Before creating the beloved courtroom drama Rumpole of the Bailey, writer John Mortimer found inspiration in his own life Read More »
Tag Archives: Alan Bates
The Caretaker AKA The Guest (1963) Clive Donner, Alan Bates, Donald Pleasence, Robert Shaw
Aston (Robert Shaw), a quiet, reserved man, lives alone in a top-floor cluttered room of a small abandoned house in a poor London district. Read More »
Whistle Down the Wind (1961) Bryan Forbes, Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Norman Bird
Little Kathy discovers a man wanted for murder hiding in her family’s barn. Read More »
Hamlet (1990) Franco Zeffirelli, Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates
Hamlet returns to Denmark when his father, the King, dies. His mother Gertrude has already married Hamlet’s uncle Claudius, the new King. Read More »
Women in Love (1969) Ken Russell, Alan Bates, Oliver Reed, Glenda Jackson
The battle of the sexes and relationships among the elite of Britian’s industrial Midlands in the 1920s. Read More »
The Rose (1979) Mark Rydell, Bette Midler, Alan Bates, Frederic Forrest
Bette Midler plays The Rose, a female rock star strikingly similar to Janis Joplin. Read More »
The Statement (2003) Norman Jewison, Michael Caine, Tilda Swinton, Alan Bates
Set in modern day France, the story of Pierre Brossard who, as a young man, was a Nazi executioner under the Vichy regime. Read More »
The Fixer (1968) John Frankenheimer, Alan Bates, Dirk Bogarde, Georgia Brown
Set in tsarist Russia around the turn of the century and based on a true story of a Russian Jewish peasant Yakov Bok Read More »
An Unmarried Woman (1978) Paul Mazursky, Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy
Erica is unmarried only temporarily in that her successful, wealthy husband of seventeen years has just left her for a girl he met while buying a shirt in Bloomingdale’s. Read More »
Mister Frost (1990) Philippe Setbon, Jeff Goldblum, Kathy Baker, Alan Bates, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. Read More »
The Running Man (1963) Carol Reed, Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Hard up and with a grudge against insurance companies, Rex Black feigns his death and meets up with his wife and the money in Malaga when things seemed to have quietened down. Read More »
Le Roi de coeur / King of Hearts (1966) Philippe de Broca, Alan Bates, Geneviève Bujold, Pierre Brasseur, Drama, Comedy, War
Separate Tables (1983) John Schlesinger, Ken Price, Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Claire Bloom, Drama
Arrival of a beautiful model stirs up the guests of a peaceful small-town hotel where most of them hide from their troubles. Secrets, infatuations and lies come out. Read More »
A Kind of Loving (1962) John Schlesinger, Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird, Drama, Romance
A young man, inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality Read More »