Biography: Tony Richardson |
A graduate of Oxford, Tony Richardson rose from head of the university's dramatic society to the pinnacle of the British film industry during the early 1960s, scoring several theatrical successes as a director along the way, most notably Look Back In... more
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Cast: Jessica Lange Tommy Lee Jones
Tags: Marriage Drama Drama
Length: 101min
Blue Sky was the last film directed by Tony Richardson (Tom Jones) before his death in 1991 and one of the last releases from once-thriving Orion Films, whose bankruptcy kept the picture on the shelf for several years. It also features two career-high...
Tags: Adventure Drama Biopic Adventure Drama
Length: 192min
Beryl Markham: Shadow on the Sun was a two-part TV movie originally telecast in May of 1988. Stefanie Powers is right in her element as the real-life Beryl Markham, an Englishwoman living in Kenya with her family. Bucking the male-dominated Kenyan...
Tags: Psychological Drama Political Drama Drama
Length: 94min
Tony Richardson, who in his days of prominence directed the Oscar-winning Tom Jones (1963), demonstrated in 1986's Penalty Phase that the intervening years did not dim his talent in the least. Peter Strauss stars as a liberal judge, in the midst of a...
The Phantom of the Opera (1990)
Cast: Burt Lancaster Ian Richardson
Tags: Period Film Musical Drama Romance Romantic Drama Melodrama Drama
Length: 190min
This adaptation of Gaston Leroux's indefatigable "grand guignol" piece The Phantom of the Opera stars British actor Charles Dance as Erik the Phantom. This adaptation by playwright Arthur Kopit soft-pedals the horrific elements of the story to...
Women and Men: Stories of Seduction (1990)
Cast: Melanie Griffith James Woods Ken Russell
Tags: Romance Drama Romantic Drama
Length: 90min
Originally aired on HBO, Women and Men: Stories of Seduction is a short-film anthology that brings to life three famous short stories. Mary McCarthy's "The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt" stars Elizabeth McGovern and Beau Bridges. The second,...
The Hotel New Hampshire (1984)
Cast: Jodie Foster
Tags: Black Comedy Comedy Drama Coming-of-Age Family Drama
Length: 110min
This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located....
Cast: Ann-Margret John Gielgud
Tags: Period Film Comedy Drama Romantic Adventure
Length: 103min
Tony Richardson attempts to re-create the glory days of Tom Jones in this adaptation of the 1742 Henry Fielding novel. Peter Firth stars in this picaresque tale as Joseph Andrews, a young servant switched at birth who undergoes a series of romantic...
Tags: Crime Drama Docudrama Drama
Length: 125min
Paul Clemens plays the real-life Peter Reilly, who in September of 1973 was charged with the mutilation and murder of his mother. The confused 18-year-old signs a confession after being told that he's flunked a lie detector test. Later renouncing the...
Cast: Judi Dench
Tags: Sports Drama Crime Drama
Length: 99min
Based on a book by National Hunt jockey Dick Francis, the horseracing thriller Dead Cert was filmed in the village of Findon, West Sussex, U.K. When jockey Bill Davidson (Ian Hogg) is killed in a horseracing incident, his best friend Alan York (Scott...
Cast: Jack Nicholson Tony Richardson Harvey Keitel
Length: 107min
Tom Jones director Tony Richardson might seem a curious choice to direct the contemporary western The Border, but he does his best to emulate Sam Peckinpah. Jack Nicholson stars as an El Paso border guard, saddled with avaricious wife Valerie Perrine....
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