Biography: Jack Hawkins |
Crusty, craggy British leading man Jack Hawkins began as a child actor, studying at the Italia Court School of Acting. After his first film, 1930's Birds of Prey, Hawkins languished for several years in secondary roles before achieving minor stardom... more
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Tales That Witness Madness (1973)
Tags: Horror Comedy Supernatural Horror Horror Comedy
Length: 90min
Essentially a reworking of their earlier omnibus Asylum, this is another anthology of pulp horror tales from Amicus, this one helmed by the ever-reliable Freddie Francis. It features a quartet of eerie vignettes involving four patients in the care of...
Cast: Richard Attenborough Ian Holm Robert Shaw
Tags: Biopic Period Film Drama
Length: 157min
This historical drama is an account of the early life of Winston Churchill (Simon Ward), including his childhood years, his time as a war correspondent in Africa, and culminating with his first election to Parliament. ~ Linda Rasmussen, All Movie Guide
Cast: Michael Caine
Tags: Adventure Drama Adventure Drama
Length: 100min
Kidnapped avoids the Hollywoodized interpolations of previous film versions of the Robert Louis Stevenson novel, choosing instead to adhere to the story as written. Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle...
Cast: Anthony Hopkins Jack Hawkins
Tags: Thriller
Length: 94min
Anthony Hopkins stars in this convoluted adventure yarn, scripted by Alistair MacLean. Hopkins is Philip Calvert, a water-logged James Bond. Calvert plays a naval secret-service agent who is assigned to find out why millions of pounds of gold bullion...
Cast: Laurence Olivier
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: Orson Welles Nino Rota
Tags: Historical Epic Historical Film Epic
Length: 122min
This lavishly costumed historical epic had an estimated 100 million price tag. Spectacularly photographed battle action contrasts with often plodding individual scenes that bog down the plot. Fearing his growing power, European monarchs force Napoleon...
Cast: Jeanne Moreau Zero Mostel
Tags: Comedy Farce Period Film Romantic Comedy
Length: 99min
Mae West was never permitted to make a film version of her bawdy historical romp ~Catherine Was Great, yet this British adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's Great Catherine made it to the screen. Where is the justice in this? Anyway, Jeanne Moreau...
Cast: George C. Scott Ian Bannen John Williams Susannah York
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Melodrama Romance Drama
Length: 110min
Charlotte Bronte's classic Victorian novel is once again put through the paces, this time by Delbert Mann, in this stodgy Masterpiece Theater style television adaptation. Susannah York is Jane Eyre, the orphan girl who secures a position as a...
Cast: James Mason Peter O'Toole
Tags: Adventure Drama Drama
Length: 154min
Joseph Conrad's cerebral, philosophical novel -Lord Jim is streamlined and simplified by producer/director/writer Richard Brooks for the action-and-adventure crowd. Peter O'Toole plays the first officer of a tramp steamer, who, during a hurricane,...
Cast: Sophia Loren
Length: 109min
A woman seeks justice for herself, her family, and her people in this emotional drama. Judith (Sophia Loren) is a survivor of a Nazi concentration camp; she was once married to Gustav Schiller (Hans Verner), a German, but with the onset of WWII, he...
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