Biography: Robert Coote |
Born in London and educated at Sussex' Hurstpierpont College, actor Robert Coote can be described as Britain's Ralph Bellamy. After making his film debut in the Gracie Fields vehicle Sally in Our Alley (1931) and spending several years on the London... more
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Cast: Roddy McDowall
Tags: Comedy Musical Rock Musical
Length: 95min
This musical comedy pokes fun at the music industry as it tells of the romantic travails of two popular singers thrust together by an ingenious promoter/matchmaker as a publicity stunt. The young male needs to revive his flagging career while the...
Cast: David Niven Deborah Kerr
Tags: Comedy Sex Comedy Farce
Length: 92min
Prudence and the Pill gained minor notoriety in 1968 as the first film comedy dealing with the new birth-control pill. David Niven substitutes aspirin for his wife's (Deborah Kerr) birth control medicine, hoping that she will become pregnant by her...
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1966)
Cast: Jimmy Durante Jack Palance Nanette Fabray
Length: 72min
No TV or movie producer has yet to resist the temptation of turning Lewis Carroll's -Alice in Wonderland and -Through the Looking Glass into an all-star musical. Certainly the folks at ABC were unable to resist turning out the 1966 taped TV special...
Cast: Melina Mercouri James Garner
Length: 99min
This late-'60s spy spoof also borrows a page from late-'50s Alfred Hitchcock, with its everyday man becoming embroiled in the violent and baffling world of international espionage. When American businessman William Beddoes (James Garner) is traveling...
Cast: Ann-Margret
Length: 90min
The most interesting aspect of The Swinger is the name of the character played by Ann-Margret: the former Ann Margaret Olsson essays the role of Kelly Olsson. A naive small-town girl, Kelly aspires to become a writer in the Big City. When her stories...
Cast: George Sanders
Length: 115min
In this adventure, two crooks plan to abscond with the rare, priceless Golden Head of Saint Laszlo. Their plans are thwarted by a British detective's children who have come to Budapest for a holiday. When the kids learn about the scheme, they...
Cast: Orson Welles William Shakespeare
Tags: Period Film Tragedy Drama
Length: 90min
Anyone interested in making a low-budget movie ought to see Orson Welles' screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Othello, a striking example of how much can be achieved with very little money. For years, stories about this singularly troubled...
Cast: Alec Guinness
Tags: Comedy of Manners Screwball Comedy Comedy
Length: 93min
The Horse's Mouth is an acting and a writing tour de force for Alec Guinness, who authored the screenplay in addition to starring in the film. Gulley Jimson (Alec Guinness) is an aging artist with a reputation as a genius, though he lives an...
Cast: Danny Kaye
Tags: Musical Comedy Comedy Musical
Length: 103min
Though Merry Andrew is more subdued than earlier Danny Kaye efforts, it's still a lot of fun. Kaye is cast as Andrew Larabee, a mild-mannered but highly unorthodox archeology professor at a British boy's school. While on an expedition in Italy, Andrew...
Cast: Michael Powell Alexander Korda Jack Hawkins Emeric Pressburger Samuel Goldwyn
Tags: Adventure Costume Adventure
Length: 109min
In this costume adventure set in France during the Reign of Terror, a mysterious man known only as the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues noblemen from the guillotine and leads them to safety across the English Channel. Chauvelin (Cyril Cusack) is determined...
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