In a lake high in the mountains of New Zealand hunter Gibbie Gibson discovers a plane wreck from ww-ii. Read More »
Tag Archives: Donald Pleasence
Wake in Fright (1971) Ted Kotcheff, Donald Pleasence, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty
John Grant, a teacher working in the remote Australian town of Tiboonda, is under a financial bond with his Government job. Read More »
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 »
Telefon (1977) Don Siegel, Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
The KGB is looking for one of their people, a man named Dalchimsky because he has stolen something important but Read More »
Escape to Witch Mountain (1975) John Hough, Eddie Albert, Ray Milland, Donald Pleasence
Tia and Tony are two orphaned youngsters with extraordinary powers. Read More »
Blade on the Feather (1980) Richard Loncraine, Kika Markham, Phoebe Nicholls, Donald Pleasence
A reclusive, elderly author is visited by a young admirer…but both men are more than they claim to be. Read More »
Spare the Rod (1961) Leslie Norman, Max Bygraves, Donald Pleasence, Geoffrey Keen
John Saunders is a teacher, just out of training college, who takes over a class of badly behaved children in an inner city school. Read More »
Manuela (1957) Guy Hamilton, Trevor Howard, Leslie Weston, Donald Pleasence
James Prothero, forty-three years old and up to his ears in alcohol, is the skipper of a tramp ship due to leave South America for Britain Read More »
Death Line (1972) Gary Sherman, Donald Pleasence, Norman Rossington, David Ladd
There’s something pretty grisly going on under London in the Tube tunnels between Holborn and Russell Square. Read More »
Ground Zero (1987) Bruce Myles, Michael Pattinson, Colin Friels, Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence
A second generation cameraman in Australia finds evidence that his father had filmed a nuclear test Read More »
Ten Little Indians (1989) Alan Birkinshaw, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Vaccaro, Frank Stallone
Rehash of classic Agatha Christie story about 10 people who believe they have won a trip to go on an African safari, but are soon killed off one by one by an unknown murderer. Read More »
Dr. Crippen (1963) Robert Lynn, Donald Pleasence, Samantha Eggar, Coral Browne
A dramatization of Britain’s notorious Crippen murder case. American-born Hawley Harvey Crippen (nicknamed “Peter”), a mild-mannered Read More »
Halloween (1978) John Carpenter, Donald Pleasence, Jamie Lee Curtis, Tony Moran
The year is 1963, the night: Halloween. Police are called to 43 Lampkin Ln. only to discover that 15 year old Judith Myers has been stabbed to death, by her 6 year-old brother, Michael. Read More »
Halloween II (1981) Rick Rosenthal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Donald Pleasence, Charles Cyphers
In a continuation of the plot of Halloween, Michael Myers shows off his indestructability by resuming his murder spree despite being gunned down with six bullets in the original movie. Read More »
The Flesh and the Fiends (1960) John Gilling, Peter Cushing, June Laverick, Donald Pleasence, Crime, Drama, Horror
In 1828 Scotland, Edinburgh surgeon Dr. Knox does medical research on cadavers he buys from murderers Burke and Hare, without questioning the unethical procurement methods. Read More »