Peter Finch

  • Michael McCarthy – Operation Amsterdam (1959)

    Michael McCarthy1951-1960ActionUnited KingdomWar
    Operation Amsterdam (1959)
    Operation Amsterdam (1959)

    A British army officer teams with two members of the Dutch underground for a covert mission to Amsterdam to lift a stash of diamonds before the city is overrun by Nazi occupiers in this action-packed wartime heist drama.Read More »

  • Fred Zinnemann – The Nun’s Story (1959)

    1951-1960DramaFred ZinnemannUSA

    After leaving a wealthy Belgian family to become a nun, Sister Luke struggles with her devotion to her vows during crisis, disappointment, and World War II.Read More »

  • Jack Clayton – The Pumpkin Eater (1964)

    1961-1970ClassicsDramaJack ClaytonUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Film screenwriter Jake Armitage and his wife Jo Armitage live in London with six of Jo’s eight children, with the two eldest boys at boarding school. The children are spread over Jo’s three marriages, with only the youngest being Jake’s biological child, although he treats them all as his own. Jo left her second husband Giles after meeting Giles’ friend Jake, the two who were immediately attracted to each other. Their upper middle class life is much different than Giles and Jo’s, who lived in a barn in the English countryside. But Jo is ruminating about her strained marriage to Jake, with issues on both sides.Read More »

  • Desmond Davis – Girl with Green Eyes (1964)

    1961-1970ClassicsDesmond DavisDramaUnited Kingdom

    Synopsis:
    Innocent Kate Brady (Rita Tushingham) leaves her family farm and heads for Dublin, where she lives with her former convent friend Baba Brennan (Lynn Redgrave). She soon meets older man Eugene (Peter Finch), who is a writer and intellectual. Kate and Eugene fall in love. However, when Kate’s father finds out about their romance, he is determined to break it up. Kate remains devoted to Eugene, but their love disintegrates when Eugene realizes that he really has nothing in common with Kate.Read More »

  • Fred Zinnemann – The Nun’s Story (1959)

    1951-1960ClassicsDramaFred ZinnemannUSA

    From IMDB:
    In 1930, in Belgium, Gabrielle van der Mal is the stubborn daughter of the prominent surgeon Dr. Pascin Van Der Mal that decides to leave her the upper-class family to enter to a convent, expecting to work as nun in Congo with tropical diseases. She says good-bye to her sisters Louise and Marie; to her brother Pierre; and to her beloved father, and subjects herself to the stringent rules of the retrograde institution, including interior silent and excessive humbleness and humiliation. After a long period working in a mental institution, Gaby is finally assigned to go to Congo, where she works with the Atheist and cynical, but brilliant, Dr. Fortunati.Read More »

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