Biography: Nanette Newman |
Dark-eyed, dark-haired British actress Nanette Newman was still in her teens when she made her first film appearance in Personal Affairs (1953). The wife of director Bryan Forbes, Newman has been featured in several of Forbes' best films, including
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Cast: Anthony Hopkins Christopher Plummer
Tags: Animal Picture Drama Family Coming-of-Age
Length: 126min
Thirty-four years after the release of National Velvet, MGM came up with this attractively filmed sequel. Tatum O'Neal stars as the niece of Velvet Brown, Elizabeth Taylor's character from the first film (the Taylor role is played herein by Nanette...
Cast: Paula Prentiss William Goldman
Tags: Psychological Sci-Fi Thriller Psychological Thriller Science Fiction
Length: 114min
In the William Goldman-scripted, Bryan Forbes-directed adaptation of Ira Levin's savagely satiric sci-fi novel -The Stepford Wives, housewife Joanna (Katharine Ross) moves with husband Walter (Peter Masterson) and their children to the "ideal"...
Cast: Malcolm McDowell Bernard Lee
Tags: Romantic Drama Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 110min
Malcom McDowell, who went on to play a chillingly heartless young man in A Clockwork Orange, here plays Bruce, a cheerful young athlete and aspiring writer whose injuries get the better of him on the evening of his colorless brother's wedding. He...
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City (1969)
Cast: Alan Hume
Tags: Adventure Science Fiction
Length: 106min
Captain Nemo and the Underwater City thrusts several "name" actors into the specialized world of Jules Verne. Six 19th-century shipwreck victims are rescued by a modernistic submarine. The skipper is Captain Nemo (Robert Ryan), who had not died at the...
Cast: Bryan Forbes
Tags: Crime Thriller Crime
Length: 120min
In this clunky suspense film, straining to be Hitchcockian, Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic Henry Clarke, who finds himself enticed into the home of Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli), where he discovers an unusual arrangement -- apparently Fe Moreau...
Cast: John Barry Edith Evans Eric Portman
Tags: Psychological Drama Crime Drama Drama
Length: 106min
The Whisperers stars Dame Edith Evans as a lonely old woman whose imagination is getting the better of her sanity. She insists that she hears "whisperers" plotting and planning against her at all times; she also believes that these imaginary entities...
Séance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
Cast: Richard Attenborough Patrick Magee
Tags: Crime Drama Drama
Length: 114min
Kim Stanley plays a crooked medium who has become slightly unhinged since the death of her son. Craving money and publicity, she concocts a scheme with her weak-willed husband (Richard Attenborough). The pair will kidnap a wealthy young girl, collect...
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Cast: Michael Caine Peter Sellers
Tags: Odd Couple Film Comedy Crime Comedy
Length: 94min
When a gang of London thieves, disguised as policemen, begin robbing other thieves....well, that's just not cricket. Benevolent burglar Peter Sellers, the man in charge of all "respectable" crooks in town (he even offers such incentives as a vacation...
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