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"The world of Bryan Forbes is one of wisps and whispers," noted film critic Andrew Sarris in 1968, citing the "muted" quality of director Forbes' best films. While his directorial output does indeed exhibit an inbred sense of quietude and subtlety,... more
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Cast: Albert Finney Ennio Morricone
Tags: Spy Film Action Unglamorized Spy Film Thriller
Length: 123min
The "endless game" is espionage, which goes on and on despite government upheavals and changing international attitudes. Albert Finney plays a retired secret agent called back to active duty. Finney is entrusted with the task of finding out why his...
Cast: David Niven Maggie Smith Henry Mancini
Tags: Buddy Film Comedy Odd Couple Film
Length: 95min
The usually reliable director Bryan Forbes came acropper in Better Late Than Never. In one of his last films, a noticeably weary David Niven plays Nick, the supposed grandfather of 10-year-old heiress Bridget (Kimberly Partridge). Charley (Art Carney)...
Cast: Anthony Hopkins Christopher Plummer
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Family Coming-of-Age
Length: 126min
Thirty-four years after the release of National Velvet, MGM came up with this attractively filmed sequel. Tatum O'Neal stars as the niece of Velvet Brown, Elizabeth Taylor's character from the first film (the Taylor role is played herein by Nanette...
Cast: Art Carney Elliott Gould
Tags: Crime Thriller Mystery Crime
Length: 105min
In this fast-paced, often complex murder mystery, a psychiatrist's patient and later his secretary are killed, yet the police seem unable to come up with any answers so the doc takes matters into his own hands. Roger Moore is Dr. Judd Stevens, a...
Cast: Gene Wilder Roger Moore
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Manners Sex Comedy
Length: 127min
Sunday Lovers is a fitfully amusing study of weekend romantic techniques as practiced in four different cultures. Each episode was filmed by a separate unit in the country where the story was set. "The French Method" (directed by Eduoard Molinaro)...
The Slipper and the Rose (1976)
Cast: Edith Evans
Tags: Musical Fantasy Romance Fantasy Romantic Fantasy
Length: 146min
Filmed in Austria, this British-made musical retells the story of Cinderella as it is found in books of fairy tales. The Prince, Edward, is played by Richard Chamberlain, Cinderella by Gemma Craven. In her role as the Prince's witty mother, Dame Edith...
Length: 93min
Britain's Bryan Forbes and France's Pierre Jourdan collaborated on the direction of the feature-length documentary I Am a Dancer. Rudolph Nureyev, the celebrated Russian ballet star who defected to the West in 1961, is the subject of the film. Seldom...
Cast: Bernard Lee Malcolm McDowell
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 110min
Malcom McDowell, who went on to play a chillingly heartless young man in A Clockwork Orange, here plays Bruce, a cheerful young athlete and aspiring writer whose injuries get the better of him on the evening of his colorless brother's wedding. He...
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
Cast: Katharine Hepburn Charles Boyer Danny Kaye Yul Brynner
Length: 142min
Taken from the popular play by Jean Giraudoux, The Madwoman Of Chaillot has an international all-star cast, but the final result falls short despite the talents of the celebrated thespians. The madwoman in question is the extremely eccentric Countess...
Tags: Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller Psychological Thriller Science Fiction
Length: 114min
In the William Goldman-scripted, Bryan Forbes-directed adaptation of Ira Levin's savagely satiric sci-fi novel -The Stepford Wives, housewife Joanna (Katharine Ross) moves with husband Walter (Peter Masterson) and their children to the "ideal"...
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