Biography: Irene Worth |
While it's understandable that many people regard Irene Worth as a British actress, she was in fact born in Nebraska and educated at U.C.L.A. A one-time schoolteacher, Worth made her professional acting bow in 1942, touring with Elizabeth Bergner in... more
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Cast: Sidney Poitier
Tags: Teen Movie Drama Dance Film
Length: 110min
In yet another rubber-stamped, mid-'80s teen dancing film, hot on the success of Flashdance, a group of high schoolers called the "Adventurers Eight" from Sandusky, Ohio (known by Midwest teens for its large amusement park), decide to undertake a...
Cast: Julie Christie Alan Bates Claire Bloom
Length: 50min
British filmmaker John Schlesinger directs Separate Tables, a made-for-cable TV version of the Terence Rattigan plays +Table By the Window and +Table Number Seven. This 50-minute adaptation features Julie Christie and Alan Bates, each in a dual role....
Cast: Christopher Plummer James Woods Sigourney Weaver
Tags: Thriller Mystery Romantic Mystery
Length: 102min
Fresh off the success of Breaking Away(1979), writer Steve Tesich and director Peter Yates re-team on a hriller starring a young William Hurt as a janitor infatuated with television reporter Sigourney Weaver. When she arrives at his building to...
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss Neil Simon
Tags: Family Drama Period Film Comedy Drama
Length: 114min
An adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning, semi-autobiographical stage play by popular dramatist Neil Simon, this comedy-drama focuses on the difficulties faced by two young brothers forced to live with a group of eccentric relatives. Arty (Mike...
Cast: John Gielgud
Tags: Politics & Government History
Length: 87min
All of French documentary director Frederic Rossif's compilation films are models of the genre, some even more than that (as evidenced by Rossif's multiple industry awards). Most observers regard his 1963 work To Die in Madrid (Mourir a Madrid) as his...
Cast: Michael Caine Dyan Cannon Christopher Reeve Sidney Lumet
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Mystery Psychological Thriller Whodunit
Length: 115min
Sidney Lumet provides another of his film adaptations of Broadway successes -- in this case Ira Levin's 1978 clever Broadway murder mystery that starred John Wood in a triumphant turn as down-on-his-luck playwright Sidney Bruhl. Wood's brittle...
Cast: Paul Scofield
Length: 136min
In director Peter Brook's King Lear, Paul Scofield portrays the title character, a senile old ruler, whose susceptibility to flattery proves his undoing. The premise involves Lear's ill-fated attempts to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters...
Tags: Action Adventure Historical Film
Length: 102min
Set during the time of the brilliant Queen Elizabeth I of England, this adventure tale is loosely based on the exploits of Sir Francis Drake (Rod Taylor). He was one of the Queen's leading commanders in the battles with Spain over the gold of the New...
Cast: Laurence Olivier Michael Redgrave Jack Hawkins
Tags: Biopic Epic Historical Epic Historical Film
Length: 185min
Nicholas and Alexandra covers the rise and fall of the last of the Russian Romanovs. We first meet Czar Nicholas (Michael Jayston) and his German bride Alexandra (Janet Suzman) at their 1894 wedding. Though Nicholas is devoted to Alexandra, the...
Cast: Bette Davis Alec Guinness
Length: 92min
In this uneven but well-acted mystery story with a few gaps in the plot here and there, Alec Guiness plays a double role. He is John Barratt, a British teacher on vacation in France who is conned into taking on another identity. The identity he...
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