Cast: Laurence Olivier

Direction Michael Powell

Cast Eric Portman · Leslie Howard · Laurence Olivier · Raymond Massey

Plot Michael Powell directed this odd wartime propaganda film, set in Canada, before the American entry into WWII. A German U-boat has infiltrated the Canadian coastline, seeking to attack and subvert...

Direction Priscilla Pizzato

Cast Vivien Leigh · Laurence Olivier

Plot Revealed by "Gone with the Wind", Vivien Leigh entered the pantheon of the seventh art at the age of 24 as Scarlett O'Hara, the most coveted role of the time....

Direction John Boulting

Cast Robert Donat · Margaret Johnston · Maria Schell · Renée Asherson

Plot Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that...

Direction Peter Glenville

Cast Laurence Olivier · Simone Signoret · Sarah Miles · Terence Stamp

Plot Graham Weir (Laurence Olivier) is an alcoholic schoolteacher whose criminal record for refusing to fight during the Second World War has prevented him from progressing further in his teaching career....

Direction Basil Dearden · Eliot Elisofon

Cast Charlton Heston · Laurence Olivier · Richard Johnson · Ralph Richardson

Plot After an Egyptian army, commanded by British officers, is destroyed in a battle in the Sudan in the 1880's, the British government is in a quandary. It does not want...

Direction George Cukor

Cast Katharine Hepburn · Laurence Olivier · Colin Blakely · Richard Pearson

Plot An unorthodox love story set in Edwardian England, "Love Among The Ruins" features Katharine Hepburn and Sir Laurence Olivier in their only film collaboration. A wealthy, headstrong widow and aging...

Direction Desmond Davis

Cast Harry Hamlin · Laurence Olivier · Judi Bowker · Claire Bloom

Plot The classic Greek myth of Perseus and Andromeda re-told with an all-star cast. To win the right to marry his love (Andromeda) and fufill his destiny, Perseus must complete various...

Direction Alexander Korda

Cast Vivien Leigh · Laurence Olivier · Alan Mowbray · Sara Allgood

Plot Sir William Hamilton, a widower of mature years, is British ambassador to the Court of Naples. Emma who comes for a visit with her mother wouldn't cut the grade with...

Direction George Roy Hill

Cast Laurence Olivier · Diane Lane · Thelonious Bernard · Arthur Hill

Plot A French boy (Daniel) and an American girl (Lauren), who goes to school in Paris, meet and begin a little romance. They befriend Julius who enchants them with his story...

Direction Tony Palmer

Cast Richard Burton · Laurence Olivier · Vanessa Redgrave · László Gálffi

Plot A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the...

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Laurence Olivier · Brenda De Banzie · Joan Plowright · Roger Livesey

Plot Archie Rice, a pathetic music hall comic, plagued by debts, manipulates those around him in a defiant and selfish attempt to survive against improbable odds. He drinks, makes crude philosophical...

Direction Guy Hamilton

Cast Harry Andrews · Michael Caine · Trevor Howard · Curd Jürgens

Plot There's something about this film that's so irresistible, despite its grandiose manipulation. Maybe because it recounts the greatest air battle in history, achieving the greatest aerial battle in film history....

Direction Raoul Walsh

Cast Elissa Landi · Lionel Barrymore · Laurence Olivier · Walter Byron

Plot A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information...

Direction Guy Hamilton · Alexander Mackendrick

Cast Burt Lancaster · Kirk Douglas · Laurence Olivier · Janette Scott

Plot The black sheep of a family (Dick Dudgeon) and the local minister (Anthony Anderson) discover their true vocations during the Revolutionary War.

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Marilyn Monroe · Sybil Thorndike · Richard Wattis

Plot When Grandduke Charles, the prince-regent of Carpatha, a fictitious Balkan country which could start a European war by switching alliances, visits London for the coronation of the new British king...

Direction Laurence Olivier · John Sichel

Cast Joan Plowright · Jeanne Watts · Louise Purnell · Derek Jacobi

Plot In a small Russian town at the turn of the century, three sisters (Olga, Irina, and Masha) and their brother Andrei live but dream daily of their return to their...

Direction Derek Jarman

Cast Nathaniel Parker · Tilda Swinton · Laurence Olivier · Patricia Hayes

Direction Tim Whelan

Cast Laurence Olivier · Merle Oberon · Binnie Barnes · Ralph Richardson

Plot Fogbound in a hotel, Leslie Steele tricks handsome, cynical divorce lawyer Everard Logan into sharing his suite. She lets him think she's married; next day Lord Mere, whose thrice- divorced...

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Ken Follett · Norman Lloyd · Alfred Hitchcock · Heywood Gould

Plot "A Night at the Movies: The Suspenseful World of Thrillers" will look at thrillers from all sides, including different types of thrillers and the stylistic tools filmmakers use to give...

Direction John Badham

Cast Frank Langella · Kate Nelligan · Laurence Olivier · Donald Pleasence

Plot When a schooner is wrecked off Whitby the only survivor is Count Dracula who has arrived with large amounts of Transylvanian soil to take up residence in Carfax Abbey. He...