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Tag Archives: Tom Courtenay
The Night of the Generals (1967) Anatole Litvak, Peter O’Toole, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
In 1942, in Warsaw, a Polish prostitute is murdered in a sadistic way. Read More »
The First Film (2015) David Wilkinson, Bernard Atha, Stephane Cornicard, Tom Courtenay
In October 1888 Louis Le Prince produced the world’s first films in Leeds,England. Read More »
King Rat (1965) Bryan Forbes, George Segal, Tom Courtenay, James Fox
When Singapore surrendered to the Japanese in 1942 the Allied POWs, mostly British but including a few Americans, were incarcerated in Changi prison. Read More »
The Dresser (1983) Peter Yates, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Edward Fox
In a touring Shakespearean theater group, a backstage hand, the dresser, Norman (Sir Tom Courtenay) 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 »
Last Orders (2001) Fred Schepisi, Michael Caine, Bob Hoskins, Tom Courtenay, Drama
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. Read More »
A Rather English Marriage (1998) Paul Seed, Albert Finney, Tom Courtenay, Joanna Lumley, Drama
A squadron leader and a retired milkman decide to bury their differences and move in together after they are both widowed on the very same night. They become a companionable if odd couple, until their unlikely friendship is threatened by the arrival of an alluring woman with a hidden agenda.
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Billy Liar (1963) John Schlesinger, Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Wilfred Pickles, Comedy, Drama, Romance
A young British clerk in a gloomy North Country undertaker’s office, Billy is bombarded daily by the propaganda of the media that all things are for the asking. This transparently false doctrine, coupled with the humdrum job and his wild imagination, leads him on frequent flights to “Ambrosia,” a mythical kingdom where he is crowned king, general, lover or any idealized hero the real situation of the moment makes him desire. His vacillating commitment and post-adolescent immaturity have created situations which make Ambrosia all the more attractive. He’s succeeded in becoming engaged to two different girls, simultaneously, while in love with a third, Liz. He’s in hot water with his employer, having spent a rather large sum of postage money on his personal frivolities. And last, but not least, his dream of becoming a highly-paid, famous scriptwriter in London seems doomed to failure. The only person in his life capable of bringing him down to earth is Liz, and she’s having a difficult …
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A Dandy in Aspic (1968) Anthony Mann, Laurence Harvey, Mia Farrow, Tom Courtenay
Double-agent Alexander Eberlin is assigned by the British to hunt out a Russian spy, known to them as Krasnevin. Only Eberlin knows that Krasnevin is none other than himself! Accompanying him on his mission is a ruthless partner, who gradually discovers his secret as Eberlin tries to maneuver himself out of a desperate situation.
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