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Tag Archives: Leo McKern
Yesterday’s Enemy (1959) Val Guest, Stanley Baker, Guy Rolfe, Leo McKern
Set during the Burma Campaign of World War 2, this is the story of courage Read More »
Massacre in Rome AKA Rappresaglia (1973) George P. Cosmatos, Richard Burton, Marcello Mastroianni, Leo McKern
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. Read More »
Tea Party (1965) Charles Jarrott, Leo McKern, Vivien Merchant, Jennifer Wright
A self-made millionaire of humble origins acquires a new secretary just before he is due to marry a woman of aristocratic lineage. Read More »
Travelling North (1987) Carl Schultz, Leo McKern, Julia Blake, Henri Szeps
After their late-life marriage, a middle-aged Australian couple move to the countryside. Read More »
The Inspector (1962) Philip Dunne, Stephen Boyd, Dolores Hart, Leo McKern
When the end came for World War II, many Jews were spread around the free world and desired to return to Palestine. Read More »
King and Country (1964) Joseph Losey, Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Drama, War
During World War One, the British troops are entrenched at Passchendaele, Belgium. Read More »
Time Without Pity (1957) Joseph Losey, Michael Redgrave, Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Drama, Crime, Mystery, Film-Noir
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. Alec repudiates his father’s attempts for a final reconciliation. David Graham, convinced of his son’s innocence and, despite his preoccupation with himself and his own alcoholism, mounts a last-ditch effort to find the true murderer in the 24 hours remaining until the planned execution. Graham encounters the wealthy and famous car manufacturer Robert Stanford, tyrant at home and in the office and an apparent womanizer, Stanford’s young, curiously troubled wife Honar, their ill-at- ease son Brian, himself disturbed by his parents’ relationship, and Vicky Harker, a young, brainless secretary at Stanford’s factory who has been climbing up the career …
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