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The conscientious 1953 biblical epic film The Robe stars Richard Burton, Jean Simmons, Victor Mature and Michael Rennie, and is notable for being the first film ever to be released in CinemaScope. There are five […]
Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating 1965 British spy film The Spy Who Came In from the Cold is based on the 1963 novel by John le Carré, and stars Richard Burton, Claire Bloom, and Oskar Werner. Director Martin Ritt’s scintillating, […]
Director Tony Richardson admirably brings so-called ‘Angry Young Man’ playwright John Osborne’s famous, world-renowned play for London’s Royal Court Theatre to the screen in 1959 with all its challenging words, raging spirit and anti-establishment appeal […]
Director Mike Nichols brings Edward Albee’s vitriolic, soul-searching 1962 play to the screen in a savage, razor-edged 1966 movie. It sounds like fingernails scraping down a blackboard. You might want to turn away from the […]
Director Franco Zeffirelli brings immense zest, impressive vitality and glorious colour to his 1967 film of the William Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew, while ideally cast and on-form, fired-up Richard Burton and Elizabeth […]
In 1977, Peter Firth gets to record his 1973 London National Theatre Old Vic theatre role of a lifetime in this sensitive, beautiful Sidney Lumet-directed version of the highly emotional and deeply unsettling, but illuminating and uplifting […]
The 1964 film version of Tennessee Williams’s play The Night of the Iguana is beautifully handled by director John Huston, with the dream cast of Richard Burton, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Sue Lyon giving […]