Biography: Michael Redgrave |
The son of British actor Roy Redgrave, Michael Redgrave attended Clifton College and Cambridge University. While teaching high school, Redgrave became involved with amateur theatricals. A professional by 1934, Redgrave made his London debut in Love's... more
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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: Alan Bates Joseph Losey
Tags: Period Film Romantic Drama Drama
Length: 116min
The third collaboration between director Joseph Losey and writer Harold Pinter, following The Servant and Accident, continues their exploration of class rituals and the darker recesses of desire. Pinter's script adapts the 1953 L.P. Hartley novel...
Cast: Michael Redgrave
Tags: Drama
Length: 91min
Two 20 year old twins have a bizarre incestuous relationship. Julian (Martin Potter) and his sister Jacki (Judy Geeson) carry on the affair and only reveal their secrets to a stuffed teddy bear named Agamemnon. While their father is absent, they...
Cast: Peter O'Toole Herbert Ross John Williams
Tags: Musical Drama Musical Romance Musical
Length: 151min
While it might not have been the best idea on earth to remake the 1939 classic Goodbye Mr. Chips as a musical, the end result is not altogether displeasing. Peter O'Toole steps into the old Robert Donat role of Arthur Chipping (originally Charles...
Tags: Spy Film Action Adventure
Length: 96min
This lugubrious spy yarn finds Philip Scott (Stephen Boyd) posing as a toy manufacturer to hide his real purpose in life. He and his faithful operative Harris (Michael Redgrave) battle the evil Smith (Leo McKern) in Austria, England and West Germany....
Cast: Deborah Kerr
Tags: Supernatural Horror Gothic Film Haunted House Film Horror
Length: 100min
In this lugubrious but brilliantly realized adaptation of Henry James' classic novella -The Turn of the Screw, 19th century British governess Miss Giddens (Deborah Kerr) arrives at a bleak mansion to take care of Flora (Pamela Franklin) and Miles...
La Vingt-Cinquième Heure (1967)
Cast: Anthony Quinn
Length: 119min
Adapted from the novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu, this satirical concentration-camp drama from Turkish-born French director Henri Verneuil stars Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz, a Romanian peasant who experiences the horrors of World War II when the Nazis...
Cast: Julie Christie John Ford Edith Evans
Length: 110min
Young Cassidy is based upon the autobiographical writings of firebrand Irish author Sean O'Casey. Rod Taylor is Cassidy, a boisterous boy who digs ditches to support his mother (Flora Robson) and sister (Sian Phillips). In his spare time, Cassidy is...
Cast: Kirk Douglas Richard Harris
Tags: War Spy Film War
Length: 131min
In this tale of espionage and adventure set during World War II, Norway has fallen under Nazi occupation, and a factory is producing "heavy water" (a key ingredient in the manufacture of atomic weapons), under the order of the German military. Knut...
The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962)
Tags: Juvenile Delinquency Film Sports Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 110min
One of the key "angry young man" films which helped define the British "Kitchen Sink Drama" style of the late 1950's and early 60's, this story centers on Colin Smith (Tom Courtenay), a bitter young man from a working-class family. Uninterested in...
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