Cast: Roy Kinnear

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Sean Connery · Harry Andrews · Ian Bannen · Alfred Lynch

Synopsis In a British Army "glasshouse" (military detention camp) in the Libyan Desert, the prisoners are British soldiers convicted of service offences such as insubordination, drunkenness on duty, or profiteering, and are subjected to repetitive drill in the blazing desert heat....

Direction Waris Hussein

Cast Mark Lester · Tracy Hyde · Jack Wild · Sheila Steafel

Synopsis The touching story of two young male friends who rebel together against the adult establishment. Music by the Bee Gees...

Direction Mel Stuart

Cast Gene Wilder · Jack Albertson · Peter Ostrum · Roy Kinnear

Synopsis Willy Wonka is an eccentric candy maker who starts a contest offering a factory tour to five lucky winners who find a golden ticket in their Wonka bars. One of them is Charlie Bucket, an impoverished, but good natured, child...

Direction Peter Frazer-Jones

Cast Yootha Joyce · Brian Murphy · Norman Eshley · Sheila Fearn

Synopsis TV Series (1976-1979). 5 Seasons. 38 Episodes. George and Mildred Roper (Brian Murphy and Yootha Joyce) are forced to leave their their home in South Kensington (as the landlords in "Man About The House") when they receive a compulsory purchase...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Zero Mostel · Phil Silvers · Buster Keaton · Michael Crawford

Synopsis Pseudolus is the laziest slave in Rome and has but one wish, purchase his freedom. When his master and mistress leave for the day he finds out that the young master has fallen in love with a virgin in the...

Direction Sydney Newman · Don Leaver · Peter Hammond · Kim Mills

Cast Patrick MacNee · Diana Rigg · Honor Blackman · Linda Thorson

Synopsis TV Series (1961-1969). 7 Seasons. 161 Episodes. The Avengers was an British television series featuring secret agents in 1960s Britain. The programmes were made by TV company Associated British Corporation, and created by its Head of Drama Sydney Newman. Starring...

Direction Jim Franklin · Alan J.W. Bell · Terry Hughes

Cast Michael Palin · Charles McKeown · David Griffin · Michael Stainton

Synopsis TV Series (1976-1979). 2 Seasons. 9 Episodes. Wildly funny series featuring excellent writing by Monty Python members Michael Palin and Terry Jones. Palin is well cast in different roles as he romps through six vignettes that comically parody the socially...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast James Mason · Simone Signoret · Maximilian Schell · Harriet Andersson

Synopsis Based on a John le Carre novel and directed by Sidney Lumet, The Deadly Affair is a cold war thriller centred in the world of espionage. When foreign Office official Samuel Fennan and his wife (Simone Signoret) are anonymously accused...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Frederic Forrest · Peter Boyle · Marilu Henner · Roy Kinnear

Synopsis San Francisco, 1928. Dashiell Hammet, a former detective of the Pinkerton Agency, in his thirties, is a tuberculous drunkard who barely survives writing detective stories. An old colleague, Jimmy Ryan comes to visit him -- he needs Dashiell's help to...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast The Beatles · John Lennon · Paul McCartney · George Harrison

Synopsis After the worldwide success of A Hard Day's Night, the Beatles and director Richard Lester reunited for a follow-up film, Eight Arms to Hold You. Well, that wasn't the final title; a pleading Lennon-McCartney tune provided the catchier handle: Help!...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Richard Harris · Anthony Hopkins · Omar Sharif · David Hemmings

Synopsis Some unknown maniac is threatening a navigation company to blow up one of its luxury transatlantics, the "Britannic", now in high sea with 1200 passengers. He is asking for a £500,000 ransom, otherwise the 7 bombs aboard will explode. An...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Richard Chamberlain · Michael York · Raquel Welch · Oliver Reed

Synopsis Richard Lester's adaptation of The Three Musketeers was only the latest of many when released in 1974, but it arrived with a spirit all its own, one influenced as much by Lester's '60s work as the Alexandre Dumas classic. Even...

Direction Jacques Demy

Cast Donovan · Donald Pleasence · Diana Dors · John Hurt

Synopsis The story of the Pied Piper who gets rid of the town of Hamelin’s rats, reveals a gripping story of evil in the Middle-Ages, a time when millions of people across Europe died of the plague. Demy focuses on the...

Direction Richard Lester

Cast Oliver Reed · Raquel Welch · Michael York · Richard Chamberlain

Synopsis D'Artagnan has become a Musketeer. Protestants hold La Rochelle, and the Queen loves Buckingham, who'll soon send ships to support the rebels. Richelieu enlists Rochefort to kidnap Constance, the Queen's go-between and D'Artagnan's love. The Cardinal uses the wily, amoral...

Direction Vincente Minnelli

Cast Barbra Streisand · Yves Montand · Bob Newhart · Jack Nicholson

Synopsis When a psychiatrist (Yves Montand) begins talking to a young woman (Barbra Streisand), he realizes that she can recall a past life while under hypnosis. Although this brash New Yorker is thoroughly modern and somewhat abrasive, he becomes fascinated by...

Direction Peter Sasdy

Cast Christopher Lee · Geoffrey Keen · Gwen Watford · Linda Hayden

Synopsis Three Victorian men who lead upstanding and moralistic lives, sneak out to a brothel on the pretext of conducting charity work. Their pleasure is interrupted by the libertine Lord Courtley who offers to show them greater pleasures. He takes them...

Direction Roman Polanski

Cast Walter Matthau · Cris Campion · Damien Thomas · Ferdy Mayne

Synopsis Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to...

Direction Marty Feldman

Cast Ann-Margret · Marty Feldman · Michael York · Peter Ustinov

Synopsis The priceless Blue Water sapphire is coveted by the heirs of Sir Hector Geste - his new wife, Flavia; his daughter, Isabel; and his adopted twin sons, heroic Beau and pathetic Digby. When Sir Hector takes to his deathbed (where...

Direction Robert Stevenson

Cast Peter Ustinov · Helen Hayes · Clive Revill · Derek Nimmo

Synopsis This is a light, frothy family comedy that revolves around British Lord Southmere (Derek Nimmo), who has smuggled a piece of microfilm containing "Lotus X" out of China. Once back in England, he is followed by Chinese spies. Lord Southmere...

Direction Gene Wilder

Cast Gene Wilder · Madeline Kahn · Marty Feldman · John Le Mesurier

Synopsis Gene Wilder plays Sherlock Holmes' younger brother who is annoyed that he has had to live in Sherlock's shadow for so long. When Sherlock goes to the continent, he sends a case to his brother who constantly tries with varying...