A man called Major is in Cairo after being released from a German Prison. He is there to proceed with his plan to steal the jewelry from the King Tutankhamen exhibit at the national gallery. This plan has been on hold since he was jailed.Read More »
Richard Johnson
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Wolf Rilla – Cairo (1963)
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Giuliano Montaldo – Dio è con noi AKA 5th Day of Peace” (1970)
1961-1970DramaGiuliano MontaldoItalyWarItalian anti-war movie, a real case.
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John Irvin – Turtle Diary (1985)
Drama1981-1990John IrvinRomanceUnited KingdomIMDB:
Two separate people, a man and a woman, find something very stirring about the sea turtles in their tank at the London Zoo. They meet and form an odd, but sympathetic camaraderie as they plan to steal two of the turtles and free them into the ocean.Read More » -
Elijah Moshinsky – Cymbeline (1982)
1981-1990BBCDramaElijah MoshinskyTVUnited KingdomWilliam ShakespeareStarring Dame Helen Lydia Mirren
Elijah Moshinsky directed the BBC Television Shakespeare adaptation in 1982, ignoring the ancient British period setting in favour of a more timeless and snow-laden atmosphere inspired by Rembrandt and his contemporary Dutch painters. Richard Johnson, Claire Bloom, Helen Mirren, and Robert Lindsay play Cymbeline, his Queen, Imogen, and Iachimo, respectively, with Michael Pennington as Posthumus.Read More »
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Val Guest – 80,000 Suspects (1963)
Drama1961-1970ThrillerUSAVal GuestSynopsis:
British doctor Richard Johnson arrives in the city of Bath, where a smallpox epidemic has broken out. If he has any hope of stemming the disease, he must locate and isolate its source. As if he hasn’t got enough trouble on his hands, Johnson must contend with his failing marriage to Claire Bloom. Director Val Guest lifts 80,000 Suspects out of the ordinary with his inventive utilization of darkness and shadows.
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Mircea Dragan – Columna AKA The Column (1968)
1961-1970EpicMircea DraganRomaniaWarThe Roman Emperor Trajan has just murdered all the local men of Dacia and holds a military stronghold in what will later become Rumania. He places a Roman centurion in his place to occupy his latest conquest. After lopping off the head of the Dacian warlord, the soldier uses his blood-stained hands to dine on cheese and bread, unable to suppress his laughter. The centurion has a change of heart when he is put in charge of the region, freely dispensing justice and forgiveness to the conquered inhabitants. When the peace is threatened by marauding barbarians in masks of fur, the locals help the Romans fend off the invasion.Read More »
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Damiano Damiani – La strega in amore AKA The Witch in Love (1966)
1961-1970Damiano DamianiDramaHorrorItalySynopsis:
‘A historian is called to a creepy old castle to help a strange old widow catalogue her erotic antiquities. He then meets her dark, seductive daughter and finds he is falling under her erotic spell. Incapable of forcing himself to leave, he spirals helplessly into their strange supernatural world.’Read More » -
Ralph Thomas – Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
1961-1970AdventureRalph ThomasThrillerUnited KingdomSynopsis:
When two oil company executives are found dead, insurance company investigator Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond (Richard Johnson) is brought onto the case. Soon, Drummond and his young mod nephew, Robert (Steve Carlson), are circling the globe on the trail of a pair of gorgeous assassins, Irma (Elke Sommer) and Penelope (Sylva Koscina), who dispatch important businessmen after ensnaring them with their feminine wiles. The film updates a popular 1920s British mystery series for the swinging ’60s.Read More » -
Robert Wise – The Haunting (1963)
1961-1970ClassicsHorrorQueer Cinema(s)Robert WiseUSASynopsis:
Dr. John Markway, an anthropologist with an interest in psychic phenomena, takes two specially selected women to Hill House, a reportedly haunted mansion. Eleanor (Julie Harris), a lonely, eccentric woman with a supernatural event in her past, and the bold Theodora (Claire Bloom), who has ESP, join John and the mansion’s heir, cynical Luke (Russ Tamblyn). They are immediately overwhelmed by strange sounds and events, and Eleanor comes to believe the house is alive and speaking directly to her.Read More »
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