Anthony Asquith’s unusual look at wartime espionage garnered good notices in 1958, perhaps from reviewers rebelling against the trend toward ruthless screen violence. Star Paul Massie is fine as an emotionally-stricken Allied assassin who balks at carrying out his mission; the acting support from Irene Worth and Leslie French is superb. Screenwriter Paul Dehn was an ace at sharp, no-nonsense thrillers, but this story is soft around the edges — it seems to be explaining non-chivalric warfare to your sweet old grandmother. Which reminds us, Lillian Gish has a small role, too.
Orders to Kill
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1958 / B&w / 1:75 widescreen / 112 93 min. / Street Date September 20, 2022 / available from Amazon / 34.99
Starring: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Irene Worth, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne, Lillabea (Lillie Bea) Gifford, Anne Blake, Sam Kydd, Ann Walford, Denyse Alexander, Ralph Nosseck.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Art Director: John Howell
Film...
Orders to Kill
Blu-ray
Powerhouse Indicator
1958 / B&w / 1:75 widescreen / 112 93 min. / Street Date September 20, 2022 / available from Amazon / 34.99
Starring: Eddie Albert, Paul Massie, Lillian Gish, James Robertson Justice, Leslie French, Irene Worth, John Crawford, Lionel Jeffries, Sandra Dorne, Lillabea (Lillie Bea) Gifford, Anne Blake, Sam Kydd, Ann Walford, Denyse Alexander, Ralph Nosseck.
Cinematography: Desmond Dickinson
Art Director: John Howell
Film...
- 9/17/2022
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
On Nov. 8, Norman Lloyd will celebrate his 106th birthday, which is just one more accomplishment for a man whose nearly-100-year career is filled with amazing milestones. Lloyd worked as an actor, director and/or producer in theater, the early days of radio, film and TV. He wasn’t a household name, but he has always been well known and respected within the industry — not only for his work, but for the people he worked with. That list includes Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Elia Kazan, Jean Renoir, Robin Williams, Martin Scorsese, Denzel Washington, Mark Harmon, Cameron Diaz, Judd Apatow and Amy Schumer.
As his contemporary Karl Malden summed up in 2007, “He is the history of our industry.”
Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, N.J. He took singing and dancing lessons and was a paid professional by the age of 9. He performed with...
As his contemporary Karl Malden summed up in 2007, “He is the history of our industry.”
Lloyd was born Norman Perlmutter Nov. 8, 1914, in Jersey City, N.J. He took singing and dancing lessons and was a paid professional by the age of 9. He performed with...
- 11/8/2020
- by Tim Gray
- Variety Film + TV
As Disney quietly disappears huge swathes of film history into its vaults, I'm going to spend 2020 celebrating Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Film Corporation's films, what one might call their output if only someone were putting it out.And now they've quietly disappeared William Fox's name from the company: guilty by association with Rupert Murdoch, even though he never associated with him.***There are some films where, lacking access to one's own personal cinematheque, one has to speculate. For example, some of Fox's fifties films, shot in CinemaScope as all movies at that studio had to be, have never been made available in widescreen formats. Richard Fleischer was one the directors who adapted zestfully to that format, so it's a crying shame that Crack in the Mirror (1960) seems to exist only in blurry, 4:3 TV recordings. His other Orson Welles film, Compulsion (1959), is a cracker.Anatole Litvak's...
- 8/20/2020
- MUBI
With a seemingly endless amount of streaming options — not only the titles at our disposal, but services themselves — we’ve taken it upon ourselves to highlight the titles that have recently hit platforms. Every week, one will be able to see the cream of the crop (or perhaps some simply interesting picks) of streaming titles (new and old) across platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and more (note: U.S. only). Check out our rundown for this week’s selections below.
Always Shine (Sophia Takal)
With the excess of low-budget, retreat-in-the-woods dramas often finding characters hashing out their insecurities through a meta-narrative, a certain initial resistance can occur when presented with such a derivative scenario at virtually every film festival. While Sophia Takal‘s psychological drama Always Shine ultimately stumbles, the chemistry of its leads and a sense of foreboding dread in its formal execution ensures its heightened view of...
Always Shine (Sophia Takal)
With the excess of low-budget, retreat-in-the-woods dramas often finding characters hashing out their insecurities through a meta-narrative, a certain initial resistance can occur when presented with such a derivative scenario at virtually every film festival. While Sophia Takal‘s psychological drama Always Shine ultimately stumbles, the chemistry of its leads and a sense of foreboding dread in its formal execution ensures its heightened view of...
- 12/2/2016
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
Jon Stewart, the legendary host of your favourite American news satire television program The Daily Show, is on this week's podcast to chat about his directorial debut, Rosewater, as well as The Winslow Boy, John Oliver, and much more besides. Also on this particular episode are Spooks: The Greater Good's Peter Firth and Kit Harington (see above), who talk horses, running up walls and surviving the Oscars.In the non-interview section of the podcast, the team talk Martin Freeman's unexpected casting as Spider-Man - okay, not really - as well as which singing in a car scenes are the best.P.S. You can check out our podcast photo gallery here and subscribe to the Empire Podcast via our iTunes page or this handy RSS feed. You can subscribe to the magazine here if you like it in paper form, or here if you prefer things digitally. ...
- 5/8/2015
- EmpireOnline
I. The Rattigan Version
After his first dramatic success, The Winslow Boy, Terence Rattigan conceived a double bill of one-act plays in 1946. Producers dismissed the project, even Rattigan’s collaborator Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont. Actor John Gielgud agreed. “They’ve seen me in so much first rate stuff,” Gielgud asked Rattigan; “Do you really think they will like me in anything second rate?” Rattigan insisted he wasn’t “content writing a play to please an audience today, but to write a play that will be remembered in fifty years’ time.”
Ultimately, Rattigan paired a brooding character study, The Browning Version, with a light farce, Harlequinade. Entitled Playbill, the show was finally produced by Stephen Mitchell in September 1948, starring Eric Portman, and became a runaway hit. While Harlequinade faded into a footnote, the first half proved an instant classic. Harold Hobson wrote that “Mr. Portman’s playing and Mr. Rattigan’s writing...
After his first dramatic success, The Winslow Boy, Terence Rattigan conceived a double bill of one-act plays in 1946. Producers dismissed the project, even Rattigan’s collaborator Hugh “Binkie” Beaumont. Actor John Gielgud agreed. “They’ve seen me in so much first rate stuff,” Gielgud asked Rattigan; “Do you really think they will like me in anything second rate?” Rattigan insisted he wasn’t “content writing a play to please an audience today, but to write a play that will be remembered in fifty years’ time.”
Ultimately, Rattigan paired a brooding character study, The Browning Version, with a light farce, Harlequinade. Entitled Playbill, the show was finally produced by Stephen Mitchell in September 1948, starring Eric Portman, and became a runaway hit. While Harlequinade faded into a footnote, the first half proved an instant classic. Harold Hobson wrote that “Mr. Portman’s playing and Mr. Rattigan’s writing...
- 3/25/2015
- by Christopher Saunders
- SoundOnSight
While the Oscars have yet to make room for casting directors — a pivotal part of the Best Picture equation — the oversight isn't stopping the Casting Society of America from readying its third decade of picking up the Academy's slack. Csa announced Monday morning that the 30th Annual Artios Awards will honor Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning director Rob Marshall and Emmy Award-winning casting director Ellen Lewis for their individual work in the world of casting. The news arrives with nominations in categories of television, theater, new media and short film, and on the heels of the ceremony's move from November to Jan. 22, the thick of the awards season. Feature film nominations will be announced closer to the show date. Marshall, whose adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's "Into the Woods" bows Dec. 25, will receive the New York Apple Award, "recognizing individuals who have made special contributions to the New York entertainment...
- 9/22/2014
- by Matt Patches
- Hitfix
Sam Shepard on what would be exchanged for all the pleasure in the world: "His soul, of course, isn't it always the soul?" Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The thread through Sam Shepard this year wraps around a number of nominated films starting with the cast of John Wells' chilling portrait of an American household, August: Osage County. In 2012, Julianne Nicholson performed in the world premiere of his play Heartless in New York. In 2006, Juliette Lewis was in the revival of his 1980 play Fool For Love in London, directed by Lindsay Posner. Posner recently directed American Hustle star Alessandro Nivola in the Broadway production of The Winslow Boy. In 2010 Nivola starred in Before Midnight actor/co-writer Ethan Hawke's revival of Shepard's A Lie Of The Mind.
Shepard plays Beverly Weston, in August: Osage County, husband to Meryl Streep's Violet, father of Barbara, Ivy, and Karen, played by the three Julis,...
The thread through Sam Shepard this year wraps around a number of nominated films starting with the cast of John Wells' chilling portrait of an American household, August: Osage County. In 2012, Julianne Nicholson performed in the world premiere of his play Heartless in New York. In 2006, Juliette Lewis was in the revival of his 1980 play Fool For Love in London, directed by Lindsay Posner. Posner recently directed American Hustle star Alessandro Nivola in the Broadway production of The Winslow Boy. In 2010 Nivola starred in Before Midnight actor/co-writer Ethan Hawke's revival of Shepard's A Lie Of The Mind.
Shepard plays Beverly Weston, in August: Osage County, husband to Meryl Streep's Violet, father of Barbara, Ivy, and Karen, played by the three Julis,...
- 1/13/2014
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
If your New Year's Week plans include taking in a Broadway show, please take notice of the special holiday schedule for the rest of this holiday week. Many shows will take New Year's Day off, but there are plenty of options to see including A Night With Janis Joplin, Annie, Beautiful, Chicago, Cinderella, Kinky Boots, MacBeth, Mamma Mia, Motown, Once, Pippin, Rock Of Ages, Spider-man, The Glass Menagerie, Twelfth Night, The Phantom Of The Opera, Waiting For Godot, The Winslow Boy, Wicked. So plan ahead and most importantly, happy New Year...
- 1/1/2014
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
If your Christmas Week plans include taking in a Broadway show, please take notice of the special holiday schedule for the rest of this holiday week. Many shows will take Christmas Day off, but there are plenty of options to see including A Night With Janis Joplin, After Midnight, Beautiful, Big Fish, Chicago, Cinderella, Jersey Boys, Kinky Boots, Mamma Mia, Matilda, Motown, Pippin, Rock Of Ages, The Phantom Of The Opera, The Winslow Boy, and Wicked. So plan ahead and most importantly, Merry Christmas...
- 12/25/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
Transport Group, the Drama Desk and Obie award-winning theatre company, presented 2013 Gimme A Break, honoring producer Beth Williams, last night at the Asia Society and Museum, 725 Park Avenue at 70th Street. Performers included Carolee Carmelo Parade, Falsettos, Santino Fontana Cinderella, Billy Elliot, Jayne Houdyshell Romeo amp Juliet, Follies, Rachel Bay Jones Pippin, Hello Again, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio The Winslow Boy, Man of La Mancha, and Jessie Mueller On a Clear Day, Beautiful.BroadwayWorld was there for last night's festivites and you can check out photos below...
- 12/10/2013
- by Jessica Gordon
- BroadwayWorld.com
If your Thanksgiving Week plans include taking in a Broadway show, please take notice of the special holiday schedule for the rest of this holiday weekend. Many shows will take Thanksgiving Day Thursday, 1128 off, but there are plenty of options to see including Beautiful, Pippin, The Winslow Boy, Chicago and Phantom Of The Opera. Note that most shows are adding Friday matinees and weekend performances. So plan ahead and most importantly, have a happy Thanksgiving...
- 11/28/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
It's Saturday, and that means it's time for BroadwayWorld's 'Saturday Intermission Pics' roundup. Today's photos come from the casts of Goodspeed's The Most Happy Fella, The Flea's Family Furniture, Newsies, Kinky Boots, The Book Of Mormon in the West End, Annie, The Winslow Boy, Hello, Dolly, Evita, We Will Rock You, Show Boat at Asolo Rep, Peter And The Starcatcher, Grease in Manila and more...
- 11/16/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This week's Theater Talk focuses on British dramatist Sir Terence Rattigan 1911-1977 and his popular drama, The Winslow Boy, currently being revived on Broadway by The Roundabout Theatre Company. First the show welcomes actors Roger Rees, Charlotte Parry and Alessandro Nivola, now starring in this acclaimed production, followed by a conversation about its playwright with critics John Simon, John Heilpern and actor Edward Hibbert.
- 11/15/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
This week's Theater Talk focuses on British dramatist Sir Terence Rattigan 1911-1977 and his popular drama, The Winslow Boy, currently being revived on Broadway by The Roundabout Theatre Company. First the show welcomes actors Roger Rees, Charlotte Parry and Alessandro Nivola, now starring in this acclaimed production, followed by a conversation about its playwright with critics John Simon, John Heilpern and actor Edward Hibbert.
- 11/13/2013
- by BWW News Desk
- BroadwayWorld.com
Today, we're featuring Anita Gillette, circa 1981. Gillette may be most recognizable as Tina Fey's mom on 30 Rock or as Mona, the mistress in Moonstruck. She is a Broadway veteran with 14 Broadway shows to her credit, including Chapter Two Tony Nomination, Cabaret, Carnival, Gypsy, Guys amp Dolls, Don't Drink The Water, Brighton Beach Memoirs, and Showboat. Off-Broadway and Regional credits include The Big Meal Lortel Nomination for Outstanding Featured Actress, Love, Loss amp What I Wore, The Seagull, Shirley Valentine, My Fair Lady, The Winslow Boy, Irene, South Pacific, Sweet Bird Of Youth, The Great Waltz recorded for RCA, and Knickerbocker Holiday.
- 10/20/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. Below you can check out photos of the cast in the BroadwayWorld.com series 'In The Spotlight' by acclaimed photographer Walter McBride...
- 10/20/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
More Bard, more Chekhov, and some choice revivals pepper this week’s lineup of new plays on the boards, with some notable stars getting their feet wet in classics (Alison Pill, Elizabeth Olsen, Alessandro Nivola, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and expect more of the same this spring: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei will join recent Best Actor Tony recipient (and acclaimed scribe) Tracy Letts in a new play by Will Eno on Broadway. Moreover, buzz has restarted that James Franco may finally make his long-awaited Main Stem debut in a revival of Of Mice and Men...
- 10/19/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
More Bard, more Chekhov, and some choice revivals pepper this week’s lineup of new plays on the boards, with some notable stars getting their feet wet in classics (Alison Pill, Elizabeth Olsen, Alessandro Nivola, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), and expect more of the same this spring: Toni Collette, Michael C. Hall, and Oscar winner Marisa Tomei will join recent Best Actor Tony recipient (and acclaimed scribe) Tracy Letts in a new play by Will Eno on Broadway. Moreover, buzz has restarted that James Franco may finally make his long-awaited Main Stem debut in a revival of Of Mice and Men...
- 10/19/2013
- by Jason Clark
- EW.com - PopWatch
The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was at the opening night party to chat with the cast and creative team. Click below to see what they had to say...
- 10/18/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld's Richard Ridge was on the red carpet to chat with the evening's guests and you can check out what they had to say below...
- 10/18/2013
- by BroadwayWorld TV
- BroadwayWorld.com
The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for the big opening and you can check out photos from theatre arrivals below...
- 10/18/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for the big opening and you can check out photos from the after party celebration below...
- 10/18/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
The captivating new production of Terence Rattigan's classic The Winslow Boy comes to Roundabout directly from The Old Vic Theatre in London. The Winslow Boy, starring Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio,Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees, directed by Lindsay Posner, opened last night, October 17, 2013 at American Airlines Theatre. BroadwayWorld wa sthere for the big opening and you can check out photos from the curtain call below...
- 10/18/2013
- by Walter McBride
- BroadwayWorld.com
When Alessandro Nivola flaps onto the scene, beady and batlike in a big black Inverness coat, the temperature of The Winslow Boy immediately rises. Until then, it has been a rather cool if compelling light drama, introducing its large themes of justice and right (two different things) through the small talk of people taking tea and sandwiches. Suspense has been maintained less by means of character development than by the sneaky manipulation of information.We have already learned, for instance, that Ronnie Winslow, a 13-year-old cadet at Osborne Naval College shortly before World War I, has been expelled for allegedly forging and cashing a five-shilling postal order. We have seen how the shame of this unproved atrocity has thrown his upright but slightly shabby middle-class family into chaos. His father, a principled curmudgeon, has decided to do whatever it takes to have his boy exonerated. The stakes and the unlikelihood...
- 10/18/2013
- by Jesse Green
- Vulture
New York – While Terence Rattigan’s plays gathered dust for decades after being swept aside by the kitchen-sink realists of the 1950s and ‘60s, the old-fashioned structural virtues and tremulously submerged depth of feeling in the British dramatist’s work have drawn renewed appreciation in recent years. Fresh fuel for that rediscovery is supplied in Lindsay Posner’s affecting revival of The Winslow Boy. The 1946 drama follows a father’s tenacious quest to prove the innocence of his 14-year-old son, a Royal Navy cadet accused of theft. But as is often the case with Rattigan, plot becomes secondary
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- 10/18/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Separate Tables
Directed by Lin Snider and Justin Bennett
Out of the Box Theatre Company
West End Theater , 263 West 86th Street, NYC
October 2-5, 2013 (Closed)
If you know of stage play more perfectly realized than Out of the Box Theatre's polished realization of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, let me know and I will rush to see it. However, that is unlikely, as co-directors Lin Snider and Justin Bennett have created a profound rarity indeed: a flawless production. Everything about this rendering of Rattigan's play, which opened in London in 1954 and on Broadway in 1956, is sheer perfection: every performance, the set, the costumes, the invisible effortless direction, the brief musical interludes -- all make for one of the most exhilarating evenings of theater I have ever experienced. It is unfortunate that such a fine production was limited to only six performances: a production of this outstanding caliber deserved a much longer run,...
Directed by Lin Snider and Justin Bennett
Out of the Box Theatre Company
West End Theater , 263 West 86th Street, NYC
October 2-5, 2013 (Closed)
If you know of stage play more perfectly realized than Out of the Box Theatre's polished realization of Terence Rattigan's Separate Tables, let me know and I will rush to see it. However, that is unlikely, as co-directors Lin Snider and Justin Bennett have created a profound rarity indeed: a flawless production. Everything about this rendering of Rattigan's play, which opened in London in 1954 and on Broadway in 1956, is sheer perfection: every performance, the set, the costumes, the invisible effortless direction, the brief musical interludes -- all make for one of the most exhilarating evenings of theater I have ever experienced. It is unfortunate that such a fine production was limited to only six performances: a production of this outstanding caliber deserved a much longer run,...
- 10/9/2013
- by Jay Reisberg
- www.culturecatch.com
This week, A Night With Janis Joplin begins previews at the Lyceum Theatre. This special musical experience that brings to life the music of Janis Joplin--and the woman herself--will begin performances on Friday, 920. Also starting previews on 920 is the Roundabout Theatre Company revival of Terence Rattigan's The Winslow Boy. This drama about family and sacrifice, starring Roger Rees and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, will play at the American Airlines Theatre. Scroll down to find out what other exciting shows are playing this week...
- 9/16/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
Fall is quickly approaching, which means that Broadway will soon be blowing up with brand new productions. Ten plays will be eligible for Tony nominations next year, including Romeo and Juliet, The Glass Menagerie, The Winslow Boy, A Time to Kill, Betrayal, The Snow Geese, Twelfth NightRichard III, Macbeth, Waiting for GodotNo Man's Land, and 700 Sundays.Get the scoop on all ten incoming plays below...
- 9/1/2013
- by BWW Special Coverage
- BroadwayWorld.com
Alessandro Nivola is joining the Broadway revival of the classic stiff-upper-lip drama "The Winslow Boy," Roundabout Theatre Company said Wednesday. The star of "Laurel Canyon" and "Junebug" joins a cast that includes Oscar and Tony nominee Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio of "The Color of Money" fame and Tony Award winner and "Cheers" star Roger Rees. Terence Rattigan's drama centers on a teenage cadet dismissed from the Royal Naval College after he's accused of stealing a postal order. It follows his family's legal challenge in early 20th century England; Nivola will play a haughty but...
- 8/7/2013
- by Brent Lang
- The Wrap
New York -- Lead casting has been announced for the Roundabout Theatre Company's Broadway revival of The Winslow Boy, the classic 1946 Terence Rattigan courtroom drama about the costs and rewards of family loyalty. Michael Cumpsty, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Alessandro Nivola and Roger Rees will head the cast. Photos: Tony Awards 2013: Red Carpet Arrivals Cumpsty is a Broadway veteran whose previous productions with Roundabout include Sunday in the Park with George and The Constant Wife. An Oscar nominee for Martin Scorsese's The Color of Money, Mastrantonio's Broadway credits include a Tony-nominated performance in Man of La Mancha. Nivola was last on
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- 7/30/2013
- by David Rooney
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Character actor best known for his role in The Italian Job
The distinctive character actor John Clive, who has died aged 79, will be best remembered by cinemagoers for his appearances in a string of films that gained cult status. In The Italian Job (1969), the British-flag-flying yarn about a daring heist in Turin using Minis as getaway cars, Clive was the garage manager gleefully receiving a wad of banknotes from the released convict Michael Caine as payment for storing his Aston Martin DB4 convertible. The scene was said to have been ad-libbed between the two actors, with Caine putting his enforced absence down to tiger shoots in India. "You must have shot an awful lot of tigers, sir," said Clive as he counted the notes enthusiastically. "Yes, I used a machine gun," retorted Caine.
Two years later, Clive was the tormentor forcing Malcolm McDowell's psychotic teenager into licking his boot...
The distinctive character actor John Clive, who has died aged 79, will be best remembered by cinemagoers for his appearances in a string of films that gained cult status. In The Italian Job (1969), the British-flag-flying yarn about a daring heist in Turin using Minis as getaway cars, Clive was the garage manager gleefully receiving a wad of banknotes from the released convict Michael Caine as payment for storing his Aston Martin DB4 convertible. The scene was said to have been ad-libbed between the two actors, with Caine putting his enforced absence down to tiger shoots in India. "You must have shot an awful lot of tigers, sir," said Clive as he counted the notes enthusiastically. "Yes, I used a machine gun," retorted Caine.
Two years later, Clive was the tormentor forcing Malcolm McDowell's psychotic teenager into licking his boot...
- 10/18/2012
- by Anthony Hayward
- The Guardian - Film News
David Mamet is usually found adapting his own work for screens both big and small, but he has dabbled in other sources (The Winslow Boy, for instance). Now he’s taking that trick to television, aiming to reboot the 1950s Western series Have Gun – Will Travel for Us network CBS.The show, which aired on the network between 1957 and 1963 (and also found success on the radio), starred Richard Boone as Paladin, a hotshot gunslinger who preferred to settle issues without resorting to flinging bullets, but who could hold his own when called out.Sam Rolfe and Herb Meadow created the original version, which recruited several notable writers, the most famous of which was Gene Roddenberry, who would go on to make a little show called Star Trek.This will mark Mamet’s second TV show following military drama The Unit, which he co-created with The Shield’s Shawn Ryan and which ran for four years.
- 8/21/2012
- EmpireOnline
The author's stylish language will be heard once more in the movie, fifty years after he was branded as old-fashioned amid the coming of drama's angry young men
The spare, stylish dialogue of Terence Rattigan, at one time the highest-paid screenwriter in the world, will soon be heard in Britain's cinemas once more. In the final phase of a centenary year that has seen the late playwright's work revived on stages across the country, next month will bring not just a celebration of his theatrical legacy at Chichester Festival Theatre, but the release of a new film version of The Deep Blue Sea – the play regarded by many as Rattigan's masterpiece.
Director Terence Davies is due to show his film, which stars Rachel Weisz as the troubled Hester Collyer, at the Toronto Film Festival before its British premiere in November.
Davies, the acclaimed experimental screenwriter and filmmaker from Liverpool behind Distant Voices,...
The spare, stylish dialogue of Terence Rattigan, at one time the highest-paid screenwriter in the world, will soon be heard in Britain's cinemas once more. In the final phase of a centenary year that has seen the late playwright's work revived on stages across the country, next month will bring not just a celebration of his theatrical legacy at Chichester Festival Theatre, but the release of a new film version of The Deep Blue Sea – the play regarded by many as Rattigan's masterpiece.
Director Terence Davies is due to show his film, which stars Rachel Weisz as the troubled Hester Collyer, at the Toronto Film Festival before its British premiere in November.
Davies, the acclaimed experimental screenwriter and filmmaker from Liverpool behind Distant Voices,...
- 8/22/2011
- by Vanessa Thorpe
- The Guardian - Film News
This gripping thriller, part of the BFI's Bogarde retrospective, daringly smashed through 1961's homosexual taboos, but has weathered best as a study of blackmail and paranoia
As part of a retrospective season dedicated to that utterly unique English actor Dirk Bogarde, BFI Southbank is this week screening his 1961 film Victim. Bogarde stars as Melville Farr, a brilliant, upwardly mobile barrister with a dark past: he's an in-the-closet gay man who risks exposure (in the days when it was illegal) by taking on a homosexual blackmail ring. It was co-written by Janet Green – a thriller/whodunnit specialist who counted Midnight Lace among her credits – and directed by Basil Dearden.
What a gripping film – melodramatic and self-conscious, yes, but forthright and bold. Its tendency to show homosexuality as a tragic, pitiable quirk of nature may now look like condescension, but for the time this was real risk-taking. It has some of the...
As part of a retrospective season dedicated to that utterly unique English actor Dirk Bogarde, BFI Southbank is this week screening his 1961 film Victim. Bogarde stars as Melville Farr, a brilliant, upwardly mobile barrister with a dark past: he's an in-the-closet gay man who risks exposure (in the days when it was illegal) by taking on a homosexual blackmail ring. It was co-written by Janet Green – a thriller/whodunnit specialist who counted Midnight Lace among her credits – and directed by Basil Dearden.
What a gripping film – melodramatic and self-conscious, yes, but forthright and bold. Its tendency to show homosexuality as a tragic, pitiable quirk of nature may now look like condescension, but for the time this was real risk-taking. It has some of the...
- 8/8/2011
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Unlike his famous contemporary, Asquith struggled with the transition to sound – but his partnership with Terence Rattigan produced classic cinema and theatre
When Alfred Hitchcock, interviewed by François Truffaut, lamented the "photographs of people talking" that passed for movies, he was voicing an old commonplace. Even before the coming of sound Anthony Asquith, the director with whom Hitchcock was then routinely compared (both were young, promising, stylistically similar, socially distinct) complained of films comprising "alternate close-ups of two men talking across a table with subtitles giving their conversation sandwiched in between. That is not a real film, but a photographed play."
For the cognoscenti cinema meant movement, rhythm, Battleship Potemkin. In a word, montage. Asquith was there in February 1929 when Vsevolod Pudovkin, in front of an English audience after the London debut of The End of St Petersburg, described the "Kuleshov experiment". Its inspirational conclusion, in Asquith's paraphrase, was that...
When Alfred Hitchcock, interviewed by François Truffaut, lamented the "photographs of people talking" that passed for movies, he was voicing an old commonplace. Even before the coming of sound Anthony Asquith, the director with whom Hitchcock was then routinely compared (both were young, promising, stylistically similar, socially distinct) complained of films comprising "alternate close-ups of two men talking across a table with subtitles giving their conversation sandwiched in between. That is not a real film, but a photographed play."
For the cognoscenti cinema meant movement, rhythm, Battleship Potemkin. In a word, montage. Asquith was there in February 1929 when Vsevolod Pudovkin, in front of an English audience after the London debut of The End of St Petersburg, described the "Kuleshov experiment". Its inspirational conclusion, in Asquith's paraphrase, was that...
- 4/7/2011
- The Guardian - Film News
Sony Pictures Classics announced today it has acquired the rights in North America, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand to the Sundance competition film “Take Shelter.”
Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (“Shotgun Stories”) and starring Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon and Kathy Baker, “Take Shelter” is the story of a father and husband (Shannon) who begins to have terrifying dreams. Keeping his visions to himself, he channels his anxiety into obsessively building a storm shelter in his backyard.
Sony Pictures Classics previously worked with “Take Shelter” executive producer Sarah Green on “The Winslow Boy” and “The Spanish Prisoner.”...
Written and directed by Jeff Nichols (“Shotgun Stories”) and starring Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (“Revolutionary Road”), Jessica Chastain, Shea Whigham, Katy Mixon and Kathy Baker, “Take Shelter” is the story of a father and husband (Shannon) who begins to have terrifying dreams. Keeping his visions to himself, he channels his anxiety into obsessively building a storm shelter in his backyard.
Sony Pictures Classics previously worked with “Take Shelter” executive producer Sarah Green on “The Winslow Boy” and “The Spanish Prisoner.”...
- 1/18/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Take Shelter stars Michael Shannon (Boardwalk Empire) and is set to premiere at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, but the film got picked up by Sony Pictures Classic before it made it to the festival.
This is one of those films that I'm looking forward to seeing while I'm up at the festival. It seems to have a very interesting story, but it also has Michael Shannon in it, and he is just an incredible actor. If you're going to be up in Park City next week, definitely check this one out.
Here's the official synopsis of the film:
Take Shelter is a haunting tale that will creep under your skin and expose your darkest fears. Curtis Laforche (Shannon) lives in a small town in Ohio with his wife, Samantha (Chastain), and daughter, Hannah, a six-year-old deaf girl. When Curtis begins to have terrifying dreams, he keeps the visions to himself,...
This is one of those films that I'm looking forward to seeing while I'm up at the festival. It seems to have a very interesting story, but it also has Michael Shannon in it, and he is just an incredible actor. If you're going to be up in Park City next week, definitely check this one out.
Here's the official synopsis of the film:
Take Shelter is a haunting tale that will creep under your skin and expose your darkest fears. Curtis Laforche (Shannon) lives in a small town in Ohio with his wife, Samantha (Chastain), and daughter, Hannah, a six-year-old deaf girl. When Curtis begins to have terrifying dreams, he keeps the visions to himself,...
- 1/18/2011
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Christopher Cazenove, best remembered for his role as Ben Carrington in Dynasty, has died. The 64-year-old actor (66 according to some sources) had fallen ill from septicemia in February. Cazenove (born Dec. 17, 1943 or 1945, depending on the source, in Winchester, Hampshire) began his acting career — against the wishes of his military father who wanted his son to follow on his footsteps — at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. He made his stage debut in Man and Superman at the Phoenix theatre, Leicester, in 1967. Among his other stage appearances were those in Hamlet, The Winslow Boy, and Goodbye Fidel. Cazenove’s first major assignment on British television was that of the clean-cut Lt. Richard Gaunt in the series [...]...
- 4/8/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Christopher Cazenove, who has died of septicaemia aged 64, always dreamed of being a film star, although his father – a brigadier in the Coldstream Guards – wanted him to follow in his military footsteps. Ironically, when Cazenove fulfilled his acting ambitions, he made his name as the blue-eyed, clean-cut hero Lieutenant Richard Gaunt in The Regiment (1972-73). The drama series, following a 1970 pilot, traced the fortunes of the Cotswolds Regiment at the turn of the 19th century – from the Boer War to service in India – through the lives of two families, the Gaunts and the Brights. Cazenove's fame was confirmed when he was featured on the cover of Radio Times.
The old Etonian seemed happy to become typecast playing aristocrats. On television, he was also seen in Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (1974) as George Cornwallis-West, a...
The old Etonian seemed happy to become typecast playing aristocrats. On television, he was also seen in Jennie, Lady Randolph Churchill (1974) as George Cornwallis-West, a...
- 4/8/2010
- The Guardian - Film News
Hats Off to Peter O’Toole Dean Spanley director and cast give a nod to their iconic lead Equal to its gala surroundings at the massive Roy Thomson Hall, the period comedy Dean Spanley, debuting at the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival (Tiff), featured a larger-than-life lead performance from Peter O’Toole. The well-received costume fantasy, based on Lord Dunsany’s 1936 novel My Talks With Dean Spanley, screened in front of thousands at the festival’s largest venue, Toronto’s spaceship-like concert hall. Before the screening, director Toa Fraser took to the stage and read a greeting from O’Toole who was unable to attend. While Dean Spanley featured British stage actor Jeremy Northam as Fisk Junior, an adult son who takes his elderly father (O’Toole) to a lecture about the transmigration of souls, it’s O’Toole who offered the funniest moments in the costume comedy. In every scene,...
- 10/15/2008
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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