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Born in London, England; trained at Lady Benson's Acting School and RADA, London. Best known for his Shakespearian roles in the theatre, he first played Hamlet at the age of 26. He worked under the tutelage of Lilian Bayliss with friend and fellow performer Laurence Olivier and other contemporaries of the National Theatre at the 'Old Vic', London. He made his screen debut in 1924. Academy Award Be ... show all

Around the World in Eighty Days (1956)

Friday, June 11th, 2010 20:06

Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Directors: Michael Anderson
Actors: Cantinflas | Finlay Currie | Robert Morley | Ronald Squire | Basil Sydney | Noel Coward | John Gielgud | Trevor Howard | Harcourt Williams | David Niven | Martine Carol | Fernandel | Charles Boyer | Evelyn Keyes | Jose Greco and Troupe
English nobleman Phileas Fogg, a very strict and emotionless man, gets wound up in a bet at his gentlemen's club: He has to prove that it is possible to travel around the whole world in only 80 days. Together with his new butler Passepartout, who expected a different first day at work, he takes off instantly to Paris, where they miss the train to Marseilles. But a travel agent called Thomas Cook offers them his captive balloon, which carries them to Spain instead. Passepartout's skills are necessary in a bullfight in order to get them a ship that should take them back onto their planned route. An ominous Mr. Fix starts crossing their path more and more often, he somehow seems to try to hinder their forthcoming. In the deep jungles of India, the butler's skills are again needed in a case of rescuing beautiful Princess Aouda, who is to be burnt alive at the side of her dead husband. In Hongkong, Passepartout meets drugs in a involuntarily manner and in the United States, the wild, wild west takes its toll. All the time, Mr. Fogg has his usual timetable and meal schedule running at normal pace, so that all the waves have to be broken by Passepartout. And he won't get paid much, because he left the gas running, back in London. When the journey comes to a dramatic returning to England, Mr. Fogg has to cope with the facts that he seems to have lost the bet by some hours, but gained something he never seemed to have: emotion.

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Becket (1964)

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010 08:06

Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: UK | USA
Directors: Peter Glenville
Actors: Richard Burton | Peter O'Toole | John Gielgud | Gino Cervi | Paolo Stoppa | Donald Wolfit | David Weston | Martita Hunt | Pamela Brown | Siân Phillips | Felix Aylmer | Percy Herbert | Inigo Jackson | Niall MacGinnis | Christopher Rhodes
As the story opens, King Henry II, who ruled England from 1154 to 1189 has entered Canterbury Cathedral to do penance at the tomb of his former friend, Thomas Becket. Bare to the waist, the king kneels to receive a flogging from Saxon monks. He begins to reminisce, recalling at first the carefree, promiscuous adventures with Becket, then his favorite drinking and wenching companion. A violently emotional drama that probes the changing relationship between two young men - between two close friends bound together by similar pride of flesh and spirit who become deadly enemies as they pursue their separate destinies . . . that of king . . . and saint.
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Merlin (1998)

Wednesday, February 17th, 2010 18:02

Elizabeth (1998)

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010 18:02

Genres: Biography | Drama
Countries: UK
Directors: Shekhar Kapur
Actors: Cate Blanchett | Emily Mortimer | Kelly Macdonald | Amanda Ryan | Terence Rigby | Jamie Foreman | Edward Hardwicke | Angus Deayton | Daniel Craig | James Frain | Eric Cantona | Fanny Ardant | Kathy Burke | Richard Attenborough | Joseph Fiennes | Christopher Eccleston | Geoffrey Rush | Vincent Cassel | John Gielgud
The story of Elizabeth's ascendency to the throne, the plot of the movie is full of palace intrigues, attempted assassinations and executions. The movie starts with England divided by faith, Protestant vs. Catholic. The queen, Mary Tudor has no heir and her Catholic supporters fear the succession of her half-sister Elizabeth, a Protestant. They convince the queen to have Elizabeth arrested and put in the Tower of London but the queen hesitates and eventually refuses to sign her death warrant. It is announced that the queen is pregnant but it turns out to be a tumor and she dies of it a while later. Her Catholic supporters are forced to give the throne to Elizabeth. Elizabeth's first few years are shaky as she is not versed with the art of realpolitik and "rules from the heart instead of the mind". There is also the question of her succession as she is yet unmarried and her death without heir would mean the throne falling back into Catholic hands. She has many suitors but she eventually rejects them all. And aided by Sir Francis Walsingham she manages to kill all her enemies and ascends the throne as the "Virgin Queen".
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The Elephant Man (1980)

Friday, July 31st, 2009 17:07

Chariots of Fire (1981)

Thursday, May 14th, 2009 12:05

Genres: Drama | History | Sport
Countries: UK
Directors: Hugh Hudson
Actors: Nicholas Farrell | Nigel Havers | Ian Charleson | Ben Cross | Daniel Gerroll | Ian Holm | John Gielgud | Lindsay Anderson | Nigel Davenport | Cheryl Campbell | Alice Krige | Dennis Christopher | Brad Davis | Patrick Magee | Peter Egan
The story, told in flashback, of two young British sprinters competing for fame in the 1924 Olympics. Eric, a devout Scottish missionary runs because he knows it must please God. Harold, the son of a newly rich Jew runs to prove his place in Cambridge society. In a warmup 100 meter race, Eric defeats Harold, who hires a pro trainer to prepare him. Eric, whose qualifying heat is scheduled for a Sunday, refuses to run despite pressure from the Olympic committee. A compromise is reached when a nobleman allows Eric to compete in his 400 meter slot. Eric and Harold win their respective races and go on to achieve fame as missionary and businessman/athletic advocate, respectively.
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Murder by Decree (1979)

Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 12:02

Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada | UK
Directors: Bob Clark
Actors: Christopher Plummer | James Mason | David Hemmings | Susan Clark | Anthony Quayle | John Gielgud | Frank Finlay | Donald Sutherland | Geneviève Bujold | Chris Wiggins | Tedde Moore | Peter Jonfield | Roy Lansford | Catherine Kessler | Ron Pember
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its roots in a Royal indiscretion and that a cover-up is being managed by politicians at the highest level, all of whom happen to be Masons. Homes races to save the life of Annie Crook who has been forcibly incarcerated in an insane asylum and that of her friend Mary Kelly, in whom she has entrusted her secret.
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The Shoes of the Fisherman (1968)

Sunday, January 11th, 2009 11:01

Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Directors: Michael Anderson
Actors: Anthony Quinn | Laurence Olivier | Oskar Werner | David Janssen | Vittorio De Sica | Leo McKern | John Gielgud | Barbara Jefford | Rosemary Dexter | Frank Finlay | Burt Kwouk | Arnoldo Foà | Paul Rogers | George Pravda | Clive Revill
After twenty years in a Siberian labor camp, Kiril Lakota, the Metropolitan Archbishop of Lvov, is set free. The Catholic Archbishop is released and sent to Rome, where the ailing Pope makes him a Cardinal. The world is in a state of crisis - a famine in China is exacerbated by United States restrictions on Chinese trade and the ongoing Chinese-Soviet feud. When the Pontiff dies, Lakota finds himself elected Pope. But the new Pope Kiril I is plagued by self-doubt, by his years in prison, and by the strange world he knows so little about. This movie contains extensive information about Catholic faith & practice, as a television news reporter steps in from time-to-time to explain the procedures involved in selecting a new Pope.
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Gandhi (1982)

Thursday, December 18th, 2008 11:12

Genres: Biography | Drama | History
Countries: India | UK
Directors: Richard Attenborough
Actors: Ben Kingsley | Candice Bergen | Edward Fox | John Gielgud | Trevor Howard | John Mills | Martin Sheen | Ian Charleson | Athol Fugard | GÃ¼nther Maria Halmer | Saeed Jaffrey | Geraldine James | Alyque Padamsee | Amrish Puri | Roshan Seth
When 'Mahatma Gandhi' (qv) first set foot in British India, he had already been to Britain and South Africa, and had created quite a stir for the betterment of the people. But in India, he realized that he had first to live the life of a peasant to understand what it is to be an Indian. This resolve will lead him to shed his westerners clothing, and don a simple loincloth, be subjected to racial slurs from none other than Winston Churchill (Half naked Indian Fakir); Mobilize awareness of local industry and less dependence on imported clothing and material; the historic dandee march for withdrawal of the salt tax; a fast unto death to stop the virtual slaughter of British troops by irate Indian mobs; and be imprisoned several times. His resolve was to work with stalwarts such as Mohammed Ali Jinnah, Sardar Valabhbhai Patel, Professor Gokhale, J.B. Kripalani, Maulana Azad, and Pandit Jawarharlal Nehru to ensure first of all to get the British to quit India, and then run an Indian Government under the Congress party. Gandhi will soon realize that it is not enough to be just an Indian, for India has many facets - Muslim, Hindu, Sikh, Jewish, and Christian. The British relied on these many facets as an excuse for their continuance as they wanted to ensure that the minorities are not oppressed by the Hindu majority. Concerned over the inroads made by Gandhi to unite the Hindus, Muslims, and all others under a common umbrella, the British invited Jinnah for talks, and it is here that a seed was laid for a separate country called Pakistan. When Gandhi came to know about this, he pleaded with Jinnah to unite the Muslims, even take over as the first Prime Minister with his choice of Muslim candidates for Parliament, but separatist Jinnah had already made his mind. The World Wars of 1914 and 1944 having taken it's toll on Europe and Britain in particular, the weary British finally decided to leave India in 1947 - not the India they had conquered - but an India that was ready to be divided in East Pakistan and West Pakistan. Now after the much awaited independence was the real test for Gandhi - a test that will make him or break him - as he started a fast unto death to try and stop the violence that was threatening to break out into a civil war, not realizing that he had indirectly fanned Hindu extremism, which would later be called the Shiv Sena, into taking the matter directly in their hands to ensure that Muslims are kept out of their Hindustan forever.
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First Knight (1995)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007 17:05

Genres: Adventure | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Directors: Jerry Zucker
Actors: Sean Connery | Richard Gere | Julia Ormond | Ben Cross | Liam Cunningham | Christopher Villiers | Valentine Pelka | Colin McCormack | Ralph Ineson | John Gielgud | Stuart Bunce | Jane Robbins | Jean Marie Coffey | Paul Kynman | Tom Lucy
Lancelot lives by the sword. In fact, they're next door neighbours, so teaming up to fight for money comes pretty naturally. Lady Guinevere, on her way to marry King Arthur is ambushed by the evil Sir Malagant. Fortunately Lancelot is lurking nearby and he rescues his future queen. They fall in love, but Guinevere still fancies the idea of wearing a crown, so she honours her promise to Arthur. Can Lady Guinevere remain faithful, or will this Pretty Woman become a lady of the knight?
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Caligula (1979)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007 10:02

Genres: Drama | History
Countries: Italy | USA
Directors: Tinto Brass | Bob Guccione
Actors: Malcolm McDowell | Teresa Ann Savoy | Helen Mirren | Peter O'Toole | John Steiner | Guido Mannari | Paolo Bonacelli | Leopoldo Trieste | Giancarlo Badessi | Mirella D'Angelo | Anneka Di Lorenzo | Lori Wagner | Adriana Asti | John Gielgud | Bruno Brive
The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
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