Jason Robards, Jr.
Tags: Drama Family Drama
Length: 172min
The made-for-TV The Long Hot Summer was based on the 1958 theatrical film of the same name-which, in turn, was based on two William Faulkner short stories. Don Johnson plays Ben Quick, a Southern drifter who is under suspicion as a "barn burner." Ben...
Cast: Sophia Loren Burt Lancaster
Tags: Action Thriller Action Thriller Disaster Film
Length: 126min
This bizarre entry into the disaster film genre concerns a group of hapless passengers aboard a transcontinental luxury train who are infected with a viral plague by a group of terrorists. Burt Lancaster plays military man Mackenzie, who wants to send...
Cast: Elizabeth Taylor George Cukor Jane Fonda
Tags: Family Fantasy Fairy Tales & Legends Children's Fantasy
Length: 100min
The first official co-production between the United States and the Soviet Union, The Blue Bird was the third screen adaptation of the children's story by Maurice Maeterlinck about a pair of children, Tyltyl (Todd Lookinland) and Mytyl (Patsy Kensit),...
Tags: Spy Film Drama Unglamorized Spy Film
Length: 93min
Yet another in the stable of spy movies which depict espionage as a dirty business. Here, we have Dirk Bogarde heading the "Western Intelligence Liaison" his specific task is to keep the head of a radical third-world organization from returning to his...
The Kidnapping of the President (1980)
Tags: Thriller Political Thriller
Length: 113min
After Third World terrorists abduct the Commander-in-Chief, it's up to Secret Service head William Shatner to get him back in this thriller based on a novel by Charles Templeton. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide
Cast: George Kennedy
Tags: Disaster Film Action Ensemble Film
Length: 122min
Los Angeles is the natural site for a film about earthquakes: they happen there frequently, and the landscape is familiar to moviegoers from thousands of films. A huge number of ongoing vignettes which include cameos from numerous celebrities and...
Cast: James Mason Catherine Deneuve
Tags: Romantic Drama Biopic Melodrama Period Film Drama
Length: 140min
This romantic tragedy concerns the Archduke Rudolf (Omar Sharif) and his mistress, the Baroness Maria Vetsera (Catherine Deneuve), and their untimely demise at Mayerling, the sight of the Austrian royal family's hunting lodge. Rudolf verbally spars...
The Night of the Iguana (1964)
Cast: John Huston
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 125min
Filmed on location in Mexico by John Huston, Night of the Iguana stars Richard Burton as Rev. Shannon, an alcoholic defrocked minister, who scratches out a living as a south-of-the-border tour guide. His latest customers are several American...
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