Biography: Cyril Cusack |
Born in South Africa, Cyril Cusack was the son of Irish actress Alice Cole. Cusack was seven years old when, in the company of his mother, he made his stage debut in East Lynne as the consumptive Willie. That same year (1917), he appeared in his first... more
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Cast: William Shakespeare
Tags: Comedy Drama Comedy of Errors Romance
Length: 117min
This is a modern-dress rendition of Shakespeare's famous "comedy," a semi-serious drama with a story featuring mistaken identities and confused declarations of love. Though it screens far more of the classic play's dialogue than the 1936 version...
Cast: Maggie Smith Thora Hird Cyril Cusack
Tags: Comedy
Length: 99min
Based on a novel by Muriel Spark (The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie), the British TV drama Memento Mori boasts an impressive cast of veterans, including Maurice Denham, Cyril Cusack, Sir Michael Hordern, Renee Ashershon, and Maggie Smith. The story...
Cast: Derek Jacobi
Length: min
Husband and wife producers Richard Goodwin and Christine Edzard return to the same milieu as in their epic version of Little Dorrit in The Fool. This slight story stars Derek Jacobi as Mr. Frederick, a theatrical clerk in the London of 1857, who...
Doctor Fischer of Geneva (1983)
Cast: James Mason Alan Bates Greta Scacchi
Tags: Drama
Length: 110min
Dr. Fischer (James Mason) is a cynical tycoon whose favorite past time is exposing human greed. Determined to prove that even the most righteous person can be bought, Fischer (Bates) plans a party with a strange and diabolical twist. The party favors...
Cast: John Hurt Richard Burton
Tags: Political Satire Science Fiction Psychological Sci-Fi
Length: 120min
Directed by British filmmaker Michael Radford, Nineteen Eighty-Four is the second film adaptation of the George Orwell novel. The film is set during April of 1984 in post-atomic war London, the capital city of the repressive totalitarian state of...
Length: 114min
In this modest film set along the rocky seacoast and verdant hills of 19th-century Ireland, a young girl is made to feel unwanted by the taunts of her peers until she finds an unusual ally in the person of a magical wizard who whisks her up to the...
Danny, the Champion of the World (1989)
Cast: Jeremy Irons Jean Marsh
Tags: Comedy Drama Family Rural Drama
Length: 98min
Danny, the Champion of the World is set in rural England. Nasty country squire Robbie Coltrane, who owns half the land, covets the other half. His principal opponents are a father-and-son team of farmers. The warm relationship between the two "good...
Cast: Alec Guinness Joan Greenwood
Length: 360min
Little Dorrit was intended as the cinematic equivalent to the mammoth, eight hour Royal Shakespeare Company's staging of Dickens' +Nicholas Nickelby. The film was released to theatres in two parts, each running approximately three hours. The first...
Tags: Drama
Length: 65min
Impoverished Irish moonshiners are the focus of this gritty, bleak drama, allegedly the first motion picture ever shot in Gaelic. Director Bob Quinn reportedly created the work in response to what he perceived as cultural myths propagated by John...
Cast: Robert De Niro Robert Duvall Charles Durning Burgess Meredith
Tags: Psychological Drama Police Detective Film Religious Drama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 108min
Adapted by John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion from Dunne's novel, True Confessions uses the still-unsolved "Black Dahlia" murder as the foundation for a devastating attack on big-city corruption -- in which it appears that many of the perpetrators...
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