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That great actor Christopher Plummer is stupendous as Oedipus in co-writer/director Philip Saville’s brave and imaginative attempt to film the classic Sophocles Greek tragic play. And Orson Welles, Lilli Palmer and Richard Johnson are marvellous also as the doomsayer […]
Oliver Reed stars in the 1974 mystery thriller film And Then There Were None, a strongly cast remake of Agatha Christie’s ingenious 1939 classic novel, the world’s best-selling mystery with more than 100 million sales. […]
Writer-director Henry Jaglom’s 1971 drama stars Tuesday Weld in an affecting performance as a strange girlish young woman named Noah, a disturbed, free spirited flower child living alone in New York City. She is locked into […]
Co-writer/director John Huston’s intelligent and entertaining but only half-successful 1956 film version of the legendary Herman Melville classic novel stars Gregory Peck as one-legged ship’s Captain Ahab who obsessively pursues his adversary, the great whale […]
Director Richard Thorpe’s Italian/Yugoslavian-made 1961 epic The Tartars [I Tartari] stars Orson Welles as Burundai, leader of the nasty Tartars, who battle the apparently less nasty Vikings, led by Oleg, played by Victor Mature. This […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s 1943 movie is an impressively powerful and moody American version of the Charlotte Brontë classic about the Victorian orphan who becomes a governess in a strange Yorkshire household at Thornfield Hallruled over by […]
Both looking good, Tyrone Power and Orson Welles lock swords in director Henry King’s beautifully made 1949 swashbuckler, set in Renaissance Italy in 1500. Power stars as the dashing hero Andrea Orsini, supposedly an artistic […]