Biography: Herbert Wise |
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Cast: Ann-Margret Dianne Wiest John Larroquette
Tags: Children's Fantasy Family-Oriented Adventure Fairy Tales & Legends Family Fantasy Adventure Fantasy
Length: 417min
This ten-hour mini-series extravaganza originally aired on February 26, 2000 on NBC, and concerns the fate of a janitor, Tony (John Larroquette), and his lovely daughter Virginia (Kimberly Williams), who mysteriously find themselves in a land where...
Cast: Glenda Jackson Rosemary Harris José Ferrer Ken Howard
Length: 190min
Previously filmed (and truncated) in 1932, Eugene O'Neill's marathon 1928 Pulitzer-winning stage drama Strange Interlude was adapted for television in 1988. Broadcast in three 90-minute installments, the nine-act play covers some 25 years in the life...
Tags: Haunted House Film Supernatural Horror Mystery Horror Thriller
Length: 103min
Woman in Black was originally made for British TV. It's a melodrama, as the title should make abundantly clear. Adrian Rawlins stars as a vacationing barrister. He becomes involved in bizarre activities at a seaside resort, predicated by an elusive...
Cast: Herbert Wise
Tags: Mystery
Length: 120min
Based on the 1990 mystery-suspense novel by Ruth Rendell, the two-part British miniseries The Strawberry Tree focused on a middle-aged lady named Petra Summers, played by Lisa Harrow. Petra's calm, well-ordered existence was sorely threatened when the...
Tags: Drama
Length: 97min
Timothy Williams plays a top high-schooler: Straight As, star athlete, the works. When he's arrested in a street drug bust, it becomes public knowledge that the boy has had a homosexual experience with an older man. In an instant, he is harassed by...
Cast: Derek Jacobi Harold Pinter
Length: 90min
Originally produced for the BBC and Masterpiece Theatre, Breaking the Code tells the life story of the famed mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing, the primary designer of the Turing Machine, an early computer used to solve the German...
Cast: Albert Finney
Tags: Biopic Drama Religious Drama
Length: 90min
Filmed in Rome and Austria on a budget of 5 million, the made-for-TV biopic Pope John Paul II stars Albert Finney, making his American TV debut as the Polish-born Pontiff. The film begins in 1938, when teen-aged Karol Wojtyla (Michael Crompton), a...
Cast: Robert Mitchum Deborah Kerr Red Buttons
Tags: Psychological Drama Reunion Films Drama
Length: 110min
Filmed in England, Reunion at Fairborough served as the fourth movie pairing of Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr. Mitchum plays a disgruntled American, who arrives in England for a reunion with his old wartime bombing squadron. Ms. Kerr plays the local...
Norman Conquests, Part 1: Table Manners (1980)
Tags: Comedy of Manners Comedy Domestic Comedy
Length: 108min
Produced for British television, The Norman Conquests was based on a trilogy of stage comedies by Alan Ayckbourn. Each playlet is set in a different room under the same roof: the home of Norman (Tom Conti) and his family. In Part 1, Table Manners,...
Cast: Danny Kaye Kim Hunter Brian Dennehy
Tags: Drama Political Drama Courtroom Drama Docudrama
Length: 121min
Skokie is the true story of a critical test of Constitutional rights in Illinois. In 1977, a small band of American neo-fascists calling itself the National Socialist Party of America plans to stage a swastika-dominated demonstration and rally. Their...
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