Cast: Jack MacGowran

Direction John Ford

Cast John Wayne · Maureen O'Hara · Barry Fitzgerald · Ward Bond

Synopsis John Wayne stars as Sean Thornton, a retired American boxing champion trying to put tragedy behind him by returning to Innisfree, the bucolic Irish village of his birth. He purchases his birthplace from its current owner, enraging the wealthy and...

Direction David Lean

Cast Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Alec Guinness

Synopsis Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Linda Blair · Max von Sydow · Ellen Burstyn · Jason Miller

Synopsis Linda Blair plays Regan, a 12-year-old girl possessed by the devil. After exhausting all the options of science, psychology, and medicine, Regan's mother (Ellen Burstyn) realizes the supernatural nature of her daughter's condition and resorts to a religious solution, turning...

Direction John Ford

Cast Tyrone Power · Maureen Connell · Eileen Crowe · Cyril Cusack

Synopsis Three vignettes of old Irish country life, based on a series of short stories. In "The Majesty of the Law," a police officer must arrest a very old-fashioned, traditional fellow for assault. The man's principles have the policeman and the...

Direction Peter Brook

Cast Paul Scofield · Irene Worth · Susan Engel · Tom Fleming

Synopsis The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Jack MacGowran · Roman Polanski · Sharon Tate · Alfie Bass

Synopsis The elderly bat researcher, professor Abronsius and his assistant, Alfred, go to a remote Transylvanian village looking for vampires. Alfred falls in love with the inn-keeper's young daughter Sarah. However, she has been spotted by the mysterious count Krolock who...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Donald Pleasence · Françoise Dorléac · Lionel Stander · Jack MacGowran

Synopsis A wounded criminal and his dying partner take refuge at a beachfront castle. The owners of the castle, a meek Englishman and his willful French wife, are initially the unwilling hosts to the criminals. Quickly, however, the relationships between the...

Direction Richard Brooks

Cast Peter O'Toole · James Mason · Curd Jürgens · Eli Wallach

Synopsis After distinguishing himself as a midshipman in the British merchant marine, Jim rapidly rises to the rank of second in command of a ship. But because of a broken foot he ends in the Patna, a rusty tub manned by...

Direction Joseph Losey

Cast Stanley Baker · Robert Flemyng · Gordon Jackson · Hardy Krüger

Synopsis Superb thriller from Joseph Losey ("The Servant") starring Hardy Kruger as a Dutch painter accused of murdering his mistress after her body is found in his cottage. Investigator Stanley Baker discovers that the woman was also involved with a diplomat,...

Direction Jack Cardiff · John Ford

Cast Rod Taylor · Maggie Smith · Julie Christie · Flora Robson

Synopsis Biographical drama based on the early life of playwright Sean O'Casey, depicting his rise from the 1910 Dublin slums to the celebrated openings of his early plays. Johnny Cassidy (Rod Taylor), an impoverished idealist whose ambitions are restricted by the...

Direction Ted Tetzlaff

Cast Glenn Ford · Anne Vernon · Maurice Denham · Harcourt Williams

Synopsis A terrorist has placed a bomb on board a train transporting sea mines to Portsmouth. The train is stopped but near a small town, which actually exacerbates the problem. In desperation, the local authorities contact Peter Lyncort, a former Canadian...

Direction Peter Graham Scott

Cast Peter Cushing · Yvonne Romain · Patrick Allen · Oliver Reed

Synopsis In this engaging costume melodrama of skulduggery on the low seas set back in the 18th-century, the Royal Crown suspects a bit of smuggling is going on in this locale, and they send Captain Collier and his crew to check...

Direction Michael Powell

Cast James Mason · Helen Mirren · Jack MacGowran · Neva Carr-Glynn

Synopsis An elderly artist thinks he has become too stale and is past his prime. His friend (and agent) persuades him to go to an offshore island to try once more. On the island he re-discovers his muse in the form...

Direction Bud Yorkin

Cast Gene Wilder · Donald Sutherland · Hugh Griffith · Jack MacGowran

Direction Joe Massot

Cast Jack MacGowran · Jane Birkin · Irene Handl · Richard Wattis

Direction Douglas Hickox · Eugène Lourié

Cast Gene Evans · André Morell · John Turner · Leigh Madison

Synopsis The dumping of radioactive waste in the ocean disturbs a prehistoric monster than can project electric shocks and radioactive beams. After terrorizing the English coast, it is discovered that if the creature is destroyed with conventional weaponry it would spread...

Direction Freddie Francis

Cast Anne Heywood · Peter van Eyck · Cecil Parker · Bernard Lee

Synopsis A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer.

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Michael Crawford · John Lennon · Roy Kinnear · Lee Montague

Synopsis This film features former Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men in under the inept command of Lieutenant Earnest Goodbody. The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make...

Direction Leslie Norman

Cast Anne Baxter · Donald Sinden · Adam Faith · David Kernan

Direction Paul Rotha

Cast Michael Gough · Eithne Dunn · Noel Purcell · Brian O'Higgins