Biography: Clive Donner |
British director Clive Donner was 15 when he earned his first industry job as a film editor. At 32, Donner was promoted to director with the medium-budget The Secret Place. He thereafter evinced a great deal of technical skill. During the... more
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Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less (1990)
Cast: Ed Asner
Tags: Crime Comedy Crime
Length: 200min
This made-for-cable feature film stars Edward Asner as a fashionable confidence trickster. Asner masterminds an investment scam which cleans out four gullible young men. The foursome pool their resources and decide to beat Asner at his own game with a...
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (1993)
Cast: Kate Nelligan
Tags: Crime Thriller Thriller
Length: 95min
Made for Canadian television, For Better and for Worse was released to America as Terror Stalks the Class Reunion. The general theme and tone of the film is implicit in its title. Kate Nelligan heads the cast as a retired teacher who attends a reunion...
Cast: Denholm Elliott Clive Donner
Tags: Historical Film Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 108min
Based on the novel by Marion Meade, this costume drama retelling of the doomed 12th century romance of Abelard and Heloise was directed by Clive Donner. Abelard (Derek de Lint) is a philosophy professor at the cathedral school of Notre Dame....
Cast: Peter Ustinov
Tags: Mystery Detective Film
Length: 100min
Peter Ustinov stars once more as Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie's insufferably brilliant Belgian detective. Unlike many of Ustinov's earlier Poirot vehicles, which were set in the 1930s, the made-for-TV Dead Man's Folly takes place in contemporary...
Cast: Candice Bergen Dyan Cannon
Tags: Sword-and-Sorcery Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 150min
Originally filmed in 1982, Arthur the King wasn't able to secure a network-TV berth until April 26, 1985. Malcolm McDowell plays good King Arthur, whose dream of Camelot is endangered by the evil Morgan Le Fay, played by Candice Bergen in her TV-movie...
Cast: Teri Garr Robert Wagner
Tags: Period Film Political Thriller Thriller
Length: 120min
Teri Garr and Robert Wagner play a cafe owner and nightclub singer who vacation in Lisbon in 1940. They discover and attempt to waylay a Nazi plot to kidnap the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. Roger O. Hirson wrote the teleplay, which he adapted from the...
Cast: Drew Barrymore Keanu Reeves
Tags: Musical Fantasy Musical
Length: 96min
While Walt Disney's 1961 filmization of Victor Herbert's &Babes in Toyland pales in comparison to the 1934 movie version starring Laurel & Hardy, the Disney film is an unqualified classic when compared to the ill-starred 1986 TV version. Adapted for...
Tags: Childhood Drama Drama Melodrama Period Film
Length: 104min
Clive Donner directs Oliver Twist, the 1982 made-for-TV version of the classic Dickens novel. Richard Charles plays Oliver Twist, an orphan boy who gets kicked out of his juvenile workhouse when he asks for some more food. He is sent to work as an...
Cast: Ian McKellen Jane Seymour Anthony Andrews
Tags: Spy Film Period Film Adventure Glamorized Spy Film
Length: 142min
Swordplay, secret messages, and the rustle of ballroom finery make this 1982 adaptation of -The Scarlet Pimpernel a gala bash. Anthony Andrews heads the cast as English nobleman Sir Percy Blakeney, a conceited but amusing fop in the drawing rooms of...
Cast: George C. Scott David Warner Michael Gough Edward Woodward
Tags: Heavenly Comedy Family Holiday Film Fantasy
Length: 100min
Charles Dickens' classic holiday tale of one man learning the true meaning of Christmas is brought to the screen once again in this made-for-TV movie. Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) is a cynical old man whose greatest concern is money, and who...
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